Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-09

ed,
A Saline county farmer sold eleven
turkeys OF the Mammoth Bronze variety
for $40,
During 1901 the state treasury has
received more than $40 900 for charters
issued.
ON the morning OF January much
OF Kansas wus covered with a blanket
Of snow
More than one half Of the lands OF
Kansas are still unoccupied and un-
developed.
Leaycnworth has voted 100000 Of
bonds for the purchase OF the water
works plant.
0sbornc county Is excited over devel'
opmeuts showing oil and minerals be-
meath the soil.
Coifeyviile proposes to erect a monu-
ment 10 commemorate tine services OF
Co. q, Goth Kansas,
The city OF Wellington has resumed
the practice of lcft-handcd licensing
the selling of liquor,
Parsons makes record Of permanent
building improvements In 1901 OF nearly
half-million dollars,
Fifty-ave OF the graduates OF Kansas
university living In Reno county have
organized an association,
Farmer boys about Wellington went
there and beat the town eleven, foot
ball team by u score of II too,
Jewell City has sunk u shaft down
lO7 feet In searching for coal, The
shaft Is nearly full Of salt water now,
The new pipe organ just installed In
the Church ofthe Assumption Catholic
in Topeka, cost the congregation 81, 900,
Leonard Corwin, mute who has
been janitor Of two business houses at
Ottawa, has been missing since New
Years day,
G, c, Malvin, OF Jennings, KS, Is ar
rested on the charge Of opening mail
sack and stealing registered letter
containing slsO.
Miss Helen Wise leaves the position
OF first assistant in the Abilene high
school to take position in the high
school Of Colarado Springs,
Governor Morrill, received from the
Congregational Sabbath school at lIio-
watha n present as memento of his
?s years service as superintendent,
c. c, Baker, president Of the Topeka
city railway, says there is no truth in
the report that there is deal going on
to sell the road and that there is no
figuring with any one,
The abstract to the right Of way Of
the Arkansas City Water Power com
pany just completed, makes three books
Of 300 typewriter pages each, besides
n pen executed map
Sevcnty-hvc sugar beet raisers in
Western Kansas have drawn from the
state treasury 1,7lsO9 bounty money
at the rate Of 81 ton. There is So, 900
appropriated for that purpose,
Burton Il. Landon, one OF the most
prominent of the Masons of Kansas,
died at Fort Scott on January a. He
has been Mason for nearly 40 years,
and had reached the 33rd degree,
General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
hermit, while at his supper by a log fire
became unconscious and fell over, When
he came to he found both hands and
arms in the fire. He may lose them,
Colonel Metcalf will not take charge
of the Topeka pension agency until the
February pensions payment is over. 1t
requires thirty days to sign the checks
and they have been signed by the pres
ent agent,
Deputy Fish Warden Tegmier caught
five persons spearing fish and arrested
them. The minimum penalty is Jail
sentence and fine of S25, with costs,
The Kansas meeting of teachers
brought 500 of them together, The
Missouri meeting only counted 700, and
Missouri is fifth in population of the
states.
0. W. Coffelt, who is charged with
the murder of Detective Montgomery
at Winfield, is said to have been the
official haugman for several years at
Fort Smith,
Cherryvalc has lost by fire five busi-
ness houses, the opera house block, and
the Chcrryvale Daily and Weekly
News, with other business places The
total loss is about $4,000, A later dis
patch leaves out the news
Governor Stanley decides that he
cannot legally appoint an officer to fiji
a vacancy until on actual vacancy cX-
lists, and will therefore take no action
on appointment Of sheritfs until Jan
uary 10. He will then make one APP
pontmcnt and press the question to an