Hutchinson gazette., 1900-12-20
STATE NEWS pARAGRAPHED,

gas, coal, snlt or anything that may be
within 1000 feet of the surface,
w. j, Costignn, of Ottawa, has been
selected TO prepare u memorial TO the
late eX-Goy Lewelllng for the state
historical society meeting in jam
uary,
The marriage Of Miss lucy Van
Hoeson, Of Atchison, formerly Of Law
renee TO Sheffield Ingalls,, son Of the
late John j, Ingalls,, will take place
at Atchison January Q.
The Missouri Pacific may extend the
Kansas, Nebraska d. Dakota line, rum
ming between Fort Scott and Topeka,
to Omaha, Neb, The Topeka CONNER
clnl club has taken up the matter.
The Kansas lndin Relief committee
met in Topeka the other day and
cleared up all accounts Altogether
S23 ,502 was collected for the India
famine sufferers and $23,523 sent, lenv-
ing balance of 500 on hand.
NJ, \, Low Of Topeka, and n party
OF friends shot 90 dozen quNlls during
u recent hunting expedition in Okla
homN, but the game warden heard of
II aud conhscnted them before the
party could cross the state line.
II IL stated that Gov. Stanley has
decided upon his appointments for the
four new places on the supreme bench
MS follows; \, II, Ellis, lielolt; j, c.
Pollock, Winfield; h, W. Cunningham,
Emporia; Houston Whteside, Hutch
inson,
The Topeka authorities not only
have trouble suppressing the sule of
liquor but are kept busy keeping in
mates in the city prison sober Some
one has been sncnkng liquor in to the
prisoners and al of them got hila-
rlously drunk,
Wheat is growing so rank in the
Arkansas valley whent belt that farm
crs are advertising to take stock free
for the purpose Of eating it down.
The indications NJ this time are %
per cent, more favorable than they
were Nt the same time last year,
Representative Curtis, Of Kansas,
called on the secretary of the interior
recently and asked that liberal ap-
preparation be recommended by the
department 10 make needed improve
mentS at the Haskell institute and on
the PottuwNtomic reservation in
Kansas,
Gov Stanley win ask the legislature
TO appropriate $4,000 TO reimburse
the railroads for bringing the Twen-
ticth Kansas regiment home last
year, \ contract was made by the
railroads to bring the regiment home
and wait for their pay until the meet
ing of the Legislature.
Rev, Peter Anderson, of Dickinson
county, who began his fortune in 1899
in the klondike and last spring went
TO Cape Nome, recently returned 10
Kansas S2OO,OOO richer, Several young
men who went with him returned
cmpty-hnndcd, Anderson has pu-
chased several farms in Dickinson
county,
Chancellor +. II. Snow, of the Uni-
versity of Kansas, has been granted
leave Of absence for the remainder of
the academic year on account Of im-
paired health, and has gone to Palo
Alto, Cal, to spend several months
with his friend, Prof. Vernon l..
Kellogg, formerly Of Kansas unver-
sity, but now OF Leland Stanford.
The Kansas State Grange held its
annual meeting at Manhattan last |
week, large number Of delegates
being present, The following officers
were elected; Worthy Master, Il. w.
WeStgNte; Overseer, j. e. LOvett, OF |
Miami county; state lecturer, \. y. |
Rcardon, of Jefferson county; secre-
tary, George Black, of 'Olathc; trcas-
urcr, William Henry, of Olathe.
The long controversy over the
ownership and control of the Lcnven-
worth Standard ended recently when |
d. r. Anthony took rorcibc possess
sion and removed most Of the machin- !
cry into room in the Times building. !
The Standard bad long been n thorn |
in the side of Col. Anthony politically |
and he has been quietly buying up |
the stock of the paper until he owned
two'thirds of the plant,
y telegram from Lansing said that |
James Render and Robert Williams, |
two negroes implicated in the |
murder of John w. Collins at Topeka
who turned states evidence against |
John Henry Collins and succeeded in
convlcting him, are now in the state |
prison for life for murder. Young |
Collins has mastered the printers |
trade and is now foreman of the prison
print shop" He is said TO be
model prisoner,
Assistant Attorney General u. II.
Tracy went to Ness county to assist |
the county attorney in prosecuting
lIilgcr Schrabin, charged with crimi-
nal assault, lie went there upon the
petition Of the DEFENDANTS own
father Old man SchrNbln wrote to
the attorney general, stating that his
son was an onery cuss and that he |
NnS uuiltV nf thn rriu,n rhnrn,I n,,l |