Hutchinson gazette., 1901-08-08

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on the school house grounds at Erie.
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
rio nation out OF the Shawnee count,
jail.
The Kansas railroad commissioner
have asked for lower rates on forage
and feed.
Miss Helen Riley, OF Empire City
aged IS years, was drowned while
bathing.
An elevator at Smolan, Saline county
bursted spilling 5000 bushels OF wheat
on the ground,
Randall Bundy, ls ycnrs old, was
oiling windmill at Ellsworth and fell
rs feet, He died.
The ringleaders OF the thrcshing
gang which raised trouble at Colwich
have been arrested.
The Culver Touring mill at Salino
burned while IL was closed for repairs.
The loss Is about $4,000.
Thieves in the southern part OF Sa.
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons,
Thaddcus Hyatt, an early friend OF
Kansas, died last week at Sandown,
Isle of Wight, at the age Of SO years,
The creamery at Madison is burned;
building and contents 1t Is thought
that the fire started from the gasoline
engine,
Secretary Geo W. Martin, of the his,
torical society, addressed the best old
settlers meeting Hutchinson ever held,
on August 1,
Kansas Agricultural college is inNu-
gurating eSperimentsin poultry feeding
to produce eggs; also judging school
to teach poultry Judging and scoring,
Vice President Roosevelt partially
promised TO stop over at Hutchinson on
his return trip from Colorado and ad-
dress the veterans at the state G. A. r.
reunion.
Alta livery stable fire ip Wichita
eight horses were burned. There were
80 horses in the barn. The vehicles
were all injured but most Of them were
taken out
An Atchison minister sued o man for
his fee for marrying him n year ago.
The minister concluded that as the man
was already married again he could
afford to pay.
Dr. Rafter, who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re-
tired from the hospital service as Man
lila and will return to Kansas, making
his home at Holton.
A wealthy woman named Brunswick
in Chicago has left fortune to n girl
named Grace Brennan who worked in
Topeka Laundry about two years ago,
but whose present location is now un-
known.
Mrs. Tracey, Of Brown county, has
sued DR., Swan, Of the state board of
health, for So, 900 damages for locking
up her daughter in pest house which
has but one room and that room
with man in It.
The city Of Parsons owns in common
stock in the NJ. X, e. T, road $4,000.
A proposition last spring to give this
TO the railroad because of the many i'm.
provements 1t had made in the town
carried by a large majority, Now the
mayor refuses to transfer the stock un-
less he is indemniGed against legal
consequences. The city council has in
Identified him, but he still refuses to
make the deed.
The manager Of the Harvey eating
house at Dodge City, has been arrested
charged with having prairie chickens
in his possession out Of season.
Miss Beals, the winner Of second
prize in the Lawton district, denies the
story started by the Kansas City Jour
nal that she is engaged to q Kansas
City man.
The slops at the Osawatonie asylum
amount to about seven barrels day.
There was spirited contest among
bidders to get 1t and 1t was sold for
four months ahead at $50 a month.
The annual reunion of the 2lst Kan.
sas volunteers has been changed from
Great Bend to hutchinson, where it
will occur on August 1917; dates fixed |
for the state reunion of the G. A. r.
j. H. Fisher, of Edwards county, was
on the point, five years ago, of aban.
doning his farm because of dry climate.
lie and his sons now hold clear title to
0 quarter sections, have 100 cattle, 20
horses and every kind OF farm imple.
ments, besides 5000 bushels Of wheat
In the bin. They have sufficient forage
to carry through the stock.
Governor Stanley has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest OF the man