Hutchinson gazette., 1898-04-21

De eAIenueu 10 DenVer lS uue. ne OF
ficials have been inspecting things
around Atchison.
The charter of the First United
Brethren church of Robinson, Brown
county, was filed with the secretary OF
the state last week.
Buffalo township, in Jewell county,
is without justice of the peace, the
only two justices having resigned last
week on account of the extremely low
fees.
In 0sawatomie there are in course OF
construction three brick business build.
ings, several more will be started soon
and over a dozen residences are being
put up.
A report of the expenses of the To-
peka insane asylum for the month Of
March has been filed with the auditor
of state. The maintenance expense
amounted to 81, ,594.11 and the salaries
to S3,32746.
Arbor day ceremonies were observed
in an elaborate manner at the Kansas
state normal school. An interesting
program, including singing, OratiOns,
recitals and the planting of tree by
the senior class of the school was par
ticipated in by most of the faculty and
pupils.
The creamery business is steadily
growing in Kansas, and hardly q week
passes without one or more creamery
companies filing charters with the sec
retary of state The last company is
the Selden Creamery company of Sell
den, the charter of which was fled
with the secretary of the state last
week. The capital stock is 81, 400 and
the officers are Geo. w. Sloan, presi-
dent, and James A. Sprague, secretary.
In the middle division of Kansas,
wheat injured by March freezing is
recovering rapidly, much of it having
fully recovered. Some farmers are
plowing for corn, while others are list
ing it in. Peaches and apricots suffer
ed severely, in the southern counties
in this division, by the March cold,
other fruits to less extent, while in
the central and northern part but lit
tie damage occurred Pastures very
backward.
T. B. jennings has issued the first
weather service crop report of the sea-
son. Reports are presented from forty
counties, and the indications are on
the whole favorable. The freeze in
jured peaches and aprieots, but other
fruits are uniniured. Wheat is in per-
feet condition and propects could not
be better for large crop. Oats have
not Jared so well, and in many places
are being plowed up. Corn land is be-
ing plowed in many places.
The state has appealed the Greeley
county bond case to the supreme court,
after the district court of Greeley coun-
ty holding that the bonds in question
were invalid. This case resulted from
the county defaulting in the payment
of interest on $35, 900 worth of county
bonds held by the state. Proceedings
were brought in the district court to
compel the payment of the interest,
with the result that decision was
rendered in favor of the county hold
ing that the bonds were invalid.
H. NJ. Walt, clothing merchant Of
Newton, who has been in business
there for the past eight or ten years,
offers prize for a copy of Newton
paper issued during that time which
does not contain one of his advertise
ments. There was time when he
walked over Harvey county looking
for a job, but now he is reputed to be
one of the wealthiest men of central
Kansas. There are men trying to do
business who will jump up at every
turn of the road and will say that
money spent for advertising is wasted.
Judge Dale of the district court last
week rendered decision which inval-
idates all tax titles in Sedgwick coun-
ty secured by sales in the years from
1891 to 1895. The case was brought by
George Lyons to redeem a quarter sec
ton of land which had been sold from
him in 1893 for taxes and was bought
in by Florence Bowers, who refused to
allow redemption. Lyons filed his pc
tition on the ground that the curative
act of the Kansas Legislature legaliz-
ing tax sales under the university state
tax of 1889 was unconstitutional for
the reason that the co-state constitu-
tion says no taxes shall be levied eX-
cept by direct authority of law, which
shall state specifically the general pur-
pose of the tax, and that no tax shall
be levied for greater period than two
years. The university levy of 1889