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Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

THE man who dabbles in politics till
he just gets a good idea Of the way the
politicians save the country, how their
patriotism is measured by the interest
on their investment, either received or
expected; the man who figures up the
assets OF the county by the reports OF
deposits in the banks and then compares
them with the moneys listed for taxation;
the man who hears pious John Rock
efellar praying Thy kingdom come" d"
while he grab, the whole of It him
self and turns the Lord Off with petty
donations; the man who hears the minis
ter supplicating for love divine and then
measures it out in proportion 10 the cost
and beauty of your wearing apparel and
the size oil your wad, is apt to get the
idea that this struggling, seething world
of humanity is depraved, But Sh. He
doesn't know anything about it, If he has
not examined the petitions on file at the
court house for divorces, There Is
where you find the real depravity, There
Is where you find the real meanness.
For instance you find women who swear,
and that makes it so, that they have al
ways, and that Is long time, demeaned
themselves as faithful, loving wives, and
are kicked out Of bed, threatend, called
-and--and--and then some. How they
in performance of their wifely duties
have been struck pounded and left to
starve and make living for the child
rem how the drunken brute Of man Law
ishes his attentions on all other people,
but those whose earnings he appropri-
ates for his own uses and abuses. There
you find men who swear, and that makes
it so again, that they have always, and
again that is long time, been helpful,
kind and loving husbands, are left to get
their own meals in cold weather, or go
II as well as the poor things can make
it 60, on cold snacks, while the lazy,
worthless, faithless, spouce lays abed
and reads novels, or gads about telling
what a bad man he is. And then there
is the woman who abandons faithful,
kind, loving and handsome man with
money to run away with a scrub who has
no assets but three freckles and an un-
paid board bill. Now we wont aver on
the veracity Of newspaper that never
tells anything but the truth that all and
several, each and every one of the above
charges can be found in cases now
pending in this country but most of
them are there and their reading has de-
veloped our suspicion into conclusion
that this is wild wicked world,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

WE HAVE heard very large amount
of complaint concerning the Fourth of
July celebration here last week. Of
course there is always more or less
grumblng from class of people that
think the Pan American exposition
should be furnished them for nickle in
any country town or small city. But the
complaint this time seems not to be con-
fined to that class alone. 1t is general.
1t is widespread. One man on the streets
last Saturday was saying in modest
way that he believed making the town
so dry was hurting it, referring to the
liquor business, when very intelligent
young man spoke up and said it was not
hurting half so much as that Fourth OF
July. He said: "They made us pay to
get in and then made us pay to sit down,
and then all we could do was to look at
oneanother." The races and the whole
program seem to have been an utter fail
ure. Music even was scarce. The two
ball games between Newton and Ster-
ling teams were the only amusements
worth looking at and they were nothing
at all extra. The people who came
from the country, having read the ad-
vertisements and expecting good time
such as Hutchinson has a record for Civ
ing on such occasions, went home not
only disgusted but angry. On the streets
Saturday it was often asserted that it
will injure the fair this fall. This is
something to be feared. Of course it
should not be so, but the people of the
country who feel that they were not
fairly treated may not distinguish be-
tween the different arrangements of the
enterprises. We do not know who is
to blame for the failure of the celebra.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
Shot In The Back.

Monday night there was another train
load of returning soldiers that passed
through this city. They we're not col
ored soldiers, but they behaved them
selves in about the same way the col
ored boys did or worse. AT Kinsley two
harvest hands who had finished their
jobs got on the train to 60 home. They
were desirous of getting there as
cheaply as possible and some of the
soldiers tried to help them to beat their
way by lending them their coats and
hats. But the train men recognized
them as not being soldiers and told them
to get off at Hutchinson. They pre-.
ceeded to do so, But just as they did
80 a soldier with his revolver shot one
of them in the back the ball striking
just above the right kidney and prob
ably ranging down, DR.. Gage exam
ined him and reported that he could
not live, but he was alive and was sent
on to his home in Chiicothe, Mo. where
he has wife and family, The other
man with him was his brother and he
accompanied him, Their name was
Gibbons.
1t is said there was much drinking
among the soldiers and that they were
having desperate and boisterous time.
One of their number, boy from Geor-
gia, got off the train here because he
said it was dangerous to ride with them.
He claimed to be a Christian and said
they perpetrated all sorts of indignties
upon him.
The soldier who fred the shot was
named John Howard, and was arrested
by the police in Kansas City on his ar
rival there. He confessed to the shoot
ing,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
A GASOLINE Launch.

Last week the Crippen Brosp who
have purchased the Shadduck grove and
lake, bought gasoline launch that had
been used at Halstead, brought it here
and had it running on the lake the
Fourth. This launcn will hold about a
dozen people and runs by small engine
that drives it at good speed. They
now have also fine bath rooms and are
receiving splendid patronage as they
deserve to do. The water is soft, which
makes it pleasant for bathing. The
present owners are very accommodating
and look carefully to the needs of the
public and the desires Of their guests.
Their charges are reasonable,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
Naw Railroad.

Although the people of Hutchinson
seem to have turned down the PROPOSE
ton to vote bonds for bringing the Frisco
railroad in from Patterson, there is still
prospect that they will have pro-
position of the same sort to deal with
At the time the remonstrances to the
petition calling for the other election
we're being circulated, 1t was freely
stated by some Of those who we're circu'
lating the remonstrances that the peo-
pie should refuse to assist the Frisco
because they would soon have chance
to assist better road to come from the
North and enter the same territory the
Frisco penetrates, Last week another
road was incorporated by New York
capitalists apparently in line with the
above statement. The president and
board of directors are given as follows;
President, Bernard J. Harrison, vice
president, D, ], Mcdonald, treasurer
+. d. Harrington, Secretary Edward
Walker Harden, all OF New York. The
directors are Frederick Hoffman Smith,
Newark, N, J., Martin J. Eagan, San
Francisco. L. P. Williams, Mcpher-
son., Powell Clayton, Eureka Springs,
Ark, Governor L. M. LaFollette, Mad
ison, Wis. Clarence T. Rittenhouse, Phil
adelphia, Pa, and Del P. Parker, Pitts
burg, Pa. 1t is claimed that the north
ern terminus will be at Superior, Nebr.
and that the general Offices OF the COM
pany as required by the statutes must
be either at Hutchinson or Wichita,
being the only two available points on
the line in this State. After leaving the
State the line Of the road will tap the
Usage Indian country and then continue
on to the gulf When completed it is
explained that the road will tap the
fine coal and lumber regious Of the
south. This all makes very nice read
ing and causes the Hutchinson real
estate holder who is unsophistcated
enough to believe it all feel as though he
were right in the path Of boom and
fortune. But there are many "ifs" in the
way, Of and all the greatest of these is "if
all men would only tell the truth"
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
JIAL ORGAN OF THE PEOPLES PARTY OF RENO COUNTY.
HUTCHINSON RENO COUNTY KANSAS THURSDAY JULY H. 1901

Although there are hundreds OF
thousands OF women occupying posi-
AD,. - tlons Of trust In the
Her Sex. ,tonoos ana
ceedlngly rare In which they have vlo-
lated the confidence reposed in them,
What had almost become happy tra-
dition under the new business condl-
tions by which women have been so
generally admitted to equal competi-
tlon with men In many of the yocations
Of life has had rude disturbance. A
news item from Philadelphia relates
the fact that young woman, for five
years confidential bookkeeper for u
prominent firm, has been found short
in her accounts $4,000, and has disap-
peared, So far as can be recalled, this
is the most serious act Of dishonesty
yet charged to the account Of the busl-
ness woman. So successfully has she
stood out against the temptation to
emulate the conduct OF her male as
sociates in this direction that the
world had come to regard her as safe
against the embezzlement habit, The
Philadelphia incident will, II is to be
feared, tend to shatter this fond be-
lief. Consolation may be found, how
ever, in the reflection that the Phila-
delphia "embezzleress" stands conspic-
uonsly alone among the thousands Of
honest women who are faithful to the
trust reposed in them amid deluge
of bad examples set by the stronger
sex.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

Joe Clark, one was a great Dane belong
ing to T, A, Shuler one old pet dog
brought his meat home and thereby
saved his life. While the bowling and
barking Of dogs is very disagreeable 1t
is a very mean trick to attempt anything
Of this kind, Not only that but It Is un-
lawful and II the guilty one is found he
will no doubt discover that fact. Alto
gether about a half dozen dogs became
victims.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

Jonn Allen, cook, got religion at
a negro camp meeting in the suburbs
of El Paso. 1t affected him so Pc
culiarly that the police ran him in
and locked him up, pending nm eX-
animation as to his sanity, Elder
Hugglns called at headquarters and
demonstrated, "He amt drunk or
crazy" said the elder to the chief;
he's just chuck full of the spirit. lie
has been n very bad young man, a
crap shooter and razor toter, and
now the spirit has at last taken hold
of him."
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11


A well-known woman OF large city
received the following note the other
Heading OHa day; "Deor Mad
am; l take pleas
ure in shipping to
your address rug valued at $50, for
which | shall be glad to receive your
check. II you do not desire the rug,
please return It," "rhe ideal" she
exclaimed, ~ never knew such i'm
pertlnence," Then she sat down and
wrote the following; "Dcar Sir;
have ordered no rug from your estab.
lishment, and see no reason why
should go to the expense OF returning
that which do not want, and which
wdS sent to me unsolicited" To This
she received the following answer in
due time: "Dear Madam; will send
for the unsolicited rug, and trust you
will do me the favor to send for the
unsolicited charity entertainment
tickets which now lie, with about 2S
others, on my desk; "The discour-
teous boor!' she exclaimed.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

Some one who probably had been dis
turbed in his slumbers by the melan-
choly walls of howing dogs started a
silent war upon the canine species that
inhabit avenue A East last Tuesday
morning. Armed with a bottle of stry-
chnine and chunk of liver, he scattered
miscellaneous death along his path.
One was fine bird dog belonging to
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

In Montgomery county, Indiana, a
few farmers bought switchboard
and telephones for their own use, pay
ing three dollars initiation and 20
cents month. Tolls from nonsub-
scribers met the salary OF the oper-
ator This system has been extended
until It serves 40 towns with 5000 tel
ephones. In Massachusetts, county
200 farmers provide their own tele.
phone facilities for six dollars each
Il year,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
VOL. H..
DOWN IN KANSAS.
Thcro b nlwnys romolhIng dOlns

There Ia always something doins
Dowo In Kanaas,
Trouble on or trouble brewing,
Down In KanBns.
All the world In wonder gazes
At the everlasting crnEes
That are ralslng helen blazes
Down In Kanhus.
Now II Mrs. Lease 10 yolllng,
Down In Kansas;
Now q aovornor Lewelllng,
Down IN Kansasi
Now II 10 n Carrie Nation,
With some startling innovation,
Who 10 cauelng tribuhtlon
Down In Kansas.
Now The whlskars Of Polfer,
Down In Iiaulaf,
Monkeys with the gentle zephyr,
Down in Kansasi
Now ipB an Ingalls, spouIing,
OrAJ, Ralph Burton shouting,
Some new freAk 10 always sbroutlng
Down In Kansas.
II the folks by chance are quiet
Down Ia Kansas,
Then the weather starts q riot
Down In Kansas;
o, tho wind II is a wonder,
When II gets TO raislng thunder
trips everything Nsunder
Down In Kansas.
They have cyclones In the summer.
Down In Kansas;
And / tell you, thoy arc hummers,
Down In Kansar.
When II comes to things climatic,
They're little bit emphatic,
And are also quite erratlc,
Down In Kansas,
Stlll there's much for admiration
Down in Kansas,
There lie nothing like stagn0tlon
Down In Kansas
All the folks are on their muscle;
And the State 10 fllled with bustlei
And they rustic and they hustle,
Down In Kansas.
Denver News
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

tion, for there was combination Of va
rious interests that took It up, but we do
know that the fair association Is some
thing entirely separate and distinct from
any of them. The fair association is
largely under the management Of pco-
pie who live in the country. 1t Is to be
hoped no one will confOund the fair with
the Fourth OF July celebration,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

A stroke of lightning at Darien, N
V, drove man perpendcularly into
a muddy ditch up to his arnpiis. He
had on rubber boots, but II seems
they do not protect person from
being used as n pile driver.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

.Wah-ta-wass, full-blooded Indian
girl is probably the first of her race
to become n professional stenograph-
er and typewriter. She is employed
by u prominent Boston lawyer, and
intends to go through Radcliffe col.
lege by her earnings.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

A woman in Adrian, Mich, who pro-
tested without avail against gam
bling den which got all of her hus-
bands weekly earnings, set out the
other night with can of Kerosene
and burned the place to the ground.
She was acquitted in court.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

ed Banning, the popular sign paint.
err" says the Willing (Ean.) TRIBUNE,
stopped into town last night, TO find
out how his lady friend was progress
ing with the mumps."
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

When asked by his wife for money
to buy some flour, resident Of u
western town handed her ten-dollar
bill. She refused to give him any
change, saying that she was II mem
Der of the lluIlaloes. The husband
had her arrested, but the local JUS
tce dismissed the case,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

Our patrons, irrespective Of the size of their ac-
accounts will receive careful and courteous attention
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11
Skirts Made Free!

We have secured the services Of
Mr., II. GoldstIen, ladies' tailor, Of
Chicago. While here Mr.. Goldatlen
will make plain lined skirts Free
of Charge providing the ma
terlal is purchased In our Dress
Goods Department, and costs not
less than 75c n yard. Save the ex-
pense Of having your skirt made by
purchasing 1t at Martins before
next Wednesday night. July 18th.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

"All governments derive
their Just powersfrom
the consent of the
governed"
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-11

A well-known woman OF large city
received the following note the other
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
EXCITEMENT AT A CIRCUS.
Old Exposition Building mt Kansas
City Burns-Wns To Have Deen
Torn Down.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 6.-At one
o'clock Monday afternoon flames burst
suddenly from the I'D exposition
building occupying a half-square of
ground in the eastern end of the city,
and Immediately spread through the
entire structure, which has been un-
occupied for years. The building is sit
uated directly across the street from
circus that had pitched its tents here
Sunday night and great excitement pre-
vailed among the hundreds of people
awaiting the opening performance.
The circus employees were soon called
out and aided in getting the people to
places of safety. The building, which
is situated three miles from the CEN
ter of the city, is an old landmark and
was TO have been blown up with dyna-
mite next Saturday to give way for a
new structure.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
TRAINS COLLIDE.
Two Men Killed in n Fatal Railway
Disaster Which Occurred
Near Buffalo.

Lockport, y. Y, Aug. 5.-A PAN
American special heavily loaded and
a regular train collided few miles
east of this city about one o'clock Sun
day morning on the New York Central.
Thomas Hyland, an engineer, and
George Webb, trainman, were killed,
and fireman was severely injured.
The regular train was late at Medina,
and received orders to run to Middle
port and await the Pan-American spe-
cial. When the train reached Middle
port they met the Buffalo theater
train, which they thought was the
special they were to pass. In the
meantime the Pan-American special
had received orders to proceed to
Middleport. The trains met few
miles east of this city. The passen-
gers of both trains were thrown into
panic by the shock, but none was
seriously injured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
USED HEROIC MEANS.
Business Men of Tampa. Fla, in Order
to End n Strike, Capture and
ImprIson Leaders.

Tampa, Fla, Aug. 6.-Monday night
100 business men, in order to end the
strike of the Resistencia union cigar
makers, searched the streets of Tampa
and seized many strike leader, and
it is rumored that they were sent on
vessel outside the bar and to the
gulf. Excitement prevailed, but no
rioting occurred. 1t is said that an
attempt was made to assemble the
strike leaders in a conference and cap
ture them all together, but the strikers
heard of it and dispersed. The search
through the streets followed. The
rumor as to the disposition of the
captured men is not fully confirmed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09

pany street, and there wasn't any dam
ger, anyhow. What we wanted, guess,
was to keep it where it would be most
convenient, right alongside of his tent;
but there's where he did keep it, any
way. We couldn't move him till some-
thing happened.
"Our fire arrangement was just the
usual thing, couple of crotched
sticks driven in the ground, five or
six feet apart, with a pole laid across
between them, and the camp kettles
hanging from that pole, with the fire
built under them. We got shell from
, that gun one day that took away one
of those crotched sticks and scattered
earth around pretty freely, but it
| didn't do any other damage; it was
/ just after breakfast, when there was
nothing on the pole; but we got a
shot later that same morning when
there was something there, our din
ner.
"We were going to have boiled pork,
! boiled beans and coffee for dinner
that day, and all three kettles were
hanging side by side and close to-
SelHeT Ou lHt pOle, anu ID nm away
merrily, when along came n shell,
there close to the ground, and how it
ever did it I don't know, because it
didn't have the kettles in line; but it
managed somehow, all the same, to
smash all three of them into II diff
ferent kinds of cooked hats, and it
scattered our dinner pretty much all
over creation.
"For about a minute it just rained
beans and coffee and chunks of pork
all round that neighborhood. Some
of the pork came down four streets
away; and it seemed a. though in our
street there wasn't a tent but what
got more or less of the beans or cof-
fee or both. You wouldn't have
thought they could have been so wide
ly distributed, so that there was
enough of 'em to go round so far, and
the she'll didn't explode, you under
stand, either, just smashed the kettle
and passed on.
"Well, we lost our dinner that day
but the loss served one good purpose;
we were able after that to get the
cook to move the fire little, anyway
out of the range of that gun"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
MANY SUFFER.
Disappointed Hundreds Who Failed
to Win I'm the Land Lottery Sac
rInce All Tn eIr Possessions.

Ell Reno, Okla, Aug. 5.-Hundreds
of homeseekers who failed to draw
claim in the new Kiowa- -Comanche
country are selling their tents,
horses and wagons at sacrifice in
order to reach their homes. Many
others who have camped on the
borders of the land for months ex-
pecting that it would be opened by a
run" are destitute and already suf-
fering is apparent. Hundreds are
drifting south toward the projected
towns of Anadarke, Hobart and Law
ton, hoping that something may
turn up.
Lawton, Okla, Aug. 5.-A petition
has been telegraphed Col. Randlett
Indian agent at Anadarke, signed by
500 persons, asking him to suppress
gambling of all kinds that prevails
here. 1t is asserted, however, that
he has no authority to interfere SC
| long as Indians are left alone. Hun.
dreds of 'holdup" games are piled
on every hand and the innocent are
robbed right and left. Liquor dealers
are fiocl<ing to town and declare they
will open saloons in the new country
on August 6, when the auction sale oi
town lots opens, Notwithstanding
they cannot by law begin business be
fore giving 60 days published notice
The territory officials are beginning
to make wholesale arrests. In TIL,
meantime whisky and beer are being
shipped into the country on every
train. Lawton continues to grow a
rapid rate. Much suffering has al
ready resulted. There is little waite
to be had and it sells at so cents ;
| bnrrpl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
A STUBBORN COMPANY COOK.
Moved mt Last when n Shell Cnmo
Along md Carried O3 She
Dinner.

"Where we were camped one spell in
front of Petersburg" said civil war
veteran, "there was one gun on the
other side that seemed to have line on
our company street.
''As a general thing the shells would
go over us to the rear; but once in
awhile one would burst over the street,
and now and then we'd get one touch
ing the ground. And with the condi-
tions as they were, when a shell actual
ly stirred up the dust in the street like
that it almost always struck very close
to one particular sr@t, that being at
the inner end of the street and on the
cook tents side.
"That used to disturb us consider
able, because we didn't know but what
some day shell might come along
through there and carry off our dinner,
and we tried to get the cook to shift
the fire little, ten feet or so, SO we
wouldn't be in so much danger; but he
was a stubborn cuss, and he wouldn't
'He said a cook fire wouldn't look
very well out in the middle of the com