Hutchinson gazette., 1901-02-07
RANsAs ITEMS or INTEREST.

The new 5000 bushel elevator al
Harper Is completed,
A 100 mere farm In Nemaha county
sold recently for Sll, 800
A Lindsborg mill will ship $40 bar
rcls Of flour TO Venezuela,
Forty Mormon missionaries are al
work In Kansas at this time,
The farmers near Solomon propose tc
buy an elevator at that place,
A carload Of poultry was shipped to
San Francisco from Larncd last week
The Lyons Roller Mills, at Lyons,
nre burned, with loss Of Ss,OOOi In
suranco $4,000,
Senator Harris, II is reported, has
sold his Linwood farm to Geo, II,
Adams, Of Denver.
Another train load OF horses was
shipped from BismarlS Grove, enronte
w hirlVNi WI Jun "u'
When Bill Hackney returned to Win
field he wag met by delegation OF
citizens with brass band,
The clerks OF the district courts Of
the state met in Topeka last week,
They have SALARY complaint,
The government census gave Topeka
population Of 33,GOsi tho assessors
reported that they found 3G,7s2,
Tho Schllings, of Enterprise, who
had the fracas with Mrs Nation lost
their all in the Galveston storm,
Geo, H. Tucker, Of Eureka, respond
to the toast OF honor Kansas, y at the
Kansas Day banquet in Topeka,
Mark K, Powell, deaf mute, was
knocked from a wcstbound track, inside
of Wichita, and seriously injured,
The Santa Fc has added tinware
department to It's Topeka shops and
will manufacture It's own tinware,
The snow Of February lst and End
was quite general over Kansas, and is
considered valuable for the wheat.
The officers OF the Kansas National
Guard are asking the legislature for
$4,000 for an encampmcnt in 1909.
The young men Of Saline county
neigborhood got together and drove the
lightning rod shorps out Of the county
Rev. Peasc, an aged Presbyterian
minister, OF Wichita, is crazy over Mrs
Nations doings, and is confined in
all.
L. j. Stuckcy, Of Sedgwick county,
was awarded gold medal for his dis
play of white ear corn at the Paris eX.
position,
An oil tank wagon at Belot caught
fire near the Standard Oil depot, The
team and wagon were destroyed and
the driver was badly burned. The
tanl, did not explode,
Andrew Carnegie is to buy n pipe
organ for the Presbyterian church at
Junction City as n memorial to cx.Con.
grcSsman Anderson, who was once the
pastor Of that church.
A new elevator in Wichita between
the tracks Of the Santa Fc and the
Rock Island is totally destroyed by
fire, 1t had capacity Of 10000 bush
els Of grain and it was nearly full,
Half n dozen people were injured in
n Salina barber shop by the explosion
of gasoline lamp, Rev. George Cald.
well, United Brethren minister, may
die, People who were passing were
blown into the street and cut by flying
glass
Charles II. Nettlcs, who was official
court reporter when {, j, Foster was
u, $. district Judge, and later an cx.
pert stenographer, city councilman
and II probable candidate for mayor of
Topeka, died at his home in Topeka
on January 9S.
Thaycr, Ncosho county, expects
special train of IA cmigrant cars from
Iowa to come to Thayer soon. Each
car win carry the goods Of one family,
and coach in the rear will carry the
IA families. All of these people will
locate on farms near Thayer,
Herman Newman, Of the senior class
Of Friends university, has been granted
n $500 scholarship in IIavcrford college
Of Philadelphia,
Mr.. and Mrs, Elijah Hughes, of To-
pclSa, celebrated their G6th wedding
anniversary. lie is an old soldier and
has lived in Kansas since 1855. lie
owns much property aud, although 30
years old, looks after all OF his own
business affairs.
Walter C. Stephens, the speaker of
the Oklahoma honsc OF Representatives,
Tas raised in Mitchell county, Kansas,
The new Rock Island depot at Alma
was burned last week. 1t was built n
few months ago after its predecessor
burned