Hutchinson gazette., 1901-04-18

OOO, 600 in building the new shops In
Topeka,
The Emporia Normal has received
the apparatus for It's gymnasium, Its
cost isS 900,
Loulsburg complains Of having more
counterfeit % cent pieces than can DO
used handily
The Wellington COMMITTEE Of Fifty"
offers reward for gamblers Of fifty
dollars head,
Anderson county proposes to erect
new court house In the center Of the
city park at Garnett'
Miss NJ, Il, Dolphin has again been
reelected superintendent OF the city
schools Of Leavenworth,
The case against Postmaster Neil
fresh, Of Usage City, Is dismissed from
the United States court.
The creamery at EslUidge made 93,'
0eO pounds OF butter last year from
l,3is, 900 pounds Of milk
Lightning burned out number OF
telegraph instruments west OF Dodge
City on the night Of April 3.
A new law authorizes all municipal
tiles to sell stock taken in exchange
for bonds voted to railroad compAn'
les.
Jacob Haynes, Of Preston, is said to
still have the team OF horses he drove
to Kansas from Pennsylvania "a years
ago,
The corner stone for new court
house at Clay Center will be laid on
April 80. The building is to be Of
Manhattan stone.
c. w. Goodander, Of Fort Scott has
given fine residence property to the
Epworth home, an institution for
homeless children 1t will be called
the Goodlander home.
Secretary Coburns first crop bulle-
tin for this season rates the wheat crop
at 00.s per cent The report formula
ted in Washington places it at 1906 per
cent, the highest Of all the states
Sumner county has sold its stock in
the Wichita & Southeastern railroad
to the Santa Fe company and has re-
ccived $500 for it, 1t was originally
issued in exchange for STA, 900 in coun-
~ bonds,
Mrs. Horn, who was deaf was killed
by train in Wellington, Her hus-
band was an old soldier who Is well
known, Her daughter, Miss Horn,
was in Wichita and was prostrated by
the news.
Madison seems to have periodical
safe blowing, The safe NJ the Santa
Fe depot Is the latest, Two holes were
drilled in the safe, the robbers were
scared away, taking shotgun and n
grip with them,
In 1887 Sam Newman built u fine
double brick block in Holton. The
same year it was burned, He rebuilt
it and last week the new block was
destroyed by fire together with his big
stone livery barn.
Homeless children brought from
other states must now be each accom-.
panied by certificate Of good charac.
ter backed by n 5000 guaranty bond,
The state board of charities has made
this rule in accordance with a new law
The city of Parsons will place its
stock in the NJ. X, & T. railroad on the
market If the railroad company re.
fuses to accept it as donation for the
erection of a $4,000 Office building,
The mayor and council are authorized
to sell it for ST., 900,
c. j. Devlin, the coal operator, has
bought the controlling interest in the
First National bank of Topeka, from
l.. H. Letter, OF Chicago, for Sl3G,OOO.
An Abilene dealer was tried at Min.
neapolis and sentenced to five years in
the peuitentiary, for misrcpresenting
the value of land he traded for u stool,
OF goods.
The Union Pacific is said to be pre-
pairing to build sl4, 900 depot at Man
haitian. That city has suffered in more
or less patience for many years for this
much needed building.
Kansas will this year eXpend S702,
500 on fourteen Of its public buildings
This means work for an army Of me
chanics
Governor Stanley, while returning
home from banquet given by tn,
Kansas City, Kas, Commercial club
had his thumb badly pinched by tn,
slamming of car door.
Mr.. Grau, Of Mitchell county, wht
carried off numerous prizes on hi
: Merino sheep at the trans Mississippi
exposition, at Omaha, is preparing I,
exhibit his sheep at Buffalo.
John w. Breidenthal has taken
charter for a stnte hnnk Mt Altnmnnt