Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


cemetery at a cost of ten cents apiece
Charlie Gleed viii be one of tn
Santa Fe directors in the reorganiza
ton.
Flattering reports come up iron
western Kansas concerning the whea
crop.
Twenty-six car loads of grain an,
stock were shipped from COTS las
week
Mr.. Woodburn married Miss finder
in COffeyville. This ought to MAKE
sparks.
A sedgwick county produce compa
ny is shipping poultry to Manchester
England.
Charley Sheldon has bought Goa
mine at Burlingame and will Grove
it this winter.
A lady in Rush county lost twenty
eight turkeys from eating common or
binary honey bees.
Alvin Joslin and his diamonds are
working the Kansas towns along the
Oklahoma border.
Colby has not had a dance since Phil
Troutfetter introduced the bicycle
there two years ago.
Thirty car loads of corn arrives at
Atchison every day, besides several
barrels of corn juice.
Charley SCOTS new Babcock press is
now doing business and he is printing
an all at home paper.
Webb McNall has gone into the cider
business at Gaylord, but he gets no
stock from Doniphan county.
D. D. Haggard, formerly Baptist
preacher at Norton, is now practic-
ing physician in South Dakota.
The pecan crop was so abundant in
Montgomery county this year that they
are selling at four cents pound
Ed Howe has learned to play whist.
One Of the delegates to the Dairy
mems Association was named Bull.
5Vernon ]. Rose is the name of an
evangelist who is saving sinners down
in Dan McTaggart's neighborhood.
Six thousand rabbits were killed in
one hunt in Kiowa county. Afidavits
from the rabbits furnished if required
George Peck escaped the Kansas in
vasion at Chicago last week. Nettles
had him hidden some place, and gave
out the report that he was in New
York.
The Danton Champion does not in
tend to let the Rock Island town COM
pany escape its city taxes by having
its addition to Canton vacated-not by
q ''town" sight.
According to local papers Atchison
has ''healer" named Wentworth who
has performed some wonderful cures.
The story will be received however
with hesitency.
Father Leak, a venerable Methodist
preacher, is fatally i'll at the old town
Of Doniphan in Doniphan county,
where he has lived for many years.
His son is one of the famous preachers
Of Chicago.
The Old Settlers association of Tope-
ka and Shawne county held their an
nual reunion in Topeka Friday, in the
hall at 7O4 Kansas avenue. Friday
was the forty-frst anniversary of the
founding of the city of Topeka.
Charles Snyder of Holton snagged
finger on a fence barb. Blood poison
ing set in and the member was cut off
But too late, the poison had spread to
The arm, and that was sacrificed.
Still too late, the sufferer died. He
had lived in jackson county thirty
years and was the father of nineteen
children.
The Rock Island railroad company
is just completing the largest dam in
northwest Kansas across a branch of
the Solomon river at Phillipsburg. 1t
will be 300 feet long, 10 feet at the
bottom and 30 feet wide at the top, of
solid masonry, and impound about 100
acres of water. The supply will be
used for the engines of the road and
for power for mills.
S. II. Hill member of the legislature
from Leavenworth says their saloons
are Of no benefit to the town as the
revenue not only fails to support the
city government, but the saloons add
fully as much expense to the city and
county as the city derives in its license
and fines. Mr.. Hill says he looks on
all efforts to enforce the prohibitory
law in Missouri river towns as useless
While ON his way to the Atlanta ex-
position, F. II. Heaker of Wamego,
was robbed of his $500 diamond pin in
a crowd at the Cincinnati union depot.
The pin Is large cluster, set in a cir
Gle that revolves by wat chwork. 1t is
about the size of a half dollar, and
one Of only few Of kind Heaker
reported his loss to the railroad po-
licemen, and says that he was told by
them they had no time to look for lost
jewelry.
The Civic federation has taken an
other grip on Chicago, which means a
continuance Of Ralph Easley in his
Job.