Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-19

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from the Fort Scott nursery this sea-
son.
1.-The two most prominent grange
men of this state are burdened with
the names of Whitehead and Tooth
aker.
The marble works of Peru are doing
rustling business People down there
have money and they spend some of
it on extras.
The lady proprietor Of the Erie Rec
ord is personal admirer of Governor
Morrill, ever since he kissed young
lady in the northern part of the state
not many moons ago.
Mrs. Althea Briggs William Striker
is editing a reform paper in New York
State while Mr.. William Striker AL
thea Briggs is yet following the pur-
suit of pedagogy in the great state of
Kansas.
Kansas is to have new railroad
soon. The Missouri Pacific company
has decided to build line from Tope-
lSa to st. Joe, Mo-, to be known as the
Atchison, Topeka Sc st. Joseph rail
road. The surveyors began work last
week.
Maud Crowther, ex-postmistress of
Fort Riley was arrested in Kansas
City last Saturday on a charge of rob-
bling the United States government.
She was not prisoner long, but is un-
der bond to answer to the United
States district court for the state of
Kansas.
Unless the executive council will
plant that Carney tree before hard
winter sets in, the people of Leaven-
worth will secede and take the peni-
tertiary, the Soldiers home, the fort
and the two bridges with them. They
have placed an order for block OF
granite from his native state, his name
to be carved thereon, to be placed at
the foot of the tree.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found Monday in the woods near
Piper, small town 10 miles east of
Kansas City. The body appeared to
be that of man SIS or 60 years old.
The head was partially bald and what
hair is left is gray. The principal dis
tinctive mark is an artificial leg worn
by the man. The body had evidently
lain in the woods for week.
/, The officers of the law had a horse
thief in Jail at Ottawa, awaiting trial.
They wanted photograph of the
criminal for their rogues' gallery but
when two burly officers, accompanied
by photographer, attempted to get
the desired picture, the criminal de-
veloped such variety of facial coh-
tortions as to defeat their object, and
after an hours hard effort, they gave
it up.
A change has been made that will
cause thirty miles of the Wichita and
Western to lie idle. Operations aban-
doned between Culllson and Mullen
ville-receipts were only about ten per
cent of the expenditures and retrench
ment became necessary. The saving
made will be appropriated partly to
better service over the remainder of |
the road and new passenger train
put on for daily runs
A former Sedgwick county boomer,
who now lives in Kansas City, was
threatened with suit on small ac-
count by bill collector. "That would
be foolish expense, said the boomer.
''For less money you could go to Sedg- |
wick county and buy a bigger iudg- |
ment against me than you could get |
on this bill" A man who has been
through Kansas boom has no more
fear of a judgment than of circus
lion.
Ed Sands of Phillips county, who
had been arrested, escaped and made
short cut across the cornfield for lib
erty. The constable gave chase in a
buggy and getting within hailing dis
tance, commanded the fugitive to sur
render or die. Sands looked back and
beheld the constable taking steady
aim. He threw up his hands and
climbed into the buggy, where he dis
covered that what he had taken to
be revolver was nothing more than a
Smith Center corkscrew.
The $50, 900 damage suit of Gatchell
against the Kansas City, Wyandotte &
Northwestern railway company at
Leavenworth has been disposed of.
The company virtually confessed
Judgment for Sc, 600 and that was the
verdict rendered by the court. Several
months ago Mrs. Popritz, whose hus-
band, an engineer, was killed in
wreck on the Kansas City, Wyandotte
e Northwestern road near Kansas
City, Kan, obtained a Judgment for
Sc, 900. Gatchell was injured in the
same wreck that killed Popritz, being
the fireman.
Probably not half dozen inhabit-
ants of Dickinson county know that
Mud creek, which empties into the
Smoky at Abilene, was originally
Armstead creek, named after a gal
liant and popular officer who was sta
toned at Fort Riley before the war.
lie went with the Confederacy, which
act presumably caused the inhabit-
ants of Dickinson county to give the