Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-05


changed hands and has been improved,
There arc five stocl,men Of Butler
county who pay over $1,000 u year In
taxes
Eli ThNyer n young farmer near
Wilsonton, LNbette county, has dlsOp'
pearcd,
A militia company has been made mp
at Liudsborg which Is composed entirely
Of Swcdcs
Hard cider and lemon essence forms
the substitute for Intoxicating drinks
at Osborne,
Tho Masonic home at Wichita Ia
quarantined ON account Of u case Of
scarlet fever,
Alexander Parker, the founder Of
Cawkcr City, KS, died at Tacoma,
Wash recently
The state house is closed ON Thanks
giving day and many officials went
10 their homes,
II Is stated that the fee Of Waggcncr,
Horton & Orr in the famous stockyNrds
case Is 100000,
Lcayenworth Is TO vote, December -,
on the question OF municipal ownership
Of the city watcrworis
Two carloads Of turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days,
There were 1000 Of them,
Money received at the Shawnee coun-
ty treasurcr's Office, during this tax
paying season, Is fumlgated
Osborne county Is likely to take the
cue from It's next neighbor, Mitchell
county, and build court house,
Oscar llill, Logan constable, had
his skull broken by Joe Tibbs, who was
being charged with bootlcgging,
Fire destroyed general merchandise
store and the postotlicc at Eaton, Leay-
enworth county, on November 9s,
Geo, Stevenson, of Watervile, has
been elected director Of the National
Abcrdocn.Angus association for Kan
sns.
There is n proposition up 10 build u
viaduct over the three railroads which
parallel each other, u block apart, II
Wichita.
The coursing meet at Marysvillc was
attended by l,50O people, Fourteen
races were run, dogs being there from
dozen towns,
Apple orchards about Barnes are be-
ing destroyed by cankcr worms Dam
age by these worms is reported in
Northern Kansas
Fourteen years ago this month A, W.
Rice mailed postal card in Salina ad.
dressed to John Johntz The postal
card arrived In Abilene last week.
Kansas had 90 acres of cotton this
year which produced e. $50 pounds of
cotton, valued at ,3l2, One half Of
this was raised in Montgomery coun-
ty
Frank Linn, an Osborne merchant,
bought 067 turkeys in one week, They
weighed 10000 pounds and cost him
from to cents n pound, there being
over 81 300 in the venture.
Injunction proceedings are delaying
work on the Choctaw railroad at An.
thony. TraclslNycrs and steel arc on
the ground and could get into town by
the middle Of December,
Thos Ring and James Tanner, bust.
ness men of st. John, have bought the
entire 1850 acres Of land held by tho
Sells estate in Kcarncy county and will
convert 1t into huge cattle ranch.
Some months ago a resident of elf.
ton went to Sundance, Wyo,, TO take
place in mill. His wife, accompanied
by her 14-year.old son, recently started
in one horse buggy to make the trip
OF 700 miles overland to join him.
The four Kansas counties of Sumner,
Barton, Rice and Mcpherson produced
more wheat than either Illinois or Mis-.
souri,.
D. $. Waite, the Colorado ex-governor
who dropped dead the other day, wasa
member of the Kansas legislature from
Larned in 1870,
DR.. G. Perry, a retired banker of
Winfield, announces his intention to
give modern pipe organ to the Epis-
copal church Of that city. The Metho.
dist and Baptist churches now have
pipe organs
Governor Stanley, Of Kansas, is now
sounding some of the school superin.
tendents OF the state as to whether it
would be wise touse the school children
Of the state as means Of raising Kan
sas' share Of the Mckinley monument
fund.
All Of the meetings OF the State
Teachers association will be held in