Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-19

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, The Rock Island is putting heavy
sleel rails between Wichita and Herring
ton,
Two Santa Fe employees at EmpSria
were discharged for smoking in the oil
house
The heavy showers of Friday and
Saturday, September 10 and II, were
general in Kansas,
Cattlemen at the Wichita stock yards
pay so u ton for prairie hay AlfolfO
is held nj Sl9 u ton
New York men propose to sink shafts
and build u power house at LitHe River
10 work the salt mines
The new law requiring prescriptions
for morphine and the like seems TO be
easily evaded in Kansas,
Curtis Monical succeeds Chas, j, Webb
as chief clerk for Superintendent Me-
LellNn, Of the Santa Fc.
j. w. Robson, n Butler county farm
er, has 600 acres Of alfalfa and intends
to make 1t /, 200 this year
Superintendent Nelson suggests
changes In the school tax laws TO make
them more equitable TO the smaller dis.
trlcts
Major j. W, Bolus, of Fort Scott, Is
dead, He had remarkable war
record Major Bolus had lived Mt Fort
Scott since 1866
II, X, Thompson, of Dover Shawnee
county, took 10 Of the IS first prizes
awarded at the Nebraska state fair.
lie had no cattle In the other five
clesses
Miss Amanda 0'Conncr, formerly Of
ST. Marys, has accepted the place Of
first assistant in the piano department
Of the territorial university at Norman,
Oklahoma,
A bridge being built east of Caldwell
collapsed from the action of u rushing
food. Several men who were strength
enng the false work fell among the
twisted timbers 80 feet below and were
injured,
Judge Henry c. Sluss, who has been
Judge Of the United States court of
private land claims, will have served in
that capacity for ten years next July,
lie will probably resume the practice
of law in Wichita next summer.
VIM, Bastain and Chas, Roth, two
Santa Fe water service men, were over.
come by gas while working in an oil
tank at the Topeka shops and death re-
suited before they could be helped or
even before their predicament was
known.
The pipe organ presented TO the
Presbyterian church of Junction City
by Andrew Carnegie in memory of Col
onel John b. Anderson, was recently
set up and recital conducted, Mrs,
Anderson heard the recital at her home
in Manhattan by telephone.
A young soldier of the Kansas
Twentieth named Miles, whipped a
Topeka socialist who was bawling
against the government The next
day Secretary Hawk, of the socialist
organization, got out hand bill calling
Miles an anarchist. Miles went TO the
Capital office for reporter to go along
and get the straight scory of how he
was going to lick Hawks. The licking
went Off according to time card.
1t is noted that General j. G. Cald-
well, who has been consul in a port of
the Gulf of Mexico for four years, has
never sent home "a piece to be printed" "
The general has record as a leader in
the battle of Gettysburg, succeeding
Hancock in command when the latter
was wounded, and Is best liked by his
closest acquaintances, yet he does not
parade before the public, General
Caldwell's home has been in Topeka
for many years.
The city schools of Wichita opened
with an enrolment on the first morn.
ing of 1894 pupils of which number
there were 349 in the high school,
Attorney General GODDARD decides
that county clerks must turn over the
81 taken for registering doctors cer-
tificates, into the general funds of the
county
After celebrating their sixty.second
wedding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
II. Spicer, of Neosho Falls started TO
see the sights at the Pan-American ex-
position.
State Superintendent Nelson favors
adopting the savings bank system in
the schools in this state which some
other states have found valuable.
Prof. Landson, of the Fort Scott
schools says that in 25 years but one
boy addicted to the cigarette smoking
habit has graduated from the schools
Of Fort Scott.
DR.. Il. NJ. Wood, who has been at