Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-05-02
HAPPENINGS In KANSAS
ITEMS or INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFloWER.
The Weeks Review OF Personal and
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

Monday night and died in few min
utes. He was a Knight Templar,
Shriner and a member of all subordin
ate Masonic bodies and we'll know
throughout the state.
Suit against Thomas Curry, news
dealer, was brought in Quinn's court
at Abilne for criminal libel 1t was OF
account of Curry's alleged selling o
copies Of the Sunday Sun Of Kansas
City, containing two column writ,
up Of the Prather cases.
A. ]. Peed of Lamar. Colo, and Mis-.
Rose Mullin of New Castle, Indiana
met in Dodge City, by written agree
ment It was the first sight of OacE
other Both were satisfied. A mar
riage license was procured and they
were married by Rev. E. H. Vaughan
The report of Paymaster Mapes, Of
Kansas City, Kans., for the year end
ing March /, shows the receipts to
have been S47, 957.44, which is an in.
crease 81, 661. IL over the previous year,
The total expenses amounted to S31,
1899, leaving a net profit OF $40,
793,45.
At q session Saturday afternoon the
county commissioners of Bourbon
county appropriated 5000 for the es.
tablishment of a chinch bug station at
Fort Scott this spring, and after con.
tdering three applications Robert
Bright was employed at a salary oil
sM0.
An excellent quality of clay for
modelling purposes has been discover.
e1 in Geary county, and Miss Lizzie
hobart has been untilizing it. An at
tractive display of fruits and flowers
made from this clay and colored by
this young lady, adorns the windows
of Junction City business house.
VIM. Ratliff, who supplies Ft. Riley,
with milk, after trying some of the
most highly recommended families of
milk stock, has decided to go back to
the Short Horns as the most profita BILE
all around. He is also making some
experiments in feed and will try fax
seed meal mixed with bran.
A mine report from Galena for last
week says: "There was total of L.
$500 pounds of zinc ore sold. The
price renamed the same as the week
prior, $40 for the top and an average
of SIT per ton. Value S14,43O. There
was total of $50, 900 pounds of lead
sold at $40 per thousand. Total value
of sales, $40, O3O."
The sad iron manufacturing plant of
Independence, is rapidly approaching
completion. The company have or
dered new machinery to the amount
Of So, $50, and it is expected to arrive
by the first of the week, by which
time the building will be completed
and ready to receive it. 1t is thought
that everything will be in readiness to
commence work by May /.
In his irrigation lectures to the Law
renee Y. NJ G. A., Judge Emery stated
that 10 per cent. of the families of this
country live in tenements. There are
10000 more tenant farmers in Kansas
to-day than ten years ago. Only per
cent of the population are owners to
any considerable extent. He urged
young men starting out in life to be-
come home owners; to be independent;
buy a small piece of land while its
price is steadily advancing.
Department Commander Harris re-
ceived Cincinnati paper which con-
tains an interview with Governor Nc
Kinley in regard to his Western trip,
in which the Governor says: 1.-THE
only trip that 1 will make this year
that know of at the present will be
at Ottawa, Kansas, to participate in a
gathering of ex.union veterans, The
Western trip which has been so kindly
announced for me will not be made. {"
Governor Mckinley will be at Ottawa
juno 20.
The Quantrell raid monument COM
mittee, at meeting to make arrange
ments for the unwilling of the monu-
ment at Lawrence on Decoration Day.
appointed Paul r. Brooks and Gurdon
Grosvenor to confer with the members
of the G. A. R. to arrange joint COM
memoration exercises on the day of
the unwilling. An invitation was ex-
tended to Hon. James Horton of Kan
sas City, who was there during the
raid, to be present The monument
is to cost 800, and is to be shipped
from Vermont on May 90
Claim has been made against the
Western Union Telegraph company
at Fort Scott for $500 damages for the
erroneous transmission of message
sent from there March 81. The mes
sage, which was in regard to the sale
of a valuable piece of property, was
sent by Garrison Brothers to C. Fl. Pc
terson of Cambridge, Ill. and, was as
follows: "Can make trade" When
received by Peterson it read Cant
make trade" and as a result the SAFE
was lost. Five hundred dollars they
allcge would have been the amount of
their commission on the sale.
]. Fl. Snyder, farmer living near
Hiawatha, took his life Thursday,
cutting himself with an Ak and shoot
ing himself with gun.
JoseDh Hnvden. one of the oldest