Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-18

The Abilene Commercial club Is talk
ing about government building, alsC
wholesale grocery and cold storag'
plant,
Farmers in many sections Of Kansas
are huslSing corn and plowing at thu
same time and this is the middle of Jan
uary
Ex-Chief Justices Albert II, Horton
and David Martin were pittcd against
each other In the trial of ease in Con
cordia,
Two freight trains on the Rock Is
land road collidcd at Denton, near
Troy, Kan, and half dozen cars were
derailed.
The Rock Island and the Santa Fe
are both pressing the work Of supply
ing their cars with ir-brakcs and auto
matte couplers,
Edward Smick, the l7-ycar-old son
OF X. G. Smick, editor Of the Kansas
Agriculturist, OF Wamego, Kan, was
killed by train,
The grade out Of Kiowa, Kansas, is
still an unknown quantity, Parties
making the grade fear that II viii be
sold and not used
The cooperative store at Mcpherson
Is said to have paid a larger dividend
than any cooperative store in the state
Tor ten consecutive years,
j. W, Eglofr, owner and proprietor
of the Linn county roller Mills OF
Mound City, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
The Kansas City Live Stock exchange
is finding fault, emphatically, about
stock being abused during shipment,
They say that the value Of many ami.
mails is reduced by inhuman beating
and prodding
NJ. Butteraeld, OF Lees Summit Mo-,
has invested in Reno county lands and
will begin the planting Of large apple
orchard. lie has theory that the
sandy soil in the Arkansas valley Is cs.
pecially adapted to fruit culture.
In Dickinson county u fve.year-old
baby, the son of Mr., Price, while run.
ming with n pencil in his hand fell and
ran the pencil into his head just above
the eye. The pencil was broken into
seven pieces. The child will recover
Half the school houses and number
Of residences in Sedgwick county have
been looted recently and the stuff
brought to Wichita, where j. f. Ingram
a junk dealer, sold them. Ingram Is
in Jail on a charge of being the finan.
cial agent of the gang,
Lyon county farmers last year re-
reived s5OO,OOO for their butter, eggs
md poultry, One firm alone shipped
out seventy.one cars of eggs, three cars
IF butter, fifteen cars of hides, and
twenty-five cars of poultry. This same
firm shipped out 500, 900 worth of pro.
luce from Mcpherson county.
Tim Horrigan, of Reno county, was
born in Tipperary, Ireland, ninety-four
'ears ago. lie came to this country
while yet II young man and settled in
Texas, In 1887 he was in Sam Hous.
on's Texas army, and by the narrowest
'hance missed the fate Of his comrades
n the massacre at the Alamo
The eighth annual meeting OF the
Kansas Editorial association will be
,eld at Fort Scott, January 29-?3. On
he morning of January "a the editors
md their wives will 60 to the zinc and
cad fields of Southeastern Kansas and
Southwestern Missouri as the guests
If the Memphis Railroad company.
Doniphan county furnished walnut
rec four feet two inches in diameter
hat made 7Gs feet of lumber. The
rec was 100 years old.
President Edwin Locke and the OK.
'cutive committee of the Epworth
league have selected Topeka as the
place to have the first annual conven-
ion of that organization, on June 1921, |
leXt.
At Riceville, n suburb of Galena, II.
J. Hurd's livery barn burned, with 3 |
horses, buggies and harness. Loss
; $780, insurance 5000.
Governor Stanley believes that when
parents place their children in reform
schools they should be required to re-
inquish all claims upon them.
Advertisements have been sent out
by the treasury department for bids
Ior the addition to the Topeka, Kas.,
public building, to be opened February
%.
Silliwood, the California trotter, was
bred and raised in Shawnee county.
Silkwood's record was 2:07 when Gem
try, another Kansas trotter, beat it in
San Francisco, going n mile in 2:o3.
The state labor bureau says; "Trom
every laborer replying to our queries
sent out recently comes the same story