Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-25
KANsAs ITEMS or INTEREST


At the third exhibit OF the Garden
City Poultry association there were
300 fowls entered, embracing all the
leading Wrleties
A good many Kansas towns are pay
tng attention to parks, Many of those
that have been arranged are not very
big, but are good to see.
], X, Creighton, OF Leavcnworth has
been appointed cheif clerk Of the quar-
termaster at Santiago, Cuba, and sailed
from New York, January II,
During December the travel in Kan
Bas was unprecedented, This month II
fell off suddenly and u great number
OF trainmen are being laid of.
Lost Springs Marion county, has
about $50 people and every person in
the town is a teetotalcr, Now there Is
. strong movement against tobacco,
There are at least seven nNtionNltes
represented by the proprietor and em-
ployes OF one store In North Topeka,
The nationalities are American, Eng.
lish, French, German, Scotch, Irish and
African.
Cowley and Harper counties failed to
collect taxes against railroads and now
ask the state to bear Its proportion of
the amount. The state board Of equal.
ization finds no authority TO act in the
premises,
"The Humboldt wooden mill" says
the Union, "had the contract for ma.
king woolen goods--blankets, etc.
for the state penitentiary for several
years, and until the mill was discon-
tinued in ls00
J. W, Milne, OF Putnam, Kas., has
been reelected superintendent of the
state poultry show for next year, The
association made him present this
year of chair in recognition of his
efficient services.
A deputy sheriff at ottawa smashed
n masher in the face instead of taking
him in, "for the sake of the girls" lie
also punished the masher's companion
for interpreting, That deputy ought to
be promoted sure.
Material for the new street railway
is arriving in Wichita. The first re-
ceived was carload OF spikes, the rails
and boilers for the power house is
next, All material will arrive shortly
and hundred men be put to work,
The Kansas State Historical society
has had twenty.one presidents, viz;
Judge Samuel A. Kingman, the first
president, George A, Crawford, Gov.
John A. Martin, Gov, Charles Robinson,
T. Dwight Thatcher, +. p, Baker D,
r. Anthony D., w. Wilder, Edward |
Russell, William A, Phillips, c, X. Holi-
day, James S. Emery, Gov. Thomas A,
Osborn, p G. Lowe, V, j. Lane, s. 0.
Thatcher, Gov, L. N, Morrill,, Harrison
Kelley, John Speer, L. +, Ware and j,
@. Haskell.
The state board OF agriculture has
appointed the following officers: Geo
logists-Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence;
G. P. Grmsley, Topeka. Entomoo-
gists--F. II. Snow, Lawrence; S, j,
Hunter, Lawrence; Il, A, Popenoe, To-
peka Meteorologists-J. 4, Lovewell
md 4. b. Jennings, Topeka, Botan-
ists-L, Il, Sayrer, Lawrence; A. S,
Hitchcock, Manhattan. Chemists.-E.
II. S. Bailey, Lawrence; j. 7, Willard,
Manhattan. Neterinarian-Pau Fis-
cher, Manhattan.
Owing to the danger of an epidemic
Of typhoid the city council of Lawrence
Investigated the city's water supply.
Captain j. P. Grinstead, OF the Thirty
second Infantry reported killed in the
Philippines, was veteran officer of
three wars, He served during the re
bellion, as captain in n Kentucky cav
airy regiment, was elected captain of
Company L, of the Twenty-hrst Kan.
sas, recruited in Sumner county. He
was city mashal of Wellington for sew
eral years and was prominent in the
g. A. r.
w, o. Vanarsdale, James Elem, of
Burton, and a party of Wichita sports
men have purchased the land south of
Burton on which the Patterson lake
is situated. They will expend $1,000
in building and cquipping a brick club
house.
Three townships of Dickinson county
have refunded their railroad bonds at
3 per cent. They were drawing per
cent. The owners Of the old bonds
take the new ones at no expense to the
townships to prevent the state school
fund getting them,
Catherine Smith has filed suit against
the city of Columbus for $4,000 dam
ages alleged to have been sustained by
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