Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-12-07

'''h"VorN W. H. pcHtlcy vi NloHltai huh
bought 500 ducks 10 stock his ranch,
9Jcwell City has not had saloon
since tho prohibition law went into
force.
Ono wholesale grocery firm Of Topeka
has paid their personal property tax of
$4,000
The railroads have to put up SCI 900
every year for taxes in Mcpherson
county,
Ex-Governor Click purchased busi-
ness property in Kansas City and paid
$50, 900 for IT,
Colonel Dick Blue, eY-congressman
at large, lost his entire law library by
fire Mt Vinita, |, H., the other day,
Buffalo robes are becoming more val.
liable every year, At HiawAtha man
was arrested for stealing robe which
was valued at $40
Topeka is to have dollar gas and
cheaper electric light, to be furnished
by new company composed Of Chicago
capitalists.
Mahlon Miller an old soldier of Sa.
bctha, Kan, tried TO kill himself. His
soa was Lewis Miller, captain Of Com.
pany X, Twenty-second Kansas.
Baker University used to be famous
for the crack football team OF the west
but now the college paper demands that
the game be suppressed everywhere,
Council Grove has building boom.
II is n Missouri Pacific division point
The Congregationalists have built q
fine stone church, A fine new hotel
has been built
Harry Land, business manager Of the
Western Spirit, of Paola Kan, was
badly burned by the explosion of es,
Gaping gas in the basement of the PEG
pies National Bank.
The people Of Sharon, Cowlcy county
have prepared to tender II reception To
Charles Cavanaugh, sailor who served
on Admiral Dewey's flagship, MS soon
as he reaches home,
Scottsvillc is going to have its first
elevator, w. \. Daniels has common,
ced the erection OF 10000 bushel capa.
city elevator, with all the modern i'm,
provements OF operating IL attached,
In the next adjustment of salaries OF
postotllces, it is expected that the 10,
gan office will be made u presidential
one. The first thrce-quarters of the
year show n handsome increase of bust
ness,
Senator Lucien Baker has struck Il
rich in zinc at Joplin. Baker has been
very lucky in mining ventures. He hit
II right once in Colorado. lie bought
n mine in Colorado for a song and sold
II for 100000,
The L0nyon shelters Mt Pittsburp
have fired up again, Since the shut,
ting down about n month ago the coke
ovens have been kept burning and tho
supply of coke is piled up in rick ten
feet high md nearly 800 yards long.
Boyd Newcom, of Murdoch, Butler
county claims to be the champion corn
nuskcr OF Kansas, He recently de-
'cated Joe Ccters of Nebraska in sin
hour contest for 500 side. He turned
out Of ~ bushels in six hours and Ceters
- bushels less,
j. h. Nisslcy, proprietor of the Kan.
'as Creamery, who is known as tho
ncwsboys' friend" gave each of tho
$50 Topeka newsboys new suit of
clothes as II Thanksgiving present. IIo
has agreed to give each boy who banks
$500 during the coming year--1O cents
a weelI--'an amount equal to his de,
posit
Walter Woods and Roy Medley en-
listed in the Twenty-Second Kansas.
They were transferred to the staff OF
General Miles as stenographers. Woods
Is now in the adjutant generals office
and Medley is stenographer to Governor
General Brooke in Havana.
Harry Kistler, Wichita restaurant
keeper, was hunting near Cheney,
and had n dog and his gun in the bug.
gy, The dog became restless and in
moving about discharged the load of
shot, hitting Kistler in the side of his
head, He died in twenty-five minutes.
The first grain elevator of the Central
Branch of the Missouri Pacific was put
up in Wetmore in 1870. 1t is still in
use,
The Associated Fanciers have decid.
ed to offer $500 in prizes for poultry ex-
hibits at the poultry show which will
be given in Wichita this month. w.
S. Russell of Ottawa, Ia, will Judge the
show.
The chances are that an appeal will