Hutchinson gazette., 1900-02-08

A baggage 0nr on tho FRISCO wm
burned while the train crew were Out
to dinner
Arrangements are about completed
for an electric car line from olNthc tS
Kansas City.
The Strong City Citizens bana OF
eighteen members Is preparing for cam
paign year.
Lead issaid to have been discovered
in Sumner county, A company has
been formed TO sink shaft,
The Rock Island hOsrecGived l0new
and elegant coaches, The seats arc
said to exceptionally comfortable,
Worlmen Nre fitting upN new room
in the west wing OF the state house for
the plants colloCtod,hylthc AOndomy OF
Science.
Thc1Iuclsney block, which cost Hon.
Bill Hackney Sl9S 900 to build, Is de-
stroyed by hYe, III Is quite 10 loss 10
Winfield.
The Cityoomcil Of Paolo has placed
epenalty Of $50 on parents who do not
have their, r,children who attond school
vaGcinatOd
Charles lIGiloy d Ottawa received a
plum pudding from England which
came in good condition although 29
days on the way.
During 1900 the ldgerton creamery
paid for millS, $50, ,8OI6s, IN average
price per hundped pounds of,a little in
,eNOess OF 70 cents.
Len Cooper is ut the Leavenworth
federal peNitentiary from Oklahoma
His parents travelled there in 10 wagon
60 make him visit,
Colonel Il. n. q. Clough, OF LeSNen'
worth is dead. lie was 75 years old.
He was veteran of the Mexican wad
ana @t the civil war
On February there were in the To-
peka post Office 1901 January money
orders which had not yet heen pre-
sented Cor payment
Miami county road Overseer held
mass meeting In Paola and were we'll
entertained by the citizens. II was
one OF Barney Sheridan's schemes for
good roads
The poor commissioner Of Wyandotte
county has arranged work for able
bodied parties who apply for county
aid He expects this to lessen the
number applying.
Dr. j. Frank Davis was shot and in.
stantly killed at Halls Summit, by
Fred Denhart, Davis, Denhart and y.
o. Hill were at Dcnhart's house, drink
ing whisky and singing.
The Wichita Carnival and Fall Festi.
val association have invited the people
Of Kansas and Oklahoma to submit
designs for souvenir button for the
Street Fair and Carnival in October
neXt.
Mrs, Laura Ramsey, an aged widow,
at Sabetha, was murdered in her home.
There have been no arrests. The
officers have no clue to work upon.
The motive Of the crime was probably
robbery
Miss Blanche Stradtner, of Enter.
prise, lies in a prccarious condition, the
result of joke. While coming home
from church in the night few days
since a man jumped in front of her and
yelled Boo" She tainted and had
Mysteries, resulting in nervous pros.
tration and a serious condition which
is alarming her family.
A stock company with a capital OF
about $1,000, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of bor-
ing for gas or oil. Williamsburg is en-
thusiastic over the prospect
There are now building at the Santa
Fe shops in Topeka ten new all steel
ballast cars Of 80, 900 pounds capacity.
These cars will be Of standard size,
which means alength of 40 feet. These
cars will be the first steel cars to be
built at the Topeka shops and their
completion is naturally looked forward
to with much interest.
.Leavenworth has about given up get
ting the 5000, 900 appropriation for build
ing cell houses at the new federal peni-
tentiary site.
Governor Stanley will establish a
home finding department at the reform
school and state reformatory. Every
time home is found for boy he will
be given conditional pardon.
Geary Stevens, brother of Charles
Stevens, county attorney of Cherokee
county, was shot and killed at Scam
mon by James Hardison, the result of
a quarrel. Hardison made his escape.
The reports received at the state sup
erintendent's Office from all counties
show that the number of school chill