Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-01
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREsE

900 acres OF land for $4,000,
Abllene's new Masonic hall Is com
pleted, II is funrlshsd in grand style
Mankatos watcrworlSs plant Is com
pleted ana accepted by the city council
Four boys OF the Twentieth Kansas
Are enrolled as students at the state
agricultural college,
About twenty members OF the Twen
tieth Kansas arc employed at the Tope
la shops and offices
The contempt case OF John p, Reese
In Jail at IT, Scott, will be taken TO the
Federal supreme court,
1t Is reported that the plan is TO holC
all the Kansas conventions, state and
congressional, In April,
W, II. Biddle state treasurer under
The Lewelling administration, is now a
resident OF Wcllston, o, T,
A Barton county man has sold q
quarter section Of land for 5000 more
than he paid for 1t month ago,
Beloit Catholics expect TO commence
work on a church this year which will
cost In the neighborhood Of $40, 900.
Mrs, Bertha Picket is treasurer OF
of Lane county, and Miss Kate II, John
son holds tho same Office in Norton,
Reno county is to have new court
house TO cost about $4,000, More than
$40, 900 is now in hand for the purpose.
"Ice will be ice next summer in Kan
sas, said one ice factory magnate to
Onother-and then they took something,
A bill Is before Congress TO build q
civil federal reiormatory at Lcaven'
worth, for the confinement Of young
prisoners,
So far this month the Kansas City
station has secured seventy-siX recruits
for the regular army, largely from
Kansas.
Flora Il. Pool in the Mail and Breeze
says that IIiawatha is the pretticst
small town in the state, with Sterling
a close second.
The secretary Of war transmitted to
che house an estimate Of $4,000 for
rebuilding officers quarters at Fort
Leavenworth, KNs
Bert Cole was driving in buggy
near GofEs and collidcd with n Central
Branch train at q crossing, lie is in n
critical condition,
, Christian Scientists OF Howard have
established reading room, open to all
who wish to take advantage Of IL from
] to p. IN. every day.
Farmers were busy plowing during
the first three weeks Of January, Grass
started, Winter wheat is looking as
" ell as II could look,
The j. S, Smythe bank at Stockton Is
closed and settling up 1t is hoped
that it will be able to pay out in full,
at sacrifice of its capital,
A Nemeha county farmer hauled
eiXty-nine hogs into Wctmorc few
days ago and sold them for nine hundred
and ninety-seven dollars and nickel,
In the southwestern part of McPhcr-
son county are some sand hills and
sand lands, Foryears they were avoid
cd. Germans came in and took them
and have made them blossom like
garden,
Mrs. Sarah Morley, of Wellington,
aged 81, committed suicide by hanging
herself in small outbuilding on the
premises of her sister, Mrs. Robert
Earle, with whom she had been making
her home.
u. A. Guilds, of Fort Scott, through
Major Martin, of the Twentieth Kan.
sas, has received from the adiutant
general the gun carried in the Philip
pine war by his son, Halle Guilds, who
was killed on the firing line,
DR.. Charley Howe, of Atchison urges
The residents Of towns threatened with
smallpox to remember the vinegar
treatment. DR.. Howe cleaned the
smallpox out of Lenora with the vine
gar treatment and says that it is doing
good work Mt Centralia, where the dis.
ease has been confined to single case.
The superintendent of free delivery,
both in cities and country, reports that
the work done by the carrier from
Station b of the Topeka office exceeds
The record of any other carrier in the
United States.
The Kansas State Editorial associa-
ton held a pleasant session at Fort
Scott Jan. 22-23. The next meeting
will be held in Topeka. The following
officers were chosen President, j.,
Randolph, Nortonville; Secretary, G.
Davis, Concordia; treasurer, w. G. Ran
ey, Fort Scott,
A fine brick hotel will be put up at
sr,,o,, ~, 41,o e;to of tLo ,1d II;.l,, II,,,o