Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-11-30
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.


Leavenworth high school girls arc
organizing n company OF cadets,
II. s. Barr, mayor OF White City,
Kas,, died suddenly OF heart disease,
Wellington gets more good shows
than any town In the state Of its size,
Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattle
are dying Off with something which
resembles black-leg,
The Wichita Pump company will
erect new building for their business
190x300 feet and probably two stories
high,
The court OF appeals has ruled that
spotter evidence is admissible In liq-
uor cases, but the jury must judge OF
its weight,
The Missouri Pacific sleeper which
formerly started from Hutchinson for
Kansas City will hereafter be started
from Wichita.
Westmoreland has n railroad at last, -
branch OF the Lcavenworth, Kansas
and Western, A big celebration had
TO result Of course,
The new Congregational church Mt
Tryon was dedicated and after the
ceremonies a chicken dinner was served
In the new building,
The name Of the postoflice at Roch.
ester, Kingman county, Kas,, has been
changed to Zenda, and Eseoredorc G.
Holcomb appointed postmaster,
Atchison has always been noted as
badly troubled by theatre gallery hood
lums. John Seaton, the owner Of the
opera house has declared war against
these pests
While national banks fail occasional
ly with disastrous results, not single
dollar has been lost to depositors in
Kansas state banks during the last
three years,
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the assessment of 100 per
cent on the capital stock of $4,000 of
the Atchison National bank of Atchi-
son, Kas, to be payable December A.
The corn crop in Brown county makes
from forty to eighty bushels to tho
acre and many farmers have sold at 25
cents bushel Some state that the
corn has Melted them Sl4 to the acre:
Judge Dale of the Sedgwick county
district court has sentenced q girl to
the hutchinson reformatory This is
the first, Judge Dale ruling that girls
can be admitted there the sameas boys
The smallest election table this fall
appears in the Leoti tandard-Wichi-
Ia county, n little over stickfull
There are three voting precints in
the county, casting less than 800 votes
Judge Wellhouse, the celebrated APP.
pie grower, will harvest only one hun
dred barrels of apples from his 900
acres OF orchard land in Shawnee coun-
ty. He has orchards in other parts of
the state.
County Treasurer Phillips Of Shawnee
county has two gold pieces one of $40
and the other of SIS, coined in 1899, be-
fore the gold of California was discov.
cred. He also has n ''war greenback"
of the issue of 1868.
Joe Hall, hoisterman at the Ethel s.
mine in Cooper Hollow fell ninety feet
into the mine, striking the water. lie
received only small wound in the
back of the head, and climbed the pump
back to the surface before the alarm
was given.
On November 20 the engineer of the
Shawnee county court house had used
two tons of coal. Last year 20 tons
had been consumed at the same date.
One fifth of the worlds product of
zinc Is used to extract gold from South
African ores. The war has caused
falling off of IS to IS ton at Galena,
Kansas
John B. Carey, former mayor of
Wichita and always much esteemed
citizen, whose leaving the city some
years since was deeply regretted, is
dead.
State Superintendent of Insurance
w. " Church denied the application of
the tribe of Ben Hur, a fraternal order
for license to do business in Kansas.
The postoffice department has re-
newed the lease of the present location
Of the Pittsburg, Kas., postofiice for
Ave years from January 10 at the pres.
eht rental.
Sam Virgins, of Sheridan county
Was off to the hospital on election day
having his leg amputated, but his
friends elected him register of deeds
just the same.
In Topeka the city federation of
clubs, composed of ladies', are decora-
ting the rooms of the nublic schools