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The Reno county court house is to be built with Coffeyville brick. Fort Scott has two courts this week, the district and the federal. Abilene's spring census shows a population of 3,736, a gain of 183 in a year. A United Commercial Travelers' council is to be instituted in Abilene. The graduating class of the Topeka high school numbers 48; 14 boys and 34 girls. High water took out a portion of the bridge over the Arkansas river at Syracuse. What is claimed as the largest gusher in Kansas is spouting oil near Independence. A shell game worker following a circus had a good run of stealings in Hiawatha. A new M. E. church to cost $6,000 is proposed at Sterling. Contracts for stone are made. The ladies of Columbus held a week's festival and raised $400 for the benefit of the local band. The St. Louis & San Francisco road will soon begin the erection of a new depot at Wichita. A meeting of all the Registers of Deeds in the state is called to convene in Hutchinson May 23. A military school for officers of the K. N. Guard will be held in Newton the last week of June. Rev. J. D. Richey came from St. Louis to become rector of St. John's Episcopal church in Wichita. Perry Hutchinson, of Marysville, had 22 steers killed by lightning; they were standing by a wire fence. Captain George Ritchey, ex-postmas ter at Leavenworth, died at the Soldiers home last week aged 62. Miss Helen Gould is to furnish two beds in the Winfield hospital. The building is nearing completion. The Phoenix mills at Coffeyville were damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000 last week. Insurance covers the loss. The penitentiary now has an even thousand convicts and there is no trouble in keeping them all at work. Eugene F. Ware has placed a bronze portrait bust of Daniel Webster Wilder in the rooms of the Kansas Historical society. A Waverley farmer gives figures to prove an average profit of $1,333 from his quarter section farm, since it was opened. Ex- Senator Ingalls is to return to his home in Atchison June 1st, from Arizona and is much improved in health. The Olathe canning factory will have a capacity to handle 100 tons of corn and 1,500 bushels of tomatoes every eleven hours. Fort Scott's high school is now on the list of Kansas schools whose diplomas entitle graduates to admsssion to Chicago university. George M. Lescher, who went from Topeka to Costa Rica to do construction work for the Topeka Mining company, died there of yellow fever. In the large wheat raising counties of McPherson, Rice, Barton, Stafford, Sedgwick and Sumner, the eye meets nothing but the green of enormous fields. The People S bank of Colony, with a capital of $10,000, goes into voluntary liquidation because the bankers think they can make more out of their money in other lines of business. Ben and Wm. McClellan, father and son, were sent to the penitentiary from Concordia for eighteen months each for assaulting Frank Wilson near Glasco. Charles Hirrell came to Montgomery county from Ireland in 1869 with nothing. He died recently one of the richest farmers in the county, at the age of 85. Harry Hammond. of Sumner county, is planting 1,900 black locust trees. He received them from the state forestry n at no sore trans