Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-02-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsE

Aho ouHlu En nuo HALLIBURTON NV
train crews from Topeka TO Argentine
The Highups OF the Santa Fe are on
an inspection tour OF the road west OF
Topeka,
Burton II. Hartmann, whose home
was at oswego, Kan, was drowned in
the bay OF San Francisco.
Il. Bicrer Of Hawnthn, Is visiting
his three sons who are in the govern
meut service in Washington,
The January receipts OF the Lansing
penitentiary were So, 4s2 more than the
expenditures for the month,
The new poor farm in Butler county
IS equipped with n piano and is the
ssene Of many entertainments,
Senator Harris has introduced a bill
appropriating 100000 for the public
building Pittsburg is asking Tor,
The assembly board Of the Ottawa
Chautauqua proposes to erect n boys
building, 3Ox00 feet TO cost $1,000.
The Kansas agricultural college has
$4,000 on call in Washington, being
the eleventh annual installment
An Atchison school teacher has set
the multiplication table to rag time
md the children learn IL In u week.
A site for the Cherokee county high
school has been located and the board
thinks the school will DO ready for use
by September lst.
The state treasury was about to be
swamped by the amount of Quantrell
raid scrip and the treasurer has quit
receiving 1t for taxes.
George A, Hancock, mastermechanic
of the Santa Fe has been appointed
superintendent OF machinery Of the st,
Louis and San Francisco.
Window had church social, and the
social used n gasoline stove, and the
stove started fire and the fire en-
dangered the whole town,
Three lawsuits have grown, in Ne
maha county, from the planting of
mischief seed by school boys. One OF
the boys was ridden on rail.
Kansas and Oklahoma mill owners
held a meeting in Kansas City to de-
wise means Of raising the standard of
hard wheat raised IN their sections,
John IIeustis and Nels Linden were
killed by an explosion of locomotive
boiler in the Santa Fc round house in
in Topeka. Three others were injured
of whom j. l., Beardslcy may die,
State Superintendent Nelson est-
mates that at nearly 2,40O different
places in Kansas, If schools are counted,
there were public celebrations of the
DIST anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth.
Express messengers and agents of
the Rock Island have movement to
clnb together and start n rancho, Forty
men propose to invest 5000 each and
put $40 u month each into an expense
fund,
A Wichita special policeman was
watching building that had been
tempered with. lie saw some one
there and gave chase; dropped his re-
volver which went off sending bullet
through his leg,
A gang of horse thieves has been
captured in Cowley county; supposed
TO be same that have been guilty
of extensive horscstcaling along and
each side the Kansas state line, Three
horses wcrs stolen in Wichita in one
night last week.
Reno county farmers, some of them,
grow two crops of potatoes on the same
land Thomas lcrkes marketed his
second crop in January and February.
Rural free delivery is spreading
rapidly in Kansas On the 18th of
March service on n 95.mile route run
ming out of Lawrence will be COM
menccd
As soon as Nellie George of Yelling
ton became of age she brought suit
against her stepfOthcr for $4,000 dam.
ages, charging him with having beaten
bruised and disabled her.
Shawnee county will have the largest
delegation in the republican state con-
vention-3l. Wyandotte comes second
with %, and Sedgwick third with 81.
N, Kelley, Of Efllngham received n
5000 check from the National Tribune
of Washington. 1t was the capital
prize of guessing contest put up by
that paper.
1t is becoming pretty general senti-
ment that there is no other way to
improve the moral tendencies of the
state reform school boys except by
giving them something to do.
Liberal is now connected with Hans
ford, Texas, by telephone. Ranches
on the line have telephones and from
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