Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06
STATE NEWS pAEAoRApHED.

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10 ycnrs In the pententlary.
c. w, DouglOs, formerly of Topeka
is now publishing the Missionary
News at Shanghai, Chinn, His paper
Is the official organ Of the Presby'
terlan Missionary society In China
II, G. Stafford, Representatives
elect from Topeka, is dend, and Cow
Stanley will call special election to
FIJI the vacancy Stafford was prose-
cutting attorney Of Shawnee county
two terms,
W, r. Langdon, assistant city mar
shal of Wcllsvlllc, last week married
a former wife from whom he had
been divorced little over Il ycnr,
both the husband and wife had been
married and divorced since then,
A former Abilene girl, Mrs. 0rdle-
una Fisher Mcclellan, daughter Of \
former banker there, has been for q
year the teacher Of English In the
native schools of Hawaii, In the city
OF Honolulu. She had had training
In normal school In this country.
Fire in the Merchants hotel At Me-
Phcrson caused the threc-story build
ing 10 collapse, Six frcmen who were
ut work on the third floor of the
building were buried in the ruins.
All of them were rescued, and only
one of them sustained dangerous In
juries,
Conylcts nj the Kansas state prison
were treated TO n turkey dinner
Thanksgiving day, About 1900 pounds
OF dressed turkey was used and in adj
dltion there was mashed potatoes,
sweet potatoes, stewed tomatoes,
mncc pie, coffee and sugar, oranges
and bananas.
A Lincoln county man, who re-
Gently returned from Iowa, snys he Is
sure Kansas farm lands will advance
in price In the near future. Land
where he has been which produces
less than Kansas land Is selling for
two or three times ms much MS land
here brings.
a Sedgwick county farm hand has
sued his employer for $4,000
damages, lie alleges that while
working two years ago he fell through
hay rack, frncturing his hip, caus'
ing him TO be II cripple for life. He
alleges the timbers Of the hay racl.
were rotten and unsafe.
AS four sportsmen from Emporia
went into the depot at Woodward,
Ok, loaded with game, Game Warden
Funkhnuser seized their boxes,
trunks and baggage, relieving them
of few hundred quail and pruirie
chickens and then took them before
magistrate, who fined them $ij
each,
State Superintendent of Schools
Frank Nelson believes that the in
terests of education in Kansas would
he advanced by the wholesale con-
soldNton of schools In spnrScIy set
| tied districts of the state, and that
provisions should he made for the
transportation Of pupils In the rural
districts to school
Robert Stone, chairman Of the legis-
latvc committee of the Good Roads
association Of Kansas, says the lcgis.
lature will be asked to amend the
taxation law so MS TO exempt from
! taxation all vehicles with broad tires.
This, Mr.. Stone believes, would en-
courage the use of brond-tired wagons
all over the state,
John \, llennigh, Of Pennington,
Achison county, was recently arrest.
ed by Sheriff llHftmnn's deputies on
u charge of insanity, without war
rant, He was declared perfectly sane
by the probate court and released.
lie then sued Sheriff Hartman for $40,
900 damages and jury in the district
court awarded him $40.
a Topeka dispatch said that in form
ulating the new railroad bill the plan
of giving the minority party one mem
Der Of the railroad commission would
probability not he followed as repub-
Leans had both branches Of the legls-
lnture and the executive and they
would not create u fat Office for dem
ocrat or populist
Henry DOrmnn, the oldest man in
Kunsns-109 yeNrs---wnlkcd from his
home, nine miles northwest Of TOpe-
ka, and called on Pension Agent Lee
land Mr.. Dormun entered the union
army with his four sons in 1863. He
was then e. years old. Al Richmond
he was wounded in his right hand and
receives pension of $l7 Il month.
f. Dumont Smith, senntor-elect from
Edwards county, will introduce II bin
in the legislature to establish Il state
rabbit commission. lie says that 49,
100000 pounds OF jack rabbit meat go
to waste in Kansas annually because
II Is not good TO eat. but his expert.
ments show that the meat Of the an
imal that is part Belgian and part
jack rabbit is delicious.
Dutch" Webbrr aud Frank Holmes,
who were .ailed at Emporia, prove to
he members of an organized band
whose operations cover most of Kan
sas. Estell, the murderer who es-
capped from the Ieavenworth peniten-
tiary, is II member of the gang. and
nftpr his psCnnp hp yns furnished