Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-02-22

Oak and IL inch ice at Dispatch.
Much California fruit is In passage
on the Santa Fc these cold days,
A great scarcity Of box cars Is re-
ported on the middle division Of the
Santa Fe.
Seven quarter sections have just been
sold, lying south of Goddard, Mt $4,000
n quarter.
The Santa Fe has been sending much
material into Oklahoma Of late, fol
new track,
Mrs, Mary Stewart, of Mulvane, hat
lived in three centuries, she was 100
years on February IA.
Robert Farrar, OF Frankfort, hna
been appointed head gardener at the
Topeka insane asylum.
Horse dealers are taking all the good
horses offered and at good prices and
are shipping them east,
Among new rural delivery routes an
nounced are two in Jewell county and
one in Wyandotte county
Tho cattlemen and lumbermen hold
conference in the executive office at
the state capital on Feb, 20,
ottawa entertalns delegates from
local Knights Of Pythias lodges OF
twenty-five towns, February 81 and &c.
John Taylor, the wcalthicst resident
Of Dickinson county is dead, lie and
his sons owned 1000 acres OF fine farms
and he had extensive realty interests
in Cincinnati,
Senator Thurston has bill TO bring
about q revision Of and adjustment OF
the sales Of the otoe and Missouri lands
In Kansas and Nebraska, II Is proba'
BILE that congress will take early action.
Lincoln is having building boom.
Besides the new court house there are
seven business houses being erected;
one Of them TO have Masonic temple
in the second story. They are being
built OF Lincoln county stone,
Effective February 20 the rate from
Kansas City to Galveston on grain for
export is 10 cents and corn IL cents per
100 pounds. This Is n reduction OF 3
and cents per 100, and the same re-
auctions will be made from all country
points,
Ten counties in the state have failed
to pay the first half Of their taxes this
year and Treasurer Grimes sent q letter
to the treasurer of each county asking
him to remit, Over half the counties
have not only paid the first half, but
also good portion Of the second,
Congressman Bowersocls is asking
congress to cXpend 5000 to repair the
road leading out of Fort Scott to the
national cemetery, Nearly 1000 vet
Grams Of the Mexican, civil, Spanish and
Filipino wars are buried in this ceme-
terry, and it is kept up beautifully by
the government.
A special session Of the legislature,
once upon n time, when there was n
drouth on the western border, gave
counties out there seed grain. The
counties furnished farmers and took
their notes, Many Of the notes are still
unpaid and the counties are talking
about bringing suits.
The Kansas delegates to the national
pure food and drug congress, in Wash
ington March are; Willard Bigelow,
Gardner; w. +. Jensen, Beloit; b. w.
Woodward, Lawrence; j. r. Grecnlee,
Hutchinson; Thomas D. Hubbard,
Kimball; S. d. Banner, Newton; w. A.
Smith, Wilson; Charles H. Beers, HoXie;
William Green, Topeka; Charles f.
Refer, Atchison.
A Burr Oak man shipped n thousand
bushels of popcorn last week, 1t was
all raised by one man, The Burr Oak
dealer paid so cents bushcl for IT,
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
the naming of three young men or wo-
men of Kansas for free scholarships in
the Methodist law school at Nashville
Tennessee.
All the bridge inspectors OF the Santa
Fe proper will be relieved from service.
Their work will henceforth be done
under the direction of the forcmen OF
the bridge erecting gangs,
Dr. Y, A, Aderhold, graduate of
the Topeka Capital Carrier gang, and
at the same time, of Washburn college,
has gone to be surgeon in the Boer
army, with the rank of captain,
Eight miles from Wichita is the
Cartwright chapel. When the janitor
went to prepare the place for services
he found everything inside that could
be broken was broken. Carpet gone,
all the coal burned, stove ruined, lamps
smashed, altar and altar rail broken
up and burned with marks of destruc.