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KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. The citizens of Oskaloosa sent $600 in cash for Galveston sufferers. The state firemen's tournament is to be held at Wamego October 4 and 5. The fine new depot at Valley Center is burned. It was occupied jointly by the Santa Fe and the Frisco. The teachers of Southwest Kansas will hold their annual meeting at Caldwell on November 29 and 30. Sumner county's wheat crop this year is estimated at seven million bushels, with a value of $4,500,000. O. E. Johnston, of Kansas City, Kas., learns of the loss of the lives of eleven of his wife's family in Galveston. Jesse C. Raines, a Clay Center boy, has eloped with the daughter of the richest man of Los Angeles, California] The triennial Swedish Lutheran convention held a three days' session at Vliets. There was a large attendance. Perry, Jefferson county, is having a siege of petty thieving. Fruit and poultry are safe nowhere in that vicinity. The Catholic churches of Leavenworth took up collections for the benefit of Galveston sufferers a mounting to $175. G. N. Marley, foreman in the office of the Osawatomie Graphic, committed suicide with morphine. He was in bad health. Rev. E. Masterson left Arkansas City for San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he goes to take charge of a government school. It is said that where Kansas farmers planted corn in fields which had been in alfalfa 4 or 5 years, their best crops were realized. The secretary of the state board of health has commenced the work of prosecuting doctors who, he declares, hold fake diplomas. As a rule political meetings do not have as large an attendance as they have been wont to command; but the campaign will get warmer. A Kansas woman in Manila writes home that all dressmakers there are men and that "it makes one quiver to have a man do the measuring." In the corn contest at Wellington the first prize was given to Sela Moore, of Belle Plaine. He had 20 acres that averaged 60 bushels to the acre. A. W. Arnott, of Marshall county, has 12 acres of corn which was planted in the middle of July. It stands 7 feet high, healthy looking, and is in tassel. He has cultivated it twice. The bank of Bushton, Rice .county, has been burglarized, losing about $5,000 from its safe, which was blown open. There was also a quantity of bonds, notes and securities taken. The bank of Richmond, Franklin county has suspended because it cannot loan its money. Farmers loan each other money too cheaply for the bank. The bank with $30,000 of deposits has loans amounting to only $8,000. Wm. Wellhouse says of the apple crop: "The winter apples are going to be much better than the fall apples, both in quality and quantity. We will get about 22,000 bushels; 10,000 from the Summit orchard and 12,000 from the Osage county orchard. There are 400 acres in the orchard in Leavenworth county and 800 in the orchard in Osage county. General Miles was met in Lawrence at his train by the university students who gave him their regulation yell. The general seemed to enjoy it. The burning of the Lamar hotel at Galena was so sudden that the inmates had to jump from windows to save their lives. The hotel was an old landmark. Miss Myrtle Hinton, a native of the city, was elected Queen of the Wichita carnival. receiving 5,736 votes; almost double the number received by the next highest. Captain J. J. Reagan, formerly of Abilene, lost his wife, daughter, son and son-in-law at Galveston; also six of his brother's family lost their lives. The Rock Island agent at Agenda set a trap gun in his chicken houseand forgot to remove it in the morning. His wife received the charge in her knee. The Kansas State Poultry association directors have fixed time and place for their annual show, in Topeka's new auditorium on next January 7-12. The Delphos high school building was struck by lightning and was burned. Loss, $10,000; insurance $7,500. The University of Ohio offered Dr. Paul Fischer, professor of veterinary science in Kansas Agricultural college $2,250 salary and he resigned from the Kansas college to accept it. Wm. Scott, of Larned has 45 teams hauling in the threshed wheat from the country from lands for which he is the agent. The hauling will require