Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-04

Ono fruit tree agent delivered $500
worth OF goods In Westmoreland re-
Gently
At the last count eight Rocks county
men had their eyes on the nomination
for sheriff.
Kansas, especially the eastern part
is becoming known as IN extensive
mining district
Mound Valley, down In Labette
county, has voted bonds TO the amount
OF %, 900 and will prospect for oil, gas
or coal, ....t
Fort Scott has received large ship
ment OF sugar beet seeds and prize
will be given TO the farmer who raises
the best beets,
Mr., Kyzzanouski farms out In Phil
lips county. A farmer with a name
like that is perfectly independent OF
these new'fangled, patent corn cut
ters
The colonel, the lieutenant colonel
a major, three captains and four lieu
tenants Of the only Kansas regiment
that saw any lighting are State uni
versity men.
From point five miles south Of
Wellington, Kansas the wheat is In
tlp-top shape, This includes oklaho'
ma, which will have the greatest crop
in It's existence,
The wheat fields In southern Kansas
are looking much better than at this
season last year, There Is a good
stand and very little shows damage
from the hard winter
The Hutchinson reformatory has
been in operation something like four
years with inmates averaging more
than 100, In the entire time there
have been but two death,
within less than As hours last week
n Barber county cattleman lost 30
head Of stock, and II has been impossi-
BILE TO locate the cause. II Is either n
new disease or foul play has been per-
petrated by somebody,
An Atchison county young woman
wants credit for industry because she
has just finished 'piecing" quilt
which is mnde up OF 5000 pieces. Just
as like as not, though, her little broth
or has to resort to the use OF horse
shoe nails, string aud fish hooks in or
der to keep his pants in position,
Prof L. ], Blake, head of the cleo
trical engineering department Of Kan
sas university, has returned from a
trip TO Champaign, ILL.,, where the
University Of Illinois is located. While
away Prof Blake was formally offered
the place of head Of the electrical en-
cheering department He has not
accepted the place, but was given only
a short time in which to give his an
swer.
George W. james, the United States
Indian agent who lives on the Pot
tawatomie reservation, has rendered
his resignation to the department ut
Washington, and will retire from the
service. A severe attack Of the grip
and Pneumonia during the winter
shattered his health and left him In
physical condition inadequate, as he
and his family thought, to perform
the constant and arduous work of the
agency
Bucket shops continue TO run wide
open at independence, notwithstand-
ing the law passed at the last session
of the Legislature making the business
n felony, The better element at indie
pendence is much worked up over the
refusal of the local officers to inforce
the law, and a petition will probably
be presented to Attorney General
GODDARD asking him to appoint an as
sistant attorney general for Mont
gomery county to suppress the evil.
The executive council, it is said has
decided to abolish the office of state
architect and divide his salary among
newly created places for architects,
one at each state institution.
When the commissioners Of Nemaha
county met last week they were con-
fronted with bills aggregating 81, 27l.-
so incurred in dealing with the small
poS cases, which prevailed there re.
Gently The total of the claims dazed
the commissioners and they deferred
action Oh them until the next meet
ing.
The past week has been splendid
growing weather in Kansas Good
showers nearly every night and the
hot sun during the day has a tendency
to make things pop right ont OF moth
er earth. ...l
For some time two ranchmen on the