Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The big Doniphan county apple or
chard was planted from the nurser,
at Wilder, in the Kaw valley.
Ed Howe says a woman will move
get used to boomers, because sh'
can't put them on over her head.
An old maid in Hiawatha says there
will be no marriages in heaven be
cause there'n be so few men there.
Kansas City has Century club. L
is safe to say not single one of then
have lived in Kansas City century.
The homogeneous Mormons have ded
icated church at st. Johns, on the
site selected by Virginia Mormon
named Bickeston in 1870.
Dell Valentine says the young man
who is hoping to make his living with
his lead pencil shopld learn to use the
eraser at the other end freely.
The architect has figured up the cost
Of repairing the State Normal school
at less than $4,000. The newspaper
estimates were not far out of the way,
only about S21, 900.
Prospectors have struck oil at To-
ronto, in Greenwood county. The
well is down 1 300 feet and two-inch
stream of crude petroleum flows from
Il. The oil was first struck at a dis
lance Of 500 feet.
The Merriam Investment company of
Kansas City, has fled its charter with
the secretary of state. It's capital
stock is placed at $4,000, and the di-
rectors named in the charter are VIM,
Merriam, B. B. Merriam and f. D. Hutch
ings.
The old Drake block in Chetopa,
was consumed by fire Friday night.
Eighty tons Of hay, owned by j. F.
Shields, which was consumed, was
covered by insurance. Cogeins' loss on
buildings was total as he carried no
insurance. The aggregate loss is
$4,000.
William Morehead of Troy, has been
living In Honolulu several years and
for a time drove royal coach. He
knows Queen LII and has waited on
her many times. OF course he knows
Cy Leland, SO his crowned head ac-
quaintances were not all gone when
the queen lost her throne,
Chancellor Snow will not be present
Of the opening of the State University
as he is in Europe. The opening sd-
dress by ]. w. Gleed has been post
poned until October, because he Is In
Europe, and Prof. Dunlap's classes
have been taken by substitute, be-
cause he is in Europe. In the face of
State Accountant Challinor's charges,
this looks bad.
"You'd better lock me up; I've shot
my stepfather," said 16-year-old Archie
Porter at midnight Saturday night as
he walked the police station at Topeka.
Inquiry developed the story that the
boys mother and his step-father, Hen
~ Porter, were quarreling. Porter
began to beat his wife, when her son
seized revolver and fred three shots
ct his stepfather. Only one shot took
effect, but it killed him.
The cattlemen won big victory in
Topeka Saturday. The inspection fee
Of two cents per head levied by state
live stock sanitary board will be abol-
lshed and the inspector discharged.
Governor Morrill, announced Saturday,
coupled with the statement that there
Gould be no actual inspection of cattle
passing through Kansas north of the
Quarantine line. The work was use
less and the fee unnecessary.
Foundry B, of the Great Western
Htove works, Leavenworth, has re-
Bumed work, after being closed for
three months. Foundry B is on the
east side of the works and gives en-
ployment to about 100 persons. The
employees of the company are natural
" feeling jubilat over the prospects
Of long steady run. 1t is not proba-
BILE the foundry will close down again
for any length of time before next
summer.
Miss Mana Medill of Leavenworth,
commenced suit Thursday to break
the win Of her father, James Medill,
who died last July leaving an estate
Of 100000 The will was probated at
the time by Sherman Medill, son,
who was made executor. Miss Medill
claims that her father was unduly in
huenced in making the will, which
Disseminated against her, and she
asks for one-third Of the property.
Among the convicts released from
the Kansas state penitentiarY last
week were two mules named st. John
and Click. They commenced service
In that institution during the terms Of
their godfathers as chief magistrates
Of the state, and according to the rec
ords they have been exemplary prison
era ST. John speaks with energy, i
not with understanding. Click Il
covered with wind gals and is as meel
as Moses, caused probably by his lonl
confinement in the "Cave of Gloom"
The Topeka city council has passed
an ordinance prohibiting drunk ant
1000 ,,aoy,Ia froy,, Yid;por on tho o4raa