Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

H w. ArnOlu, an Olu ClLner III NOA VII
ern Kansas, has bought the Alton EN-
pire.
Topeka is SOLDERING up. Five drug
stores have failed there since the first
of April.
A real sweet K. U. boy is said to
take a powder rag to parties for his
own use.
VIII. T. Wakefield has moved his
printing office from Lawrence to
Mound City.
A spinster nearly hundred years
old has just died at Ottawa. She
couldn't wait any longer.
John Speer, who has been neglected
by the papers lately, is getting his
Jim Lane book in type.
"Baldy" Bentley has not been who'll
ly lost sight of. He is able to put up
for afternoons" at his house.
Leavenworth has a sure thing on
turkeys at ten or twelve cents
pound at Thanksgiving. Somuch for
living in the country.
Some Atchison young men struggle
up the ladder of fame in the profess
sions, but the most of them take the
shortcuts of foot ball or base ball.
The town of Bison, in Rush county,
complains to the railroad commission
ers that the railroad does not furnish
gain cars fast enough. Bison is in a
land that it was said raised nothing
this year.
Potter's clay has been found near
Dresden in Western Kansas Atchison
matrons will now have to make the
proper explanation when they display
their Dresden china" at fashionable
functions.
Eugene Ware has gone east, it is
supposed, to confer with General
Booth about place on the Generals
Salvation Army Staff. Mr.. Ware has
already identified himself with the
"War Cry"
A study of the Australia ballot and
how to vote it ought to be part Of the
curriculum of the public schools. 1t
seems that per cent or more of the
present voting generation can't get
the hang of it.
Ed Hoch urges his subscribers to
"bring in corn on subscription" and at |
the same time advises them to hold
their corn for bigger price. The con-
sequence is the subscriber will sell his
corn and put the money in his pocket
not Bro. Hoch's.
+ Citizens of Leavenworth have pre-
sented petition to Governor Morrill,
requesting him to cause a tree to be
planted in memory of Ex-Governor
Carney, taking the place of the one
Carney planted with his own hands
cut down last spring to permit house
to be moved through the state house
grounds.
1t takes some men a long time to
find where they fit. C. D. Heinrich,
who began operations as the editor of
a German paper in Harvey county
with poor success, and afterward had
equally bad luck at Wyandotte and
other places in America and across the
water at Amsterdam, has turned up
in Arkansas, where he is doing we'll.
After real biting frosts have caused
the leaves to fall and the weather then
again becomes clear and warm, a fer
mentation and evaporation of the
fallen leaves occur, forming a smoke
or colored mist in the air. 1t is this
smoke that gives us Indian summer
A Reno county candidate, who lacked
only / 100 votes of success, started out
to kill his neighbors who had not vo-
ted for him. Fortunately the first
man he sought out had the nerve to
stand him off and bond to keep the
peace saved the balance of the COM
munity.
John F. Hurley, painter from To-
PEEK, was killed in Kansas City Friday
night. AS he was standing near the
curb at eight and Walnut streets, an
unknown man stepped up to him and |
smashed him between the eyes with |
brass knuckle. lie was picked up I'M
conscious and taken to the relief hos
pital where he died in few minutes.
The case of Hobson Bros, showmen,
versus the Missouri Pacific, at Coffey-
vile, to recover s25, 900 damages al
legged to have been sustained by the
plaintiffs by the refusal of the railroad |
to carry their show from Coffeyville to |,
Caney in July 1893, at less than local |
rates was tried in the district court in
Chautauqua county Friday. After
hearing all the evidence the court
dismissed the case upon motion of the
defendants attorney.
Major John NJ Laing, a wealthy cap
italist of Leavenworth, Monday after
noon was shot and dangerously wound
ed by Crawford Moore, a mechanic in
the railroad shops. 1t was the result
of Laing's attentions to Mrs. Moore.
Moore fred three shots. He gave
himself up.
William Scully, Lord" Scully, who
has recently taken out naturalization
papers in this country owns 5000 acres