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Items of Interest Condensed for Hurried Readers. Arkansas City has a female band. The Midland hotel at Atchison is to be opened. Augusta sends a drum corps to the state reunion. Wilson county boasts of millet six and a half feet high. McPherson county spent $38,220.16 on the public schools last year. A man in Franklin county is going to furnish election booths at $1 apiece. W. T. Williams has moved his paper, the Garfield county Call. to Arkansas. It will be hard to find a county fair this year that does not sport a bicycle race. Lawrence is talking up a bicycle meet, to be held after the university opens. An old gray haired phrenologist is picking up quarters in Rawlins county towns. A bushel of 60 pound wheat exchanges for thirty-five pounds of flour in Medicine Lodge. Atwood claims to be doing more building than the combined towns of northwest Kansas. The Newton creamery distributes about $4,000 a month among Harvey county farmers. A rich vein of coal has been discoved half a mile south of Atehison on Whiskey creek. The old settlers of Harvey county will give a pienic August 10 at Halstead. A silver pienie is to be held at Doyles grove near Udall in Cowley county next week. Ashlands ice gave out Tuesday. If they get any more it will have to come from Wichita. In addition to a few other things Kansas is at present afflicted with three "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows. Hutchinson has an "Early Risers" tennis club, whose members get up to play at 5 o'clock every morning. Several Nemaha county farmers claim that wheat can be made to realize a bushel by feeding it to hogs. Alex Brown threshed 800 bushels of wheat that tests over sixty pounds, from forty acres of land south of Greensburg. The school teachers of Dickinson county receive all the way from $30 to $125 per month, with an average of about $45. The salt works at Hutchinson are not running because they cannot get coal. Several hundred men are out of work. Judge L. Stillwell of the seventh jndicial district is taking an overland trip to Arkansas and will be on the road about a month. J. U. Brown, a well known politician of Greely county, has gone to Bermuda to visit his father who is one of the officials of the islands. An athletic association has been organized at Topeka, and expects to erect a gymnasium and indulge in physical culture next winter. Bat Masterson, of Dodge City fame, was arrested in Denver recently because he refereed prize fight in Denver where one of the combatants died just after the battle. The have been twelve attachment suits begun against the Kineaid bank of Pleasanton. The First National bank of West Winfield, N. Y.. run ten, amounting to $8,966. The commissioners of Pawnee county have reduced the tax levy for state and county purposes to nine and onehalf mills, which is believed to be one of the lowest levies in the state. The commissioners of Crawford county have designated the First National bank of Girard as the county depository, that institution offering 5 per cent interest on daily balances. THE CHEROKEE STRIP BUSINESS EXCHANGE AND PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, WINFIELD, KANSAS. J. B. LYNN, Pres. F.T. BERKEY, Sec. Shares $5.00 each. Send to Secretary for full information. The Wichita banks are getting in better shape than for four or five years. It is quite probable they will begin to pay dividends soon, something which has not been done since 1888. R. W. Turner. ex-United States consul to Cadiz, Spain, has formed a law partnership at Mankato with E. P. Hotehkiss who was the candidate for county attorney of Jewell county last year. Mrs. Kasold, a Lawrence lady, wants a divorce. She avers that she has attended to her housenold duties, clerked in her husband's store, minded an adjoining butcher shop, and because she wasslow in waiting on customers her husband abused her. The Lawrence Quantrell Raid Monument Association has been organized and chartered at Lawrence, and has for its objects the raising of funds and the erection of a fitting memorial to those who were the victims of Quantrell's murderous raid. T. C. Henry, formerly of Abilene. is having a hard time in Colorado. Recently the sheriff sold stocks held by Henry in various land, canal and town companies $10.000 to satisfy a judgement of