Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-09-14
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

Atkinson mas n brewery which mas
been running night and day for thirty
years,
The whistle Of n nail factory will
sound before long at Lawrence II Is
promised,
Beloit has four veterans Of the McNi-
can war, They hold reunions every
little while.
There has been considerable talk
about cellulose factories for Kansas, but
none has appeared yet
The commissioners OF Jewell county
will put In fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall,
A. L, Bell of st, MOrys has been mp
pointed u teacher at the HoclSbury In
dian school, in Arizona,
The Hiawatha World says that NJ,
A. Low pays man named Keats s., 800
Ryear TO look after and drive his race
horses
The Wichita Association OF Congre.
gatonal churches and ministers held
Its scmi-annual in Sedgwlcls Septem-
Der and 8.
The state superintendent OF public
instruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping It,
The Twelfth Kansas infantry will
hold It's annual reunion at Paola. Out
Of the original ], 200 members Of the
regiment but 400 remain.
In 1876 Judge G. w. Smith of Stock.
ton graduated from the State Univer-
sity, Last week he was at Lawrence
arranging for the admission of his
son.
OF fifteen sets of bond election papers
received in one week at the state SUI
perintendent's Office, seven were illegal
and two were incomplete, only six be-
Ing regular in form.
The Union Pacific claims 5000 acres
Of the Fort Hays reservation on the
ground that the fort was located one
year after the railroad had filed its
charter in the general land Office.
The board Of regents OF the State
Agricultural College has practically de-
cided to let +, II, Nichols, the temper
nry president of the college, run the in
stitution this coming school year.
Maude Dillon, the l9.year-old daugh-
ter of Henry Dillon, of Topeka, met
with peculiar accident the other day.
She was passing on the sidewalk in
front of vacant lot where n horse was
staked out. The horse attacked hel
and bit off her right ear.
The state auditor and state treasurer
have force of clerks employed stamp
Ing all bonds held in the state school
school fund as state property" The
law provides that all bonds purchased
for the fund shall be stamped when
they are delivered. The bonds are
made non-negotiablc when stamped.
The people Of Ottawa have erected,
at an expense of $1,000, stone gate
way to Forest park as q memorial to
the officers and privates of Company
X, Twentieth Kansas The gate has
seven large stone pillars and is by far
the finest thing of the kind in the
state. On one of the pillars will be
placed tablet defeating the gate to |
the company.
At present not enough coal is being
taken out of the penitentiary mines to
supply the state institutions and Chief
Clerk Barnes of the penitentiary says
that the state will have to buy coal
this year for the state institutions.
Mayor Ross OF Wichita, has received
word that his letter to the war de-
partment concerning the Spanish can
non that has been given to Wichita
by Governor Stanley through tie Sec
rotary of war; has been received and
approved and that the cannon will be
shipped at once.
1t is claimed that b. d. Villa ms, the
banker of Highland, has established a
sewerage system which pollutes the
water and the people want tho system
abolished. Williams refuses to abolish
It and the state board of health has
been appealed to.
b. e. Kies has sold his interest il
The Commoner, at Wichita, and, it is
said will remove to Michigan. The
purchasers, who with Jerry Simpson
will continue the business, are two
Wichita attorneys, Knightswnnger
and Babb.
ii. I. Parsons, graduate of North
western University, has been elected
professor of oratory at Washburn COL
lege, Topeka. Last year he occupied
similar position at the Southwest Kan.
sas College at Winfield.