Hutchinson gazette., 1899-12-21

The seventeenth annual meeting OF
the county clerks Of Kansas will be
held at Wichita, December rs and 20.
There Is n movement in Kansas and
Oklahoma TO erect n monument TO Ed,
llcwins on hlsold ranch near Ccdarvale,
There are $4,000 sheep on one ranch
in Pottawotamie county Twenty-fom
men arc employed at $50 a month and
board,
There are five Kansas counties with
less than 800 inhabitants; Grant, with
1O5i Greeley, dOi; Haskell, d34i Morton
$685. Stanton, 2Oi
The Hutchinson and Southern branch
trains will use Wichita branch main
track between railroad junction east
and west Of Kingman
George W, Martin now secretary Of the
Kansas Historical society, has the best
private collection OF Kansas books and
pamphlets in existence.
The A. o. U w. lodge at Wamego,
together with others who are not mem.
bers, harvested and cared for 40 acres
OF crops for sick brother,
0, II, Pritchett, u brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
Sato, and had both legs cut Off. He
died few hours afterward,
There is no spot on earth, so far as
reported, that has natural roads equal
to those in the great valley OF the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas.
The Kansas Retail Grocers and Ger.
eral Merchandise association will ask
the Legislature to pass more effective
laws for the collection OF debts
Merchants Of Maple Hill have signed
an agreement which provides that
they will not sell any goods on Sunday
nor allow their clerks TO do So
The auctioneers OF Kansas have Or
ganized a state association with the
view Of securing legislation requiring
auctioneers TO have u state license.
Colonel Alexander Warner has closed
his Kansas career by selling his home
place at Baxter Springs, lie will re-
turn to his old home in Connecticut
The Kansas Experiment station dis.
courages the establishment of beet
sugar factories in Kansas, believing
that Kansas Is bcttor adapted to other
products.
Information has been received by
the Santa Fc officials that from present
appearances next years shipments Of
Of livestock all along the system would
be larger than it has ever been.
The mir shaft to the penitentiary
coal mine has been repaired and the
mine is again in operation with ca
pacity Of twenty cars week. This is
not sufficient to keep the state institu-
tions in coal
The gold medal given by Victor Hugo
and other French Republicans to the
widow of John Brown is in the museum
of the Kansas State Historical society.
With IL is the original letter of trans
mission in llugos handwriting.
Rev. Walter Clarke, rector Of st.
Johns Episcopal church Mt Abilene for
several years, has received call to be
canon in the cathedral of Spokane,
Wash, and leaves this week. He viii
also teach classics in the college OF
Spokane,
1t is estimated by Governor Stanley
that at least 100000 can be saved an
nually by the abolishment Of useless
offices and he is likely to advocate re-
vision OF the laws for the purpose of
accomplishing that result, in his mes
sage to the next Legislature.
Governor Stanley went to Washing
ton as member of the committee APP
pointed by the president to make ar
rangcments for celebrating the centen-
nial of the establishment of the United
States government at Washington.
State Oil Inspector s. o. Spencer
turned 81, 1874 into the state treasury,
which he collected as fees for the in
spection of oil and gasoline for the
month Of November, The expense Of
maintaining his department for the
month was S5t4. This left surplus
for the state Of $3.50.
4, c. Price, Judge of the Thirty-hrst
judicial district, covering eleven coun-
ties of southwest Kansas, has announ-
ced his intention to resign and remove
to Sandusky, Ohio, to practice law.
New s0-pound steel has been laid by
the Rock Island from Lincoln, Neb., to
apoint about ten miles east of Belleville.
As soon as spring opens work will be
resumed on laying steel between Belle
vile and Phillipsburg.
The farmers of Kearney county are
just shipping cast five carloads of melon
seeds, worth $4,000.