Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

copal diocese will convene in Topeka
September 18th.
DR.. McLallin. who has been known
to go home to dinner bareheade d.
says Sol Miller is absent-minded.
Every health resort has some draw
back or other. Mountain fever occa'
Eionally takes hold in Garden City.
Prof. Draper says that the descend
ants Of single pair of wasps may mum
Der as high as 10000 in one season.
The Short Creek mines last week
yielded l, ITO tons of zinc ore and $40, 900
pounds of lead ore. Total value, S3s, OOO.
A Butler county business firm has on
exhibition in their show window, lot
Of relics from the battlefield of Win
chester, in the noted Shenandoah val
ley.
A couple of Chanute girls want to
ride around the world on bicycles, but
they are looking for a route that will
miss all the all the Chinaman and In
dams.
The police department at Lawrence
collected S21 for August from persons
who thought it was the proper thing to
jump on and off moving railroad
trains.
Dickson county will certainly have
boom right away. A farmer living
In that county, named Eugene Stauf-
fer, has inherited 81 100000 from an
aunt in Pennsylvania.
The ninth anniversary of the found
ing Of Horton will be celebrated in
that city on September Goth. John j.
Ingalls, has been secured to deliver a
speech. Among the features of the
celebration will be baby show.
During the Sc we're thunderstorm
Wednesday night, lightning struck
and badly damaged the new school
house at Cherokee. A big hole W as
torn In the roof and the structure is
otherwise damaged The building was
built to replace one burned last winter. |
This Is the fifth time the Inflated |
building has caught fire.
The crop reports from Rawlins
county are very discouraging. A lead
ing farmer from that county says that
the crops have all proven a total fail
ure this year and as this is the third
year OF successive crop failures, the
settlers are in very destitute circum-
stances. All who can get away will
leave the county before cold weather
sets in.
There has been plenty of rain all
over Kansas and for the first time in
years stock water is plenty. Thresh-
Ing and blowing is delayed by wet
weather. It has been fine growing
week in the middle division and nearly
all the counties report good progress,
including those which have been suf-
fering from dry weather, while plow-
ing for wheat is being vigorously
pushed.
There Is no use trying to Guido Kan
sas. An article recounting how man
who was divorced in Dakota was re-
married in just eight hours, brought
out the facts about man securing a
divorce at Fort Scott, before Judge
French, at II o'clock in the morning
and was remarked before two that af-
ternoon. Dakota will have to do with
out the belt, as well as others in
which Kansas may take any interest.
Miss Mana Medill of Leavenw orth,
commenced suit Thursday to break
the will Of her father, James Medill,
who died last July leaving an estate
Of 100000 The will was probated at
The time by Sherman Medill, a son,
who was made executor. Miss Medill
claims that her father was unduly in
4uenced in making the will, which
Disseminated against her, and she
asks for one-third of the property.
The annual convention of the prison
congress will meet 10 Denver the 14th
instant The men who will represent
Kansas, by appointment of Governor
Morrill,, are: j. B. Lynch, warden of
che state penitentiary; ]. G. o. Morse,
warden Of the reformatory at Hutch.
nson; Superintendent c. E. Faulkner,
Of the Soldiers Orphans home, at
Atchison; Hon. w. G. Jones, of lola,
and Hon. John D. Millil1en, of McPher-
son.
Judge James G. Strong, formerly
well known in political and railroad
circles, died at Blue Rapids on Septem-
Der 4th. He was born in Boone county
Indiana; located in Dwight, H., in
1859, and was later sent to the Illinois
Senate. In 1870 he introduced the first
bill for the appointment of Board of
Railroad Commissioners to regulate
fares and freight charges. He was at |
one time secretary and treasurer of
The Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific
railroad company. He was promin-
emit Mason, His remains were taken
TO Morris, nj, for burial.
Boston robbed the Kansas Sir
Knights Of 50, 900 for rooms for head
quarter for four days. That was the