Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-29
KANSAS ITEMS oE IKTEREsE.


enlarged by the Missouri Pacific.
Burglars robbed a store at Beagle,
near Paola Of goods valued at 500
The cash in the vaults OF the state
treasury amounts to nearly one million
dollars.
Galena was visited by safeblowers,
who robbed safes at depot and at a
butcher shop.
Fruit prospects are reported very
good in Kansas now especially for
peaches and apples.
A shooting scrApe occurred in a bill
Hard hall at White Cloud and the peo-
pie closed the place up.
There is now paid monthly at Cherry
vale nearly $50, 900 in wages TO work.
men in manufacturing plants.
Bishop Hennessey was in the county
this week TO locate three new Catholic
churches in Sedgwicl county.
A Smith Center man had team one
of the horses died; purse was made
up and the man has n team again.
Eighteen thousand eggs in one day
Is reported as having been taken in by
one firm In Junction City last week.
Kansas University has ordered $4,000
worth of chemicals from Germany.
The goods are admitted free Of duty.
DIR. p. NJ. sturgis, of Topeka, aged
81, says he is the only man In Kansas
who has ever seen General Lafayette.
The state agricultural college has
$50 hogs They were vaccinated with
hog cholera virus and all but SO died.
A ten acre chicken farm is being At
ted up at Newton for the purpose of
supplying the Santa Fe eating houses.
The Topeka commercial club has
contracted with promoter to put up
q spring street fair for May 20 to June
..
Wanamaker, Shawnee county, has
measles as an epidemic. Many middle
aged and elderly people have the
disease.
Emporia has nominated N. A. Vyne,
p Roosevelt rough rider, for the Office
of city attorney. He was In the bat
ties about Santiago
In less than three months four Of the
daughters of Mr., and Mrs, L. G, Stowe,
of Mcpherson, have married themselves
out OF the family home
Samuel Stone, Of Saline county, took
a car load Of sheep to Chicago, pat 1925
Of the proceeds In his vest pocket and
somebody else had II before he missed
It.
Mesquite grass is taking the place of
buffalo grass as far west as Ford coun-
ty. Change of climate has crowded
buffalo grass west gradually. Forty
years ago It was common just west of
the Blue river.
Frank 0meara, aged about 40, threw
himself in front Of the west bound
Union Pacific train, near Chapman, and
was killed, being fearfully mangled,
His home Is unknown. His name was
learned from papers on his body,
Seven years ago three men left
Brown county and settled in Seattle,
One Of them is mayor of Seattle now,
another has an immense foundry and
the third Is successful hardware
travelling man. All three were average
Kansas citizens
Representative Biddle Of Comanche
county bought fifteen bull calves from
q Barber county Hereford herd for 800
apiece,
A club at Lawrence proposes to
found n sanitarium for the purpose of
caring for the inflrm, and for orphan
children.
A freight on the Missouri Pacific was
wrecked three miles west of Hcrington
fourteen cars Of grain and merchandise
being ditched. One brakeman was
buried under the cars, but escaped
with only broken arm.
Frost did some injury to early plant
cd potatoes in the Kaw valley. The
second planting is much larger and is
now being put under the soil.
o. p. Updegraff, the Shawnee county
horseman, will likely be appointed as
q member of the Kansas live stock
sanitary commission to succeed Taylor
Riddle.
The Kansas claims Of about S40,O
growing out OF the war with Spain,
have not been paid, Adjutant General
Fox is in constant correspondence with
The war department.
Rev. Sparks, who attended the NJ. u.
conference at Chauute, said that for 40
years he never missed roll call at the
annual conference except one. That
was when he was serving in the army
as chaplain.