Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Will L. Bullene of Lawrence has been
appointed state live stock inspector.

Will L. Bullene of Lawrence has been
appointed state live stock inspector.
Lindsborg News: The large Office
window of the treasurer's Office at the
college was blown in by the storm last
night and completely demolished.
Liberal Chronicle: Our new school
house is almost finished and reflects
much credit upon the men who have
had the work in charge. 1t is truly an
ornament to our city.
Wellington Monitor: Mrs. Peters,
widow of Roadmaster Peters, who was
killed in the Derby wreck on the Santa
Fe, has been presented with purse OF
500, made up by the railroad en-
ployes.
Wellington Monitor: Out of the
seventy-nine persons who took the
county teachers examination, held on
| April Goth, two were granted first grade
certificates, twenty three second grade,
thirty-seven third grade, while seventeen
failed altogether. Most of the appli-
cants had never taught or held certif
Gates IN the county before.
Special from Olathe: Clara Duffy, a
farmers daughter in this county, aged
%, being left at home with only a
brother, aged IA. was roughly COM
manded by three tramps to cook them
supper. She got a shot gun loaded
with bird shot and peppered two of them
SO that they were obliged to get a
doctor to pick out the shot.
Coffeyville Journal: A prominent
contractor from Kansas City has been
in Coffeyville for several days and is
stopping at the Denver. He is making
arrangements to put up a lot of resi-
dence houses in various parts OF the
city. He will build wherever he can
get lot on fair terms. He evidently
means to invest largely in Coffeyville.
Special from Abilene: The Abilene
Driving Park and Fair association
directors have decided to ho,d two race
meetings during the season, one Au-
gust - to q, and the other October IA
to II, the latter in connection with the
county fair. The directors will offer
larger premiums than ever, and expect
most successful season.
Topeka Capital: The plans for the
first building for the University of
Topeka have been completed and work
will be commenced on the foundation
in few days. The plans contemplate
a building 274 feet in length, four sto-
ries high. Several hundred trees have
been planted around the campus and
the ground is being prepared for extern
sive planting next season.
Lacrosse Chie'tain: In Greeley
county, near Tribune is "wild horse
trap" 1t consists of five acre tract
surrounded by a rocky wall. with only
twelve foot aperture leading into it..
Wild horses are driven for many miles
and rounded into this enclosure,
where they are easily lassoed. A recent
capture resulted in securing twenty
four fine wild horses at one "haul."
LaCygne Journal: LaCygne will
furnish two college commencement
orators next month: Prof. r. A. Hamp-
shire, principal of the city schools, will
versity, Lecompton, and NJ. F. Leasure.
attorney at law, that at the State Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan. Each
is graduate of the institution in which
he is to speak. Both are preparing
their addresses
Wichita Eagle: A. c. Husey writes
from Germany to Alderman Schnitzler
telling him that he expects to leave for
Wichita soon and will be accompanied
by ten families who intend to settle in
the vicinity OF Wichita. He also adds
that if these families are satisfied as he
is sure they will be that twenty others
that he knows personally will start i'm
mediately. Alderman Schnitzler thinks
that this movement is very significant.
South Haven New Era: AL Green,
the man who disappeared while enroute
to Oklahoma, and who wac supposed to
have been drowned in the Chikaskia
river, turned up in South Haven and
said he was on his way to his claim
near Hennessy, but would give no ex-
planation of his abandonment of his
family except that he had been out
west. One of his old neighbors, who
talked with him, considers that he was
not right in his mind.
There has just been placed in the
National cemetery, at Fort Leav n
worth, monument to the memoryeof
the late Brevet Major General Edward
Hatch, of the Ninth cavalry. 1t is of
gray granite, five feet square at the
base and nine feet in height. On one
face is edward Hatch, colonel Ninth
cavalry; brevet major general, United
States army; born in Bangor, Me-,
December %, 1882; died at Fort Robin
son, Neb., April IL. 1SS9." On two sides
is enumerated the battles in which
Colonel Hatch participated. They are
are as follows: "Bril's Point, Charles
ton, Sykeston, New Madrid, Point
Pleasant. Island No. 10, Tiptonville,
Monterey. Glendale, Pennington. San
Jacinto, Blockland, Guntown, Boons-
vile, Reenzi, Peyton's Mill. Thompson's