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grown watermelons, the first of the
season and they were as fine as any
brought to market.
Good Crop of Appies.-The prospect
for an abundant crop of apples was
never better at Great Bend than at
present and the different orchards
around over the county are loaded
with apples and the early varieties
are selling for good price now.
Drowned While Wadine. = While
wading in pond formed in an aband-
oned excavation of an old brick yard
at Usage City, Ida Leihy, aged Is
years. was drowned. The girls com.
transpiring until the body sank and
remained in the water 1t was then
recovered by dragging the pond.
To Increase Endowment.-The Rev.
A. w. Lindquist, pastor of the First
Swedish Lutheran church at 1888
Penn street, Kansas City, has &C
cepted an invitation to go to Linds-
borg, Kas., for two months and as
sist in the work of Bethany. The
Rev. Mr.. Lindquist will work to in
crease the endowment of the college
and pay off it's debts.
Gas at Three Cents.-Gas for manu-.
featuring purposes will be cheap i'll
the gas belt. The Kansas Natural
Gas Company which was being bit
terly fought by the Gas Belt Protec-
tive League, has come to an under
standing with the company by which
they agree to furnish gas for manu-
featuring purposes at three cents a
thousand cubic feet. At this price it
is cheaper than for the concerns to
own their own gas plants.
Briston at SaIina. - When Joseph
L. Bristow left Washington recently
it was announced that the former
fourth assistant postmaster general
would locate in either Ottawa or Sa.
line and engage in active work on one
or the other of the papers he is in.
terested in. the Ottawa Herald or the
Salina Journal. Mr.. Bristow has now
decided to go to Salina. That city
will be his home and he will be the
active editor and publisher of the Sa.
lima Journal
Station Burned at Vesper. The
station at Vesper, Kan, caught fire
and burned down. The cause of the
fire was a defective fue. Nothing
was saved from the building but
few trunks that belonged to travelling
men. The Central Kansas Publishing
Co. had just sent a big order of books
and stationary to Vesper for the new
State bank of Vesper, which was to
open as soon as they got the books
They were all burned.
Asking Too Much-Chicopee Kan,
Pacific can help it. The railroad
commissioners were asked to con-
tinue the case which was filed by
Chicopee against that railroad be-
cause it did not have a depot at that
town. The request was accompanied
by a statement that the town did not
need a Missouri Pacific depot, as the
town was owned by a competing line
and would not patronize the Missouri
New State Buildings. = Three con.
tracts will be let next month for
state buildings. State Architect Stan
ton has completed the plans and
specifications for the Eleanor Taylor
Bell memorial hospital medical pa
viliOn at Rosedale, Kan. This build
ing will cost $4,000 and the contract
will be let by the regents of the State
university on August l. The board
of control will let the contract for the
new building at the Reform school in
Topeka on August 5. This building
will cost about $4,000. The regents
of the State Normal School will let
the contract August II for the gym
nasium at the Hays City normal
school. This will cost about $4,000.
Average Crop of Apples. = Reports
to the secretary of horticulture show
that Kansas will have about an aver
age sized apple crop this year. Most
of the farmers report a full crop of
early apples, but the late apples will
not yield so we'll. 1t is estimated that
the Ben Davis will yield about three
fourths of a full crop. Jonathans will
be scarce. The late frosts caught
that variety in bloom. Missouri Pip
pins will yield full crop. The grow
ing apples are free from worms and
defects, the secretary says, and the
yield of high grade apples will be
heavier than it was last year.
Brother Went to Rescue. - George
Gibbons, brothers, were drowned in
the Major Dadley lake, just north
of Olathe. and young Miller, their
cousin, came very near losing his life
in trying to rescue them. When bath
ing in the lake George Gibbons was
seized with cramps. His brother went
in TO save him and was pulled down.
Miller tried to save the two. Miller
was the companion of young Lewis
when the latter was killed by a ST.
Louis & San Francisco train in Kan
sas City few weeks ago.
Bradley Acting Receiver. J. T.
Bradley was notified from Washing
| ton by T. P. Kane, acting comptroller
| that he had been aDnOinted acting re-