Hutchinson gazette., 1900-03-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Towards one case OF smallpox has re
VOvered
LOrned High School will graduate
~ girls and 4 boys this year
The annual encampment Of the @, A,
u. Is to be at Holton on May o.
Topeka teachers find that eight per
Oent of boys In the schools smoke cigar
sttes.
Preparations are being made for the
general observance OF May 1 as Pro-
hibition day,
A bond vote for building n $40, 900
Dchool house comes up at the next elec.
Eon in Chanute,
Incendiaries burned the $40, 900 resi-.
dence OF j, G. Fox; the wholesale drug
gist OF Atchison,
A Kansas fair and racing circuit has
been formed including Newton, Salina,
Eldorado and Wichita.
Clayton Nichols, who was employed
At a saw mill at Morris, was cut TO
pieces by the circular saw,
Methodist annual conferences occur
red last week, There were about 500
ministers attending at Wichita.
Walter johnson, who lived with his
parents west OF Galena, accidentally
Ghot himself and died instantly.
Colonel A. ], Smith, assistan. in
Bpector general of Soldiers homes, is
officially present at Leavenworth,
Farmers of Dickinson county have
contributed $500 for the India Famine
Relief Fund, and more Is coming in.
Dickinson county's poor farm almost
pays expenses of maintaining the poor
dependent upon the county for support
Four deaths have occurred In Mont
gomery county since January /, caused
by blood poison following gun shot
wounds.
1t is said that more farms have
changed hands in Cowley county with
In six months last past than in any
DtherKansas county,
Judge Phillips of the U. S. circuit
court ordered Mrs. G., A, Duell, OF Gar
nen City, committed for contempt of n
referee in bankruptcy
An undertaker's ambulance was up
set in Topeka and casket containing
dead baby was smashed, the body
Folling out in the mud.
Charles L. Wilson has been arrested
IN Oklahoma and George Morris was
arrested in Hoyt, charged together
with selling mortgaged cattle,
The annual convention of Congrc-
kational ministers OF Eastern Kansas
and Western Missouri met at Leaven-
worth with thirty pastors in attend
Ancc,
James NJ, Dunn, aged 90 years, is
head in Butler county, Mr.. Dunn
bamc to Miami county in 1853. In pio-
heer days one Of his sons was killed by
Ehe Indians
Miss Kate Rhea, of Yates Center, is
Head. She taught the first school there
Ind continued with it 20 years except
Ehe four years when she served as
eounty superintendent.
John Colvin is dead. His home was
ut Moline. In 1883 he was the nominee
tor vice president on the industrial re-
form ticket. Since then he has been
In the osawatomie insane asylum.
p. II, Anderson, OF Abilene has start
pd back to Alaska. While at home he
gave $4,000 to the Swedish hospital,
bought a farm for $4,000 cash and
Rtted up n handsome place for his
parents,
The department Of agriculture at
reports the following
quantity of corn, wheat and oats in
the hands of Kansas farmers on March
|, 1900: Corn, 02,672,277 bushels;
wheat, 0,4S1, ,601 bushels; oats, 10, ,651,-
Yea bushels,
The Atchison college, q preparatory
school, large two story brick building
owned by Miss Johana Parker, who,
In connection with Miss Helen Scofield
operated the school, was completely
wrecked by fire. The loss is $40, 900,
partially insured.
Judge Hook, of the federal district
bourt, in session in Wichita, declared
void 100000 worth of bonds of Fargo
township, Seward county.
Some one has figured it out this way:
THE United States mint Mt New Orleans
coins $50 minute, or SEA 900 in each
working day. Working 800 days in
the year this mint can coin just enough
money to buy the Jewell county crops,
which last year footed up S7,o74, 305.
AL the mints in the country cannot
coin the money represented in the crops
Of fifteen Kansas counties.