Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-11

Is an army surgeon on the island Jolo
Five women have recently been addet
TO the force at the Topeka pension
Office,
An average Of $50, 900 a day Is coming
into the state treasury these January
days,
The probate Judge Of Shawnee ooun
ty issued about $50 marriage licenses
In 1900.
A movement Is now on foot to close
up the telephone exchange on Sundays
IN Marion.
The seventeenth annual session Of
the State Bar association is to be held
on January 80 and 81.
Governor Stanley hns appointed Ex'
Governor Lewelling as state immigra'
tion agent, without pay.
Jndge Dale Of the district court In
Wichita granted an injunction against
building pest house inside tho city
limits,
Congressman Curtis Is pressing his
proposed appropriation for new
building at the federal prison at Lcav.
enworth,
Rev. q, d, 0lden, a very able pastor
In Topeka, had been sold on the auc.
tion block three times before he was
II years old,
j. i. Crennan, manager OF the Tope-
la branch Of the Standard Oil company
was run over and killed by n Santa E'e
switch engine,
Business men of Burlington may put
up fund for the purpose OF sinking u
hole in order to find what wealth lies
buried down there.
Charles Cavanaugh, of Sedgwiclt,
who was in the battle OF Manila Bay,
says that his share Of the prize money,
when 1t comes, will be any thing from
$500 to 81 900.
Warden Tomlinson and one of the
directors of the penitcntiary 60 to Mex
leo to study the raw material produced
there for binding twne, perhaps to
contract for supply of it for the peni-
tcntiary twine plant.
The Topeka city railway has grant.
cd the motormen and conductors n
raise of 20 per cent in wages. They
have been paid l9lG cents per hour and
the new order makes their pay Il cents
per hour beginning Jan, /.
State Auditor Cole held up n s54
claim for stcnographer services for the
state horticultural. society. During
the recent annual meeting the society
decided that the regular stenographer
was not rapid enough to take down the
addresses.
Sick men who were soldiers in the
late war with Spain are being admitted
to the national military home at Leav-
enworth by Governor Rowland, who
says he is not waiting for congress- to
authorize him to do so, but acts under
the higher law Of humanity in caring
for these men.
The Kansas insane asylum at Topeka
has had, since its establishment in 1870
I,4OS petients. The usual proportion
of cures is from 30 to 40 per cent. 1t is
because 60 to 20 per cent remain incur.
able that the asylums become fuller
each year This asylum now has SAC
inmates.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
College Of Emporia $50, 900 for n library
building as soon as the present debt is
paid. b. II. Gragg, financial agent of
the college, raised 5000 from the To.
peka presbytery Emporia citizens have
given $1,000, and the synod of Kansas
promises $40, 1000, which will be enough
to pay obligations of the college
1t takes eight days for the raw ma
terial to be changed into binding twine
at the new plant at the state peniten-
tiary.
A new creamery is to be established
at Womcr, Smith county A steam
separator and $1,000 plant will be
erected in the early spring,
R, A. Goodman, living five miles
west Of Wichita, is entitled to prize
as the champion hog raiser of Kansas.
A few days ago he slaughtered Po.
land-China hog which, when dressed,
weighed exactly $40 pounds,
Representatives Of the National As.
sociation of Charities and Corrections
will visit Topeka to make arrangements
for the convention Of that order which
is to be held in that city in May.
State Auditor Cole refused to regis
ter O,OOO worth OF Delaware town
ship, Jefferson county refunding bonds
The bonds provide for an interest rate
of @ per cent which Mr., Cole regards as
a suspicious circumstance as the state