Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-05
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,

In Atchison the bank deposits exceed
the total assessed valuation of all prop
crty,
The Santa Fo gives all Of It's men not
IN the operating department n holiday
on Thanksgiving day,
The city employment agency Of To-
pcka has secured work for more than
1900 people since II opened last May,
Bishop lIcnnessy has decided TO erect
new building at Notre Dame academy
at Fort Scott, and TO use the present
building for high school and musical
conservatory
A man with three acrcs near Wichita
raised three crops this ycar; the last
crop was Of turnips, Of which he gath
cred 800 bushels and sold them at 20
cents bushol
The United States still owes Kansas
SiGs, 900 for money used to take up
QuOntrcll raid claims, An effort TO Sc.
euro an appropriation from congress
this winter will be made,
The red soil OF Kipgman county has
proven to be very productive in the
raising Of alfalra and therefore among
the best cattle and hog producers,
Turkeys also thrive there,
According 10 custom the most Of the
officials and employees at the Kansas
state house received their monthly pay
on the day before Thanksgiving, They
always get IL the day before Christmas
also.
There is II ease from Franklin county
before the supreme court involving the
question whether n contract 10 sell
land Nt specified price necessarily
compels the land to be transferred by
deed.
Kcarncy county bects were marketed
Mt Rocky Ford, They tested 90 per cent
sugar, The crop was the best paying
one of Kearney county, and more acrcs
will be planted TO bccts next season
thnn in the past.
Anderson Bros, breeders OF thor.
oughbrcd sheep have sold their fine
ranch Of 4s0 acres just north Of Valley
Center, in Sedgwick county, TO Frank
c. CusicS, of Cornell, III, The price
paid was S96, 400,
Conductor Samuel Lightcap has been
in the employ Of the Union Pacific for
moro than 30 years, His present run
Is between Kansas City and Ellis, lie
has been on q day rnn through Kansas
for many years,
Governor Stanley has told the rail.
road commissioners that they need not
make report TO him this year, but
wait until next year when the lcgisla-
ture will assemble This saves 1000
or S5, 600 in printing,
Mrs Strange, n widow Of Ellinwood,
was bound and gagged in her own
house and the party who did this then
attempted TO assault her l2.year.old
granddaughter Newt uarbod was
arrested on suspicion and taken to Jail
at Groat Bend to avoid lynching,
A swindler with variety of Names
among them being c, b, McVickers,
w. II. Burton and Andrew Adams, has
victimi2ed number Of ladies in cast
ern Kansas lie represents himself as
an agent of New York cloak company
whicd does an extensive mail order
business. lie takes cash deposits with
orders and also from parties whom he
pretends to make agents in different
towns; these being usually milliners
The National Cloak company will pay
500 for his arrest,
Patrons Of the South Haven postollicc
stand by their postmaster and have
nearly all signed a rcmonstrance
against his removal.
There were so acres planted to tobacco
in Kansas this year which yielded 1850
pounds, vOlued at 81 ,995. The largest
acreages were in Ellis, Rush and Frank.
lin counties,
The unpublished opinions Of the
court OF appeals, together with digest
of the whole ten volumes Of appeals re-
ports, both In one volume, will soon be
ready for distribution.
David Nation and his wife are d.
vorced by the court at Medicine Lodge;
their property being divided between
them by order OF the court.
A. G. Drew, has been teaching coun-
try schools in Atchison county for
thirty years, and claims the record in
Kansas for length Of service In one
county,
The Wichita commercial club decides
that $1,000 is about the proper figure to
cxpend in entertaining the 1900 cattle
men they expect to attend their meet
ing on February ll.13.
James Wilmington, Of Emporia, has
left his family because his vito would
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