Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-13
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST,

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Arkansas City has taken up s37 OOI
Of It's per cent bonds by replacing
with ~ per cent bonds
Geo, Il. Collins was reelected presi
dent of the state society of Labor ano
Industry, at the Topeka meeting,
Great Bend has had fire caused by
n gasoline stove The flremen did well
In the matter Of saving property
The annual meeting OF the three
grand bodies OF the Masonic order will
be held at Fort Scott on Feb, 1870,
Fire has destroyed in llerington n
meat market, q doctors office, and
damaged furniture store and the
postoillce,
Records show that the first company
of colored soldiers raised for the Union
army wRs raised In Linn county, Kan
sas, in 1862,
Superintendent Frank Nelson has n
second circular out on the consolidation
OF rural schools, The first circular was
well received,
Frank Il, orr merchant Of Harper,
has shot himself lie seemed worried
over his business, although he was well
fixed financially,
Fire at Erie destroyed four business
places on the morning Of Feb, /, The
row was In the center Of the business
portion Of the city,
The supreme court has decided 10
take up the Jessie Morrison case in full
court. The case had been assigned 10
n division Of tho court,
The receipts Of the internal revenue
nt the collectors Office for Kansas and
Oklahoma for the month Of January
amounted TO 54,273l5,
Martin Reilly Of ST, Marys, market
cd 81 Aberdeen-Augus and Galloway
steers Of his own raising, at 50 80, They
averaged l,4ll pounds,
The title given the Missouri Pacific
railroad company 10 what Is now
Lowers addition to El Dorado has
been decided TO be good title.
Mrs, Brooke mother Of eX.Prcsidcnt
D, NJ. Brooke, of Lane University Mt
Lecompton was perhaps fatally burned
nt her home, She Is n years old and
feeble.
The state Society OF Labor at its ses.
sion Mt Topeka discussed the presenting
Of bill to the next Legislature for
establishing state bourd Of arbi.
tration.
Trainmen on the Kiowa branch from
Wichita say that almost every farmer
southwest Of the city has a small ice
house and they were filling them with
0 inch ice.
The brief in the case of Kansas
against Colorado in the matter of the
use Of the water Of the Arkansas river,
has been filed in the United States
supreme court
Six families OF Swedes, all related,
have bought 1900 acres near Emporia.
There are 80 children in the six fami-
lies and they are all cousins. The deal
involves S5O,OOO
The Kansas University Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity has held n reunion at
which former members of the society
and alumni of other chapters in the
West were present
Chanute has over eighty oil wells in
operation and an unlimited supply of
natural gas. The city has its own
lighting and heating plant, which
yields an annual revenue of about
5000.
A Leavenworth, Kansas and Western
train was wrecked at Leonardvillc by
snow drifts and Henry j, Ortman, the
mail clerk, was badly bruised.
j. j. Kemble Of Fort Scott found his
fatherin Oklahoma and with his broth.
er went to see him, The father left
his family 81 years ago with the de-
termination not to send for them until
he had home and business. The
sons induced their father to go to
Coffeyville where their mother was
living and there was a joyful reunion
of the family.
Topeka has an industrial school for
girls with 500 enrolled. There is d
like school for boys with an average
attendance of 1907 Both Of these were
organized and are under the direction
ef Mrs Thorpe, the police matron.
Young natives and the more recent
In coming to Kansas of the present
population do not know that Colorado
was once part of Kansas and that in
1856 Arapahoe county voted for dele
gate from Kansas and in 1857 was
represented by member in the Kan
sas legislature.
Jesse Cook, son of the sheriff of
Shawnee county, declined an appoint-