Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The funds in the Kansas state treas
ury on July IS footed up s57O, 0l5.0O.
A ball game at Fort Scott between n
local team and n team from Nevada,
Mo-, ended with general fight.
VIM. Archer, OF Ellinwood, was one
OF the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields, He lost a threshing outfit.
One recent mail brought to the col
lector OF internal revenue at Lcaven.
worth eos applications for liquor deal
crs' stamps,
Kansas City Grain merchants agree
in the statement that the Kansas
wheat crop never was so large nor the
grain so good.
The Chautauqua assemblies In Kan
sas have not been 70 successful as
usual this summer; probably on ac'
rount Of the heat,
The district court Of Lyon county
has suit brought by the Santa Fe TO
restrain the Orient road from crossing
itS tracks in tsyards
Misses Blanche Casey and Mary Bel
lew, of Wichita, left home in the morn
ing, registered at El Reno and reached
home the same night,
The Cudahy packing house employed
N large number Of men Of the burned
Dold plant at Wichita, including sew.
eral Of their travelling men.
Claude Hamilton, of Topeka, sue
coeds Mr., Tracey in Attorney General
Godards Office when Tracey takes his
Slace as U. S. district attorney.
1t may prove that the rush OF stock
10 market has come from panic rather
than from existing conditions. People
are scared at the conditions they ex.
pect.
Topeka did not get any Of that big
rain most OF the state was blessed
with the other night The rain came
within 40 miles east and southwest
Topeka had dry thunderstorm only.
A second edition Of Secretary CO.
burns biennial report is ready for dis
tribution. This edition is OF $500 vol
umes; the first edition was of $4,000,
and IL was exhausted within 30 days
Copies of the new state school laws
have been sent from the Office OF the
state superintendent to each OF the
10000 school officers in the state. There
was about nine tons OF these books
sent out
A prairie FIRE north OF Larued de-
stroyed 10000 bushels of wheat in the
stack, Frank Junod, while fighting
fire, inhaled flames and was reported
dying Several buildings were burned
and many tons OF prairie hay.
The State Board OF Charities and
Corrections will 60 to Parsons next
week to make arrangements for secur-
ing site for the new insane asylum
which will be built at that place, The
site selected by the people at Parsons
ia held at S2s, 900, but II this is taken
by the board the price will have to be
considerably reduced. The last legis-
lature appropriated 100000 to pay for
the purchase of site and the con.
struction of necessary buildings. The
board will probably expend the full
amount on buildings and ask the next |
legislature to make further nppropria-
tion to provide for the furnishings,
The asylum will be on the cottage plan,
No large buildings will be erected but
the different wards will be housed in
separate buildings Of comparatively
small size,
Captain Hawkins served in Cuba
with the 93rd Kansas colored regiment
and then went to the Philippines, lie
remains there and has bought two
farms and stocked them with 1000
sheep He also has tobacco planta-
tion.
Captain Wm II. Floyd, OF Topeka,
who was killed in n wreck in Missouri,
was messenger Of the Wells-Fargo
express company. lie entered the
service Of the company at the close OF
the civil war in which he served, and
had been with the company ever since.
The interior department mas ordered
the boarding school at Great Nemaha
reservation in Kansas to be abandoned
as the Indians have outgrown the con-
ditions under which the school was
necessary.
Henry Harbin Bell telephone line
man, was climbing pole at Colony
carrying wires when lightning struck
and he was instantly killed
The rain at Winfield was delugc.
At 10 p. m, the telephone exchange
could not send out messenger as it
would be dangerous for him to go out.
A county convention has been called
in Montgomery county to choose a
candidate for shari N IN hold ofIica dur