Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-15
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

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PlcAsNuton may have sailing sta
tion for one Of the great pickling COM
pAnies
Public libraries are increasing Ster'
ling Is greatly interested In the matter
just now.
Western Kansas farmers are shipping
baled alfalfa 10 Texas at the net price
Of 50 per ton,
The 322 state banks and a private
banks of Kansas had on deposit on Feb
ruary ~ s9I92O,5lI47,
There Is talk OF calling grand jury
In Sumner county, where there has not
been one for thirteen years,
The establishment Of the binding
twinc plant at the Kansas penitcntiary
took 100 men out Of the mine
The State Normal Mandolin club Is
negotiating for five months service at
Manitou Springs tais summer
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dicl, Clacls, OF Gaylord She weighs
1900 pounds and Is six feet high,
The management OF the Hutchinson
free library has received one hundred
volumes from Miss Helen Gould,
The pcnltentiary officials have fixed
The price of binding twine at 10 conts
q pound sold direct TO the farmers
Frank Harvey, one Of the gang TINT
robbed the Citizens bank at Altoona
mas been placed in the pcnitcntiory on
h ten years sentence.
Horses are still being shipped from
Dickinson county, Buyers are paying
e5 per cent more for horses than II year
ago, and find II hard to find them.
Fred Nov, living near EmporiO, held
u piece of iron TO track to see the
passing train cut II in two, The wheels
also appropriated two Of his fingers.
The state bank commissioner went
TO Edgerton, Kas, to superintcnd The
opening of new bank, the State Bank
of Edgcrton, with capital Of $1,000.
George Thompson, of Atchison, who
has been planting wheat in Kansas for
Forty-Ave years, thinks crop iscertain
Ehis year, lie says that wheat was
killed after March but once in this
state, In 1878.
The Chanute Prospecting and Brick
Manufacturing company have struck
both gas and oil in their first well
southwest Of town. The strike Is con-
Bidcrcd unusually important as the field
Is an entirely new one and heretofore
thought to be several miles away from
both the oil and gas belt Chanute
now has good, paying wells on both
sides Of her. Several other companies
that have been waiting for results now
intend to commence prospecting at
once.
j, W. Robson, pre- sidcnt Of the Kan
Bas Cattlemen.s association, has in
formed Attorney General GODDARD that
the cattlcmen of the state expect the
suit now pending in the supreme court
70 test the validity Of the court Of Wis
Atation law to go on to finish, not
withstanding the recent readjustment
Of the rates by the railroads. Attorney
General GODDARD had heard that the at
torney for the cattlcmen, Y, f. Carver,
had said that the readjustmcnt carried
with it u dismissal of the case, and he
wrote to President Robson for direct
information.
Frank Cooper, Of Jewell county, re.
Gently bought 5000 head Of sheep in
New Mexico, lie drove them to Kan.
sas fed them few months and dis
posed Of them the other day at profit
Df $1,000.
Building associations are thinning
out somewhat, but there are 81 doing
an active business in the state, with
moro organizing.
A quarantine on dairy and breeding
cattle has been established by Kansas
against most of the eastern states. The
Idea Is to keep tuberculosis out
Money orders from the Philippines
Seach Kansas postoilices quite often.
The helpful hen nets Lincoln county
an income Of SIS, 900 u year. The out
put OF eggs aggregates two carloads n
week or lOl carloads year, Each car
load contains 400 cases, which means
the laying, shipment and ultimately
the consumption of Al 600 cases, or L.
@4S,0O0 dozen eggs The average price
of eggs the year round is about cents
a dozen, which means an annual in
come from Lincoln county hens of $15,
900.
Butler county produced corn alone,
last year, amounting to nearly S6,OO0,.
OOO Its lands are in great demand
this spring.
A reward of $40 has been offered fol