Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-11-09

w. s, Sanford, of Parkerville, has
been appointed railway mail clerk.
Ernest Harrington of Sabetha, Kas.
broke leg in n football scrimmagc.
1t is sald that more than 100 Topeka
men have invested in Arkansas zinc
lands.
Phillipsburg Is TO have new floul
mill with capacity Of 100 barrels
daily,
Bill Higgins has sold part of nm in
tcrcst in mine he has in Colorado fol-
$4,000.
The Union Pacific will fence It's right
Of way in western Kansas with lime
stone posts.
Leavenworth Jews have dedicated
synagogue which they have named The
House OF jacob
An Alton real estate firm received q
letter recently directed to them MS
"Wrela State agents,
An explosion occurred in Downing
Bros NINE at Empire City, in which
w, II, Downing lost HIS life,
Mrs. Belle Steel, Of Concordia, Kan.
has been appointed teacher at the
Indian school ut Nutria, N, NJ.
Mrs. Leah Marks has been taken tc
the insane asylum from Atchison, An
insane Hebrew is said to be very cXcep
tionOl, and there is no other in Kan
sas
The widow of General w. II. Hazen,
who is engaged to marry Admiral
Dewey, was with her husband in 1912,
when Colonel Hazen was stationed al
Fort Hays,
At Leavenworth Michael Connolly,
aged 0, was horribly manglcd at the
Leavenworth Coal company's mine,
One of his legs was cut off and an arm
badly crushed.
The Twentieth Kansas boys brought
back little Filipino boy and he will
be educated by the members Of the
regiment He is in charge OF Lieu
tenant Collin Ball.
W, II, Morgan Of Topeka, Of the
Hubbard & Morgan Cattle company,
has arranged for the feeding OF thous'
ands of head of beef cattle in the
vicinity Of Blue Rapids
Residence property in Colby is at o
premium 1t is reported that every
house and room in the city available
for business or living purposes Is
crowded to its utmost capacity.
Attic Funston reception the soldiers
were housed for the night in eighteen
sleeping cars under the personal dircc
ton of General Passenger Agent
Black, who remained at the depot until
after midnight looking after the com
fort of the men,
The Missouri Pacific has just com
pleted laying new rs pound rails be
tween Kansas City and Leavenworth
The line was formerly in quite bad
shape Next year the line between
Leavcnworth and Atchison will be re,
laid with heavier rails.
Ben Toothman sold ninety-nve pigs
to Charley Tamm for l,0lO.1O. Tooth
man doesn't raise hogs for n living by
any means; he only keeps n few to pick
up the waste, same as some people
keep chickens, Cattle is Bcn's main
hold, Downs Times.
The Missouri Pacific put force Of
men to work taking up the track west
of lulSa, but an injunction was served
and the work stopped, This part OF
the road was never used but the bonds
were voted for road to the west line
of the township and it was built
In digging well northeast of Beau.
mont some time ago, mineral that re.
sembles zinc ore was discovered in such
quantities that company has been or.
gani2ed to see what it is and to worl;
it.
Dickinson county has u half dozen
women missionaries in South Africa.
The friends of one party of them are
anxious for their safety,
A number of miners from the Pitts.
burg district will go to Colorado and
New Mexico The mine operators there
offer so to 90 cents per ton.
The Hereford men make the boast
that in five years from now sixty PEI
cent of the cattle sold in the Kansa,
City stock yards will have white faces
The white face is figuring very mucl
in the stock yards now and is getting
more attention every year,
The widespread interest taken in al
falfa by growers of all kinds of live
stock is indicated by the fact that tn,
area in Kansas has increased from "a,
asa acres in 1891 to 9Ts,477 in 1899
making u total gain of 244, OO3 acres, O