Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-04
CHICAGO TEMPLE.
The National W. @. 7. v. Discusses
Mrs. carse's Report
DECISION AS TO EXPERTS.
Lhe nIInOls Supreme Court RulsS That
Professionals Must Testify When Sum-
mroned-A flying MaChine-To
wheel TO the KlOndlke.

BUFFALO. N. Y, Nov. 2.-From two
o'clock until 1880 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the delegates to the ma
tional w. C. T. U. held continuous
session behind closed doors and dis
cussed with much warmth the report
of Mrs. Matilda b. Carse Of the Chi
cago temple. Miss Sarah G. Johnson,
financial secretary of the temple, pre-
scented her report, of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract Balance on hand
November /, 1896, S24, 1879; amounts re-
ceived in gifts November 1, 1895, to Oc-
tober IS, 1897, Sl4,S1O; interest, 1913. 80;
notes, $500; total S8s, 464; various ex-
penditures, S9,7OS.
Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson, OF
Massachusetts,, one of a committee re-
Gently sent to Chicago to investigate
the temple matter along with the
other affiliated interests of the union,
reported that the income of the temple,
if it was entirely rented, would be
$3.50 900 a year. Its annual expenses,
including interest, would be Sl25, 900.
About one-fourth of the building had
been unrented last year and about
one-third this year.
Then came resolution offered orig
inally by Mrs. Marion H. Durham, Of
Iowa, pledging support in the work Of
raising the money. After passing
through series of amendments and
Qualifications it was adopted as follows:
That, in view OF the pledge OF the support OF
our leader and from the fact that Mrs Carse
has 1928 900 pledged, with promises Of 100000,
we pledge our support and corporation to Sc
cure i3)O,OOO to be given Miss Dowas custodian
to hold until she shall have enough money to
retire the bonds.
Miss Frances E. Willard was to-day
reelected president of the National
w. Z. II. U.
Legal Decision a. to Experts.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov DIR j. N.
Dixon, of this city. was called as an
expert witness in personal injury case
against the city, refused to testify un-
less he was first paid reasonable fee
for this service, claiming that his pro-
fessional opinion was his own property
and could not be taken away from him
except by due process of law, as pro-
vided in the state constitution. Judge
Creighton ruled against him and fined
him for contempt of court The court
held that this professional knowledge
was not property within the meaning
of the constitution and that in the ex-
ercise of the right of the court to sum-
mons witnesses and compel them to
testify, no distinction could be made
between kinds of knowledge. To
make such distinction would defeat
the ends of justice. The case was APP
pealed and yesterday the finding of
Judge Creighton was upheld by the
supreme court.
A farmers Flying Machine.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 2. -Charles Haas,
young farmer living near Tecumseh
in this county, has designed a strange
looking piece of machinery out of
which he evolves a perfect flying ma
chine. His machine will fly short dis
tances and several times has carried
an empty barrel $50 feet into the air
Haas took q bird for his model, having
studied the movement of hawks and
crows about the farm. His machine is
ten feet long and six feet wide. He
intends to build larger one carrying
a little engine to give motion to the
wings The farmers of Shawnee coun-
ty do not believe in flying machines,
but the Haas machine goes high in
the air and stays there.
To Wheel to the KlOndike.
CHICAGO, Nov. al. A. Briegel left
the corner of Washington and La
Sale streets at nine o'clock this morn
ing on his bicycle, bound for the Klon.
dixie by way of Ell Paso, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Seattle, Wash. A
large crowd congregated to watch the
man start on his long journey. His
wheel with its outfit weighs go pounds
He is an honorably discharged United
States soldier and is we'll acquainted
with the country through which he
will have to pedal after leaving St.
Louis. He expects to reach Seattle
about the middle of February.