Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12
sylvan Grove is to have $4,000 elc-

Abilene expects to construct a sewer
age system 70 cost Sil 900,
Tho Topeka school board has decided
10 build Il manual training school
DIR, N. o, r. Woods one hnndreth
birthday occurs on Februry 10, next
The state school fund has purchased
some school district bonds of Oklahoma,
Frank Culn, civil war veteran, died
at Harper on December >, aged 81
years
Representative Miller has n bill in the
house for n 100000 federal building at
Emporia,
Il. u, McKccycr, of Topeka, has been
appointed assistant u, $, district attor-
ncy, District of Kansas,
A justice Of the peace near Ottawa
has sent in voucher for fees in case
Of "salt TO mitt fellny,'
The Kansas Historical society will
give n reception on December II, To
formally open It's new rooms
A Topeka syndicate has leased lands
ncnr Mulhall, Oklahoma, for the pur-
pose Of producing gas and oil.
w, II. Smith, secretary to the board
of railroad commissioners, Is quaran.
tined on account of scarlet fever in his
family
Dclphos has new, lj00O bushcl clc-
vator, with all modern improvements.
1t is owned by n cooperative grain as-
sociation.
The Santa Fe now has depot OF its
own ut Pittsburg. Heretofore that
company has occupied depot jointly
with the Memphis road,
The De Forrest sisters NJ Irving have
received 81 900 each as an advance pay
ment from the estate Of their uncle,
Henry Dolan, Of New York.
The socialist colony in Bourbon coun-
ty of Carl Browne and CoXey's planting
is 80 far abandoned that the coal mine
and the canning factory are both idle
and only Of 30 families are left.
Prof. Ernest Fahrig, n scientist of
Philadelphia, has made several tests
and promises that the Trego shalc Of
Western Kansas will turn out more
than 81 a ton in gold and silver and
give n profit,
Jas. Higgins, II Santa Fc brakeman,
who lost both legs in an accident has
been offered by the railroad company
to teach him telegraphy and give him
life long job, also a pair Of cork legs,
He hHs accepted the offer.
J. w. Stone, of Lawrence, II G. A. r.
official, is one of the incorporators of a
Soldiers and Sailors Historical and he.
ncvolent society, with the object OF
collecting the history Of soldiers and
sailors for the benefit of their families
in future generations,
The Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement and Hardware Dealers as
sociation, ut their meeting in Wichita,
pledged themselves to work for the de-
feat of any congressman or senator
who fails to do his utmost to bring
about antitrust legislation.
Chief Justice Dostcr, acting as arbi-
traitor between the coal operators and
the miners in the Pittsburg district,
decides for the miners, The dispute
was over the meaning Of the phrase in
their contract double shifted entries"
the operators claiming. that it meant
working men in alternate shifts; the
miners that it meant working two men
in one entry. Judge Doster said that
the first construction was technically
correct, yet by common use of it about
the mines II had become recognized as
meaning what the miners contend.
The state fish commissioner has
stocked Cow Creek at Hutchinson with
900 young bass and 1000 rcd.cycd
perch,
Superintendent Nelson finds many
errors in the reports of county super
intcndcnts, mostly in figuring He has
sent back some of the reports several
times. One report has nos errors in
addition.
The opera house at Cottonwood Falls
is used for the revival meetings there,
which are being conducted by the Chi
cago Oliver brothers, rcvivalists.
A Union Pacific passenger train ran
into freight train at Collier, spelling
several cars and delaying traffic several
hours.
Judge o. =, Engenbright, of Indc-
pendence, became i'll while making an
argument before the Kansas supreme
court so that he was compelled to stop
before his speech was finished
Near Pittsburg James Boden, an en-
gineer of the Kansas City & Southern,
was fatally injured. His. engine went
down the bank and Boden was crushed
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