Hutchinson gazette., 1901-06-13
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,

have been visited by the Hcssian fly,
The Arkansas river is having its
June rise early. II was out OF It's
bank at Lakin on the first day OF the
month
There are jobs and jobs and Kansas
has taste OF them all. There is now
an expert cleaner of safe locks working
in Kansas
Dr. Knudson, OF Baker university,
has been offered the chair OF English
Bible in Boston university and will
probably accept
The Missouri Pacific has purchased
20 more acres OF land at Coffcyville for
switches, storage tracks, shops and a
100000 bushel elevator,
Seventeen men of Arkansas City have
subscribed $3.50 each TO fund and pro.
nose TO see what is under them, at
least to the depth of 1900 feet,
Judge Ha2cn OF the Shawnee county
district court has refused TO grant Mrs,
Nation new trial and an appeal will
be taken to the supreme court
Jasper N. Wilkinson, who has been
With the Kansas State Normal school
since 1884, has been elected president
to succeed A, r, Taylor, resigned,
Judge A. j. Myatt, of Wichita, re-
ceiyed serious injuries in u runaway in
Colorado, Judge Myatt was solicitor
OF the short-lived court Of visitation,
Mrs Adelaide o'Brien, Of Wichita,
took poison because she was jealous Of
her husband. win she feel better
about 1t 'over there" where she has
gone,
Frank Terrill, OF Salem, Sedgwicls
county, was the first to commence the
wheat harvest His crop is early May
wheat, is very fine and will make n
good yield,
The Rock Island is building new
freight house in Topeka, to be Of brick
and % by 100 feet. A portion of the
building is to be two stories, 32 by 80
feet, for freight Offices.
Chancellor Frank II. Snow, OF Kan
sas university, has resigned lie has
never been in good health since his
son, San Francisco newspaper re-
porter, was drowned in the harbor
there.
The balots OF the Topeka city cleo
ton arc being counted by commission
ers appointed by the supreme court,
They are instructed to finish the count
by June 20, They draw $40 day
each.
Preston b, Plumb's daughter Ruth
and s. G. Brewster, of lola, are mar
red, They were fellow students at
Kansas university; he graduated in
1890 and later he served in the Goth
Kansas
The accumulation of six months of
liquors in the Topeka city jail was de-
stroyed by the chief Of police 1t con-
sisted of n kegs Of beer and several
cases Of liquors Several old topers
shed tears.
Miss Barbara Spindler was ltindling
fire at her mothers home in Yelling
ton, using either kerosene or gasoline,
and was burned up with the house,
Her mother was badly burned in an
attempt TO rescue the victim.
II, 4. Randle, of Pratt county, pre-
pared his wheat land by listing deep
ly, then cultivated down, narrowed
thoroughly and put in the wheat with
n drill. His wheat stands waist high
while in fields all about it the wheat
is knee high.
Guess the Topeka Capital hit it off
right when it said that the Emporia
normal school was "the greatest train.
ing school for teachers in the world. +"
Kew. j, d. Ritchey, of Wichita, de-
livered the class address to the young
lady graduates Of the college of the
Sisters OF Bethany at Topeka At the
Junior day exercises the Sunshine
prize offered each year for the girl
having the sunniest disposition, was
given to Miss Zerelda Barringer, of
Omaha. All the students were Judges
in this contest.
soup bone cost lola sic; so the
Register complains. woman left it
TO boil and went down town. The fire
under the kettle lasted longer than
the water in it and dense smoke re-
suited which brought out the fire de-
partment
Charles Holmes, n young man of Is,
son Of Thomas Holmes, job printer
of Wichita was with a private picnic
party near the Little Arkansas river
in which they also bathed, Holmes
was taken with cramp and was
drowned.
r. e. Torrington, railroad man
who worked in Wichita for years, and
was later connected with the Rock