Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-17
RAYsAs ITEMS or INTEREST,

Newton has u factory employing %
young women In making ladies belts
Saline and Dickinson counties are
much troubled with horst thieves OF
late,
Fort Scot, has voted 90 issue $4,000
Of bonds for the prospecting Tor gas
and oil,
The swapping ratio In Kansas Is
two bushels Of pcOcbcs for one huShcl
Of potatoes
Wellington proposes to build another
dam across Stale creek, to increase the
supply Of water for the town,
The city OF GoodlOnd has been sued
for non.pnymcnt Of n block Of coupons
from an issue Of funding bonds,
A company at Pleosanton has $1,000
% prospect forguS, The scheme includes
talking leases on 10000 acres Of land,
Thrty.liyc sophomorcs Of Kansas
University must apologize for mgentlc.
manly conduct on ynmosc the ranch,
The Santa Fc win not be stingy Of
expense in the effort TO bring the muir
dercr Of George Montgomery into court,
Coopcrs of Hutchinson though kept
busy making salt barrels, have 1000
apple barrels 10 make at once, ON CON
tract,
II may be only talk but there is talk
that the Rock Island will build from
Pratt TO Medicine Lodge and thence 70
Kiown,
A commission has been appointed by
the supreme court 10 rccount the To-
pcka vote for mayor and the count is
being made
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county, proved benc-
1T 10 the crop by cleaning the boards
from the wheat,
The Holton Tribune says that Sarah
Burr Daniels, who lives IN jackson
county and is 90 years old, is an own
cousin Of Aaron Burr,
The local union Of CoGcyyilllc inter
fercd with the business Of milling
company there and District Judge
Soule issued an injunction against the
interierers.
Frank Scott, Wichita banker, gives
farming attention as side line. lie
raised l,92O bushels Of sweet potatoes
from l9 acres OF land and sold them for
81 bushel
Ino A, Flccncr, OF Arkansas City,
has settled his claim for $4,000 for
damages sustained to his person while
being initiated into the Order Of Pyra-
nids and has accepted 5000
An iron bridge over Pawnee Creek in
Bourbon county went down while n
herd Of cattle was crossing It, killing
and injuring many cattle. Mr. Straitor
and his little girl we're driving cattle
under the bridge at the time and the
girl was nearly killed.
Fred Wellhouse will clean up profit
Of 100000 or $4,000 from his apple
crop; but then he has lao acres Of or.
chard to gather from, Up to 1875 this
apple king worked for others, but
studied orcharding all the time, A
Icavenworth lawyer, l., b. Wheat, had
lot Of rough land and took Wellhouse
into partnership and the big orchard
resulted. Governor Morrill's 500 acre
orchard is handled on Mr.. Wellhouse's
plan and it brings the ex-governor
large returns.
The National Association OF Live
stock Sanitary commissioners in session
at Buffalo, decided that their next an
nual meeting be held at Wichita, thanks
to Billy Bolton, who first suggested il
and worked for it.
The Kansas supreme court decides
that when railroad runs through
farm the company must provide gates
for the convenience of -he farmer but
the farmer must keep the gate shut.
1t was in suit for damages for the
killing Of a horse which reached the
railroad track through an open gate.
f. G. Strickland has been appointed
as instructor in music at Haskell insti.
tute at Lawrence. He was member
of the Twentieth Kansas band and was
later in the quartermaster's depart
ment at San Francisco.
The southwestern division of the
Friends church met in annual convcn-
ton at Friends university in Wichita
ON the 10th with about 200 delegates
present. The jurisdiction includes
Kansas, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Northern Texas and Eastern
Colorado.
Governor Stanley promptly offered
reward of $3.50 for the assassin who
shot George Montgomery, but the San
ia Fc had already offered 81, 900.
George Montgomery, the secret ser.
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