Hutchinson gazette., 1901-02-21
G.aSsAs ITEMS or INTEREST.

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Albert Moon, of Bazaar, caught q
very large eagle IN wolf trap,
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to Sl325O.
The Wichita Country club has com
menced work on n new club house on
the College Hill Golf links,
A Salina mill employs coopcrs TO
make barrels in which to pack flour
for the New England trade.
The NJ. X. g. T. shops at Parsons
have turned ont n $4,000 private car
for the president Of the road
A farmer near Sedgwlct has received
notice that his house will escape dyna-
mite by the payment Of 5000
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
10 light in a lawsuit at Atchson.
The ladies Of Enterprise have estNb-
lished a fine reading room in the place
where joint was recently smashed.
The cities Of Topeka, Atchison and
Manhattan were all incorporated dur
ing 81, Valentines week, A years ago,
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con.
meet the mineral cities Of Crawford and
Cherokee counties with n trolley line,
Jas. Stewart, veteran OF the 55th
Massachusetts, volunteers, was run
over by train at Sterling and killed,
The Prohibitionists of Topeka de-
clare that Mrs Nations practices had
nothing to do with the movement to
close the joints,
A block Of one OF the zinc smelters
at lola, containing 600 retorts, was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the ignition OF gas.
Two hundred and fifty-cight women
of Eureka have petitioned the probate
Judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists of Eureka
A committee Of ten men Is appointed
from each of the churches OF Emporia
with orders to close the joints, The
women are ready TO do their part.
Besides A. W. Smith there are others.
Major 4. j. Anderson and Senator S.
j, Stewart are candidates for Cyrus
Leland's place, that of pension agent,
Robbers entered the Grand Island
depot at Beattie, emptied the money
drawers and cut open and rihed three
mail sacks Of registered letters. Blood
hounds were put upon their trail.
Mrs. Achmnn owns the building in
Inman which has a billiard hall up
stairs; she suspected that a joint was
there also and demanded admittance.
Being refused she broke down the door
and smashed the outfit.
A man with smallpox took the train
at Colorado Springs, with his face and
hands covered. When the train
reached Philipsburg it was found what
allied him. The car was sidetraclsed
and converted into pest house,
Quarantine in Wichita Is riddle.
A child had mild case of scarlet fever
and was entirely well in ten days, but
the household was shut up behind the
big red card for AZ days A case of
smallpox occurred in big block with
hundreds of people in it, The patient
was promptly taken out and the top
floor Of the block was quarantined,
and the riddle is why the quarantine
was declared off in less than week.
while the other case was treated differ.
emily.
At Olpe the minister's and women
gave the joints fifteen minutes to close.
When time was called every one was
shut up tight, The same process was
repeated at Cottonwood Falls
Clifford Brown has been in one of
the hospitals in Wichita ten or twelve
weeks with broken thigh and with
his jaw broken in four places. The
case which was placed on his face has
been taken Off and his features are not
altered. After long, doubtful fight
for life he now has prospects OF being
a well man soon,
During the past four years Rush
county has produced G,9sO, ,GO4 bushels
of wheat and all that time La Crosse,
the county seat, has been wanting a
mill Now there are prospects of there
being two mills built there
Leading ladies of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; to be followed by destructive
acts.
A trip to the Kiowa-Comauche coun-
try is proposed for the Seventh district
editors after their annual meeting in
March
There is rumor aAoAt that Genera
j, X. Hudson will return to Topeka
and start an afternoon republican pa
per,
Numerous Atchison saloon keepers,
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