Hutchinson gazette., 1901-01-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mrs Carrie nation ID TO be trleu IN
probate court for insanity.
Rev. Longston, of the Independence
Christian church, has smallpox,
Mr., Caves bill for the determination
of prairie dogs has passed the house,
A Caldwell contractor has contracts
for tine foundations of eight residences
The bill TO diviG> the sitting Of the
Crawford county district court has
passed the senate.
The whole camp OF the Salvation
army in Parsons is quarantincd on ac-
count OF the smallpox.
The colored men OF Seattle have
offered u $50 reward for the burners OF
Alexander at Leavenworth,
Mrs, Elizabeth Greer died in Topeka
The other day in the house in which
she had lived forty.one years,
John Q. Hermann, Niclcrson boy,
Is now high clerk In the corporation
counsel's Office OF Cincinnati, Ohio,
Herb Rogers, of Douglas county, lost
his barn with considerable corn and
oats, by the upsetting OF lantern.
John NJ. Tanning was convicted last
week at Ottawa, of assault and attempt
10 kill Sheriff Costigan last summer.
Representative Ridgeley voted for the
re apportionment bill which would
have given Kansas only seven members.
Or. L. II, Creditor, OF Wichita, is vice
president of a company formed in Chi
cago to exploit oil fields in California.
One Emporia man sued another for
Sl.25 for balance due on carting some
rock. The other man sued back for $40
damage to the rock through breaking
it and won,
Angora goats are tempting and prom
Use profit, but it may be as well to re-
member that there was similar craze
about 40 years ago What became Of
It? Does any one know?
The first telegraph wire was strung
in Kansas in 1859. 1t was up the Mis-
souri, river to Leavenworth. 1t was
several years later before there was
wire up the Kansas river,
Many of the schools OF Kansas pre-
pared to celebrate John Marshall day.
February is the centennial of Chief
Justice Marshall's first membership Of
the United States supreme court.
Lewis Bubb, jr, of the Efingham
high school In Atchison county, was
hazed by having part Of his head
shaved and painted red. Bulbs par
ents threaten to arrest the hazers
8. NJ. Scott, former candidate FOR
congress from the Fourth Kansas dis
trict, says he owns 395 acres next to
the great oil we'll at Beaumont, Texas,
FOR which he could get 81 900 an acre,
Senator Smith says that hardly bill
comes to the judiciary committee that
does not require to he rewritten so
that it will stand the test ofthe courts.
Macy even forget to put in enacting
clauses and titles.
The Oldest volunteer soldier, Thomas
j.. Sauls, aged Of, died recently in
Webb City, Mo- He served in the Sem.
inole war; in the Mexican war and in
1862 enlisted in the Sixth Kansas and
served three years in the civil war,
Injunction suits have been started by
the Dickinson County Temperance
Union, against four saloons at Abilene,
one at Herington, one at Solomon and
two at Hope Officers of the Union
say they will push the injuuctions
The Rev, s. $. Martin, pastor of the
Methodist church at Fort Scott, has
been granted a pension Of SS month
with back pay to the amount Of $500
Mr.. Martin enlisted in Speaker Hen
derson's Iowa regiment when he was
but IA years old,
A concurrent resolution introduced
In the Kansas legislature provides for
Joint committee from both houses to
confer with the Missouri legislature
regarding alleged unjust discrimina-
tion against grain shippers by elevator
men and spectators.
There are about 5000 acres of gov.
ernment land in Kansas as yet unoccu,
pied. Most of this land exists in scat
tered tracts of about 40 acres each
Amos Riggs, an s-ycar-old boy, ot
Pittsburg, ran under loaded hay
wagon to catch ride, When he lei
loose he fell under the wheels and wa,
instantly killed
Major II. Wood Martin died in Mount
Vernon, HIS, last week, He was {
member of the first Kansas legislature
In ls6l he was appointed agent of tn,
Sac and Fox Indians
Ploughing has been done on tn,
farms, during January, quite generally
in the southern counties; three tier