Hutchinson gazette., 1899-04-20
HANsAs ITEMS OF rNTFRrsE

bWitt horse and mule market
Recruiting officers secured fifty-six
men at Wichita recently, all for the
cavalry H
Coffeyville gained 49o inhabitants
The past year. Most Of the Kansas
towns are reporting increases
An epidemic OF home buying rs
sweeping over the state, judging from
The testimony OF the many local pa
pers.
Pittsburg will make an effort TO
have the Twentieth Kansas mustered
out at that place whenever their term
Of service is over
The Kansas Cotton Mill company of
Independence has been chartered.
Sooner or later part OF Kansas will be
cotton producing,
The Jefferson county banks have in
individual deposits So, 1l5, ,GOG21 or
compared to the population of the
county, sos per capita, including in
fanta
There Is no provision for contest
In city election under the Australian
ballot law, but at Salina one man Is
contesting another for seat in tho
conncil
AS rule, the Kansas towns treated
the colored boys on their return home
better than they did the boys Of the
Twenty-frst and Twenty.second regi-
ments
A Reno county man was convicted
Of assault with intent to kill. After
being sentenced, he slid out of the
court room and has disappeared, His
bondsmen are looking for him.
Tho greatest sensation in the vicin-
ity Of Pleasanton was created April l2
when the miners took out over 400
pounds Of lead ore from one Of the
mines which will run nearly 90 per
cent pure. The ore was found at
depth Of sixty feet and in drift only
few feet from the way Of the shaft
The vein or deposit uncovered appears
to be large and the ore as fine as ever
seen, The find has caused great OK.
element and stock in the company
can not be had at any price
I. I. McCreary, the first settler In
Doniphan county, still lives there and
is hale and hearty. He located in Dom
iphan county in 1874, his parents be-
ing induced to come west by his uncle,
who was u missionary among the Sac
and Fox Indians near St. Joseph. Mr.
McCreary has seen u great deal OF the
Indians in his time and says that in
his experience he never knew them to
kill but one white man and that was
with just provocation. In 1s45, he
drove herd OF cattle across the plains
to Sacramento. Mr. McCreary is now
well known stock raiser.
A large proportion of the trees that
are lost in resetting die because they
have been injured when they were
taken up. Without good root or
stem tree can make but little pro-
gress in growth. In digging up trees
the surface soil should be removed to
the root system, then trench dug
around the tree outside the mass of
roots; then by cutting under the sol
with sharp spade on each side, the
tree may be loosened from the soil
with good supply of young growing
roots II the tree Is large, the trench |
must be made around the roots TO the |
depth OF the lowest, and the roots
gradually loosened and freed from the
soil
Every little town within few hun
dred miles Of Kansas City has the Con-
vention hall fever If all that are af- |
ter convention halls are successful |
some man might make stake by or.
ganizing conventions
1t has been claimed all along that
the United States has been prosecut
ing the war in the Philippines in
humane manner, but the fact has leak
ed out that the Kansas boys have been
in the habit of singing Comrades"
over there within hearing of the
enemy. I
On u recent meeting night an A. O,
U. W. lodge at Winfield initiated 930
members, which is said to be the larg-
est number ever initiated by any one
lodge in the state Of Kansas
Sumner county officials are feeling
good over the prospect of an increase
in their salaries If the returns OF the
township assessors keep up their pres
ent average the population of the
county will go past the $4,000 mark,
which will make possible the salary
advance, A gain Of about 1000 is all
that is necessary.
The editor of the Hamilton Post,