Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-25
ropela has levied a poll tax Of $500.

at $4,000,
Kansas towns are generally forming
commercial clubs The latest to do 80
Is Plcasanton,
Mound City is to be placed in the cir
cult Of the Missouri and Kansas tcle-
phone circuit,
Julius Fischer, who has been raising
Bocr fund at Lawrence, has sentsl5O
to Bocr authorities.
The contempt cNsc OF John p, Reese
In Jail at TT, Scott, will be taken TO the
Federal supreme court,
Olathc is likely to soon be connected
more completely with Kansas City by
the building of an electric line
0lathc has had fire which consumed
the first buildings built there. There
were quite a number Of business places
burned.
The Kansas Historical society has It's
third secretary, George W, Martin, i,
p, Baker was the first secretary and
Franklin G, Adams the second,
More than one fourth Of the gold and
more than one third Of the silver
of the United States were refined
at Argentine Kansas, and Omaha last
year
John Merklcm, Phillips county
farmer, while on his death bed divided
$4,000 worth Of property among his
children, Every dollar was made on .
Kansas farm.
Assistant Attorney General Il, II
Tracy rendered Nn opinion holding
that the state board OF charities had no
legal right to condemn site for new
insane asylum,
The penitentiary twine plant is nov
turning out 1000 pounds daily, and az
soon as the men fairly get the run OF
the work tho daily output will amount
to 10000 pounds.
state Treasurer Grimes has been pay
ing outstanding warrants which had
been stamped mot paid for want o.
funds There n few left which are
held by country banks.
A COwker City man spends his leisure
time in gathering mussel shells which
he ships to button makers, lie has o
bottle full of pearls, rescued from tho
shells, which he says is worth Sl90.
Miss Ethel Tucker who left ottawa
for Manila to marry Sergeant Irvir
Todd arrived there safely and the
couple were Immediately married,
Todd was q member Of the Twentieth
and re.enlisted.
George and Ed Silbee, alias Meelss,
OF Kansas City, convicted of the murder
of Leopold Edinger, young German,
near Fort Scott in October, were hung
to nearby trees in the jailyard, dead. A
mob did the work.
S. 0, Osborne, of Garden City, man.
damused the school authorities to per.
init his children to attend school with,
out being vaccinatcd. The district
court decided against him and he ap,
peals to the court Of appeals,
1t Is said that the Southwestern NJ!
ming and Reduction Company will erect
Smelters at lola and Chanute, Kas,
Florence, Col, Salt Lake City and Seat
lie, and will build u warehouse in Kan
sas City to cost S25O,OOO, in which gold
and silver bullion is to be stored.
Miss Julia McInerey, an Abilene girl,
who is studying music under the best
teachers in New York City receives
'uch high prices as an accompanst for
solo singsrs at concerts and in the
large church choirs as to pay all her
expenses and save considerable besides.
Lawrence and Douglas county have
joined in the purchase of Cuban
to catch the increased num-
Der of criminals infesting the county.
The Union Pacific has paid to the
relatives of $. Honeywell, who was
killed by a freight train collision east
Of Abilene last fall, S5,OOOin settlement
Of the damages.
The Santa Fe car shops in Topeka
are engaged just now in building ten
new chair cars and 200 furniture cars
The new chair ears are 80 feet inside,
and modern in every particular.
The Union Pacific is running two
ballast trains daily from Lawrence
west. They carry the burned gumbo
from the gumbo kilns near Lawrence.
Governor Stanley and Department
Commander Coulter have been investi-
eating irregularities alleged to exist at
the State Soldiers home at Old Fort
Dodge.
In Dickinson county relief associa-
ton has been formed and is sending
corn and other supplies to missionaries
of the River Brethren church in famine