Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12
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gas,
The discharge of guns at artillery
practice az Fort Riley sheard at Alma
20 miles away,
The gross receipts Of Kansas post
Offices for the year was 81, ,75G, 400 O0, or
6I,9O per capita,
The constitution Of Kansas was draft
ed In II building on the WyNndottc flats,
since washed awOy,
There Is nothing in the way now OF
preparing 10 build the new asylum for
cpilcptios at Parsons,
Two carloads Of turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days,
There were 1000 of them.
The Logan Republican denies the
story that there are 90 widows in Logan.
II says there are only ten,
u, w, Amis, prominent educator
once assistant state superintendent,
died at Smith Center recently,
The Kansas wheat crop Of 1901 Is
ol,G per cent greater than the average
annual crop for the past ten years,
Miss Julia McInerney, OF Abilene, re-
Gently sold to Chicago publishers two
musical compositions for 500 each,
Judge Glass, Of Marysville decides
that the search and seizure clause of
the llurrell law is unconstitutional.
The state board of pharmacy at its
meeting in Leavenworth, made II new
drug dispensers out Of 80 applicants.
}, A. Young, n colored Baptist
preacher Of Fort Scott has been arrest
cd for using Cancelled postage stamps
II. NJ. Wright, state forestry commits
sioncr, reports the Russian thistle as
taking the country In Western Kansas.
Geo. Hendrick, the Smith Center band
leader, has gone TO Carson City, Nevada,
TO lead Ihe Nevada state band, of so
men.
The hod carriers at work on the Lyon
connty court house struck for moro pay
and the work is now done by horse
power.
Stockton shipped n carload of pota-
toes TO San Francisco, and on the same
day the Alton mill shipped 1000 bags
Of -four TO Liverpool.
Superintendent Nelson reports that
The consolidation of schools Is especially
strong in Jewell, Dickinson, Cherokee,
Rice and Shawnee counties.
W. II. Lewis, for twenty years ticket
agent for the NJ. X. 6 4, at Parsons,
died suddenly at his home. lie was
prominent in Masonic circles
Professor Lucien Blake, of Kansas
University, is said to have sold to New
Workers. for $4,000 process for sep
arating gold without the use of water.
Atchison capitalists are cautious.
They have taken an Arizona charter
for the company which proposes to open
a coal mine there, so as to avoid the
double liability law Of Kansas,
Fort Scott proposes TO tax lawyers
from So TO $50 u year. The lawyers
are TO be placed in four classes, each to
choose his class. Ministers who receive
1000 year are to be taxed $40 ayear.
So said the city attorney while in To.
peka.
pecembcr~5 was Topelia's 47th birth.
Gay. At the old settlers meeting the
only survivor Of the original town COM
pany was present, He is John Arm
strong who never wears his best suit
except at these annual old settlers
meetings,
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has purchased u lot in Law
renee upon which to erect an exchange
building, 1t is to be of pressed brick,
plate glass front two stories and base
ment.
The warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth does not approve of the
mooted plan to contine Aguinaldo
there, because visitors would constantly
annoy everybody connected with the
prison by wanting to sec Aggic. They
have much bother from people who
want TO see 0berlin Carter,
Nemaha is the banner corn county
this year, the product being 3,lO7 Goa
bushels, asshown by Secretary Coburns
report.
A farmer near Argentine has been
awarded damages against n chemical
company for the destruction of crops
by fumes from the companys works.
r. W. Wells, the youngest member of
the Maryland Legislature, lived several
years at Coffeyville, Kansas. lie was
admitted 70 practice in the Kansas su-
preme court in 1896. lie is now 20
years old.
c. g. Hill, mayor and postmaster at
Burr Oak, quarreled with j. NJ. IIotch-
kiss, u farmer. Hill locked the door
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