Hutchinson gazette., 1901-03-07

lighting the town.
A priest in Rush county has collec-
tion of 5000 stamps
County officers will all be elected IN
Kansas on even numbered years.
The total appropriation for the state
normal this year amounts TO $780, 900.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh has
chose Saml Moore, OF Lawrence as his
deputy.
The Mulvane state bank has three
times as great deposits as on January
/, 1900,
Hereafter insane people will be tried
before medical board instead OF n
jury.
Under the new game law December
is the only month in which quail can
be shot,
The women Of 0sage City are raising
money to spend on the three public
parks there,
Wallace county stocls growers have
standing reward offered for the capture
OF stock thieves,
A five days fair held by Concordia
Catholics made net gain averaging
$3.50 for every day.
Corn that has been stored in Smith
Center for five years has just been sold
at 30 cents bushel,
The Salina Union says that the city
OF Salna collected So, 500 from joint
keepers In months time,
Ranchmen are now required to have
gates for passage through their pas
lures on the lines Of highways.
The receipts of the Wichita postofiice
for February, 1901, were % per cent
greater than for February 1900.
Kansas University students are nu-
merous from Brown and Harvey coun-
ties; these counties leading in attend
ancc.
The richest farmer in the house OF
representatives is said TO be j. NJ.
Davis, of bourbon county, lie is n
young man,
@. c, Clemens had bill Of 81 800 be-
fore the legislature for arguing the
validity of the special session Of 1893
in the supreme court. 1t was not al
lowed.
A. j. Buckland is dead. Since 1872
he has been very prominent in business
and in politics, both at his home in
Great Bend, and in state and county
politics.
Captain William Crozier, the invent.
ing soldier who has been raised to
profcssorship at West Point, is the son
Of Judge Robert Croaier deceased, of
Leavenworth.
Governor Stanley has appointed as
regents OF the state normal school: L.
b. Kellogg, Lyon; +, j, Altowager,
Reno; j, II. Glotfeller, Atchison, They
were confirmed.
Kansas will continue TO pay the old
maximum rates for school books for
another FIVE years. All efforts TO raise
the limit so as to get better books, were
beaten in the legislature,
Four anti-joint laws were passed at
thiB session, which are believed to
mend all the fences, so that there can
be no further chances to bubble over
disputed renderings Of the statutes.
At the orntorical contest at Ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, of Baker Univer-
sity, won first place, and John C, Quinn,
of Ottawa University, second The
Baker man was only one point ahead,
Frank Pinkerton, of Wichita, re-
ceived notice that his uncle in Wales
had bcqucathed to him one third of
his estate With the notice there came
draft Of $500 with which to TO make
the journey to Wales and he has gone.
Representative Eppcrson, of Scott,
has smallpox, and Representative Claw.
son, of Cherokee, went home becauoN
his family has smallpox.
Orlando c, Troxcl, the son of n Dick
inson county farmer, has just gradua-
ted from West Point and has been as
signed to an infantry regiment in the
Philippines,
Elijah Collins, of Highland station,
is dead at the age Of s6, lie was a
charter member Of the first Masonic
lodge in Kansas. lie had lived in Kan
sas 40 years.
Both branches OF the legislature took
half hour off just before the noon ad-
iournment and held jollifcation over
Kansas getting first place at the st.
Paul Butter Makers meeting. Tho
$50 banner won there, was brought
by the Kansas delegation direct to To
pelSa.
Among the barrels which had their
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