Hutchinson gazette., 1901-02-14
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

school house year for siS years
Company II, Twentieth KansaS held
reunion In Lawrence, February 4.
Thirty OF the guards employed to
protect the saloons in Wichita carry
deputy sheriff commissions
On February :, 1871, Sumner county
was organized by Governor Harvey, 1t
was named for Charles Sumner
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
TO light in a lawsuit at Atchison.
The clerks Of the district courts Of
the state met In Topeka last week.
They have salary complaint
Kansas Republicans In Washington
are preparing to entertain the Topeka
1ambeau club at the Inauguration.
A Bourbon county man applied to
the county commissioners TO be APP
pointed as rural delivery carrier
A new Bank has been organized at
Wathena 10 take the place OF the bank
which was wrecked by Its cashier
f. NJ, Erb, OF New York, visited
Lawrence with n view OF placing an
electric street railway in that city
Mrs Jessie Brown and her two chill
drcn we're drowned while fording the
Verdigris river south Of CoiIeyvilie,
Weir City will ask the legislature to
be given the authority to vote 100000
TO put in city light and water plant
c, W. Jewell, retired banker OF TO.
peka, who died recently, left $4,000 to
the endowment fund Of Washbun col.
legc,
A Pullman ear load OF interested
business men OF Wichita will attend
the Livestock meeting at Woodward,
o.
Stanton county has been sued by the
Aetna Life Insurance company on de.
faulted interest on bonds issued in
1870.
Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe eating
house man, was reported as being near
death on Feb. 0 at his home in Leaven.
worth.
Leading ladies Of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; TO be followed by destructive
acts.
,Mr, Hucltle, OF Osborne county, be.
ing handy, rugged an attachment to
his windmill to work crosscut saw at
his wCodpile.
Branner School, with GOO pupils, in
the eastern portion OF Topeka, has
been closed because one Of the jOnitors
has the smallpox.
O., Updegraff, OF Topeka, was one
OF those who could talk, and did talk
at the National Live Stock association
meeting at Salt Lake City.
On the last four days Of February
The twenty-third annual session Of the
Kansas grand lodge OF the A, o. U. w,
will meet in Leavenworth,
The Eureka boring has struck oil in
paying quantities and the town Ia ju.
bilant. There had been heavy cXpend-
iture OF money on the work,
j. T. Houston, an Atchison county
farmer, has just finished new house
on his farm which has cost ST., 600, II
has all modern convcniences
Grading on the Orient road is near
the state line south of Anthony and is
being pushed, The work Of securing
right of way In Sedgwcli county will
be done in March.
The snow broke up railroad commu-
nication along the lncs running west
from Atchison.
Students at Ottawa university placed
half dozen quarantine flags on the
building, for lark,
The joints at Wellington were closed
by the mayor upon the supposition
that some kind Of n raid had been
planned.
Two hundred and ffty.eight women
of Eureka have petitioned the probate
Judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists Of Eureka,
The ministers OF Arkansas City have
united in a request to the mayor to
close the joints They say they can
no longer reprcss a crusade
]. II, Bosserman, postmaster and a
sort Of local preacher, of Clinton, Doug
las county, is under arrest for violation
of the prohibitory law. lie gave a 5000
bond
There are three corps Of engineers at
work on the Orient line between Wich-
ita and Kansas City. How best to get
through the Flint hills is still unset.
tied.
A Hiawatha druggist was told that
he must quit selling whisky or quit
business. In ten minutes his door was
locked and sign put up Offering his