Hutchinson gazette., 1899-12-28

months idlcncss,
One weeks turkey shipments OF o
single Osborne dealer amounted TO 10,
900 poundsi all dressed,
Within the past year and ahalf Pitts
burg Methodists have paid of n $4,000
debt or their church,
Charles Curtis is the only mcmbet
from Kansas that was appointed chairs
man of committee,
The Topeka ministerial union will
establish u circulating library for tho
benefit of It's members,
In some OF the western counties tho
railroads pay more than half the taxes
and have always done so,
The Christian Scientists of Wichita
chartered u train TO take them TO att
tend n lecture at III Dorado
The cost OF holding the elections In
Sedgwick county averaged thirteen and
sevcn.tenths cents for each voter,
Quite n number Of the young men
who were members OF the Twentieth
Kansas are applying for pensions
The Shawnee county treasury re-
ceivcd taxes during Dccember prior to
the limit date, the Goth, about $500, 900.
There Is u movement in Kansas and
Oklahoma to erect monument to ed,
IIewins on his old ranch near Ccdarvale!
The new electric road from Leaven1
worth to Kansas City will be opened
for traffic January /, after repeated de'
lays,
The studcntsof the State Normal ara
agitOting the matter of change OF tho
weekly holiday from Saturday to Mon
day,
There are "a, 900 sheep on one ranch
in PottNwotamie county, Twcnty-fou
men are employed at $50 month and
board,
A Farmers Institute has just closed
at Wellcsvllc, II was the seventh an'
nual meeting there and was we'll at
tended,
In Lincoln six new business houses
are being erected and there is not q
vacant business room in the town and
only one dwelling house without q
tenant,
T, c, Kirby, proprietor of hotel at
Perry, shot and killed G, A. Foley, and
riding to Oskaloosa surrendered to tho
sheriff. Kirby asserts the dead man
had ruined his daughter.
In the Fifty-siyth congress Kansas
ranks highcrin committee assignments
than at any time since the retirement
OF Ryan, Morrill,, Peters, Perkins and
Anderson, at the close of the Fiftietb
congress-
In the last ten months more than 900
farm mortgages have been discharged
in Lincoln county, and not renewed,
and eighty-two farms. oggrcgating
10000 acres, have been sold to new
comers, Farm land has increased
greatly in value.
Bcloit Call;.-Frcd Bceler's Jewell
and Mitchell county taxes amounted
to Sl,4O0 this year. This Is what 1t
costs to be cattle king but the Call
ventures that Fred paid it without
grumbling. His ranch keeps him busy
he never has time to get coliclsy.
"TaXcs are being paid more prompt.
ly in Kansas this year than ever be-
fore" said State Treasurer Grimes.
1.-The people are taking advantage OF
the discount by paying up quickly. |
believe that at least 80 per cent of the
1900 taxes will be paid the first half OF
the year, although only 80 per cent Ia
due
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.
Colonel John Pearson, who was tho
first superintendent of the Alchison
Orphans home, died in Germantown,
o., last week. lie won distinction as
as an officer Of the Tenth Michigan dur
ing the war. He left Kansao some
years ago to reside with his daughter
in Ohio, and had reached the age OF o.
years
Miss Lizzie Wooster, of Topeka, has
received word from the department of
Indian affairs at Washington that her
primary educational works entitled
"Wooster Reading Chart and "Read-
ing Ilox and Primer" have been listed
for use in the Indian schools Of the
United States.
The gold medal given by Victor Hugo
and other French Republicans to tho
widow Of John Brown is in the museum
, of the Kansas State Historical society.
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