Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the secretary OF state
Young Harry Bryant of Rockford was
recently robbed of $40 while he was al
home alone doing chores.
Six girls and one boy graduated at
Tribune last week. The girls all wore
pretty dresses and enjoyed it, while
the boy was out of sight.
An incendiary fire destroyed every
business house in Milford, Geary coun-
ty, save oue 1t was thought some
religious fans ties set the fire.
Ralph Embry, while baling hay at
Ottawa, slipped and had one of his
legs caught by the plunger and the
bones below the knee were crushed.
Corporal NJ Callahan, Twentieth In
fantry at Leavenworth, took an over
dose Of morphine the other day because
he had been reduced to the ranks. He
recovered.
Ottawa is to have big steam cider
mill. This will supply one city in
Kansas, at least, with pure cider, ana
shut off the New York drug compound
in that locality.
The number of San ia Fe employees
who will participate in the celebration
Of the silver anniversary Of the Topeka
Fall Festival on Wednesday, Septem-
Der 30, will be from 5000 to 10000.
Five dozen plates, cups and saueers,
owned by a church congregation in OF
tawa, and which were stored in the
parsonage, were recently stolen in the
absence of the minister and family.
The Finney county fair will be held
at Garden City September 81, 90, 90 and
"a. They have liberal premium list
and this promises TO be the best fair
eyer held in southwestern Kansas.
The other day $4,000 worth of good
liquor was split out into the cutters of
Kansas City, Kansas, the joints hay
ing been raided. The town now has
bouquet that you can sniff for miles.
Major Hurt of Sumner county says
that the rats have relieved one of his
bins OF enough corn to feed 60 hogs.
He has already killed e3S rats and
there seems to be as many as ever.
That's what hurts Hurt.
The secretary of state has granted a
charter to the DeBoissiere Odd Fellows
Orphans Home ASSOCIATION of Topeka
and Ottawa. The object of the asso-
citation is to get into the suit pending
for possession of the Odd Fellows home
at Silkville. The association will be
asked to come in as an interpleader.
There's Indignation in one Topeka
neighborhood, and why shouldn't there
beP What would you say if your hens |
came home each with kernel of corn
in her crop and string hanging out
of her mouth, to the outer end of which
was attached card, reading: keep
me at home. I've been scratching my
neighbours garden"
Figures from railroad stations in the
Kaw valley from Lawrence to Kansas
City, give ample evidence of the inn
mense potato crop harvested this sea-
son. About 1000 car loads were ship
ped out, averaging 400 bushels to the
car, or a grand total of O56, 900 bushels
which, at the average price of As cents
per bushel, means $4,000.
A dozen expert doctors testified that
an Emporia, Kan, woman had been so
injured in a railroad accident that ma
ternity must be to her a thing I'M
known. She got damages on this tes'
timony, and the railroad appealed to
the supreme court, where, after years
of waiting, the decision of the lower
court has just been affirmed. In the
meantime the Emporia woman has
given birth to three children,
The Wellington Journal says: "Will
Freeman, of Harmon township informs
us that it is impossible for any of the
farmers in his vicinity to get their
wheat threshed because Of the scarcity
of threshing machines Every thresh-
ing outfit in the county is engaged for
weeks ahead, in some instances crews
being engaged until November. New
threshing machines are being shipped
into the county every day, however"
1t is said that girl at the Pine
Grove Camp grounds, who, while play
ing tennis, ran after the ball in some
grass and weeds, and returned to the
game. Soon afterwards one Of her
limbs began to hurt her and on inves-
tigating, a snake was found so tightly
coiled around the limb as to stop cir.
culation. The girls all screamed and
this brought the girls mother to the
scene and she pried the snake loose
with q stick. The snake was about
three feet long.
Two Ottawa girls have returned
from three months trip to Europe.
They saw lots of sights but they miss.
ad the Guantanamo assemblu