Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-05

The Alma creamery.
An Atchison street car driver has
become an evangelist This is proof
certain that salvation is barred to
nobody.
The Lawrence Journal published a
picture of Frank Nelson, the Linds-
burg professor. This ought to com
plete anybody's happiness.
Jess Mosely of Chautauqua county
is looking for pasture for $4,000 head
of Texas cattle That's the kind of
cattlemen the Chautauqua county
buyers are. fH
The young Englishmen who We're
brought to Kansas to learn farming
have scattered. One is at Cripple
Creek and another is on the stage at
Chicago. The rest have disappeared.
The state board of irrigation will
put in no more plants remote from
town. A mile will be the outside linn
it, and the town will have to give the
state deed for the land-forty acres.
Empire City, once a city of 5000
people, which went into decay when
Galena on the other side of the creek
took the boom, is picking up again on
account of mineral strikes north of it.
]. Fl. Love, Elmer Hoffman and
George Elliott of Galena have gone to
far-off Alaska in search of gold. There
is no gold in Galena, but there is what
may be sold for gold--lead and zinc in
abundance-and that's the place to go
and dig.
Charles Bluejacllet, chief of the
Shawnee Indians of the Indian terri
tory who claims to know all about that
tribe, says that the prophet of the
tribe, who was brother of Tecumseh,
a famous chief in Ohio, lies buried in
Wyandotte cuunty.
A philosopher in Harper county
says that poverty is good thing for
young men, This is sensational. An
Gent and modern philosophers have
held to this always, but this is the
first time Kansas man ever was
brave enough to say it.
One of the swell members of Topeka |
"4OO"in his effort to remove his over
coat at the opera last Friday night, !
also removed his under coat far enough !
to disclose large rent in his shirt,
much to the amusement of two young !
ladies who were watching him.
An Atchison man recently caught
three different men kissing his wife,
whereupon he went to lawyer. "You
have very good grounds for divorce"
the lawyer said. Il don't want u di-
vorce," the citizen replied; 81 want
to get out an injunction to make them
quit it."
The boys at the State university
went out serenading Saturday night
and the awful noises they made
brought out the police who arrested
the whole crowd and brought them
into police court next morning. The
judge, who has an ear for music, let
the boys off promise to do better
next time.
Wednesday at Chetopa, John Lewis
superintendent of the Hall and Robin
son Elevator company of CoffeyvilleN |
who was in Chetopa on business, was
struck by northbound freight train.
He was at once taken to Coffeyville,
where he died a few minutes after
reaching his home,
After having accepted the position
as private secretary to Chancellor
f. II. Snow at the Kansas university,
Albert Flintom received another offer
from the management of the Lawrence
National bank and finally decided to
stay with the bank. Archie Hogg has
been selected as secretary and entered
upon his duties. Mr.. Hogg is grad
nate of the collegiate department of
the class Of '0j; he has been taking a
law course at the school, .rs
The sixth case of suicide in Fort
Scott within two months occurred ON
Sunday, when Michael Clark, an ex.
fireman for the Missouri Pacific, took
his life at the Mercy hospital The
Sisters were attracted to his room by
the smell of gas, and attempted to
enter, but found the door locked
They called the police, but before aid
came two shots were heard in the
room, and when the door was forced
open Clark was found dead, having
shot himself twice IN the head.
The jury in the Hendry- Hoffman
case at Abilene ran things on its own
schedule for a time Saturday night.
The judge, at the conclusion of the
trial. sent the jury out with instruc-
tions to remain until verdict was
found. The jurvmen did not find the
ease easy to dispose of and late in the
evening came to the conclusion that
they could not agree. Fixing up
sealed finding to that effect they pro-
ceeded to discharge themselves and 90
home without waiting for any Motif
cation of the court Judge Moore ex-
planned to them the next morning
that they had exceeded their author
ity but as their action had evidently
been in good faith and through misun
Outstanding, it was overlooked this
time