Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-19

Goodland will establish a sanitarium
for the treatment of cOnsumptives.
The altitude is said to be just right,
and DR.. F. II. Smith has got the hang
ON the Edison cure.
Sol Miller asks what has become OF
the rid fashioned boy that used to
swap knives "sight unseen" He is
still on deck, but he does business
''side and unseen"
Kansas papers are running an adj
vertisement, GLOW to get to Cripple
Creek" Kansas men who are strand
ed in the big camp are writing to their
friends to know how to get away from
! there.
The Lawrence Journal says ga pho
tographer took the depot from the
implement platform stand" What
the dickens was the depot on the inn
plement platform for and why did the
photographer take it from its place?
The average salary paid the minis
tiers of the Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church is S795
year. The average salary in the
Atchison district, the best paid in the
conference. is $s37, Or about $40 a
month.
Miss Katie Wrinkle, young woman
of Peck, Sedgwicll county, was burned
to death Friday by the explosion of
an oil can. Mrs. Meyers, who tried to
save her, was burned so badly that
there is little hopes of her recovery.
A hired man was badly, but not SER
iously, burned.
Fred Brown, who used to train
horses for Cy Leland, is now at Qua
nah, Texas, working for cement
plaster company. Men trained in
life's work can turn their hands to
anything. An old Doniphan county
man, who was Leland's orderly dur
ing the war, is now an evangelist in
Arkansas.
Elijah Morse, the millionaire Con-
gresham of Massachusetts,, is said to
have withdrawn 100000 in loans from
Kansas since the passage of the mort
gage redemption law and invested it
in Iowa mortgages. Mr.. Morse has
been worked cruelty; the same law
has been on the Iowa statute books for
thirty years.
A gang of street men were employed
to clean up and flush the cutters at
Leavenworth Monday. Water was
turned on from two-inch hose. A
large number of minnows, the kind
used by fisherman to lure croppie and
bass, passed through the nozzle, swan
along the cutters and finally dropped
into the sewers and out OF sight.
The council chamber was crowded at
the last meeting of the commercial
club at Coffeyville. The committee to
secure cash and grain subscriptions
for the new mill have been well re-
ceived and there is no question but
what the required amount will be
raised. A charter has been applied
for and new members are being taken
in daily. The mill is sure go.
A Galena woman asked Colonel We'll
dy to write mice piece for her on
her birthday, and this is what he
wrote Whatever may be said of
Tennies mental strength or moral
standing, she is an Industrious woman
having worked hard all her life, and
by strict economy has secured little
home in which she celebrates this
birthday and, we hope, may enjoy
many others"
A middle aged woman giving the
name of Mrs. Mary Watson, was dis
covered in n sealed box car on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
road at Fort Scott Friday morning
She had been locked in the car n day
and night and had liyed without
food and water She said she got in
the car at Ash Grove, Mo, intending
to ride to Kansas City, not suSpecting
the car would be delayed. When
found, she was faint for want of food
The soldiers stationed at Fort Leav-
enworth have been engaging in more
field practice. The weather was just
little raw Saturday afternoon for
maneuvering, but rapidity of the move
ments kept the blood circulating pref
ty freely. A sham battle, similar to
the one fought at the old bridge Tues
day, was on the program of maneuycrs
for the afternoon. 1t was n fight for
the possession of the waterworlls res
ervor just north of the city. In the
fight the infantry took the more
prominent part. The news of the
sham battle was circulated down town
and as a result a crowd from the city
saw the bloodless fighting.
Russell Smith met with horrible ac-
! cident at Wellsyille, near Ottawa, ON
Wednesday, resulting in the loss of
several fingers. He was engaged in
operating corn crusher and in mo-
ment of inadycrtence got one hand
too far into the jaws of the machine,
and it was caught by the rollers. Re-
alizing his danger, as the arm was
drawn in by the resistless gear he
braced himself and by n desperate eff
fort wrenched his hand from the teeth,
terribly lacerated. One finger was
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