Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-08
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

Ottawa is TO have big factory LOT
making cob pipes,
Kansas University had to close for n
few days for lack OF coal
A cattle dipping plant 10 to be estob'
lished at Garden City, The cattle men
are TO do II,
The regimcntal band OF the Twenty
third Kansas Is forming permanent
organization,
The mother OF John ], ingalls, Is said
TO be still alive at the age OF 100 years,
Her homo Is in Boston,
Atchison has Committee Of Forty,
an organization designed TO push the
business inter csts OF the town,
Sandy Calhoun, u Twentieth Kansas
soldier, is charged with killing his
partner in their saloon at Yale,
Four extra railway mail clerks will
be delegated to take care Of the Shell
don issues OF the Topeka Capital,
A woman of Troy horscwhipped n
man for getting her husband drunk,
and paid fine OF eleven dollars
Something like scvcnty-hvc Kansas
towns have organized improvement
societies during the past ninety days
The largest farm In Kansas is said to
belong to j, w, Robinson, of Eldorado,
lie has 800 acres under cultivation.
Blue Rapids has new mill and elc-
vator, built on the site OF the one that
burned, 1t is just now being finished,
The voters OF Topeka will have n
chance at the spring city election to
vote $50, 900 OF bonds for park improv-
mcnts,
The mean temperature Of February
at Kansas university, was seven de-
grees below the average OF the record
of the past
Judge Guthrie who has been in To-
pelsa for nearly forty years says that
the recent snow was the heaviest he
ever saw in the state.
Judge Hook has ordered the sale at
auction OF the Kansas and Missouri
bridge, at Leavcnworth, in default Of
payments due on bonds.
The Commercial Travellers OF Kansas
meet in Atchison in May and the local
lodge at Atchison has been allowed
81 800 for entertainment
Firemen Haley and Meadows both OF
whom were killed with their engines on
the Rock Island, within six months Of
each other married sisters.
Some one has made off with sos !
rornet belonging to the Clay Center
Presbyterian church, The local G.. A.
II. post also reports the loss OF three
drums snare, and bass
The seventy-ive insurance companies
doing business in Kansas report col
lec,cd in 1900, 81, 1913 0O5 in premiums, |
and the amount of losses paid out ST.
DOS, 1919. Most of the companies show
loss in the years business,
beginning March IL the Atchison
Champion proposes to run its daily issue
Tor one week as the Devil would run
It," II Is to be under the exclusive
management Of w. p Campbell with
Dr. G, r. Nunnalty as editor in chief,
Kansas University has about fifty
more accredited schools than has Mis-
souri, university, Chancellor Snow has
received since the first Of the year no.
tees of quite number Of high schools
that have conformcd to the require
ments,
An old man from Missouri, Ross by
name, killed himself at his home near
Moran, He had recently bought half
section farm,
John Musgrave, OF Glen Elder, n
delegate to the A, o. U. W. grand
lodge is in the hospital with broken
leg, lie fell on the ice,
Wavcrley people arrested drummer
for a liquor house. He was allowed to
go into the hotel for breakfast when
he lodged the constable and ran into
the country. A large crowd gave chase
but he got away.
j, Il, Blayton, u wealthy celery grow
or of Santa Anna, California, was trav.
cling east with his family when he
became derangcd and jumped from a
car window lie was found Mt Ford |
City, twenty miles away, and it was a
difficult task to capture him.
The long distance telephone company
offered the Mutual company of Fort
Scott $s, 800 per share of stock which
cost them 81, 500. With the offer is
guarantee that the mutual plant will
never be turned over to the Missouri
and Kansas company.
Ben Mclean and W, b. Throcllmor-
ton, of Wichita, have organized the
Valley Pine Lumber company with