Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A company has been formed to pros
pect for coal, gas and oil at Jewell City,
Six real estate sales were made at
Sabetha in one week for combined
consideration OF $40, 400
gas company has been chartered to
bore for gas at Fredonia and TO supply
the city with light and heat,
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clark of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high,
Il. II, Loclsridge, Of Oak Hall, has
killed the old eagle who has made its
home in that section for 20 years
Congressman w, A, Reeder, Of the
Sixth district, asks the people TO select
their postmasters by local elections
The finest livery barn in Emporia,
with IS horses and IL carriages, Is
burned at a loss OF towards $4,000,
u, Tyner, of Hiawatha owns COW
feet II inches long, . feet s inches
high, feet in girth, and weighing over
ton.
The city marshal OF Wellington takes
toys TO school; those who do not at
tend, and the school board furnishes
them with books,
The state board of charities has con-
tracted for 5000 bushels Of Minnesota
potatoes with prices ranging from rs TO
s5 cents bushel
DR.. Louis Schleisinger, of st, Louis,
who holds spirit scances ut Arkansas
City, has been arrested for refusing TO
pay his license fee,
The Chanute Oil and Gas company
has struck gas flow of 100000 feet a
day, This is the seventh successive
strike on Gas Ridge in GO days,
Mrs, Lewis Hornbecls, late Of the
Beloit industrial school for girls, is an
applicant for the position OF matron of
a North Dakota Indian school,
Case Brodericl of IIolton, has been
made special master TO take testimony
in the case involving title to several
thousand acres of land in Western
Kansas held by the Santa Fe rail
road,
c. A, Keller, the Cowlcy county apple
king, is harvesting and storing in
buildings erected for that purpose 10,-
600 bushels Of apples. He has twenty
varieties They are now nearly all
picked
N. b. Brown, Of Cloud county, bought
40 acres two years ago as $40 an acre
and put IL in alfalfa. His two years
income from the two years crops paid
interest, taxes, seeding and repaid the
$40 an acre too.
1t is proposed that the state buy
Stiger's island, adjacent to the peniten-
tiary at Lansing, for the purpose of
extending the state coal mines underit,
The mines now being worked will not
last much longer,
Probate Judge B. Il. Garrett, Of Ness
county, died in barber shop at Ness
City while waiting to be shaved. lie |
had resided there 27 years and was the
first county treasurer, He was serving |
his fourth term as probate judge,
A troublesome citizen of Ottawa got |
TO that point in his career requiring a
lesson. The court, in one breath, fined
him S25 for being drunk; 500 for dis
turbing the peace; 500 for resisting an
officer; 500 for destruction of jail prop
erty; costs, s7.l5. The court put a
limit on the number Of cubic feet of
stone a day he must break until the
1892. Is was wiped out
A Rock Island freight piled up 10
ears in a cut south Of Peek, the second
station south of Wichita There was
some livestock on the train. The en-
gine escaped and no one was hurt A
train was sent from Wichita with 40
men to clear the track.
County Superintendent Smith of
Franklin county, found that when the
monthly meeting of teachers was held
at Ottawa much time was spent at the
milliners, shopping and making calls.
lie then appointed the meetings at the
small tows and secured better results.
DR., Farig, Of Philadelphia, a govern
ment expert, has visited the Trego gold
fields and sent wagon load of the
shale to an eastern station for ANALYSIS. |
During the late drouth deposits in
Kansas banks have increased to slO,
900, 900; about equally divided between
the national banks and the state and |
private banks.
by report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained 1873 members during the
past year, making a total membership
II ,0O2 at the present time.
Law Notes, the leading law journal
of the country, says that the Kansas