Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-29

! okec county, mas been missing lOl
weeks,
One township OF Sedgwicl, county hO'
n pest consisting OF millions of black,
birds,
Edward Berry has served thirteen
terms as county attorney in Marshall
county,
Two negroes held up two harvcsters
al Saiina, robbed them and bruised
them up badly
A $4,000 loss by fire occurred nj Me.
Pherson, A lamp exploded in the hay
in livery barn.
The Lawrence canning factory Is the
only one noticed in Kansas which en-
poets 20 can corn.
The Standard oil company has placed
tanks at Alma for supplying all of Wa
baunsce county.
The Santa Fc has made u reduction
of one third in rates on corn for feeding
purposes in Kansas.
Topeka has less than half mile OF
wooden sidewalks left Brick has SUI
percedcd the boards
Creamery supplies are generally re.
ported as getting back to the usual
figure since the improvement in pas
lures.
During the past few years the west
ern Kansas counties have been prompt
in the payment of bonds issued since
the boom days
President Davis, of the Chicago
union, who refused to order his men
out at the command Of Shaffer, was
raised in Usage county, Kansas,
II Is truth worth hammering at
that Kansas farmers could raise Just as
many and just as good or better pota-
toes as Colorado If they would irrigate.
A Russell county paper publishes us
n fact that man who is worth $4,000
tried to work the county into paying
the costs of sending his wife to the in
sane
j. A. Mcclure died in Denver the
other LAY. He was an officer in the
18th Kansas in the civil war; lived in
Crawford county after the war, and
was several times n member of the Kan
sas Legislature,
Ernest brewers, of Bently, marketed
n load of alfalfa seed which he sold for
S36l.67. He says that one acre of his
alfalfa produced Is bushels Of seed,
which breaks the record. That acres
seed brought s01.
The modern Woodmen of Doniphan
county held three days agricultural
exhibition and picnic at Highland sta
ton. The sheriff gathered in five pris-
oners, two wagon loads of beer and
wagon load of gambling outfits Fiji
teen gamblers got away,
Many thousands OF acres of Finney
county are covered with wonderful
crops, the result of irrigation. Garden
City is the center of the alfalfa fields in
Western Kansas. Alfalfa seed sells at
Garden City at from SO to 81 bushel.
There never has been so large demand
for the seed.
An excellent quality of water-whitc
oil is said to be produced from the Kan
sas petroleum. During 1900 thirty
eight producing wells were drilled and
fourteen old wells abandoned, making
100 productive oil wells in Kansas at
the close of the last year. Five dry
holes were drilled during the year
making the total number completed
40.
A powder company has purchased
tract Of land near Cherokee and Il is
the intention to erect there one Of the
largest of powder plants,
Mrs. De Forrest is to have an Ss,OOO,-
600 estate which Henry Dolan, of New
York, has left, she being his neice and
only heir, She was employed as book
keeper for the Atchison Globe for long
time, but after her uncle gave her $50
month she removed to Irving, Kas.,
where she still lives. The fortune is in
New York property. Mrs, DeForrest is
incredulous concerning the report
Wichita is to hold special election
on September II to vote upon issuing
$50, 900 in bonds to assist in the rebuild
ing of the burned Dold packing plant,
In Ellis county, VIM. Bcmis three
story barn was struck by lightning and
burned, together with his farm ma
chinery, 1000 bushels of wheat and 90
tons of hay,
John b. Payne, formerly an office boy
in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, is now
commercial agent for the Texas & Pa
cifc railroad with headquarters at
Louisville, Ky,
Ellsworth Kelley, of Yates Center,
superintendent of Woodson county
schools, is making valuable reputa-