Hutchinson gazette., 1901-11-21

Yates Center will be liberal TO parties
who viii put In waterworks there on a
satisfactory footing,
The business men of Wellington have
formed club to do things They will
first 60 after oil and gas,
The Choctaw grade has been compile
ted TO Anthony and the track is crawl
ing along in that direction.
The hole bored for gas at Abilene at
tho depth Of / 200 feet, now overnows
salt water 20 per cent strong.
II would seem that some OF the farm
crs Of the southern counties are pastur-
ing their wheat too heavily.
Contracts for supplies for the state
charitable institutions will be let, ut
Topeka, on December 0 and 10,
Three privates Of the Fort Riley gar
rison went TO Jail at Junction City,
charged with stealing s32 from farm
or.
A company is being organized at To-
pclSa TO establish creameries in Mexico,
n country which now has no cream
cries.
The Coffeyvillc pottery plant is 10.
tally destroyed by fire, 1t is said that
it will be rebuilt on much larger
scale.
Prof Il. n, Adams has resigned tho
chair Of history Mt Kansas university TO
accept n place at Leland Stanford uni
versity.
Walter Studcr, Bourbon county
farmer, shipped quails to Chicago.
When indicted he plead guilty and was
fined $50.
Out Of i57 tax receipts issued by the
treasurer of Sumner county in the first
half Of November, only six were less
than the full amount of the tax.
A newly organized company has pur-
chased site in Coireyville upon which
to build factory for making plows
and other farming implements.
The estate of Allen Sells holds 1880
acres Of land in Kearney county which
has been appraised by appointces Of the
probate court ut 80 cents an acre.
Two young negroes are in custody at
Hiawatha, charged with highway rob-
berry, They attacked r. @. Horr and
left him minus his valuables, and with
serious injuries. lie loses one eye,
A bank at Milan, Sumner county,
which had been doing business but
short time, was raided and the safe
dynamited. There was but little money
in the safe and $4,000 in currency in
the vault was not taken Two stores
were robbed on the same night,
The Kansas Association Of Charities
and Corrections has elected as its Off
GERS, President, L, w. BlaclsmOr Law
renee; vice presidents, DR., d. NJ. Fisk,
Topeka, and II, Vincent, Washington;
secretary, Rev, Il. A. Fredenhagcn, To-
pclsa; treasurer, Mrs, Il, f. Carver To-
pcka
The attorney generals Office has ad-
vised an enquirer that it Is doubtful If
a city council could be authorized by
state law TO order the vaccination Of
pupils, but that there is no doubt that
it has authority TO prohibit children
who have not been vaccinated from at.
tending schools.
Department Commander Martin Nor
ton and the auditing committee Of Sac
Kansas G. A, X, have ironcd out all
their troubles and everything Is now
serene. There will be no removals from
Office and no more rows. All have
agreed to quit qurrcling and pull tc-
gether for the upbuilding Of the order.
Postmaster p. w. Ransom, of Chero.
lSee, drew claim near Lawton and u
prospecting company put down well
on his claim, getting over the line by
mistake, and discovered oil.
Prof, Lcntz, of Kansas Agricultural
college, finds that there are 6S counties
of Kansas which have prairie dog
towns, ranging in acreage from half an
acre each in Cowley and Douglas to 0s,-
500 acres in Wallace The number of
acres in all these 90 counties is estimat-
ed at 1 1,l2l, ,s54H which are given up to
the dogs,
j. w. Wcatherford, the Eureka tele-
graph operator, has been sentenced to
one year and four months imprison-
ment for robbing mail sacks Denning,
who was charged jointly, was acquitted.
Thos. Denning was found guilty but
will appeal
Members of the q. A. Il, are asked to
give 10 cents each for monument to
be placed at the Bicserdyke home at
Ellsworth. The department command
er and a committee of the &. A. Il, and
w, r, c. escorted the body of Mother
Bickcrdyke TO Illinois for burial.