Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-26
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

opened with an enrolment OF over SuV'
Farmers about Le Roy claim that
their corn will turn out 80 bushels TO
the acre
Brakeman o, Smith was scalded at
Kiowa by hose slipping off the steam
pipe on the engine,
II. H. Bishop, aged 7s years, Is dead
lie was justice of the peace in Salina
continuously for thirty years,
The New York World mentions
Chester /. Long as among the possibili-
ties for a member OF the cabinet,
Pratt has a hole 1900 feet deep which
II is proposed TO sink 1000 more before
giving up the chance OF finding oil,
Sterling people are Ngitating the
starting Of city library and making
home for II In the new Masonic temple.
The farmers about Culver, Ottawa
county, have organized a cooperative
grain company TO fight the wheat COM
bine,
Private Robt Taska n Salina boy was
one OF the guards at the Milburn house
in Buffalo prior TO the death of the
president
The first days enrolment Of the pub
lie schools Of Topeka was 5,6s5, being
ll3 over last year. There were 7lO in
the high school,
The Dodge City Presbyterian church
burned the mortgage on the church
with great ceremony and saved the
ashes as u memento
Improvements have been made on
the Masonic temple in Salina which
cost Sl1 900, The sets of scenery for
the stage cost 81, 400.
The monument of granite TO be erect
ed on the site Of the old Pawnee village
in Republic county was shipped last
week from Vermont.
VIM. Hobson, a Fort Scott boy, has
sold his interest in silver mine at
Cripple Creek for SG5, 900 He has been
mining for eleven years,
A. c. Courtney, n soldier just returned
from the Philippines, was sandbagged,
drugged and robbed at Parsons of $500
in gold and $500 in currency.
Captain Herbert L. Draper, U. S.
Siarine Corps, who died at Hong Kong,
was appointed from Kansas and entered
the marine corps in July 1850.
The Carr Coal company of Leaven-
worth voluntarily raised the price paid
sor mining to 90 cents u ton of mine
run; an advance Of six cents ton.
j, w. Iliatts son Bert, of Grand Sum
init, is in the Winfield hospital in
precarious condition as result of n
fall Of his Eorse upon him. He was
driving cattle,
f. O. Popenoe, the Topeka man who
is mining in the mountains of Costa
Rica, has been appointed by the presi-
dent Of that country to go to Paris to
negotiate loan.
The state board of education is out
on an inspection tour Of Kansas colleges
to learn II they are meeting the require
ments Of law in the matter ofpreparing
students to take state teachers certif-
Gates.
Al Patterson, plasterer, was given
ride on n rail at Attica and duclied in
The city water tank He was then
warned never to come back to Attica.
the city officers all hid away during
the proceedings, Patterson had been
defaming President Mckinley.
state Oil Inspector s. o. Spencer has
filed his report for the month of August.
His collections were 2,35TGO; expenses
$3.50 "a; profits to the state 81, ,90706.
A man who went into Pawnee county
and killed lot of prairie chickens and
tried to ship them, was forced to put
up for fine Of S25 and costs amounting
70 SIS.
j. IL. Dye of Clearwater, was run out
of Wichita for making disrespectful re-
marks about President Mckinley and
for proclaiming he was an anarchist
He claims to be dentist.
On Chicago and Alton train between
Kansas City and Chicago, the other day,
young travelling man from st. Louis
said that all the citizens of Kansas were
cut-throats, thieves and liars. A bank
er from Larned, name not given,
knocked the young man down twice
The Frisco, the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island trains stood still for five
minutes, from o'clock until 2:05 p. M,
wherever they were. AL Glazier who
was conductor of a passenger train,
having ministers as passengers, asked
them to conduct Ave minute service.
Owing to short crop of sisal that
product has jumped from to s cents
pound, and the Kansas penitentiary
will havo to raise the price of binding
twine to the farmer.