Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-24

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large extent in portions Of Kansas,
The United Brethren annual confer.
ence assembled in Topeka with 200
delegates
1t Is said that DoniphHn county leads
In the number Of farmers that have
telephones
The s. Barnmn Dry Goods company
OF Topeka has done Nn unchanged busi-
ness on the same lots for 80 years.
w, j, Lucas, Of Ottawa, Illinois, hao
just bought the Tillinghast farm Of s7!
acres near Clearwater for $4,000,
G. j, Young, Of Marquette, has sold
his last years crop and his crop Of this
year Of broom corn for Sl.O n ton.
Congressman W, \, Rccdcr, Of tho
Sixth district, asks the people TO select
their postmastcrs by local elections,
Ten Of the twenty-five Episcopal
churches in Kansas have been built
under Bishop Millspaugh's jurisdiction,
While the state meeting Of the Anti
Horse thief association was in session
at Independence seven horses were
stolen from close by the town,
The United States attorney general
decides that the settlers on the Fort
Hays military reservation have nolcgal
grounds 10 hold their claims,
Judge Madden, Of Lyon county, sen.
fenced George Elliott, Of Neosho Rapids,
to five years IN the pcnitcntiaIy, and
fined him $50; all for selling liquor,
The lnman state bank is refusing to
receive more money ON deposit because
II has more than II can loan and doe,
not want 20 take the responsibility for
u greater amount.
BY report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained lj3 members during the
past year, making u total membership
l,0O2 at the present time.
The warehouse of the Fort Scott
Pottery company is totally destroyed
by fire with u loss of $4,000. There
was strong evidence that gasoline had
been used, says the telegraph report
The last list Of Kansas towns with
500 or more population which are free
from joints includes Burr oak, Dclphos,
Robinson, Etingham McLouth and
Nortonvillc, There surely must be
more.
There were 80 damage suits in the
Atchison district court at its last term,
aggregating claims Of about S30l 900,
The largest was Sl95, 900, the claim of o
grain company alleging discriminating
freights by the railroads.
Two jointists OF Winfield named
Thomas, were sentenced in police court
on 40 counts to n fine Of 500 and six
months in Jail upon each count, which
means jail sentence of 20 years and u
fine of $1,000, An appeal was taken,
The entire crop of sugar beets gath.
cred about Garden City has been sold
to the Rocky Ford sugar factory. The
beets tested better than the limit OF IL
per cent sugar, fixed by the Legislature
allowing bounty of 81 u ton for sugar
beets grown in Kansas
Mrs, Lenhart telegraph operator at
Plymouth station, found augur holes
fresh bored in the floor, evidently bored
from below. She wired to Ilmporia for
help, and in 40 minutes an engine
brought the sheriff who crawled under
the building and caught Ernest Stout
who was taken TO Jail at Emporia.
Attorney General GODDARD has given
an opinion that the law requiring
county commissioners TO provide for
the maintenance Of destitute widows of
veterans Is valid. The question was
raised in Clay county where the com.
refused to follow the stat.
utes, claiming that 1t was class legsla.
ton.
Somebody wonders whether the mex
move of the doctors trust will not be
to make it crime for anybody to be
cured by an unregistered doctor.
The Kickapoo reservation is having n
seige of smallpox and the towns of
Brown county have put ont guards to
prevent the Indians from coming to the
towns.
A house alongside railroad track
near Atchison has sign on it which has
been there for 20 years, 1t reads;
"This family has been wronged by the
railroad company"
The state board of charities is ar
ranging to purchase winters supply
of potatoes for the various institutions
in their charge. Seven thousand five
hundred bushels are required.
Edward Wagner, foreman of the gov.
ernment book bindery in Manila, was