Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-12-07
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,"

ering the ground
The monthly payroll OF the Santa Fc
at Ottawa lacks but little Of reach
Ing the 49, 900 mark
The Santa Fe railway pays about
$4,000 taxes on It's Shawnee county
property every year,
There are only two families in John.
Bon City, the county clerk, who is post
master, and county treasurer,
Henry Van Lcwcn Is called the
cheese king Of Atchison county, lie
has n number OF cheese factories.
Colonel Edward c, Little of Abilene
and Miss Edna Steele were married in
the chapel OF Bethany College, Topeka,
The Christian denomination has
about completed their church at Ran
dali at nm expense to build and furnish
II Of about $4,000,
VIM. Bauman, q merchant OF Kansas
City, Kas,, was forced into bankruptcy
by his creditors and within three weeks
paid on every obligation in full,
There are several Mormon elders
In Kansas preaching, They are in the
state most OF the time They must
get converts or they would not stay,
An attempt will be made TO secure n
pardon for Harry Mason, the Marion
banker, who, after having been sen.
fenced, went to the penitcntlary unat-
tended.
The seventeenth annual convention
OF the Kansas State Temperance Union
will be held in Topeka Wednesday and
Thursday January 10 and II, beginning
Mt p. IN,
Work will commence soon on n bridge
across the Kansas river at De Soto. II
is to cost $4,000; Of which johnson
county contributes Si3, 900 and Leaven-
worth county $1,000
Special Agent Lynn Of the postoiilcc
department has concluded the location
of rural free mail delivery route, rum
ming west from Lawrence. The route
will supply $50 families,
Judge Williams has decided that COR
porations organized outside of the
state need not report their business to
the secretary of state, The law applies
only to Kansas companies.
Kansas cattlcmen will get together
TO devise ways and means Of opposing
the action Of the railroads in putting
in the system of charging by the hun
dred pounds instead of by the carload.
Mrs, Charles Lusk, of Caldwell, Is
instituting suit for $4,000 damages
against the city of Caldwell and the
owner OF n saloon for causing the
death of her husband from alcoholism.
The financial condition of all the
western part of Kansas is improving
rapidly The cause is cattle and alfalfa.
Also the large crop of broom corn,
which brings SllO per ton in Syracuse,
The Exchange bank of Stockton de-
cidcd to quit, In thirty days time
every loan made by the bank was col
lectcd, all dcpositors paid in full, stock
holders paid in full with 80 per cent
profits.
j. w. Wilson, pastor of the colorcd
Baptist church in Atchison, recently
preached funeral sermon over the
body of poor, Woodworking woman
who supported her family by doing
washing, She was not n member of
any church and the preacher told his
congregation that She was suffering
among the damned because she had
died without repentance,
Baldwin has had fire which de.
stroycd all the frame business buildings
in the town. Loss about Sl5, 900; in.
surancc not over $1,000
The new l, o. o, f. hall at Delphos
is one of the finest. The building is
owned by the lodge, which rents the
lower story for $500 year, The hall
IS 36xl05 feet
A new Presbyterian church is being
erected near Donegal, in Dickinson
county. The Germans are building u
church in the southern part of the
county,
Judge Isaac Monet died in Washing
ton recently. He was once county
commissioner and once probate Judge
in Sumner county.
General Agent Chaplin of the Santa
Fe is preparing an exhibit of Kansas
agricultural products for the Paris ex-
hibitiou next year.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished at Marysville, Marshall coun-
ty, Kas., on December T. with one car
rier; length Of route 25 miles; area Gov
cred, ~ square miles; population to be
served, 700.
DIR Swensson, president of Bethnnv