Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-22

petroleum hfteen miles nofth Oh fofl
Scott,
II is proposed that the city OF Fort
Scott issue $4,000 In bonds TO bore for
gas,
EG Frame, OF osOgc county, sold
$3.50 worth Of bluegrass seed from 20
acres.
A Kansas City man paid S95 fine
for killing Ave prairie chickens in Ellis
county,
John Mead, Of Leavenworth, was
killed by lightning while crossing the
fort reservation.
A. Robins and his sons, Of Auburn,
Shawnee county, sold 2s2 bushels OF
fax seed, off OF A. acres, for S374,s5.
Kansas, according TO the returns of
the assessors, gained 23, 100 in popula-
ton during the year ending March !,
last,
w. II. Haslet, OF Sumner county
claims 10 have raised the best wheat in
the world, 1t tested % pounds to the
bushel.
Eighty per cent OF the divorces filed
in Shawnee county are by women
Last year there were lis divorces and
600 marriages,
A Wellington milling firm received
orders in one day for 10000 pounds of
-four, of certain brand, There had
been no soliciting.
While drilling for gas at Erie oil was
found at n depth Of 500 feet. The oil
is of good quality and promises from 20
to 80 barres a day.
In Harper county, SO Of the 30 teach
ers passed. There are 90 teachers
needed and where the lacking 81 are to
come from is the problem
NJ, r. Phillips was reelected chan
cellor Of the Kansas Wesleyan univer-
sity, he having declined the presidency
of the New Orleans university.
So far this season there have been
0 cars Of bluegrass seed shipped from
Gardner, johnson county, which
brought the farmers over $4,000,
During the fiscal year ending June
30, the earnings of the penitcntiary
were s2O0, 5343 30 and the total expenses
were Sl65, 477O3, leaving n proft of
SAL ,O56.00,
Ed. NJ. Wheeler, of Montgomery
county, marketed from his farm this
season 1000 quarts of strawberries,
the receipts reaching 81 100. He esti-
mates his apple crop at 1000 bushels.
These are only side affairs Of his farm
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wilder brought
an exquisite statue from Rome and
have installed it, as present from
them, in the Topeka free public library.
They have also donated a splendid col
lection OF china secured during their
trip abroad.
s. Il. G, Holt pioneer of 1854 in
Lyon county, has reared thirteen or
phan children, One Of them is now
chief surgeon Of the Santa Fe west of
Albuquerque. Mr., Holt expresses his
opinion that "money spent in sending
missionaries to the heather should be
spent in rearing orphans here athome."
Clarence Rose is in jail at Cottonwood
Falls, charged with an attempt to black
mail the postmistress at Elmdale. She
received q letter demanding that She
place $3.50 in gold in certain place or
her house would be blown up and her
child kidnapped. She went to the place
at the appointed time and Rose followed
and was apprehended.
Jesse Raush who was being tried in
Uniontown, Bourbon county, attacked
he justice of the peace and broke his
jaw.
The Missouri Pacific is trying The eX-
pertinent Of running excursion trains
at 80 for the round trip, from Atchison
to Waconda Springs. The first one
left Atchison on Saturday night
reaching the springs in the morning
and making the return trip Sunday
night, Great Spirit" spring is 200
miles from Atchison, in Mitchell coun-
ty.
Cresceus, the trotter, was sired by
Robert McGregor, owned by r. l. Lee,
of Topeka, from 1879 until 1890 and has
many of his offspring in Kansas.
Sumner county this year has produced
nearly two per cent of the wheat crop
of the world A failure in Sumner
county would affect the wheat market
of the world.
A head.end collision on the Missouri
Pacific occurred at Towanda. No one
was injured, but the engine was de-
molished and car or two of wheat
spilled
1t is believed that Sam Kimble of
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