Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

bounty was paid. The total number
of scalps received since the bounty
was offered, is $4,000, representing u
cost to the county of $40 for these
pests.
Fable from the Mail and Breeze:
A Kansas hen that had attended strict
ly to business, laying an egg at least
every other day, was rewarded by the
farmers wife with extra feed. And
thereupon she began to get fat and
and neglected her regular business
entirely, saying in an alecky manner,
when asked why she didn't lay any
more eggs, that she didn't have to.
And the farmers wife, seeing that she
was simply loafing around, doing no
good said: "As You are no good for
anything else, will feed you to that
gang Of Methodist preachers who are
coming here tomorrow, "
Every since the Santa Fe car sheds
were opened in the Topeka yards inn
provemcnts have been going steadily
on. Everything to facilitate the work
in this department has been done. Yes
terday the new machine shop in con-
rection with the car building depart
ment was in running order for the first
time. Heretofore the work that will
be done by this department has been
done in the mechanical department
but by having a wheel press, wheel
lathe, drill etc, at hand it will be
saving of time and trouble. Like all
other departments the machines are
operated by compressed air.
Judge Simons has decided the
Crawford county cases involving the
costitutionality of the scrip and screen
laws, by sustaining the laws. The
only question he said was whether or
not the legislature has the power to
pass the statutes. If it had this pow
er in any case, then it was the sole and
only judge as to its eXpcdiency. The
court has no right, Judge Sim
ons decided, to inquire into the rela-
ton or conduct of their miners and
their employers. If is not essential,
the court suggested, that the law effect
all persons alike as was claimed by the
defense. 1t is sufficient if it apply to
lll of the same class alike.
The lola Brick works which are now
shut down after running steady for a
little over half year have done per-
haps as much to build up lola as any
thing else. Up to the present, over
J, 900, O0U haye been sold and delivered !
Ind there are about 500, 900 ON hand, !
part of which are already contracted |
Tor. Over Is per cent of the product !
mas been used in lola, no effort having |
been made to work the outside trade. |
The largest shipment made out of town |
was about $4,000 to Hutchison, and car
Dad lots have been sent all over the |
state. The work has given employ
nent to about thirty-fve men, nearly |
Ill home people. The recent break in
The machinery will be mended in
short time and work will be resumed |
md the output increased
John Il. Gilbert, the Kansas stock
nan, brought suit in the common pleas
court of Kansas City recently against
he Missouri Pacific and Rock Island |
abroad companies, jointly, to recover
S1,s00.sj damages. Gilbert charges
hat the railroads failed to disinfect
,attle cars after cattle afflicted with
Texas fever had been shipped in them. !
iilbcrt's petition sets forth that he
purchased los head of cattle last Aug
Ist, which had been shipped to Kan
ms City from Lyon County, Kansas.
lie shipped them to Lost Springs, Kan
'as, for feeding and soon after they
we're placed on his ranch they became
sick from Texas fever. He alleges
hat the two railroad companies vio-
Oted the Kansas quarantine rerula-
ions, which require cars to be disin-
'ected.
The Santa Fe's establishment of
he trainmastcr's and train despatch
IRIS office at Wellington has led to the
that the division superin-
.endenfs office, which was abolished
along with the other places two years
lgo, will be put in again. For the
asst two years the business of the Pam
handle division has been directed from
Wichita and Arkansas City. There is
report that the Albuquerque extern
zion from Panhandle, Tex, will be
commenced the first of the year. 1t
IS the. opinion of local railroad off.
Gals that if the division superintendent
IS located at Wellington the office will
be in change of C. J. Hartman, form
erly OF Wichita, but now with the
Mexican Central, with headquarters
at Ell Paso, Tex, or Division Super
inlendent +. 7. Dolan of Wichita, who
may be moved to Wellington.