Hutchinson gazette., 1901-08-01
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

On August the old soldiers OF Har'
vey county will picnic at Halstead.
Milltmen in Topeka have raised the
price Of milk to seven cents a quart
Colin II. Ball, OF Kansas, Is made n
second lieutenant in the regular army
The Osborne Woodmcn took an all
night sweat in initiating 81 candidates.
The Farmers Grain and Livestock
association OF Butler county has been
Incorporated,
A Bourbon county man claims that
In three days he cut and marketed $500
worth Of hay,
Texas fever is reported from Edna,
Labette county, Ben. Jarboe has lost
20 head Of cattle.
There is complaint in Western Kan
sus that too many cattle are shipped
there for pasturing.
On July 90 there were four deaths
from heat in Kansas City, KS, and
two on the Missouri side.
S, N. Harper had ls acres Of wheat
near Menolsen, Shawnee county, which
threshed out GGs bushels,
The controlling interest in the We'll
lington National banl, has passed from
John L, Stewart by way Of sale,
The retail clerks OF Horton struck
for early closing and the state labor
commissioner went there to fix things.
The commercial club Of Anthony Is
Is wide awake in connection with the
northern extension Of the Choctaw
railroad
Some fellow figures that the crop
loss in Kansas this year will reach
$3.50, 100000 but Kansas is rich enough
10 stand II.
The influx of slot machines from
Missouri, since they were prohibited
over there, is causing Kansas towns
much pilakea,
In Topeka the cracking Of the earth
under brick sidewalks drains away the
sand the bricks are laid in and dam
ages the walks.
A well-axed Douglas county farmer
took his first ride on n railroad train
along with bunch of cattle he was
Ealing to market.
The Santa Fe uses from 5000 to 900
tons of coal a month at Topeka. At
Argentine the consumption runs from
1000 to 5000 tons.
win r, Spillman, OF Manhattan, has
been appointed private secretary to
Joe l.. Bristow Spillman has been in
Washington since 1897.
The Moran Herald has discovered that
ruttirS ice cream in glass and pour.
ing pop over it is right to the front to-
gether with ice cream soda.
The News says that the strongest
temperance lecture ever exhibited in
Hutchinson was the taking of drunk
en- woman from train to the jail.
An Oakland, Shawnee county, nur-
seryman will use steam rotary pump
with his 5000 irrigation plant, for the
benefit Of twenty acres Of young nur-
scry stock.
Red tape killed man in coal mine
near Topeka. lie fell down shaft
and long course of rigmarole among
the county health officers caused him
to lie there five hours before the couu-
ty relief authorities sent out to bring
him to town.
Rev. Richard Cordley, Of Lawrence,
married couple by the name of Bacon
in 1859, in that city. Twelve years ago
Rev. Mr.. Cordley attended the funeral
Of Mr.. Bacon and has now attended
that OF Mrs. Bacon.
Charles Hoffman, Of Lyon county, an
eX.Confederate soldier, had brother
IN the Union army. lie attempted to
personate his brother in an application
for pension and is now in Jail, with o
prospect of five years in the peniten-
tiary. Uncle Sam shows no lenieucy
TO such frauds,
The Rock Islaed depot at Lebanon is
burned. Nothing was saved except
the freight bills and books. Consider.
able freight was burned.
1t is said that one Caldwell man sold
daily carload of beer to the home
seekers The trains stopped there 20
minutes only. At Wichita the time
between most Of the connecting trains
was about two hours and all that time
a daily procession of people with bas.
lets of bottled beer was vending its
way direct from beer cars to the big
gest crowds.
A Kansas farmer read about New
York farmer whose wheat crop was
two bushels to the acre, and he at once
offered to start movement to help
Che farmers back there.