Hutchinson gazette., 1900-09-06
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPEED.

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NJ. NJ. Munger, Of Pratt county,
shipped 200 head Of fat cattle to
Scotland last week
The wife OF United States Senator
I,ucien Baker was seriously Ill at her
home in Lepyenworth,
The Kaw Valley Canning company
has been chartered to erect n big can
ming factory at Lawrence.
J. II. Burton and j, Il, Cubbinson
were speakers at the opening repuh-
lican rally at sedalu, Mo-, this week.
"Bilr' P6ster, of lIiawathn, declares
he can huslS and throw into wagons
18s bushels Of corn in n ten-hour day
Harper county voted S42,5 bonds
for the rev Stllwell railroad The
proposltlos received majority Of rs.
John hewitt, n half-brced Indian
and splendid horseman, was killed on
the race track at the Olnthe fair
grounds. His horse fell while running
Rt full speed, breaking Nevitts neck.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
land north Of Cherryale and will Mt
once erect sewer pipe and tile-roof'
ing factory four stories high 35@ feet
long and 1874 feet wide. The plant
will employ 200 hands, Natural gus
will be used for fuel,
Lightning struck II large barn be.
longing TO John Strahm, near Su-
betha, setting fire to II and complete
Iy destroying II, together with large
amount OF grain md some implc-
nents, Mr., Strahm's son, aged about
10, was in the barn at the time AMI
was instantly killed by the lightning.
While Kansas has III cities with
a population OF over 1000 IL has but
five with $4,000, and therefore but five
which, under the law, are entitled
TO be called cities OF the first class.
These five, with their population, are
as follows: Kansas City, 47,S64; To-
peka 36,TS2; Wichita, 23,7sG; Leayen-
worth, 2l,5jG; Atchison, 1G,Ol7,
This frigid story was recently tcle-
graphed from Yates Center; The
temperature during the storm over
this section Sunday was SO degrees
above zero, The drop in temperature
came suddenly A few minutes be-
fore the rain began falling the mcr-
curry registered 100 degrees above
zero Sleet and snow accompanied the
drop in temperature.
One of the interesting features Of
the Sixth Kansas cavalry reunion at
Galena last week was an address by
Sergeant Sauls, 81 years old, who
claims TO be the oldest living volun-
teer Of the war of the rebellion, His
home is in Webb City and he is vet
esting to note that there are still
living IS members of one company of
the Sixth.
In Atchison u familiar figure is q,
II. Baillie, aged So years, who had his
head split open at the battle of Mon.
terey during the Mexican war; who
had his face slashed at the battle Of
Bull Run, who had his arm shattered
at the battle OF fredericksburg, and
who was wounded three times more
before the civil war closed He also
served in an Indian war and draws
pension of $50 a month,
A good deal, notes the Kansas Farm
er, has been said and written about
the output Of oil from the wells Of
Kansas. Exact figures sometimes
take the enthusiasm out of the words
of boomers. In Prof. Haworth's re-
port on the mineral resources of Kan
sas, he gives the total production
since the wells were first opened at
a6S,6j7 barrels, having value Of
&l0,O7l, The production last year
was S5,2l5 barrels, having value Of
S52,1G7
A Kansas City paper recently cou-
tained this interesting news item; All
the grain elevators filled and buyers,
unable to get cars, piling wheat Oh
the ground out in the open prairie
in a condition prevailing at nearing all
of the shipping points in the wheat
belt of Kansas. d. L. Croysdale, who
has returned home from months
trip through the wheat belt, says that
never in the history of wheat grow.
ing in the state has such condition
prevailed. Every elevator in every
town Is filed from top to bottom
and the railroads are absolutely un-
able to begin to handle the grain
which is coming into market from the
country. Most of the roads are not
able to furnish town car day.
Federal Judge Hook recently issued
n decree dismissng all the cases in
the celebrated Missouri, Kansas and
Texas land cases except those in AL
len county, which relieves about 90
per cent. of the defendants along the
line of the Katy, from Junction City
southeast to the Kansas line, in Geary,
Morris, Lyon, Ceffey, Cherokee, Craw-
ford and Labette counties. The case
was brought by the government to
cancel the patent granted to the Mis-
Bouri, Kansas G. Texas, and interests
over 1900 people along its line, who
purchased lands from the railroad
company, the title given by the COM
pany being the government patent.
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