Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-05-02

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salaries.
The latest report of Superintendent
Kendricl1 shows an enrolment IN the
public schools of Junction city Of
LOLA
Aspecial convention of the Episco.
pal diocese of Kansas has been called
to meet in Topeka May % to elect Q
new bishop
Arbor day was not neglected at ths
Soldiers home at Dodge City; SOC
fruit trees are there that were mot
there before.
Fire bugs are infesting Independi
ence. -Four fires have occurred with
III the past week and considerable OK
element has been aroused. Every
precaution has been taken to apprel
bend the guilty parties and prevent
them from doing any more OF their
work.
The gas strike on the Moherman
farm on Hickory creek, in Peoria town.
ship, near Ottawa, is one Of consider
able magnitude, if the present indics-
tions are of value. The find" was
made by sinking a we'll, at depth Of
94O feet, the flow o gas was such that
the tools Of the workmen were blown
out, and lit has been impossible to re.
sumo work.
J. T. Heston, of Harrington, who
was attacked last fall while going
from the Rock Island depot in Her
rington to his home and robbed OF
$500, died last Saturday. HO waa
sandbagged on the occasion of the
robbery and severely injured. AS
result he has been in bad health all
winter, and his death is considered to
be the effect of the unfortunate affairs
The exclusive distinction of possess
ing class yells no longer rests with the
college boys. 1t has been taken up
by the high schools, and il is evident
ly only question of time until the
air of Kansas will be rent by 1900
additional separate and distinct class
yells, one for each district school.
Here is one adopted by the graduating
class of the Chtfeyville high schhol:
"Trilby, dilby, diddledive, Coffeyville
high school, class '95.".
Thomas G. Russell, chairman of the
Bourbon county Democratic county
committee, died unexpectedly Sunday
evening at Fort Scott. He had about
recovered from an attack of pneumonia
and his wife was out calling when the
attendant sent for Ter. He died few
minutes after her return of neuralgia
of the heart. He was 35 years old,
and was the founder of the town of
Bayard, in Allen county, naming it af-
ter ex-Secretary BaYard. He was a
native of New York.
Sheriff Glover of johnson county ar
rested at Rosedale and took to Olathe,
Sunday, Sam Robinson, the remaining
member of the negro gang which has
terrorized Johnson county with num-
erous robberies during the last year
The gang robbed Refer Bros. hard
ware of Olathe last December of about
ST. 900 worth of rifles, shotguns, razors
and knives, and four of the members
are now serving q seven-year sentence
each in the penitentiary. Most all
the stolen property was redeemed,
having been found in possession of
each as divided.
A crowd of boys, while fishing near
Mill Creek bridge on the North
side of Fort Scott Sunday, unearthed
a number of old valuable coins, which
have evidently been buried there by
some one in an attempt to hide stolen
treasure. The boys were lounging
around on the bank when they saw
the edge of a coin protruding from
what appeared to be u mole hill, they
commenced to dig in the mound and
had soon unearthed a number of old
coins, some coined by the United
States, but mostly of foreign coinage
Some were very old and one large cop
per bore the date of 1870, while half
penny was coined in 1905.
News has just reached Hiawatha, of
what came near being double drown
ing Mr.. Dowell, of Robinson, was at
Mr.. Davis farm buying stock when he
heard faint for help. Going in the
direction of the sound he saw a small
child struggling to get out of large
barrel of water sunk in the ground.
Hurriedly he pulled it out, when to
his surprise another little body arose
to the surface which he as quickly got
out Mr. Davis came at his call to find
his two children three and four years
old apparently iifeless. After two
hours of hard work over them they
revived.
Scores OF excited cattlemen have
gathered at Eureka to protest against
the release of train load of cattle ,
that arrived Monday and are now held
in temporary quarantine by the sheriff
pending the action of the live stock
sanitary commission. The cattle were
taken to Eureka to be pastured. They
were shipped from San Simeon, Ark,
but the stock men fear that part of
them at least are Mexican cattle and
therefore liable to communicate SPLEEN
etc fever to the native herds Chair
man Johnson of the sanitary board is