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STATE NEWS. The Leavenworth republican city convention nominated several women for the school board. The Hutchinson World closes at Hutchinson with the announcoment that its publication will be resumed in some Texas city May 1. Hutchinson Times: Al Morse claims to have cleared over a hundred dollars from the sale of ducks this winter. He insists, too, that there is more fun in huntinguthan husking corn. Strong City Republican: The Reveille will be the name of a newspaper which E. W. Ellis will publish at Cottonwood Falls. It will be stalwartly democratic in politics and cater to the respectable element of the party. A Chapman special: Flag raising exercises were held at the Dickinson county high school. Hon. F. B. Dawes, of Clay Center, delivered the principal address, and a large audience was present from all parts of the eounty. A Medicine Lodge dispatch: The house occupied by L. B. Root burned. and three children, aged SIX, four, and two, were cremated. The father was away from home and the mother was milking when the house caught fire. The mother was severely burned in trying to rescue the children. The Gaylord Herald tells about "Uncle Jimmy Smith," an Irisbman of that vicinity, who 32 years ago was a British soldier in India, and who has just got notice that there is $4,000 prize money waiting his claiming. It was $1,000 then, but 5 per cent. interest has quadrupled it. He is going to Englandto get it, and to visit his birthplace. At Hutchinson about fifty of the prominent gentlemen interested in cane growing and the manufacturing of sugar met and formed the Kansas Sugar Cane Growers' association, and elected Eli Kearns, of Fort Scott, president, and W. P. Clements, of Sterling, secretary. Fifteen counties of the state were represented. The second meeting will be held there April 2. Wellington Monitor: W. H. Patterson is presiding as judge pro tem in the trial of the case of John G. Woods against A. B. Mayhew and J. W. Hamilton. The suit is brought for an accounting as between the partners of the old cattle firm of Woods, Mayhew, & Hamillton. Woods sues for $50,000, while Hamilton, who is the real defendant set up a counter-claim for damages for non-fulfillment of contract for nearly the same amount. The case will occupy the time of the court for several days yet. Wichita Eagle: The police found about a dozen children lost on the streets. It being uch a nice day the little fellows got away from home and were unable to find their way back. A number of them lost their way going to school or returning and it was not long until some one found them. Anxious inquiries were made by parents, and the police made returns as rapidly as possible. On Sunday seven lost children were found. A Burden dispatch: Henry Miles, cashier of the Burden bank, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by the father of the lady book-keeper of the bank, charging him with having attempted to take undue advantage of her thirteen-year-old daughter, who had been sent to the bank late in the afternoon to secure some papers. Miles' bond was fixed at $2,000 and he was released. Depositors then made a run on the bank and caused it to suspend temporarily. A Hope special: A valuable deposit of almost pure gypsum, or stucco, has been discovered south of this place. The material has been known to exist here for some time, but the extent of the vein was not known. The material is very valuable for the manufacture of stucco plastering, and a strong company, backed by the Hamilton Investment company, has been formed to develop the find. It is pronounced by experts to be the richest and purest deposit of gypsum in Kansas. A Wichita dispatch: Arthur Gorham, the wealthy cattleman, of Kinsley, Kansas, lies in a critical condition at the Carey hotel. The trouble is heart failure. He was returning from the Ft. Worth convention when taken ill. He is not expected to live. Mr. Gorham will be remembered as the gentleman who was alleged to have adopted a son from among the bell boys at the Centropol S hotel. and who prosecuted him recently for blackmail, the defendant being sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. A Topeka dispatch: The statement of the 160 national banks of Kansas shows a considerable increase in capital surplus, deposits and general business over last year. The present aggregate capital is $13,187,100-an increase for the year of $334,000. The outstanding circulation is $2,826,396. The surplus amounts to $1,8 79,206, and the undivided profits to $947,400. The individual deposits show the greater proportion of gain, the total being $18,837,860,