Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-04
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST


affair
A Farmers Institute has just closed
Rt Wellesvillc, II was the seventh an
nual meeting there and was well at
tended.
The Carey hotel at Wichita, has beer
purchased by B. L. Eaton, for $40, 900
Mr., Eaton will make changes and ad
ditions to the hotel,
The premier jockeys OF the world
Lester and Johnny Reiff, are in Wichi
"a, their old home, visiting thei,
brother, Elmer Reiff.
Frank Doster, the populist chief jus
ticc Of the supreme court, Is credited
with being the best ShalSesperian schol
mr. In the state house,
The roads in Southern Kansas arc
Just now worse than they have evei
been before. The oldest inhabitant II
mired and hasn't II word TO say,
Stillwell, the Kansas City man who
built the Pittsburg and Gulf railroad
has now resigned as president of Tho
Guardian company, the trust company
behind the p & G.
T, c, Kirby, proprietor OF hotel NJ
Perry, shot and killed G, A, Foley, and
riding TO oslSNloosa surrendered to tho
sheriff, Kirby asserts the dead man
had ruined his daughter,
The farmers of Kansas are holding
hcrgrain. Mckenzie state INSPECTOR
says that unless the grain begins "a
move soon he will have to reduce hil
force Of deputies to half.
The Kansas live stock sanitary com
mission has issued u bulletin shutting
out all cattle, except for immediate
slaughter, from south Of the quaran'
tine line, after January !. On that
date all Of the inspectors along the LIND
will be discharged,
Another encouraging sign in Kansas
Bath rooms are being fitted up in d
number Of towns. In flush times tho
Kansan abandons the old wash tub in
the kitchen for n % cent dip in n por.
celan lined affair down town, with
water enough at hand to drown Il
whale
In Shawnee county lives Benjamin
Vance who was born n slave in Kenl
tuchy Ga years ago, He came to Kan
Sns II years ago with team and 81
cents. lie now owns 400 acres clear o.!
debt several hundred head of stock, Il
fine residence and other property Hid
residence is finely furnished and nd
gave one Of his daughters fine piano
on Christmas, Every dollar he had
was made by farming, first as renter
then as an owner,
Ten new engines Of the simple COM
Bolidatcd type will soon be turned out
Of the Santa Fe shops in Topeka.
These engines will be used in freight
service and are what are known as
''pushcrs' especially useful on heavy
grades. Work has already commenced
on the order, and the engines will be
finished with haste. The cylinders of
the engines will be 2lN3i inches, and
the wheels will measure 81 inches over
the tires The boiler will be so inches.
The weight Of engines on drivers will
be $4,000 pounds, and on truck will be
10000 pounds, making about 0s ton
engine when in working order
"Within five years, says the olathc'
Mirror, "cvcry farmer in johnson
county will have his mail delivered at
his door and there willbe trolley lines
connecting every part Of the county
with Olathc and Kansas City
The first term of district court was
held in Salina county in 1886. Since
that date 2Gi divorces have been grant
ed, and 195 divorce suits have been
commenced and abandoned. There
was one divorce in 1865, and the high
est number for any year was nineteen
In 1883.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Agricultural society had larger at
tendance than usual. The delegates
attended the funeral Of Mrs. Wellhousc
wife Of the president of the society.
Judge j. E. Halsell, who was at one
time district Judge Of Sumner county,
died recently at hishome in Fort Worth,
TEX, Of Bright's disease, He was 70
years of age and was one Of the most
prominent democratic leaders OF the
state. At the time Of his death he was
candidate for district judge at TT.
Worth.
Miss Victoria Tulis Is the name Of q
Kansas girl who is serving as nurse in
one Of the Manila hospitals. She says
she is delighted with Manila is living
in Admiral Montejo's late residence
and describes it as magnificent.