Hutchinson gazette., 1901-01-24
KANsAs ITEMS or INTEREST,


Neodesha Prcsbyterlans are prepnr-
Ing to build parsonage,
Burglars have been working at their
profession in Hutchison OF late.
II seems to be common practice in
III Dorado TO I'LL cistcrns with ice.
The town OF Glasco has purchased n
block for the purpose OF public park
Fifty-three witnesses in the Jessie
Morrison case received an average fec
ofs2l.
Morton Albaugh has been appointed
and confirmed as state bank commits
sioner,
There Is likely to be bill before the
legislature to let the state printing by
contract.
The four new justices will sit in the
supreme court for tho first time at the
February term.
The report Of the state grain In
spcctor for December shows profit to
the state Of $500,
Mound City has a colored woman,
Mrs. Carrie Brooks, who Is known to
be ll3 years old,
The country people arc becoming
convinced that the Belgian hare 10 like
ly to become n pest.
Major A, b, Powell, postmaster at
Coifeyville, fell on the ice at Kansas
City and broke leg.
A quilt with President McKinlcy's
autograph Is to be rAiled off at Mont
gomery county church
Rev. John Moorhead, chaplain Of the
house Of representatives, was chaplain
of the penitentiary in 1896.
Representative u. L, Wise, of Reno
county, who died in Topeka, had life
insurance amounting $1,000.
There are not enough lawyers in the
Kansas house Of representatives to fiji
up the two Judiciary committees.
Cattlemen of Finney county nre
holding their stock for advanced prices;
and so are the broom corn raisers
Ten machines worked all the season
threshing the wheat crop about Glasco,
averaging about go 900 bushels each,
Frank NJ, Rarig will represent the
Wesleyan university of Salina at the
State intercollegiate contest at ottawa
March /.
The A. 0. U. W. started the year
1890 with 3l,734 members in Kansas
and at the end OF the year had 33,ii4,
an incresao Of 4,7lO.
The coroner's jury in the case Of the
burning of the negro, Alexander, re-
turned verdict Of "burned by party
or parties unknown"
The demand for arms by both blacks
and whites, including women, soon
exhausted the supply in Leavenworth
after the burning tragedy
A Beloit man recently invested ST, 900
in Missouri Pacific stock at "a and Is
now figuring how much he is ahead
with the stock quoted at siH.
The school at Corbin, Sumner county,
has been closed on account of small
poX. Another school near Corbin has
been closed because OF the itch.
The Whitman house at Salina was
quarantined and the victims first en-
joyed the novelty OF Imprisonment but
soon got weary of being cooped up,
'State Printer W, Y. Morgan is elect
ed for second term by strict party
vote; Grant Harrington, of Hiawatha,
receiving the votes of the minority.
The number of real estate transfers
filed in Sumner county in 1896 was sol;
in 1907, 1858; in 1898, 1,434; in 1890,
1897; in 1OOO 1,70l.
There are many cases OF smallpox in
southern Osborne and northern Russell
counties Schools and all public gath.
erings are closed and the country is
quarantined.
The Is a demand on the legislature
for more pay to county and city officers.
Several special bills are already in,
which may be consolidated into gen.
eral bill.
Chief Justice Frank Doster will re-
tain his position until the end Of the
term for which he was elected, when
Justice Johnston will become chief jus.
tice under the constitutional amend
ment.
Dennis Madden, new district Judge
at Emporio, has ruled that no decree
Of divorce will be granted until all the
costs of the case are paid.
Waldo, on the Lincoln branch Of the
Union Pacific, has seven cases of small
pox and is quarantined. No passen-
gers are left or taken at the station.
A bill to enable Wichita to issue
small bonds, $40 to S1OO, for sufficient
amount with which to purchase water-