Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-05


gathering in Lawrence
Semi-monthly pay days at the fac
tories and smclters at lola call for Sio,-
600 each time,
Checopee, Cherokee county, has sin
Joints and when the sheriff called On
them they put up sl3S,sS each
Each institution of learning in Kan
sas has n baseball team stronger than
ever this year according TO the locol
papers.
II there are any Kansnns who feel
badly over having had a dry spell they
ought to get pointers from Texas, and
feel better contentcd.
Although Kansas has $1,000 more
men than women, three of that large
majority were cowhided within one
week by members Of tbs minority
Miss Beatrice Baker q graduatc Of
Farmount college, Wichita, this year,
has been elected TO a professorship IN
Proctor academy, nj Provo City Utah.
Fort Scott claims 10 have the largest
cider mill In the state, IL II worked by
steam and turns ont 5000 gallons u
day, Bourbon cOunty's apple crop is
immense
Instead of obcying the ,-,'Gcr TO take
down fences which enclose E~Tcrnment
land in Western Kansas, five rnnchmen
nrc now building 90 miles of fence in
Gccelcy county.
The Santa Fe let The contract for
building their new pattern house in
Topeka, for $1,000, II Is TO be 40 by 70
feet, three stories high, Of brick, and
well protected against FIRE.
Hereafter in Kansas under the new
election law, when ballot is not
marked according TO law 1t will be
thrown out, whether ii shows the in
tention of the voter or not
Bcnj Wallacls, Of Eningham, sixteen
years ago gave his eight children each
$1,000 in money, and since has given
them various sums each year, Last
week he gave each one Sl00
Allen N. Cameron, of Kansas, has
been appointed marshal OF the United
States consular court at llankau, China.
He went from Lawrence as n mission
ary TO China several years ago,
Mat Bennan, a bachelor Of Garden
City, who lived alone, was found dead.
There were evidences or murder On
the last day he was down town it was
known that he had 500 which has not
been found.
Here's record worth displaying to
the gaze OF the world, Atehison coun-
ty, with large population and a city
OF $4,000 people, has but one criminal
case for the September term Of the dis
trict court.
Tho bridal dress worn by Miss Clara
S. Glenn, of Wichita was made entirely
of n cloth manufactured in the Philip
pines from banana fiber. She went TO
Manila with her sister, the wife of
Mujcr W. II. Bishop, Of Salina.
In Ellsworth county, where there are
several consolidated school districts the
board hires man to gather the pupils
wno live two miles or more from the
school, and the people are pleased as it
gives them the benefit graded schools.
Thirty neighbors, after the death of
G, w, Graham, of Cowley county, cut
the hay on the Graham farm and
stacked II, put the corn in the shock,
threshed the oats; all without charge
and because the crops needed attention
with no one to give It,
The school population Of Topeka in
creased 90 in the past year According
to the school census just completed the
total school population is 1850
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual in Western Kansas and par
ties from eastern cities are quite fire.
queut In counties along the Union Pa
eihe.
The steel strike in the east Is respon-
siblc for delays in the completion of
obout 800, 600 worth of improvements in
additions TO the Rock Island shops at
Horton.
The first Sunday of the camp meeting
at Riverside park, Wichita, the street
car company counted their passengers
after o'clock and there were 9,ls5.
Fourteen Of the l5t school district
clerks Of the state failed to re-
port the tax levy to the county clerks
before Aug %, the limit, and are liable
10 "a fine.
Rains continue plentiful ia Decatur
county and some corn will make thirty
bushels to the acre Andrew Simpson
has $50 acres that he thinks will bring
him 1000 bushels.
Two boys rented 80 acres of land near
De Soto and planted it to potatoes.
Hl....., H.,