Hutchinson gazette., 1901-02-28
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

The state bank commissioner has
taken charge of the Citizens Bank OF
La Cygne,
A colored barber in Atchison has
spent $3.50 in reaching the send degree
in Masonry,
County Attorney Berry, OF Marshall
county has commenced the work OF
closing joints,
The Woodmen In session in Wichita
voted that their next session shall be
held in Emporiu,
Jerry Simpson has bought a Se,4OC
residence in Wichita and proposes 10
make II his home.
Lawrence has granted franchise to
L. NJ. Erb, Of New York, for an cleo
trio street railway.
The three grand Masonic bodies held
their annual sessions in Wichita, com
mencing February Is.
II is now predicted that all OF the
exposition appropriations will be beat
en- in the Legislature.
During the late snow storms n cen
tral Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles OF track.
The bill for an agricultural expert
ment station on the Fort Hays reser-
vation carries $4,000.
II is said that U. s. Marshal W. T.,
Sterne will move TO California when
his term Of Office expires,
A drilling outfit has been purchased
TO make oil prospecting holes in the
earth in and about ottawa,
Mrs. Kansas Eifert died in Pleasan-
ton, within sight of the house in which
she was born 40 years ago.
The joints in Lawrence are mostly
run by colored toughs, and there are
many colored bootleggers,
Ottawa wants some hotel man that
has the stuff to do it, to put hotel in
their city to fit its 1000 population.
1t Is now announced that Secretary
George w. Martin has given up his
plan to compile history of Kansas.
Charles Il. Gault, prominent attor-
ney OF Topeka, has smallpox. The
disease Is quite prevalent in the city.
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities of Crawford and
Cherokee counties with trolley line
Two Kansas men have bought zoos
acres Of pasture and meadow land in
Sedgwick county, paying for it S27, 900.
An invitation has been given TO Pres
idcnt Mckinley to attend the G. A, r.
state encampment at Junction City on
May s.
b. +, Stocks, Of Garden City, is seek
ing appointment as n member of the
board Of regents of the state normal at
Emporia.
A body of Arkansas City women
pledged themselves to withhold all
their trade from merchants who do not
favor law and order.
The Kansas Day club, state organ.
i2ation, has met at ten annual ban
Quets and at none OF them hes there
been drop of wine, whisky or beer
The national banks of Wichita, ac-
cording to their statement for February
8, held as deposits, 81, 1903, ,GG4si. Their
last preceding statement was made for
December 10, last, which showed de-
posits of 81, 4Gs, ,59O.7l, This shows an
increase of SAT- 1876, 10 in less than two
months.
There are number of people in the
departments at Washington credited
to Kansas, whom the Kansas members
do not know. Congressman Miller
finds % credited to him in the interior
department whom he does not know.
There will be wedding out
Justice Brewer, who left the Kansas
supreme court for his present place on
the supreme bench of the United
States, says that in his thirty years
experience on the bench he has never
been approached with bribe or any
intimation that bribc might be his.
The employees of the state senate
that tried the Fallon. Stuart judicial
contest in 1898 have put in claims for
their services aggregating s., 200.
The auditorium prepared for the
rendition of the Messiah at Lindsborg
seats 81, 900 people. The affair com.
mences March 3lst and extends to
April T.
The secretary Of the Wichita w. c.
4. u. informs the Eagle that resolu-
tions have been passed that the saloons
must go and that they will not accept
any kind Of compromise.
There are still between 400 and SOC
rural delivery routes in Kansas being
considered by the postoflice depart
Inent.