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

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train at Liberal, Monday for trip t.
Kansas City
D. H. Breckbill has taken a larg,
supply of food and clothing from Dick
inson county to Oklahoma. He say,
dire suffering must result this winter
from the crop. failure.
State Labor Commissioner, w. G.
Bird, charged with extortion in Office
was acquitted by jury after tria,
of two days. The jury was out ar
hour and half. Bird was accused Of
extorting money from his subordinates
in Office.
w. II. Green, administrator of the
estate of G. w Marion, of Fort Scott,
who was killed few weeks ago by be-
ing struck by a freight train on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
tracks, has fled suit against the
road for $40, 900 damages
Safe blowers piled Miltonvale syste-
matically Dec. 9Th, blowing open the
safe of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific
railways and the Alliance exchange.
They got nothing from the latter two
but secured everything from that of the
Santa Fe. The extent of the haul,
however, is not known. There is no
clue.
A blacksmith by the name of Dods-
worth, who works in the Santa Fe
shops at Tokeka, suddenly became in
sane while at his work Friday. He es-
capped from the shop and is now being
pursued by force of shop men. He
lives ON Hancock street and has a wife
and two children.
A meeting of prominent Southern
Kansas lawyers has been held in Wich-
ita to formulate plan for the propos-
ed division of United States Court Dis
tricts. Wichita will be headquarters.
Chester l. Long will present the bill in
Congress creating the new district. If
tina act is passed it will create several
good offices to fill.
During the progress of boring the
Prospect gas well at Wichita Friday
last an underground river was discov-
cred at depth of ia feet. The river
is 81 inches in depth and had such force
as to elevate the water within five feet
of the surface. This is the second
body of water struck during the pro-
gress of this well. The first one was
nearly 80 feet in depth.
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 a new passenger train
put on for daily runs.
A story is told that once when Rein
hart was president of the Santa Fe q
rich countryman, who owned bonds Of |
one of the branch sand hill lines,
called on him in his New York office to
make some inquiry abont his holding.
Reinhart had the report on that branch |
at hand and he was able to talk glibly.
After the man had departed, Reinhart |
turned to his clerk, saying: where
the hell is that roadP 1 never heard |
of it before"
When the Boston men started the |
Santa Fe west from Harvey county, |
there was not a white man, outside |
the military posts, between that coun-
ty and Pueblo. 1t waa great risk
and the subscription went begging
for long time, although the propo-
sition was for $1,000 cash, to give
81, 900 railroad bonds, 81, 900 land grant
bonds and $500 railroad stock. After
ward the stock went to LEO, and
when the collapse came it fell with a
dull. sickening thud.
In tearing down a cellar wall of an
old farm house near Larned, that had
been destroyed by fire some time ago,
the worlImen suddenly came upon a
human skeleton, and, after digging it
out, discovered four more. The find
has created great deal of speculation,
the general opinion being that the
skeletons are the remains of Indians
that were killed when the war-like
Pawnees came down from Nebraska
and nearly eXterminated the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes in the battle that gave
Pawnee Rock its name. The people
who built and lived in the house up to
the time it was destroyed by fire are
people and no suspicion at
taches to them.
The State Temperance union, It is
is at work raising money for
a general campaign against the liquor
traffic over the state. Since the ;resig-
nation of Secretary L. L. Roby, his
place has been filed by Albert Wat
kins, a local attorney. Rev. c. NJ.
who was at first selected as
Mr.. Roby's successor, declined the
place. Mr., Roby resigned because the
union had become an old fossil, and it's
main efforts were devoted to providing
the Rev. Mr.. Wake a salary rather
than suppressing the liquor traffic. |
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