Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-10

the aid of creamery.
On May Goth Manhattan was visited
by disastrous fire.
An abundance Of fruit will be raised
in Pratt county this year.
Wanted Agents. Best work. Good
commissions. Kansas Steam Laundry,
Wichita, Kansas.
The story of an exiled Russian mo-
qleman who died in solitude near En-
reka was fake. Any one who thought
it was the truth should have fears for
his mind.
The Fort Scott high school alumni
are divided on the question whether
dancing is proper thing to have at
their reunion. Those who can't dance
are opposed to it.
A portion OF the valuable collection
of bird eggs made by George Little and
Warren Benedict, and presented to the
Kansas university museum, has been
stolen from its case in the museum.
The part of the collection taken was
the valuable eggs, the common ones
being left in the case This has lead
to the belief that the thieves were egg
gatherers with some knowledge of the
value of eggs, but further than that
there is no clue.
John Mccarthy veteran 65 years OF
age, was found on the morning of May
3Oth at Leavenworth, under chute OF
the Leavenworth coal company, in a
badly battered condition. After re.
ceiving surgical attention the old man
said he happened into saloon where
he pulled out 500 in currency and treat
ed the men there. When he left he
was followed by two men, and the
next thing he knew he found himself
near the edge of the river bank.
The Kansas Creamery company of
Topeka, who are operating plant at
Belleville, with skimming stations
along the Rock Island road at Narka,
Scandal, Lebanon, Smith Center and
Dresden in operation, and work pro-
crossing on others in Formosa, Phillips
burg Kensiugton, Norton, Oberlin
and Hoxie, will make Belleville the
main point to do the churning. This
creamery is at present churning four
times day and averaging l 400 pounds
of butter daily.
Calvin Hayes, the aged commission
merchant of Shawnee county, has been
refused a new trial in the district
court and will go to the peniteutiary
for embezzlement within month, I'M
less an appeal is taken to the supreme
court. At this term of the district
court, Hayes was convicted of embez-
cling over $40 from New York city
commission merchant Hayes is near
ly 60 years of age and has been in the
commission business in Topeka for sew.
eral years
D. B. Robinson, president of the
Frisco railroad, and other prominent
officials of the road, spent several
hours in Wichita May Goth. President
Robinson stated that in all proba bility
Wichita would be made the western
terminus of the Frisco At present the
Frisco is running its trains over the
Kansas Midland to Burton, which is
its terminus. Should the change be
made he thought the road would turn
its business for points west of Wichita
over to the Santa Fe.
The successful convention of the So
cial science federation recently held in
Hutchinson has given great impetus
to the Stockton Twentieth Century
club. Al first the membership was
limited to 20 but it was afterwards
thought advisable to extend the limit
to 25. The meetings are held on the
first and third Thursdays of the month;
a magazine report and the roll call re-
sponded to by current events are part
Of each program.
June I'd the Humboldt Gas company
finished putting down pipes to furnish
the town with gas. In nine days the
company has dug the trenches and
laid nine miles of pipe, The trenches
on all main lines where six-inch pipe
is used are two feet deep. Two miles
of six-inch pipe, three miles of two
inch pipe and four miles of three-inch
pipe have been used. Every house in
town can now use natural gas, Frank
Fussman, the manager of the gas CON-
pany, has been asked to manage lay
ing the pipe from Benedict to Chanute
Anderson Gray, the Sumner county
murderer who was pardoned from the
penitentiary by Gov. Morrill, just an
hour before he turned over the reins of
government TO Governor Leedy; is in
custody again and stands fair show
of taking another trip to Leavenworth-
This tire he is charged with buying
witnesses in a land contest case in Ok
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