Hutchinson gazette., 1899-12-28
KANsAs ITEMS or ISTERnsT

The seventeenth annual meeting OF
the county clerks OF Kansas will be
held at Wichita, December 9s and 20,
The "Twcnticth' reception and en-
tertainment committee Of Topeka, quit
the game with over twenty-six hum
dred dollars.
Chester |, Long, Of the Seventh dis
trIct of Kansas, has been appointed as
n member OF the committee on ways
and means,
Money order records nt the Topeka
postoiilcc were broken when 100 were
issued in single day last week, aggrc-
eating $1,000,
1t is reported by Mr. Barnes OF the
Horticultural society that Kansas
raises 100000, 900 worth Of fruit every
year, on an average,
The Hutchinson and Southern branch
trains will use Wichita branch main
track between railroad junction east
and west Of Kingman,
O, 4, Pritchett brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over at Man
kato, and had both legs cut OIL. lie
died few hours afterward.
There is no spot on earth, so fur as
reported, that has natural roads equal
to those in the great valley Of the Ar
kansas in southwestern Kansas,
The Nuctioncers Of Kansas have or
ganized n state association with the
view Of securing legislation requiring
nuctioneers to have state license,
1t has been decided that when cattle
pass through this state bound for re-
mote points they cannot be examined
Rs it is interfering with interstate com
merce,
Henry Shindlcr Of Leavenworth has
been appointed assistant inspector gen
eral of the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river for the Army and Navy
Union.
Senator Baker Is chairman OF the
committee on civil service; is third on
Indian affairs; is on invalid pensions;
District Of Columbia and on the five
civilized tribes.
The designation of the National
Bank of Commerce of Wichita us u gov
ernment revenue depository became
officially in force by the completion of
the bond required.
A jury in the Shawnee county dis
trct court decided that the Master
Plumbers Association of Kansas was u
trust. =. =. Elder, of Ottawa, is Sec
retary of the trust
A newsboy on "Katy" train cheated
passenger few days ago, A special
officer of the road happened to be on
the train, and at the next station the
newsboy was put off.
Last winter the state teachers asso-
citation was crowded ont Of the state
house by the special session Of the legis-
lature This year it has both repre-
sentative hall and the senate chamber.
Since July I, the Kansas Agricultural
college has taken part in liz farmers
institutes in different parts Of the state,
and arrangements for 10 additional
institutes have already been perfected,
"A creamery at Beloit has sub-stOtions
at Scottsville, Norway, Asherville,
Green Mound, SOltvillc, Sunhower,
Blue Hill, Victor, Denmark, Glen Elder,
Mayvicw, Downs, Portis, Speed, Os-
borne and Stockton, The yearly cOpac-
ity is n million pounds of butter and
$4,000 pound of cheese,
Calves in considerable numbers are
bought at Kansas City stock yards and
sent to ranches of cattlemcn in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
The Missouri Pacific has n special
train equipped for building telegraph
lines. The company is rebuilding all
its old lines and wanted to do the work
in n hurry,
A man entered u store at lola and
asked the boy for cacltlcbcrries The
boy had never heard of them before,
but he thought while and then gave
the man eggs.
The beautiful souvenir cover issued
by the Atchison Globe for the Corr
Carnival was taken from painting and
which is said to have been the art of a
Wichita man. Whoever did it, it is the
best study in corn ever made in Kan
sas
Mulvanc is represented to be getting
to be quite business center. The peo
pie there are quietly working to gel
the Santa Fe to locate machine shops
there. Their hopes are based on the
fact that the Santa Fe has tracks leav
ing there in five different directions.
State Treasurer Frank L. Grimes ha
issued a statement calling in all out