Hutchinson gazette., 1901-08-15
KANSAS ITEMS on INTEREST

Inc KATY uchet hlles Nv i"lhohn ~
July amounted to 50, ,400,l2i more than
double the sales in July last year
Fredonia and Beloit have each seven
rural delivery routes. No other Kan
sas town has so many Topeka has siN'
W. II, Barnes state secretary Of hor'
ticulture, Is 10 speak on "Orcharding in
Kansas before the National Apple
Shippers convention at Toronto Cam
ada
Miami county has sold good many
cattle and hay is worth sl2 ton Good
crops have been the rule heretofore and
there VIII be no new mortgages result
ing from the drouth,
Br ROfter, who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re-
tired nom the hospital service at Man
ila and win return 20 Kansas, making
his home at IIolton.
Miss Julia r. Pearcc, a Kansas wo'
man, has been appointed an 0nalysist
of soil in the department agriculture,
Washington, She got the position be-
cause of her experience.
There is plenty Of stock feed in Atchi'
son county Many corn fields will
turn out 30 TO 40 bushels TO the acre,
md the crop Of the county will average
10 bushels, Pastures are renewed,
Jackson county farmers are encour-
ngcd as their corn will make more grain
than was expected and an abundance
Of fodder Many OF them are planting
beans, kaiir corn and COW peas,
A mass meeting at Fort Scott Of $500
people adopted resolutions demanding
that Rev. Frazer and others who are in
sisting upon the enforcement Of the
prohibitory law leave the city Ar.
rangcments were made for committee
of 80 to see to the execution Of the res
olution.
Both Calvin Titus and Albert Sonich-
son are orphans under the guardian
ship of the probate Judge of Sedgwick
county Titus scaled the wall Of Peldn
and Sonichsol was with Lieutenant
Gilmore prisoners of Filipinos, lie es-
capped and was the main feature in the
final rescue OF the Gilmore purity,
Three girls OF Wellington, Terra Cor.
der, Lillian ana Clara French, were in
buggy which was run into by n huck-
stcr wagon The runaway resulted in
very dangerously injuring Miss Cordcr,
and severely injuring Clara French
Lillian French was thrown into the
ar eight feet but was not injured,
Harper county is expected to have
this year 5000 TO 1000 bushels of corn
1t had a bumper wheat crop Kaiir
corn and cane are largely planted The
general practice Of grazing winter
wheat makes the demand for other
feed small. THIS Is the most profitable
year for the farmers of Harper county
of the 23 years Of its history since SET
tlement
There are quite number Of citizens
OF Kansas who hold some Office, who
have drawn claims in Oklahoma, There
are others who took notNries' commits.
sions while there and in applying for
them declared Themselves citizens of
Oklahoma, They now have TO meet
the legal opinion, which seems to be
undisputed, that, taking such commits
sions and maintaining the required res
idence on claims, in either case onds
their citizenship in Kansas, and also
yacates their official positions
The Wichita packing house is work.
ing on extra time to supply the new
towns in Oklahoma with sausage md
boiled ham,
The regular annual wheat jubilee at
Wellington will occur September "a to
2s. Sumner county produced from
1880 TO 1900, IS, 1854 ,5lS bushels of wheat
For several years Sumner county pro.
duced one per cent Of the crop of Amer
lea, and for the past ten years has pro-
duced more wheat than any other coun-
ty in the United States, and holds that
record for 1901.
1t is said that lightning started ten
prairie fires in Gray county, three of
which did considerable damage
Butler county had only 10000 acres
Of wheat. 1t does not claim TO rank as
n wheat county, The county has I'd, 900
acres of alfalfa. The corn acrrdge this
season was 1866, 900 acres, some of which
will make from Il to !! II crop. Then
there is 10000 acres of kafir corn and
10000 acres Of sorghum which have all
held up well and will make good crops.
Thousands of acres OF wheat and ryc
will be sown for pasturage.
There is plenty Of forage in Wabaun.
see county Farmers planted forage
crops in the dryest time which is now
coming on.
Frank MillilSen, of Santa Fe is to b,
appointed register Of the Dodge Cit,