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and is quite fatal among children. W. P. Tomlinson, a veteran Kansas editor, died in Topeka, June 13, aged 65.
The Salina creamery made 19,223 pounds of butter in the first week in June.
A new $2,000 Methodist church has just been dedicated at Chelsea, Butler county.
Sixteen farmers about Woodbine have planted a $10,000 bank in Woodbine.
The laws of Kansas prohibit the sending of the wife or children of a soldier to the poor house.
Walter Post, aged 18 years, was drowned in the mill race in Burling- ton, while swimming. He was seized with cramps.
The amount of interest due the state on daily balances in the National City bank of New York City, for April amounted to $96.77.
J. A. Tuttle, traveling freight agent for the Rock Island, killed himself in Hutchinson because he believed that he was to become blind.
Charles Stark, a Franklin county farmer, a white man with a fair skin, is turning black. The doctors call it a case of Addison's disease.
Water came up with a rush to with- in 12 feet of the top of a well being bored in McPherson. The well had reached the depth of 135 feet.
There is a new Australian law in Kansas which requires study. B. H. Tracy, assistant attorney general, is preparing instauctions for voters.
The Santa Fe is to extend its present freight depot in Wichita, making it 185 feet lenger. Its outside platform ca- pacity will be about 9,000 square feet.
R. M. Wright, state superintendent of forestry has distributed 1,500,000 trees in Western Kansas this season. They were black and honey locust, Osage orange and catalpa.
Prof. James H. Canfield. once chan- cellor of Kansas university, now li- brarian of Columbia university, Ohio, is proposed as national president of the Young Men's Christian Association.
A Wichita man has just invested $400,000 in Oklahoma mortgages. which were in the hands of the receiver of a defunct Eastern trust company. Every dollar of the money was Kansas money.
They tell a story about Jim Steele who was the first justice of the peace in Wichita, appointed by the governor before Sedgwick county was organized. He had endorsed a note; the amount of the note was sued for in Steele' scourt; the court gave judgment for the holder and then paid the note himself.
Campers cut the wire fence of a wheat field a mile north of the packing houses in Wichita and turned in their horses. Old Man Mostellar, the owner, went to them and ordered them out of the field. This was in the morning. The campers beat Mostellar nearly to death and left. He laid in the sun until noon, and can hardly recover.
Hugh A. Cook is dead at Ottawa. He came to Lawrence in the '50s and his store was burned there in the Quan- trell raid. Later he was associated with Solon O. Thatcher in newspaper work. He was twice sergeant-at-arms and once a member of the legislature, and was the second sheriff of Franklin county. IIis children numbered 14.
The Bank of Hays City has made a final closing, the remaining assets being sold at auction. Depositors were paid 61 per cent. At the time of the failure a 40 per cent compromise was offered and rejected.
J. H. Watkins, cashier of the Dexter, Sumner county bank, killed himself. A bank examiner had been at work over the bank's accounts and found discrepancies. Watkins left a letter giving business instructions and stating that he had never taken one dollar of the bank's money.
There were only about twenty dele- gates of Sons of Veterans at the June- tion City encampment. The member- ship in Kansas is now only about 400.
Twin Grove township of Greenwood county has sold its $15,000 bonds of the Wichita and Western railroad, now owned by the Frisco line, which com- pany bought the bonds to get out from under the conditions which were made at the time of their issue, and not be- cause the road was obliged to ever pay them. The township got $2,500 for the bonds.
Calvin Pearl Titus, the Wichita sol- dier who scaled the wall of Pekin, came home for a few days before enter- ing a preparatory school in New York. He has West Point in view.
Mrs. Clara Davis, a bride of a year, and late of Iola, was, with her husband traveling in a wagon in Oregon. When three days from a habitation, and in the mouniains. Mr. Davis was accident- ally shot and killed. His wife placed the body in the wagon and drove over that lonely distance with it. She is now returning to Kansos.
Dr. Daniel McGee, of Topeka, bought an automobile in Chicago and rode home in it, making 100 miles a day.
Governor Stanley has appointed as delegates to the Trans-Mississippi con- gress at Cripple Creek in July, J. W. Thrall, Wellington; Mrs. Augusta Wil- tson, Wilsonton; J. H. Churchill, Dodge City; George Leis, Lawrence: H. F.
