Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-15

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j, b. Baden, the well known Win
field miller, Is dead,
Ed Ccburn, secretary ofOgriculture,
came to Kansas on foot.
Phillips county Is TO have fair, cap
italized at 81 ,0OOi all OF which Is sub
seribcd.
Postmaster Grice, Of Gage, Is under
arrest charged with buying goods with
postage stamps
Lumber dealers have been stocking
up their yards eyerywhcrci evidently
expecting big trade
George Day, colored man OF Mont
gomcry county, realized sO3,@o from
three acres of cotton.
Fire destroyed six store buildings In
Waverly, The Waverly Gazette waa
located In one OF them,
AlThe state board OF Education meets
this week TO revise the course OF study
In the common schools,
Miss Helen Gould has made her
sccond donation OF $500 to the Y. NJ, Q,
A. library at Fort Scott,
The men OF the Santa Fc at Emporla
are enjoying their co2y reading room,
prepared by the company.
Howard offers $500 reward for .he
capture Of the parties who fred the
Metropolitan hotel there,
Dr. A. s, Chouteau, an old practitioner
OF Dodge City, dropped dead while at
tending one Of his patients,
Sheriff Simmons, OF Keancy county,
has married Miss india Harris, super
intendcnt of Hamilton county.
A burglar secured from Il, j, Derge's
house in Lebanon, n 500 diamond, an
$50 gold brick and $40 in money,
The reading circle OF the State
teachers association meets this week
TO select books to be read the coming
year.
Miss Anna A, Mclaughlin, Of Horton,
went alone TO West Africa and married
DR.. w. S. Lehman after her arrival
there,
The house occupied by Lewis IIadley,
in PNola, and tscontcnts are destroyed
by fire and Pi iofessor Hodges was badly
burned.
The sheriff at Fort Scott took n slSel-
cton key from tramp and with it
unlocked the doors Of the first ten
stores he came to,
The Kansas river was full Of floating
ice last week, and It damaged the work.
on u new bridge to the amount OF 5000;
just east of Topeka.
j. j. Schneider, q Topeka society
young man, was doing fancy step in
a cNkcwNllt when he struck slippery
place in the floor. lie fell and broke
his collarbone.
The 10000 sheep which have been
fed all winter at Solomon City, have
made n scarcity of feed there and
train load has been shipped to the
eastern part of the state,
Aaron Dresser, OF Solomon, aged OF
years, the oldest Mason in Kansas, is
dead after brief illness lie had been
faithful to Masonry since young man
hood and was widely known in Central
Kansas.
The Santa Fc has refused to grant
the demands of the Order Of Railway
Tclcgraphcrs for an increase in wages.
The advance would have cost the COM
pany 5000 year. The demand that
the chairman of the general grievance
committee be allowed to dictate all
promotions of operators was also re.
fused, The Santa Fe people say that
the majority of operators on their road
are better paid than on other Western
lines.
j. l.. Mcconcy dropped dead in the
audience at Lewis academy, Heart
disease was the cause, the immediate
cause was laughing at Il joke,
The Jensen Creamery company cap
turcd honors at the National Butter
makers convention. 1t produced the
best tub of butter out of GO from Kan.
sas and received n $50 cup. Only nine
better tubs appeared in an exhibit of
S9i tubs.
At the instigation of the w. c. Il. T.,
the sheriff of Mcpherson county recent
ly went clear to Illinois after a jointist.
Jimmy Connor, the Lawrence and
Hays City boy who got rich through
specializing in Cripple Creek mines, is
off with his wife for tour Of the
world. Mr.. Connor is the man who
purchased Robert Louis Stevensons
villa on one of the Samoan islands
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