Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-22

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ed at the Santa Fe hospital in Topeka
during 1900,
Wichita mail carriers have received
checks for overtime work amounting
to 81, ,270.6s,
The chicken business Is booming Ia
Topeka. Chicken farms In the suburbs
are numerous,
George Baker, aged is, was drowned
in Ncosho river near Burlington, while
hunting ducks,
The Dold Packing company is about
to Install complete machine shop at
its Wichita plant,
The Brunswick hotel, the oldest in
Beloit, Kas., was completely destroyed
by fire last week.
Marion county's poor farm has always
been self sustaining, excepting one
year Of bad crops,
Tne state oil inspectors turned into
the treasury SSol75, the net proceeds
Of their work in March.
Almena has two tickets for city
officers, one nominated by the women
and the other by the men.
Mrs, Il, r, Hayson, of Burlingame,
has gone TO join her husband, Captain
Hayson, in the Philippines,
At Bazine Roy Barry shot and killed
John Casey. They were rivals In q
love affair and had been drinking.
A belt line Of railway around Wichi.
Ia for the convenience OF wholesalers
and manufacturers Is being agitated.
Franklin county assessors are asses.
sing on the old plan, after attempting
to work on the plan that other counties
are trying.
City Marshal Prentice, of Lawrence,
took rebel prisoner at the battle OF
Mine Creek, and he still has that prls-
oner's gun,
Ladies OF Williamsburg caused the
arrest of William Bergen, who was
taking orders for the Jug trade. lie
was held for $500 bond
When n Kansas delegate to n conven-
lion cannot attend and issues a proxy
under the law he must stamp his proxy
With n 25.cent revenue stamp,
The county clerks Of Reno, Rice and
Barton counties are being swamped
With coyote scalps brought in for the
bounty of one dollar per scalp
Kansas will celebrate the semi.cen-
,ennial of its organization as q terri
,ory In 1854. The commercial club OF
Topeka is starting the enterprise,
John Wanamaker has presented the
Presbyterian church at Chetopa with
'elvet carpet enough to cover the
whole church floor. The church Is
new edifice since losing their
hurch by fire.
The U. S. district court in Wichita
endered Judgment for 50, 15O against
st. Joseph wholesalefirm for wrong
ully placing an attachment upon the
took of Wichita merchant in 1890.
A Topeka bank receives remittances
rom Rock Island stations to the
mount of 81, 900, 900 a year. The funds
ONE in drafts and checks and the
anl1 reports that not a single item
as been bad paper or forgery,
A few years ago Paul Torrington
'as travelling around over Kansas help.
lg to get up amateur minstrel shows.
le is now on his way to Asia, where
c will be superintendent of the entire
ystem of water works on the TRANSIT
erian railroad, built by the Russian
overnment.
For years the school district just
outh of Preston, in Pratt county, paid
Or the schooling of its three or four
upils in Preston. This year the dis
rict has its own school with twenty
wo pupils,
Mrs. Rchecca Mayo, an aunt of Z.
lawson whose home Is in Miami coun-
y, is one of the eight widows of the
'ar of the Revolution whose name is
n the pension rolls. Her husband,
tephen Mayo, fought in the battle of
'unker Hill, and was present at the
of Yorktown.
Mr. Ressigue, now general superin-
endent OF the Santa Fe, was once
vision superintendent at Wichita and
eneral Manager Harding Of the Mis-
ouri Pacific was once division SUPER
ntendcnt of the same road at Wichita.
On the Santa Ee system Nudge, who
tarted out to find a job from a farm
ear Sterling, has been water carrier,
ssistant operator, brakeman, train
conductor, train master,
ssistaut division superintendent, divl.
ion superintendent, general superin.
endent and general manager.