Hutchinson gazette., 1901-11-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Implement Dealers association is TO
meet at Wichita on December 4 and 8.
The city marshal Of TIavensvillo has
been arrested for striking boys who re-
fused 10 obey his order to go homo on
Halloween.
A. @. Emmons, n mineralogy expert,
has been detailed by the interior de-
partment 10 inspect the Trego'Ellis
gold fields.
For tho first time In eleven years
there ia change Of one county COM
missioner Of Smith county In party
membership.
James Simpson, the third white man
TO settle in Doniphan county, died on
his precmption claim recently at the
age of 02 years
1t Is believed in official circles that
fully 10 per cent Of the ballots cast at
the late election were rejected on nc
count of errors.
ooffeyvillo has n fire alarm which Is
piece Of pipe with whistle at the
top, while the other end Is connected
with gas well.
FredOnia has a gas we'll; calls II one
Of the very best in that gas belt Tho
company has already seven miles OF
EsAin line pipe laid.
II is quite general belief Mt Win
field that william johnson, who Is held
for the murder of Detective Geo Mont
gomcry, is not guilty
II was Twentieth Kansas man who
captured Thompson, the half-breed
leader OF the escaped convicts Dudley
Keofer, Of Council Grove, was the man,
A street fakir worked q Beloit crowd
toG S25, but was forced to return the
money together with more cash In the
way of court costs. A good example
for other towns
Farmers about Downs are having
telephone connection with tho town
constructed. This also gives them
connection with the entire system in
that part Of the state.
Two Wellington men who went to
Lamar, Colorado, have secured offices,
L. f. Blodgett Is elected county judge
and Frank Rosccrans gets the Office Of
county assessor out there,
T.. p. Hanna, the attorney who made
the opening argument in tho Schley-
Sampson investigation, is Kansas boy
from Salina. lie has been connected
with the navy department good long
time.
Anon Youngblood, an aged negro, of
Wichita, was killed by his Jersey bull
when he went to move his picket pin In
patch of wheat. The bull had always
been kind and gentle before this at
tack.
Luther Dickerson prcempted naked
prairie land in Atchison county in 1854.
He lately cut 15O cords ofwood off three
acres Of it. lie now has 1000 cords Of
wood on 100 acres which was formerly
prairie,
A. y. Wilkins, merchant Of Medi-
cine Lodge, received serious injury
from the falling upon him of box
when he was stacking up boxes in his
store. lie was taken TO one Of the hos
pitfalls in Wichita,
DIR. w. II. Hudson, OF Atchison, has
given good start to u free school for
negro men and women. The school
already has rs pupils, but it is such
success that permanent institution
will be established
Colonel r. W. Harrison is to be given
big reception at Topeka on November
22. He is the highest Mason In Kan
sas. Invitations are sent out TO Scot
tish Rite Masons all over the state
Judge Thompson, of the district court
of Usage county, instructed jury that
any express agent who delivers whisky
TO any person to whom 1t may be sent,
through his office, and receives pay for
1t or any portion of it, is guilty of sell.
ing whisky. This case will probably
be made test case, in the supreme
court.
Judge Charles Lobdell and j. s. Sim
mons, superintendent of the Hutchinson
reformatory, are the principal stock
holders of new bank Mt Jetmorc.
The county commissioners of Mitch
ell county are up against suit to hold
theU personally responsible for the
costs in the suit against u jointist which
they had remitted.
A colony of nearly so old soldiers are
taking claims in Greer county. They
are members ef the colony formed al
Kansas City to take claims in the new
counties and failed to draw them.
The federal prison at Lcavenworth
contains $40 prisoners; ninety-threc Of
these are military prisoners There
are 729 civil prisoners, 433 white, III