Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-29


brought together 5000 people,
man ct Fort Scott has Latin coin
$3.50 years old and another dated 1858,
Rev Irving Baxter, rector at Salina,
has accepted call from the Episcopal
church Mt Lawrence,
The Clay Center electric light plant
burned, but the waterworlSs pumping
station near IL was saved.
Leavenworth, with its big revenue
from saloons, etc, has not enough funds
for full time public schools
Burlington made extensive prepare
tions for the dedication of the new
court honse ON September ..
Judge Madden, of Emporia, gave his
decision in the Santa Fe injunction suit
in favor Of the Orient railway.
Miss Mary Belts, Of I'll Dorado, a
pioneer school teacher, has been made
matron Of the Kansas penitentiary.
Scottsville is a town Of zoo people, A
bank recently opened there received
Sl9,OOO.in deposits the first half day,
j, c, McColm, Union Pacific brake
man, who was sent back TO flag n train
went To sleep on the track and was
killed,
James f. Lcgatc, who went TO the
Soldiers home last May blind, has re-
covered his sight and has left the hos
pital,
Salina has damage suits against the
city amounting to over 1000 for in
jurics received from defective side
walks, s.
l, H. Alter thinks his corn crop on
his Shawnee county farm will average
80 bushels to the acre The ears are u
foot long,
Mrs, Strothmeyer, Of Cawl,er City,
was milking when n troop of colts came
up and rushed the cows SO that they
tramplcd the woman TO death,
A tramp robbed caboose in ArliNn-
sas City while the trainmen were taking
their dinner He secured SEQ which
belonged TO the conductor and brake
man.
A threshing machine and about 5000
bushels of wheat burned on John eau
ver's farm in Barton county, Heroic
work saved the residence, barns and
granary,
The city attorney Of Topeka has dis
missed 81 eases pending in the district
court against joint keepers because
Judge lIazen has formerly ruled against
"spotter" evidence.
A mortgage given by the Frisco com
pany for Ss5, 100000, due in 1851. Ia be-
ing recorded in counties through which
the road passes The original mort
gage has onit Sl9, 500 in revenue stamps.
Samuel Proctor, of Kinslcy, lost an
arm while going to the Hutchinson re-
union, He had his arm resting ON the
window sill when car door flew Off n
stock car ahead and skinned all the
flesh off his arm from the elbow down.
IItu MN, ,you on,nutntn1
The semi annual interest of the state
school fund has been distributed to the
chool districts, This year the appor-
tionment is 40 cents for each person of
school age. The amount of the interest
was smaller this year because of the
difficulty in finding investments for
the funds. Eastern bond brokers offer
more for Kansas bonds than is allowed
by law to be paid by the commissioners
of the school funds Besides there has
been marked increase in the school
population.
The Santa Fe recently added to its
passenger service locomotives forty
Baldwins.
sect Santa Fe move on YOU is used
as hurry up exhortation at the Tope-
Ia shops,
Labor Commissioner johnson effected
n compromise at Cofeyville which put
an end to the strike of the Touring mill
employees there.
Henry ID. Boutwell,, mourned as dead,
for 20 years, has returned to his family
at Peabody. He left, or disappeared
In April 1881, with considerable money
District Judge Madden, at Emporia,
denied a permanent injunction against
the Orient road from crossing the Santa
Fe yards and the Santa Fe attorneys
are preparing to take the case to the
supreme court.
Miss Beal, of claim No. 2 at Lawton,
is back at work in the Wichita telephone
exchange, and will remain there until
about February l.
Stafford county claims that it has
fewer people over ten years old who
cannot read and write than any other
county in the world.
There are lots of divorced people in
Kansas, or people who believe they are
divorced, who are not because they