Hutchinson gazette., 1901-04-11
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

outside, II Is welcomed by farmers,
II is funny, yet packing house meat
Ia advertised and sold way out where
cattle come from in western Kansas,
Assistant Attorney General West has
given It as his opinion that the bien-
nial election law Is valid at all points.
Effort and expense will not be want
Ing to give Harvey county n fair in
September that will be n county beater.
A new Baptist church has been dedi.
Gated at Abbyville, Reno county. The
building is 80 by 40 feet and cost about
1900.
The new railroad board will occupy
the old supreme court rooms in the
basement Of the cast wing OF the state
house.
The Missouri Pacific sent special
from Wichita to Lindsborg on April 3,
TO take people to the great Messiah
concert there.
The county court house at Abilene is
10 be remodclcd and provided with
more vaults and NJ o more convenient
in other ways,
Harold Chase, editor OF tho Topeka
Capital, must stand trial for criminal
libel for saying things about Police
Judge McGaw,
The acts passed by the last legisla-
ture will be out in book from about
May 10, They win make larger book
than ever before,
Joseph 0'Byrne Of Topeka, Mis-
souri, Pacific brakeman, was burned to
death in wreck of his train between
Leroy and Aliceville.
General Funston's commission as
brigadier general dates for April 1; that
of Smith, on March 30, making the lat.
ter outrank the former,
The snow caught Atwood and towns
west Of there, with not enough provi-
sions or fuel People burned loose rail.
road ties, fence posts and lumber
Capt. George Cooper Of Osawatomie
claims TO have enlisted 500 men to
make the run TO the Kiowa lands.
Cooper is an original boomer, associ.,
Nted with Dave Payne.
AS lawyers disagree upon the valid
fly of the new biennial election law, a
test case Is TO be made in Shawnee
county and pressed to an early decision
from the supreme court
Democrats carried Kansas City, Kan
First reports give Topeka a democrat
ic mayor, all other offices filled by re-
publicans, j, W. Orr, democrat, is
elected mayor Of Atchison. The entire
democratic ticket was elected in Leav.
enworth. There was but one issue in
Wichita and the vets won, electing
Mclean for mayor by 1900, lie was
republican nominee. Concordia repub-
llcans had dry ticket and were beaten.
Harper went wet by large majority,
Republicans Of Great Bend ran wet
ticket and won. Emporia elected dry
ticket which was also republican.
Larncd elected non.partisan dry
ticket Law and order ticket won at
Eureka, and also at Manhattan. In
Fort Scott the republican ticket was
dry and 1t won. Salna elected dry |
ticket and so did Arkansas City, also
Usage City, while Chanute went wet.
Hutchinson elacted a wet mayor, Hol-
ton beat the wet ticket. Independence
went wet.
George Evans, formerly prosperous
contractor at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health.
lie has had several contracts in the
course of the building Of the state
house.
The mayor Of Hutchinson forgot to
issue proclamation for the city cleo
tion and now the courts may be asked |
20 decide whether there has been n
legal election held. There was an in.
creased number OF votes polled, which |
shows the lack of necessity for the
law requiring proclamation.
The Rock Islands Colorado line is
ballasted as far west as phillipsburg,
and it is the intention of the company
TO complete the ballasting as far as
Goodland this year. Crushed rock is
used.
The cuts between St. Francis and |
Atwood, some Of which are 20 feet
deep, were filled with wet snow and |
frozen TO solid ice, The railroad com.
pany had every man and snowplow
that could be secured, and it took
week TO move trains. The snow on
The prairics was two feet deep
Jerry Black, the Santa Fe's boss tick.
ct man, kept pistol to shoot burglars
and the burglars got it, not takiag any.
thing else from his house.
The Topeka millers have employed
an attorney to commence suit to en-
join the railroads from abolishing the
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