Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-30
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST

tOn WIS Hot uIunh Nv N"hNSiNi"
II. Forsyth has sold his farm OF 400
acres near WalSarusa 10 II, q, CarlE, OF
Clay Center, for 81 500.
The Brown county farmers institute
proposes TO use the county poor farm
as an experimental seed farm,
Mrs, Anna Thompson is travelling
about buying junk, Az Ports, Smith
county, she gathered carload,
Frank D, Freeman, county clerk OF
Lane county, is dead lnHammatory
rheumatism was the cause OF his death,
When Granville II, MciXell Of Mid
land College at Atchison died. his
friends sent $500 In cash in lieu Of
flowers,
a dynamo In the state house heating
plant burned out and the executive
council Is investigating wncrc to locate
the blame,
4, II, Gerow, director OF the State
Free Employment bureau thinks that
housoworlS should be taught In the pub
lie schools.
Sumner county will have 30 rural
mail carriers The farmers like the
scheme but the merchants In the small
towns knock on H.
The Kansas Association OF Charities
and Corrections and the Kansas Society
for the Frcndless, have both asked for
nn Office In the state house,
j. NJ. Simpson, Of Mcpherson, has u
son who has been fortwo years holding
u 81, 600 c'erliship in the Office OF the
fourth assistant postmaster general
Nearly all classes Of railroad workers
have already named delegates 10 the
annual meeting on February . of the
State Society Of Labor and Industry.
Alexander Phelon, the founder Of
Ncodesha died recently in Idaho. He
had a trading post there among the
osages, around which the town grew,
The Citizens bank at Sedgwick was
burglarized and $40 in currency taken,
The robbers left on hand ear which
they had broken open tool house TO
secure.
There will be four series Of tenchcrs
institutes this year an early one being
added for the benefit Of the teachers in
the wheat belt. The dates of opening
are May 20, June ., June 80 and July
2s.
The NJ. H. church at liinsley caught
fire in the basement just as Sunday
school was about 10 be opened. The
children were taken out safely and the
fire was put out before II got into the
main room of the church.
The payment of the first half taxes
for the year is the largest Shawnee
county ever had, The amount Of tax
paid is sj35, 900 out Of possible tax of
ST2s, 900. This is about n per cent OF
the tax and in previous years has never
exceeded 65 per cent,
DR.. Phillips was once the bosom
friend of Abraham Lincoln, lie came
to Kansas in the early days and for
tune smiled upon him, He lived in
Allen county and was surrounded by
many friends. But old age overlook
him, his friends and fortune passed
from him, and the other day he died in
the SedgwclS county poorhousc at the
age Of 50, Nearly forty years ago Dv,
Phillips was prominent enough TO be
the recipient of an unusual honor. His
wife died at Humboldt, and Senator +,
B. Plumb hurried all the way from
Washington to be pallbeOrer at her
funeral,
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company are to supply their customers
in Topeka and Wichita with the new
instruments which call Central au-
tomatically, with no bell ringing,
Supt Pearls, of the Haskell Institute
is asking for a supply of guns for his
Indian battalion. He has two COM
panies of Indians who make n fine
appearance as soldiers; one company
averaging six feet tall, the other com
pany only trihe smaller, The super
intendent will also ask for regular
army officer TO drill his battalion.
Washington pays the Methodist
church of that county seat city $40 a
year for the use of its bell for fire
alarms.
Peter A. Hartig, member of the
original town company and ever since
much respected citizen of Eudora
was recently killed by train. He was
nearly so years old.
City Attorney Chas f. Spencer, o.
Topeka, told the municipal leagu,
convention at Wichita that Kansas ha
no law by which a city can condemn {
waterworlss system.
A. 4. Berry, wealthy farmer, /