Hutchinson gazette., 1901-11-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

his arm in the machinery and it was
terribly mangled.
II is stated that there Is more gin
shipped into Phillips county than OF
other liquors. There are many Hol-
1andcrs there.
o. Il. McElfresh, has resigned his
position rs postmaster Mt Usage City,
and has been appointed inspector OF
free rural delivery routes.
Major G. W, Young, Of Newton, sent
q we'll worded acknowledgement Of the
assistance given there by the Wichita
fire department, at the recent fire in
his city.
Seven miles west OF Winfield an old
miner claims 10 have discovered gold in
paying quantities, There Is quartz in
ledge and gold in the sand along n
creek.
Warden Jcwett says that the records
Of the penitentiary will show that the
longer Judge serves the more merci'
full he becomes toward the offenders Of
The law.
The Kansas State Grange will hold
ita annual meeting in Topeka on Dc.
cenber 10, Governor Stanley and Su-
perintendent Nelson have agreed to
make addresses
Topeka has opium dcns and in the
absence Of u city ordinance the police
cannot disturb them, Chief Stahl has
prepared an ordinance which he sub
in'ts to the city council.
A Wisconsin man offers to rid Kan
tas Of prairie dogs for 500, 900, payable
when majority Of committee of 25
prominent citizens Of the state says he
has performed his contract,
The school population of Kansas is
sos, s54, which is greater than the COM
bined school population Of North Da-
kota, Montana, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut
Forty Dickinson county farmers have
had telephone connection with all the
towns In the county circuit, and be-
yond, for some time, and there Is no
doubt that the number is doubled by
this time
Gen. VIM. Cro2ier has been appointed
chief Of the ordnance bureau with rank
Of brigadier general, General Crozier
grew up in Lcavenworth, Kas. He is
the son of Robert Crozier, cx.Unitcd
States senator.
Two hundred of the convicts in the
Kansas pcnitentiary take daily papers
and many weeklies are received there.
The news Of the escape Of the go from
the federal prison caused much interest
In the state prison,
One advantage of telephone connec-
tion among the farmers is the oppor-
tunity given to spread the news of
new graft to the neighbors. Lightning
rod, grocery order and kindred swindles
can be headed off in that way,
A soldier, supposed to be from Fort
Riley, killed two men in the street at
Junction City, with no provocation.
He met Z. L. Cooper in the middle OF
the street and put bullet into his
right temple. City Marshal James
White was near by and started toward
Che scene but the soldier cut an artery
in his neck with bullet before he
came near the soldier. White died i'm
mediately. The soldieremptied his re-
volver but hit no one else; while
doing this he yelled and repeated ~
want to die" lie disappeared and
posses were sent out TO find him,
Wellington decided by majority Of
800, in a comparatively light vote, to
issue $3.50 in bonds for city electric
light plant, 1t Is proposed to run the
plant In connection with the water
works system recently purchased by
the city,
First Lieutenant Fred II. Fitzpatrick
has been elected captain of Company NJ,
Kansas National Guard, TO succeed
Captain G. T. Milton retired. Fitz-
patrick is about 20 years of age, and Is
probably the youngest militia captain
in tho state.
Il, A. McAlister, farmer Of Osborne
county, has kept tab on his wheat crops
for five years. During that time he
has raised 10000 bushels of wheat on
100 acres of land, or an average Of 20
bushels an acre for each year,
A local paper tells Of an assault by a
woman in q church at Harper, at the
close OF the service, A young lady
laughed and the old lady thought she
was the party laughed at; so she slapped
the yonng lady and stuck hat pin
into her couple of times, The wounds
came near being serious.
A head and collissioc occurred at
Pawnee south of Fort Scott, on !he
Frisco and seriously injured two ladies,