Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-01

OTTAWA Is III tnc nclu w chnuluHW
for the next G. A. II. encampment,
Western Kansas newspapers are
booming jackrabbt meat for mince
pies,
The Hutchinson library gets 100
volumes as present from Miss Helen
Gould.
An Edwards county farmer sold thir'
teen horses to Kansas City firm fol
81 300,
Pittsburg has captured factory for
the manufacture of gas and gasoline
engines.
The Wichita Improvement society Ia
agitNting paving more OF the streets OF
the city.
I'll Dorado is TO vote on the PROPOSE
ton TO build n $4,000 high school,
building,
Did you ever try popping Kahr corn
II is asserted to be better than regular
pop corn.
A cattle dipping plant Is to be estab'
lished at Garden City. The cattle men
are to do II.
Only two states, New York and Michi-
gan, rank above Kansas In the pro-
duction OF salt.
A cotton mill at Independence makes
l,cOO pounds of Irvine day, employing
forty-iive people,
A, j. Titus says cars will be running
on the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf out
of Kiowa by June first,
In some OF the western counties the
statement is made that English spar
rows are destroying fruit buds.
Lawrence has contracted for new
twelve room school building. 1t Is to
be of stone and the estimated cost Is
$50, 800.
County treasures are being defraud'
cd by parties with wolf scalps. They
kill in Colorado or Oklahoma and claim
bounty in Kansas.
A great number of people attended
the twenty-second annual session OF
the grand lodge /. o. U. w. in Topeka
estimated as high as 1900,
Secretary George W, Martin Of the
Historical society is asking the help OF
the women's clubs in the work Of cap
turing current history Of localities day
by day.
In the Shawnee county court house
there are fifty radiators and u number
of crates. When the weather is cold
it requires two tons of coal n day to
keep up heat
The executive committee of the state
Temperance Union has refused to en-
dorse the plan TO have law passed
creating the Office of state temperance
commissioner.
1t cost Bourbon county S2,ss9,4s to
convict two Missourians of killing
another Missourian, not counting the
the price of the ropes used in hanging
the murderers.
Two sticks OF dynamite were cXplo-
ded at one side Of the hall, where dance
was going on, in Riceville, suburb OF
Galena. Everybody was shocked but
no one seriously hurt,
Honest Kansas buttermakers com.
plain that tons Of buttcrine Is shipped
out into the state to farmers. They
buy It, work it over, make il into prints
and double their money
Mr., and Mrs. William Wright of Bar
Der county have been married fifty
years, have raised eight children and
seen twenty grandchildren grow to
manhood and womanhood without n
death in the family or in their children's
families.
A Goodland lady made n mail pur-
chase of towels from big city. She
compared them with STOCK in n store
at home and found that she had paid
three cents each more than she could
have bought them for at home, not
counting express charges,
b, i. McMurtrie, chief dispatcher OF
the Santa Fe in Topeka, has resigned.
lie has held that position for twenty
five years. Paul Morton, second vice
president of the Santa Fc, was once u
clerk in McMurtrie's office while he
was working in Nebraska.
The Methodists of the First church,
at ottawa, Kas., will build q $1,000
parsonage, the site having been given
by Colonel S. b. Rohrbaugh.
A sharper canvassed Republic county
short time ago selling patent feed
cookers" to the farmers. The News
says tibet all of the Cookers" have
blown up.
A bed of kaoln porcelain clay) has
been discovered in Crawford county.
1t is twenty-six feet in depth. A COM
pany is engaged in buying up all the
land in that vicinity.