Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-25

huu tAAASO ASu hechIAeSi W WIAbS up OiAu
fight
/ Sol Miller is very ILL., The specialist
who has been called in does not give
much hope.
| An engine and a passenger coach
| viii soon be put on the Anthony branch
from Arkansas City.
! The city council Of FL Dorado has
made room in the city building for the
public library.
Miss Hattie Smith of Atchison, has
signed q two-year contract with An
gustin DAILY, the theatcr man Of New
York.
1t is said that the latest Kansas
cyclone cellars are provided with a
chute from the nearest bedroom win
dow.
A prominent Kansas paper notes
that this is the time of year when the
Ancient Order of Hen Shooers are call
ed to order.
Charles Curtis now lives outside the
congressional district he is represent
ing. The legislature took Shawnee
county out Of the Fourth district.
A western Kansas man said the de-
scription of the prize-fght sounded ia
miliar enough except for the omission
Of the usual "s5 and costs"
At Wellington fagot party has talk
en- place. Into an open CRATE each
guest threw fngot and ay long as it
burned had to entertain the company
in some original way.
The Santa Fe has about three
months hard work ahead for the
bridge builders. Extensive work is to
be done on the Englewood, Hunnewell
and Caldwell branches, as we'll as both
east an west of Wellington.
The game markets are said to be al
most glutted with wild ducks mall
lards, teal and pintails. Old hunters
and men who handle game say they
never saw such a fight of ducks in
February, and'thcy are fat, plump and
pretty,
Fate Russell, the colored man who
fell under Union Pacific train at Per-
ryville, Kan, last September and had
one of his arms cut off, has brought
suit in the United States circuit court
against the railroad company To- Il .
sum of $4,000 damages Russell lives
in Topeka.
Bert McGiven of Walnut Grove was
thrown from the Santa Fe passenger
train at Topeka March goth, striking a
pile of ties with such force as to break
his leg below the knee and cause other
injuries. The young man was attempt
ing to board the train which was run
ming rapidly.
A train of twenty-one cars loaded
with broom corn and appropriately de-
corated will leave Sterling ON March
25th for 0nandaga, N. Y, for whisk
broom mandatory. This will be the
largest shipment of the kind ever made
from any other point. The train will
stop at all the principal cities on the
way.
The board of education of Labette
county, pursuant to cal Of the presi-
dent, met in special session to consider
the text book question. The board
Cancelled all existing contracts and
made new contract for five years at
the existing prices, and new contracts
were at once drawn and sigued by the
president and clerk.
The Frisco refused to allow the AN
thony branch train to run into the city
on its tracks. On the morning of March
10th the train was stopped on the west
side on the river at Arkansas City and
had to remain there until it returned
to Anthony in tine afternoon. Mana
ger Eaton and Auditor Brown who
were ON the train had to walk into the
city.
The base bail enthusiasts of the En-.
porin Normal are jubilant over the fact
that at the recent meeting of the board
regents they were given permission to
play games with other teams outside
of the city. Arrangements are being
made to play series of games in En-
poria early in May, one of which will
come off on the sth, the date of the In
ter-state Normal school contest in or
atory.
The committee appointed by Govern
or Leedy under authority of resolu-
tion adopted by the legislature, to 90
to Texas and Oklahoma, to conduct an
investigation Of EXISTING passenger and
freight rates with view of securing
relief for the people will meet in Wich-
ita, April Sd. The committee viii 90
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