Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-12-14

every week TO California,
Men are paid daily wages In Kearncy
county 70 shoot jackrabbits,
There were over IL, 900 pounds OF TO,
bacco raised in Kansas last year,
Marion takes vote on extending
the franchise Of the water works,
Farmers living east Of Clifton Nre
clomoring for free delivery route.
Norwich has several cases of scarlet
fever and the schools are dismissed,
An effort Is being made Mt Sabctha
to organize u company Of National
Guards,
Fort Riley now has 10 officers, $40
enlisted men, "a civilians, 70 women
and children,
Leavenworth Is dickering with n Chi.
cOgo firm, which Is talking Of locating
q piano factory In the west,
Water has commenced TO flow again
in the Solomon river, after II has been
dry for six months or more,
Captain j. q, Schliemann ofthe Tween.
tieth Kansas is lecturing in Kansas
towns on "Vicw of the Philippines
In the district court at Troy, Pool
Grnstead, editor Of the Wathcna Star,
was convicted Of libel on four counts.
Frank Rockefeller is 10 build SEQ.
0OO residence on Che Rockefeller ranch
at Belvedcrc, and live there, Galloway
cattle and Clydcsdale horses are raiscd
there
At the meeting of the state officers
Of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, held in Topeka, Mrs. Cath.
crime $, Lewis Of Wichita was elected
state regent,
A. r. RATIO, of Seneca, was a lieutcn.
ant in the company Of marines who
captured John Brown at IIarpers
Ferry. j. Il. Wilson, of Hays, was also
n member Of the same company,
DIR, S, S. Cooper Is dead at his home
in 0skaloosa, at the age Of ~. Dr.
Cooper was u veteran of the Mexican
war, and in the civil war he served as
colonel Of the Fourth Kansas militia.
After having been in the Topeka in
sane asylum for many years, August
Gaclche, of Lincoln county, is dead.
He left fine farm near Lincoln Nenter
and, though his guardian has sought
for long time an heir of the dead
man cannot be found
A man from New York stopped at
the village of Macssville in western
Kansas and announced that he intended
to build n mammoth brick emporium.
lie borrowed all the money he could
and then disappeared, leaving his "cm'
porium' still in the air.
Contracts are let for the completion
of the third story Of the Kansas state
house There ARE three classes of work
to be done and three firms got contracts
of total amount of Sl3,s39, II, H.
Lcscher, the formcrurchitect, estimated
the cost Of this work at $4,000.
A suit to test the validity of the law
passed by the legislature of 1907 to tax
judgments has been argued in the SUI
prcmc court, Three reasons are given
why the act is invalid The first is
that the subject of the act is not clearly
expressed in the title, The second Is
that it provides for rate of assessment
and taxation that Is not uniform and
equal, The last reason Is that 1t attempts
to provide for the taxation Of judgments
held by citizens of another state. Major
A, NJ, Harvey, who was lieutenant gov.
crnor and president Of the senate when
the law was passed, and who signed it,
wrote the brief and made the argument
attacking the constitutionOlity of the
law.
In u sale Of the last remaining prop.
crty of the Argonia state bank, notes of
the face value of $1,000 were sold for
Ss2.95,
Leonard Miller Of Williamsburg,
was unintentionally shot by his brother
Roy The boys were playing in the
house, using an old muslct in their
play.
David IIorlman, the Concordia boy
who lost the sight of one eye and the
hearing of one ear at the battle of
Caloocan, has received pension of $l7
month.
Ida Pierce, wife of John Pierce, a
Wyandotte county farmer, who clopcd
some time ago with James Spruell,
negro farm hand, has returned to her
husbands domicile near White Church.
She has been received back home by
her husband.
Articles of incorporation of the Ne
braslSa & Gulf railroad have been filed