Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-07-28
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A Leayenworth colored soldier was
nearly killed by falling from, a train
and being dragged.
There Is d deed lying in the record
er's office at Wellington that win cost
$40 in revenue stamps 70 Ale,
One Of the ladies Of Hope appeared
on the streets the other day attired in
boomers and riding q horse man-fash-
ion. ... l, tot
The socialists Of southeastern Kan
sas are considering the nomination of
a candidate for congress from the third
district ...l.f t-ta.il
Both Forepaugh's and Ringling's
circuses will make western Kansas
this season, They will take in all
kinds of money |Hli
The Santa Fe has issued orders keep
ing all It's freight cars on its own
tracks. IL will soon be necessary TO
move the crops,
Some OF the Kansas volunteers ut
Frisco say that they can not get medi-
cine. But the dear Frisco girls will
laden them with flowers.
II Is now and announced that the
Kansas regiment will sail for Manila
in few days and that Ed, Little is
sufficiently recovered to accompany
them.
The salary OF the city attorney at
Holton has been reduced to 5000; but
that is probably pretty fair compensa-
tion for the amount Of work he has to
attend to, s..u
The Phillipsburg Dispatch says: A
rich harvest is waiting the show outfit
that visits our town after the corn is
laid by" Our people are becoming
show hungry.
A thief visited Plainville recently,
took horse from one man, set of
harness from another, and u buggy
from third and then went on his
way rejoicing.
Leroy has no negro population an in
consequence citizens of the town who
plant watermelon patches have rea-
sonable guaranty of eating IL fare
share Of the crop
The old Jail in Neosho county is in
such n ramshaclsle condition that at
the election this fall the people will be
called upon to decide whether 1t will
be cheaper to remodel 1t, or buildf
new building entire,
Johnson Jordon, the negro in the
Collins case who is under bond to re-
main in the county of Shawnee, is be
ing driven from the county by the POI
police. He is a bad negro and no jury
will convict anyone on the testimony
he gives. .a. ,.U.... ...H..
One Kansas milling firm evades the
revenue stamp law in this way: When
a load of wheat is bought, the buyer
gives weigh check, similar to all
weigh checks, The farmer presents it
at the bank and is given his money.
Just before the bank closes its bust.
ness for the day the wheat buyer gives
u check that will cover all the weigh
checks received by the bank during
the day, making one revenue stamp
answer for the days purchases,
Earl Rowan, the seventeen-year-old
son of widow living in johnson coun-
ty, was working with a threshing
gang, and while in the act of stepping
across the feed board of the separator
slipped and fell, one of his feet being
caught in the cylinder. Fortunately,
the belt had just been thrown off, and
the machine was being propelled only
by its own momentum, or he might
have been torn to pieces AS it was
the foot was SO badly laceratrd that
amputation was necessary. '|
An Atchison man says he cured him
self of neuralgia by holding II kitten
to his face three times a day -
In going through some old papers
the other day u Blue Rapids man found
some receipts for war taxes paid by
his father in the early seventies. One
was given in payment for license to
practice lazy, aud the two others were
for real estate and the insurance bust
ness, All three of them We're for the
same amount, $40, which shows the
difference between the war tax of
then and now. .rl.,, |..la.i f.. .
An, eNpressman was arrested at
Leavenworth recently for violating
the war revenue tax .b. Ia.a
, The farmers of Rice county are more
than pleased with their crop of wheat.
It is considered that Rice county
wheat is MS good, IL not better, than
any county in the state. Cooper &
Plumb are handling the bulk of the
wheat marketed at Lyons, and the