Hutchinson gazette., 1901-03-14
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

The penitentiary wagon trade bill
died in the committee on mines ana
mining
Train loads Of lola cement are being
shipped to I'LL orders from New Or
leans.
The bin was passed authorizing
county boards to purchase and use
voting machines,
During the late snow storms cen
tral Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles OF track
Morris Fraley, OF Brown county, Is
still living on the 100 acre claim which
he pre.emptod In 1857
A gas company has been organized
at Sedan and the work OF drilling Will
commence Immediately,
Capt Schlling, ex-senator from
Brown county, is still considered to be
in dangerous condition,
Alfred Harrison, OF III Dorado, usu'
ally takes n trip every year, and this
year expects TO visit Hawaii,
Spring Hill woman on her death
bed told her husband where TO find
her savings, amounting to $500.
Two hundred and hfty resident and
visiting citizens Of Kansas attended u
reception to Senator j, Il, Burton
Judge David Martins remains were
taken TO Mechanicsburg, Ohio, to be
buried beside those Of his parents,
Cities OF the first class are authorized
by the new law TO pay the mayor 81, 900
year and councilmcn $500 year.
The state board Of health reports
about 1000 eases OF smallpox in the
state, fully one half OF them in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties
Judge Il. b, Jcwctt will remain at
the head OF the Wichita postoillce force
mt least until sometime in May, before
actively assuming his position as war.
den of the penitentiary
At n gathering Of farmers wives at
farm house in Riley county, fifteen
in number, near neighbors, eleven Of
them had travelled abroad, through
Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land,
At the orntorical contest at ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, OF Baker univer.
bity, won first place, and John c, Quinn,
of ottawa University, second, The
Baker man was only one point ahead,
The Frisco depot at Arkansas City
has been robbed by blowing up the
safe, and Sj0s in checks and $50 in cur
rcncy taken, The robbers threw the
checks away and they were recovered,
As there arc some who think the hi.
cnnial election law of county officers is
unconstitutional, case will be pre-.
pared with the view Of having the su
preme court pass upon the question
before the full election.
There will occur something not alto.
gether agreeable to the hoodlums who
break mail boxes on rural delivery
routes and use them as targets Severe
punishment is provided for destroying
them, by federal laws,
Under the law creating free employ
ment agencies the control of that busi.
ness is taken away from the cammis'
sioner of labor and given to Il new state
officer, appointed by the governor
with a salary of 81, 200 year with $500
for Office expenses.
G. Christensen once lived in Marshal
county. He Is now Il prisoner in st
Helena, having been captured Will,
serving under General Cronic, the Boer
Hereafter Sumner and Moutgomcr,
COUHJlch Will huNc NoNnNllp TcHlSIru
ton of voters. Its success there viii
likely extend the system to all bordc
counties.
Walter Scott, OF Atchisou, who wa
at work at Fort Leavenworth on ney
building, fell from the roof and brolx
his neck. lie died at the Fort Leavcn
worth hospital
The cooperative store at Canton ha
been broken into and burglarzed bu
nothing was missed save few cent
taken from the money drawer and tn
hand car which the thieves went OF
with.
MRS. w. d. Clay, of Wellington, be
ing affected with disease of the heart
had been warned to avoid eXcitemen,
She was frightened by the scattcrin
of trash fire in the yard by the wine
but, controlled herself for time, br
when about to sit down to dinner sh
fell dead.
The legislature appropriated S9,5C
to start the litigation upon the Arkar
sas river water supply for irrigation
in the case against Colorado.
A special Santa Fe train was ru
from Topeka TO AtchiSon for the n,