Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-30


About 80 OF the Santa FEES force W
Emporia have their wages raised
The Wolf packing house in Topeka
is TO be doubled in capacity this sea-
son.
A steamer has been put in service
between Arkansas City and Geuda
Springs
A factory has been established IN
Rice county for the manufacture OF
concrete fenceposts
The annual meeting Of the Kansas
Druggists in Topeka was attended by
about 800 druggists
Atchison Is said TO have a man who
never laughed aloud, There Is another
one running bank at Cheney,
VIM. Sharon, Barber county farm
er, has invested $1,000 recently in an
addition Of Is registered cattle 10 his
herd.
At the debate in Empora between
the normal schools of Kansas and Ne.
braska, the debaters from Nebraska
won.
Gas has been struck near Sedan al n
depth OF $50 feet which is 800 feet less
| than former gas finds in paving guam
Titles.
Hail destroyed the wheat about Ba-
varia, Saline county, in territory
about four miles square, The land
will be planted in corn,
There are successful pecan orchards
in Rice county. Mrs, Thomas Parks
planted the first one and she is now
getting good profit from it,
The traqeling libraries sent ont from
the state library are proving TO be very
popular in the ncighborhoods which
have acquired the library habit"
A battery OF artillery from Fort
Riley made n practice march TO Topeka
and went into camp there for several
days and gave some exhibition drills,
Ed King, the Santa Fe engineer who
went back to Mexico, to prison TO dc:
mand IN immediate trial, has not been
heard from since by his Wichita friends,
The stone pavilion erected in Maple
Grove cemetery, Wichita, by the w, Il,
c, No 40, is now completed and dedi-
Gated to the unknown dead in unknown
graves,
A justice of the peace at Eureka or
dcred the mayor to be oustcd from
office for not appointing an old soldier
as street commissioner, The mayor
gave an appeal bond,
A Cherokee county man sued another
for damages from the bite of bull
dog. He was assessed for the costs Of
the suit by the jury, The costs were
several hundred dollars.
There Is one, at least, bogus deputy
marshal swndling people in Kansas.
There are but three bona hde deputy
deputy L. $. marshals in the state;
they are f. A. Prescott of Topeka, w.
c, Mooney Of Fort Scott an / c, Il, Car.
rol of Wichita,
The division superintendent and the
roadmaster of the Missouri Pacific
residents Of Wichita, now use n gaso-
line motor bicycle for their inspection
trips over the road 1t makes a speed
of 35 miles an hour when it is desired
to make that time. In trial trip il
was run five miles in eleven minutes.
The women of Eureka have organ.
lied town improvement society. The
ladies of the city club recently raised
money for public library and have
turned it over to the city, Eureka has
woman doctor and two women pho
tographers,
Farm lands in Labette county have
advanced in price from 10 TO 20 per
cent and the demand for them has
raised from 80 to IS per cent A hun
dred residences, mostly OF the better
class, have been erected in Parsons
during the past year,
The Arkansas City council has re-
duced the salary of the mayor to 81. 90
year and that Of councilmen to 70
cents year.
Smith county wheat looks fine, corn
a little slow. Considerable land is sell.
ing, mostly to home people. Deposits
in banks of the county are million
and half dollars.
Real value in ottawa county farms
has advanced 10 to % per cent within
l@ months; valley land selling from S25
to $40 an acre. same land u year ago
held at $50 to $50.
A $4,000 rectory is to be built by st.
Johns Episcopal church in Wichita.
The sum of 81, 200 was raised in few
moments after the subject was broached
at the close of service on Sunday by
member.
The state prison binding twine plant