Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-03

D The old settlers OF Reno county he'll
a reunion at Hutchinson last week
: Many of the farmers have harveste,
. their first crop of alfalfa and report i
good.
The work of shipping the 5000
? bushel corn pile lying on the opel
prairie at Gaylord has commenced
Photographs were first taken.
/ A childish quarrel among group o
children at Topeka last week over tn,
possession of mud pies, came near re
sulting in the death of one of the chill
dren.
The next regular annual convention
of TIE Eighth Christian Missionary dis
trict of Kansas will be held at Cimar,
ron, Gray county, Kansas, July 2,
and 4, 1897.
General.J. c. Caldwell of Topeka,
whose fame as Decoration day orator
is state vide, delivered the Memorial
day address at Newton. II was the
feature of the afternoons exercises.
Sergeant Tom Carroll, Battery B.
Fourth artillery, Fit Riley, committed
suicide May 27th by drinking carbolic
acid. The only cause suggested is de-
spondency. He had been drinking
heavily of late,
A good many wolves that are flushed
in Dickinson county near the Marion
line are chased into the latter before
being shot. In Marion So is paid fora
wolf scalp killed in the county and in
Dickinson but 81.
Thieves made raid on the Topeka
state house grounds on May 2sth and
pulled up the geraniums planted in the
beds along the drives Twenty-Five or
thirty plants, were taken and there is
no clue to the perpetrators of the
theft. ''e
Disappointment Morse of the state
reformatory at Hutchinson, has been
appointed manager of the Water, Light
and Power company at that place.
This includes the waterworlts, electric
light and gas plants and the street
railways.
The Methodists Of the Northern dis.
trict, it is said, are arranging for the
construction of a large tabernacle
which can be easily moved, and will
hold camp meetings in it at various
points in the district throughout the
summer months
Mr.. Bruce Lynch has been appointed
western live stock agent for the Santa
Fe and will at once assume the duties
of his position. His headquarters will
be at Pueblo, with jurisdiction as far
east as Hutchinson. Mr.. Lynch at one
time occupied similar position with
the Frisco road.
The county attorney OF Sumner coun-
ty Is in receipt Of a telegram from the
clerk of the United States court of APP
peals at st Paul, MINI. which brings
the welcome news that the overdue
taxes on the Frisco branch in the
south part of the county will be paid.
They amount tn 81 OOO
The Hutchinson Ladies' chorus is
contemplating trip to Salt Lake city,
to attend the musical concert which
takes place there the third week in
July. The idea is generally favored
by the ladies of the chorus and their
friends. A sum of $500 has already
been pledged toward paying the OK
penses of the trip and there will be
little difficulty in getting as much
more. Mrs, Bracken of Detroit has
consented to go with the ladies as di.
rector and they will probably give two
or tire concerts en- route.
A new automatic car coupling has
been devised and patented by Silas
Buck, who runs store at Shipton, in
Saline county. The principal features
of the, device are lever and two
springs. The lever is at one corner OF
the car and by pulling it down, an up
right spring is compressed and the
pin lowered, allowing the
cars to separate. A horizontal spring
inside the bumper forces a block in
above the coupling pin holding the
latter down, Then when the cars come
together again the coupling forces the
block back and the upright spring
sends the coupling pin quickly in
through the link or coupling.
Large quantities of remarkably pure
salt are being shipped to all parts of
the territory from the Crystal salt
works, near 0'Keene in Blaine county.
The salt is manufactured from a fpring
on the claim of Miss Laura White,
formerly of Western Kansas, who,
with her sister, Miss Charlotte White,
operates the plant which turns out
about thirty barrels every twenty-four
hours. These young women made the
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