Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-18

Browns general store at Allen, boil
building and stock, Is total loss from
fire.
The II, s, weather bureau reports
that wheat In Western Kansas ripene(
too fast
The railroads have gangs plowlnl
llre guards along all the lines In Tho
wheat belt,
Colonel u, &, Little, OF the Kansai
Twentieth, has been given pension
OF $40 a month
The Dold packing plant AT Wichita
has been incorporated with million
dollar capital.
Tho wagon trade for truck market
Ing at Atohison is suspended for lack
OF n local supply.
The opening intcrfcrcd with thrcsh-
ing as the crews all wanted to go TO III
Reno and register
A pearl delarcd to be worth $500 or
800 has been found in the Marmaton
river near Fort Scott.
VIM Archer, OF Ellinwood, was ono
OF the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields lie lost tnroshng outfit.
The Topeka milcrs have commenced
their fight to compel the railroads TO
establish the old milling in transit
rate.
A Wichita wholesale shoe house
shipred in one duy i,33c pairs OF shoes;
moro than err load There were SCI
cases,
A hundred acre wheat field in Riley
county was destroyed by spontaneous
combustion. The crop was valued at
81 600
The excursion from Wichita to Buf.
falo, which had been posted for an
earlier date, has been put on until
September =
Tho Wolls.Fargo company are to
erect q large two story brick building
Tor their use just south of the Santa
Fc depot in Wichita,
Douglas county has shortage Of
about 90 teachers Only ~ out OF 20
who took examination secured high
enough grades to secure certificates.
John Warner, Riley county farmer,
was thrown from his moving machine
aud had both feet badly cut by the
sickle. His right foot was amputatcd,
A Kansas contractor, j. A. McGoni.
gle, Of leaycnworth, has the contract
for building twclvc-story, fire proof
brick building at Uniontown, IA, for
$500, 900
a goodly portion OF the sympathy
felt for farmers on the burning Of their
wheat is more properly due the rail.
roads which pay good values for the
most OF it.
Kansas town people unite in telling
the farmers how to save their stacks
from fire. OF course the dry goods
box rooslers would have had every.
thing safe long ago,
Rarton county farmers lost another
10000 acres OF wheat In u second wide
fire. There were buildings burned
also. Many losers at this fire had
taken insurance after the first big fire.
DR.. Barth, Of Wichita, has been made
the head of the meat inspection at
Topeka with six people Ia his force.
Tho government has also made him
chief OF the quarantine division, with
headquarters at Topeka
The last new addition to the Dold
packing plant ~ Wichita hos floor
capacity Of lI9,s;2 feet, nearly four
acres IL is for the cooling depart.
mont and is 0s by los feet. Six stories
of the building arc completed.
The acreage OF alfalfa in Kansas is
greater than that Of any tame grass,
and this crop never falls from drouth.
Miss Rosa Preston, of Fort Scott.
has been awarded years scholarship
in tho Chicago university valued al
sl9o There were about 1000 contest
ants.
Wyatt Stanley last sprilg bought
the Tfeadwcll ranch in Kingman coun.
ty for $4,000 the 1000 acres of grow.
ing wheat on IL being thrown III. lIo
harvested the grain to the value Ss5,.
900.
OF the first "a, 900 bushels of wheat
bought by the Enterprise mills there
was none that tested less than 90
pounds
Sheffield ingalls,, the youngest son
OF j. j, ingalls,, Ia u candidate foi
member of the next Legislature frou
the country district Of Atchison ooun
ty
A gasoline tank used to initiate 0
balloon in Forest Park, at Atchison.