Hutchinson gazette., 1901-04-04
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,

The record, being 5,2s9,
Registration books closed at Lcaven'
worth with 0,275 names
Nathan Jones, city attorney OF Sa'
bctha, was found dead In bed,
Kingman Methodists have paid OIL
the last cent OF church indebtedness,
Salinas registration counted out
1881, of which number $50 were wo'
men,
Ten thousand pounds Of fresh meat
goes weekly to Fort Riley from Kansas
City,
More Russians are expected in Ellis
county to arrive in time for the wheat
harvest,
Senator Burton Is asking for several
consulships to be assigned to his APP
pointing,
The state supplies 300 tents for thc
use OF the G, A, Il, in their reunions
this year.
The registration in Salino was 1881,
Slight increase although registration
Of women fell OIL l7G,
The name of EmporiO was taken
from that OF Greek colony just south
Of Carthage in Africa,
The women Of KingmOn whispered
around and gathered S35 to buy COW
for the mother Of triplcts,
nr, w, r, Armstrong, who recently
died Nt Louisville, Ky, left S., 600 to his
two grand children In Salino,
Major l.. j, Beam, who was an early
settler in Shawnee county, and served
in the Fifteenth Kansas, Is dead
There were thirty names on list
published March 20, Of candidates for
the office Of railroad commissioners
The state live stool, sanitary board
has appointed John II, johnson, Of
lIolton, inspector at Fort Worth, Texas.
A new theory Of the creation Is the
modest motif OF new book just pub
lished by George Campbell, Of Oswcgo,
The $4,000 library building is COM
menced at the College Of Emporia,
Andrew Carnegie furnished the funds,
A new law authorizes county com
missioners to deposit county funds in
any bank in the state in case banks Of
the county refuse to pay interest,
There are enough eases filed on the
supreme court, TO keep its seven judges
busy for two years, without touching
current business during that time.
The Fort Hays reservation will be
utilized for experiments by the Kansas
agricultural college; especially in find
ing ways TO make grains and forage
plants resist drouths, and to find new
grains and forage thai will do well on
the plains.
IL Is all right for Kansas TO get bit
crazy over General Funston's successes,
but II is silly to mix up politics in IT by
commencing again to talk about giving
him high up Office outside the army.
The general would run away from that
as he did before.
The Masonic ordey of Bcllvillc, Re-
public county, and the state Historical
society will unite in Fourth OF July
celebration at the site Of the rawnec
village, when the corner stone OF the
Zebulon Pike monument will be placed
on the spot where Pike hauled down
the Spanish nag and swung the Stars
and Stripes,
There are now l05 children in the
Orphans home at Atchison, AS soon
as one reaches the age Of lG home Is
found.
A l3.ycOr.old boy of Florence wa,
killed with rifle not supposed to bC
loaded, The boys were playing "pris
oner' and when the prisoner tried to
escape he was shot.
Lieut.. Mitchell who was with Gen
erol Funston in the capture Of Aguin
aldo, was formerly lieutenant in tn,
Twentieth Kansas lie is Genera
Funston's nephew.
Department Commander W. W. Mar
tin, Of the G. A. Il, of Kansas, hai
about completed arrangements for thu
encampmcnt at Junction City in April
Oil has been struck nine miles soutl
OF Cawher City. g. l.. IIudkins, WHIT
owns the 1000 acre ranch where tht
oil is, is trying to lease % adjacent see
tions from Topeka parties.
Ernest Derby writes from the Philip
pines to his relatives at Peabody cX
planning why he did not start hom
with bis regiment lie had accepted
place IN the civil service at S75 a month
Three G. A. r. reunions are an
nounced; at Washington, August $500
Phillipsburg on the same days; FL Do
rado, second week in September.
Three young men left their homes II
Missouri to work on the railroad grad
at Liberal. One of them was takel