Hutchinson gazette., 1900-04-05
KANSAS ITEMs or INTEREST,"
KANSAS,


cure two rural delivery routes,
Colonel Holiday paid taxes for a
number Of years amounting TO $4,000
The Santa Fe tracks between Flor
cnce and Winfield will be ballasted in
April,
All over Kansas the girl graduates
this year are more than twice the num-
Der Of boy graduates,
The state military board has ordered
new companies Of militia mustered at
sabetha and Sterling,
Martin NJ. Jones, who lives near Can
ton Is said 10 be the oldest pensloner
in Kansas He Is past "a.
Clarence Rarik, OF Osborne county,
has passed the required examinations
and will enter West Point in June.
At the Presbyterian church In lola n
collection was taken up for the starry
ing in India. II amounted 10 $780,
Lieut., Commander c. Il, Vrcelands,
who was executive officer Of Admiral
Dewcys flagship, is visiting hismother
in Burlingamc, lie has served thirty
years In the navy,
II is said that General Fred Funston
will ask for his discharge, because he
S. tired Of doing purely administrative
work, and now that lighting is over he
wants to come home,
Officials Of the Missouri Pacific have
examined the terminal properties OF
the Hutchinson and Southern ut Hutch
inson and II Is intimatcd that they
closed n purchase Of them,
Prairie dogs hare increased 10 such
an extent in the upper valley OF the
Solomon 10 TO injurc the range and
damage crops, Logan county has a
prairie dog town covering townships
81 can take twenty brood sows and
five old cows, said Dan Jones of Mound
Ridge to Editor Phillips of the journal,
"and in five years buy the best quarter
section Of land in Mcpherson county"
rR. Il, Jones and d. j, Davis, two
farmers Of Harvey county, have gone
with their families to tour Europe and
visit the Paris exposition, Every dol
lar OF II was shuckcd out of Kansas
cornhcld,
Cyrus II. Holiday died at his home
In Topeka March 9s, lie was the first
promoter really the founder Of the
Santa l'e railway and has been di-
rector Of that company from its or
gNni2ation.
Some wealthy sportsmcn Of Bridge
port, Conn, have sent to Kansas for
sixty dozen quail, AS soon as the birds
arrive they will be taken out in batchCs
and liberated at various points in the
surrounding. country,
The MulvOne post Office has been
robbed, Dynamite was used on the
safe, There was taken 5000 in money,
500 in stamps and registered packages
in transit from the south waiting to go
north on the Florence branch.
That special train which took man
from Los Angeles to pittsburg Pa,
made the run from Ia Junta to Dodge
City, ?03 miles, in 1922 minutes, An
other spurt was from Dodge City to
Newton, lG7 miles in 1G3 minutes.
The town of BeOttie in Marshall
county has had n city government com
posed of women, They are all candi-
dates for reelection but there is an
opposition ticket this year composed Of
men, named by friends Of saloons.
Residents of European countries eat
Kansas apples, Kansas beef and bread
made from Kansas -four; and the pol
ishcd walnut furniture in many Of the
homes of the wealthy in the Old World
was made from walnut logs that got
their growth in Kansas.
The labor unions of Wichita have
declared " boycott against the new
street railway on the alleged ground
that the company is employing labor
ers from outside the city, paying them
Sl,25 cents day while the union scale
is Sl.50
The Chicago Times Herald says that
George J., Bradbury will assume on
May the place of president of the
Kansas City and Southern railway
lie leaves the Lake Erie and Western
on that date,
Twenty-sevcn railroad pay checks
were cashcd in Fort Scott crap dive.
When the dive keeper turned them
into the bank list was made of the
parties to whom the checks were issued
and they were notified that if it is
found that they gamble again they
will be discharged.
Kansas corn went up in price last
week aud the Kansas railroads were
smothered in shipments of corn. The
state has big supply of corn on hand