Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-27

On January the ED Kansas had a
big snow--the heaviest that has fallen
this winter,
The apple packer Of the little village
of Ackerland, barreled ALAS barrels of
apples during the fall.
Nothing will cement southern Kan
sas and Oklahoma like q base ball
league. The idea is good one, and
should be made fact
In Eudora township, Douglas coun-
ty, Sixty.one babies were born during
1897, twenty-six persons died and thir-
teen couples were married.
The citizens of NeodeSha have voted
by large majority to issue $4,000 in
bonds to put in a gas plant and $4,000
in bonds for q water plant, both to be
owned and operated by the city.
Two 15-year.old boys were arrested
and fined at Fort Scott the other day
for dressing up in women's clothes and
going to the Salvation Army meeting,
where they flirted with the boys.
Judge Broderick succeeded in having
inserted in the Indian appropriation
bill clause to sell surplus of the In
dian lands in the Potta atomic reser-
walton and of the Kickapoos in Brown
county.
Kansas university has issued mem
orial to congress in support of the bill
introduced by Senator Harris for an
appropriation to pay the claim of the
Enigrant Aid Society for the destruc-
ton of the Free State hotel, which
claim is now the property of the uni
versity.
Ellsworth county doesn't propose to
stand back any longer and see the 9TH
or counties crowding ahead of her into
the temple OF fame. She has as one of
her citizens s. l. Hopkins, lineal de-
scendant of Stephen Hopkins, the old
est signer of the Declaration of INDIE
pendence.
The enterprising citizens of Graham
county have adopted an unique plan to
advertise their county at the Omaha
exposition. They propose to erect on
tho Omaha fair grounds regular West
ern Kansas sod house built exclusive
ly of Graham county sod and filled
with products grown in that county.
The new messenger boy at the Santa
Fe in Wichita is going through course
of initiation. He has been ordered in
all seriousness hereafter in answering
the telephone to show due respect to
patrons by removing his hat Now
every time the bell rings he hastily
jerks off his hat before he takes down
the receiver.
Five years ago young BarlSley Geary,
son of farmer living near Westmore-
land, was sent to bring up the family
cow Nothing was seen or heard of
him until last Saturday night, when
he drove the COW to the barn, entered
the house, hung up his cap on its &C
customed peg, and told his mother
that he would milk after supper. He
refuses to tell where he spent the five
years, beyond declaring that he was
hunting tine cow
The banks of Dickinson county have
completed the publication of the state
ments for the end of the year and the
showing made is most encouraging
one. The deposits of the banks of the
whole county are $66S,O47. Never in
the history of the county haYe the peO-
pie had SO large deposits as at present
and the fact that many of the deposit
tors are seeking investments makes
tho money market easy in the county,
In addition to the large deposits, the
taxes are paid more closely than in
years, and there is an unusually large
number of cattle being fed in the coun-
".
More than 200 acres of land in the
business center of Argentine, Kan.,
which, with its improvements, is val-
ued at from $500, 900 to 81, 900, 900, is in
volved in litigation, set on foot by the
remaining members of the Shawnee
tribe of Indians, who claim that the
land is rightfully theirs. If their
claim can be established to the satls-
faction Of the judge of the United
States Federal court, land upon which
now stand prominent business houses,
dwelling houses and the depot and
yards of the Santa Fe railway will
pass into their possession. The test
cases are now on the docket of the
Federal court at Topeka. Both were
brought in the name of the heirs OF
Nancy Whitefeather, a rich Shawnee
Indian, who died leaving her property
in muddled state. Other land in Ar.
gentine is claimed by the heirs Of
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