Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-26

tion department amount 10 about $50,
900 year.
Bert Neely, a pardoned convict, stole
a watch at Fort Scott, and was locked
up again.
Miss Matte Beal heads the list Of
those voted for to be queen of the
Wichita carnival.
VIM. Bitner, a brakeman on the Rock
Island, was killed at Herington while
switching In the yards,
The people Of Parsons are furnished
with gas for furnaces Mt ls cents .
thousand with 10 per cent on for cash
A, d, Arbegast, formerly an ohicia'
OF the NJ, X. g. #, railroad, fell from
his back porch in Parsons and wal
killed,
Emma Goldman visited Pittsburl
four years ago and not much Is remem
bered Of her visit except her appetite
for beer,
j, II. Hamilton, near HoNie, lost nine
steers from being struck by lightning
He had been having all kinds Of i'll luck
and sickness,
A one-year.old daughter of VIM, itch,
Of Hope, fell from u porch into tub OF
water and was drowned, No one saw
the child fall,
Calvin Coffee, OF Atchison county,
sold his apples in the orchard Of A.
acres for $1,000, The crop is estimated
at 1000 barrels.
Farmers Of Dickinson county are
putting in greater acreage Of wheat
than ever before. The ground is in ex
eellent condition.
A nine-foot vein of FIRE clay has been
found two miles sonth of Topeka, A
large portion Of the Dudley farm is
underlaid with the fire clay,
Ex-Representative VIM. Bradley, OF
Clay county, has been arrested for
whipping an old man and his wife, an
old woman, over dispute about a
pasture.
Ledru Guthrie, former practicng
attorney of Wellington, has so much
business in his new location in New
York City as to require six rooms for
his Office.
On Sunday morning September 90,
the Wichita city Jail was without an
occupant; which has not occurred be-
fore in a long time; but fair week is
close at hand
James James, Of FL Dorado, wept
like child when the news of the death
of his comrade, Wm. Mckinley, came.
They enlisted together as privates, at
Cleveland, in 1861,
Mrs Rosa Bell, aged GO years. of ST.
John, was killed by freight train
while gathering wheat from the rail
road tracks. She and her husband,
who are Irish, had considerable prop
erty.
A young man, formerly hotel clerk
of Greensburg, Ind, and Topeka, was
found two miles east of Ellsworth with
both legs cut off. 1t is supposed he at.
tempted to catch on an outgoing freight
but missed his hold.
Lieutenant Buchan, Of Wyandotte,
and Miss Laura Conger are married
and will go to Manila shortly. They
first met just year ago when the res.
cuing party reached the American lega-
ton in Pekin. Miss Conger was with
her father, the ambassador.
A negro killed the sheriff of Crawford
county and people along the route he
took, in wagon with woman, laid
for n chance to shoot him. This was
urue us lar away as Parsons.
A Meade county farmer who has
raised close to 10000 bushels of wheat
and barley in the past two seasons
drove into town the other day and
made arrangements to get deed for
another tract of 100 acres. He says he
| don't know of n place on earth where
he can get ahead at n more rapid rate
than right where he is now.
A Cherryvalc man, after getting out
of Jail where he was put for fast driving
was put on the streets to work out
$l4,3O for using abusive language.
A Topeka woman who said she was
glad Mckinley was dead, was visited
by the mayor who advised her
to emigrate She Immediately left
town.
The X. N. G. officers school went
into camp at the fair grounds in Tope
ka, living in true army style. Colonel
Metcalf and Colonel Hoisington are
the principal Instructors.
Chas. Kerfus, who broke Jail at Hays
City, secretly came back and stole away
his sweetheart, domestic in private
family.
Judson McGrew, of Fort Scott, sol.