Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-07-07
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.
Expert burglars are prevalent at Fl.

New mail cranes are being placed at
small stations along the Santa Re rail-
road
Dog day season has almost arrived
and the small boy with sores on hin
back has TO keep out Of water with a
blue scum.
The Winfield Courier says It's rather
dangerous to live in war times as Cow
ley county has already had TO feed
three buns In one week,
Two Topeka newspaper men did the
right thing this week. They went out
into the short grass country and mar
ried u pair OF rosy-cheeked girls,
Three young ladies are after the re-
publican nomination for county super
intendent In Chautnuqua county. This
may account for the scarcity OF teach
ers In that direction,
The Forepaugh and Sells show which
does not expect to be in western Kan
sas for six weeks or perhaps n couple
Of months, Is already advertising In
the newspapers out there,
Charles Campbell, one Of Doniphan
county's wcalthiest farmers, was work.
ing In the harvest field when overcome
10y the heat, lie walked to the house
and died in five minutes
Girard has six snake manufacturing
institutions This notice is not in
tended for dime museum or menagerie
managers II is the way the local
newspaper refers to the town joints,
All the county conventions should
be held as early us possible this year
10 that the nomination papers may be
fled in order TO get the proper blanks
to the soldiers who are at the front in
lime to vote.
The negro battalions at Topeka and
Lawrence have been completed, The
captain elected by the Topeka com
pany cnn barely write, The captain
selected by the Lawrence company is
highly educated,
Newspaper men can be vicious. Col.
Inns attorneys at Topeka will not per-
init reporters TO see him and the re-
porters assert II Is because Collins
wants to make confession, The
worst place on earth to try u case is in
the newspapers.
Attorney General Boyle thinks the
next Missouri legislature will pass n
bill regulating the removed stock
yards for the benefit OF Kansas far
mers. Yes, Missouri will Missouri
has done nothing but rob Kansas for
the last forty years.
At Camp Alger, Washington, Kansas
boys arc being treated as so many
runts.- Other states and cities send
their troops money and delicacics. The
Kansas boys have to live on the regu-
lar army farc, They will in the end
make the best soldiers.
At Concordia the other day couple
nged lS and IL and cauple aged 81
and 81 stood up together and had the
harness bucltled on. On the same day
couple aged II and 10 were married
in Mcpherson county. The mother Of
the bride sent letter of consent to the
probate Judge in which she said she
believed in early marriages as "the
only way to stop a lot of counting fool
ishness"
The Kansas boys at Tampa are Civ
ing their friends at home surprise in
unique stationary, One kind Of letter
paper has the picture Of n United
States soldier standing beneath two
crossed flags one an American, the
other Cuban, Beneath the soldiers
gun, on the ground, is the flag Of Spain,
and ship in the background. Anoth-
err has wreath Of blue smoke, out OF
which stands upright a waving flag.
Across the smoke is printed the COM
pany, and twenty-tirst Kansas volun-
teers, in red letters
William Best, residing near Admire,
in Lyon county, met horrible death
June 20. He was narrowing when n
man riding bicycle came along the
road. The horses were frightened at
the wheel so badly that they ran
away. At the first lunge Best was
caught under the harrow and dragged
until he was dead. Four harrow teeth
stuck in his head and his body was
terribly mutilated. He was dead be-
fore the horses could be stopped. The
teeth stuck into his head at least three
inches and the brain was oozing from
the wounds when he was picked up.
Best was a member of the old pioneer
families and was well known.
1t now turns out that Captain Cap
ron was born and raised in Shawnee