Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-03
aASsAs ITEMS or INTEREST.

Five million dollars is TO be expended
for new buildings at Fort Leavenworth.
Tumner county banks are full of
money! the farmcrS own the most OF
II,
The second annual Barton county
fair at Great Bend brought together ON
It's second day 1000 people
A. II, McAfec, Frisco brakeman,
had a leg cut off by the trucks OF nm
engine In the Wichita yards,
Missouri parties have leased land
near Laneville, Labette county, for the
purpose OF starting a distillery
Ernest V, Tuttle, an old citizen OF
salina, Is dead, He was n member OF
the Masonic, Shriner and Elk lodges,
The state permanent school fund has
taken s97, 900 Of township bonds, Wood
son county. There is yet In the fund
S?75, 900 uninvcsted money,
j, A. Myers, n Rock Island brake
man, was throwing switch In Topeka
when he slipped and fell and the train
struck him, mashng his head.
Smith the Redheld barber, who was
driven out Of that town for speaking
dsrcspeGtfully Of President Mckinley
tries other locations and is regularly
asked TO move on.
Charles Sanders, foreman Of the G, G.
c, ranch, east Of Peabody, was attacked
by large gray wolf which lacerated
him In n terrible manner before he sue.
ceeded in killing II,
There are exhibited in store windows
nt Wellington fur garments labeled
from sl95 TO 5000, with others at smaller
prices. Goods of this description find
sale in the families Of the wheat grow
crs.
John A. Flcencr, OF Arkansas City,
has sued the Ancient Order Of Pyra-
mids for $4,000 for injuries which rem
dered him a cripple for life; the injuries
being received while he was being in.
itated.
A man is selling bogus life insurance
policies purportlng TO be issued by the
Phoenix Insurance company, of New
York. lie sells TO farmers. Several
victims have been robbed by him in
Lyon county,
The True Eleven is the name Of a
new colored social organization in
Atchson, formed for the purpose of
Clevating the morals Of young colored
people andpromoting n higher standard
In social affairs
Geo. Welsh, city marshal Of S, Marys,
was shot, probably fatally, by man
named Williams who had been arrested
Tor beating his wife, The marshal
dunned him for his fine and was an
swcred by the shot,
The Farmers Elevator Mt Rush Cen
ter was opened with procession of so
loads Of wheat, from north of Bison,
headed by the A. o, U, w, band, with
the Star Spangled banner floating
from many OF the wagons,
A l?-year old son Of Herman Dorm
bush, of Marion county, tied the reins
Of team around him and went TO sleep
IN the wagon, The team ran away
and dumped the wagon into apond and
perhaps fatally injured the boy.
Y. b. Todd, whose home is in Cuba
has come to Kansas as u student of the
at the Agricultural college. His father,
L. Il. Todd, went with Funston TO fight
for the Cubans and was made captain
After the war he sent for his family
and remained there,
Miss Grace Perry, of Girard, is APP
pointed by Governor Stanley TO the
scholarship offered Kansas in the
school Of Industrial Art and Technical
Design in New York City.
A jury in the Cloud county district
sourt refused to bring in verdict of
guilty when boy was tried and proven
guilty of horse stealing because he was
just too old to be sent TO the reform
school for a second term and would
have to go to the penitentiary. The boy
then stole horse and wagon and is in
jail again.
They are done figuring on Sumner
county's wheat crop in 1901, and decide
that 100000 bushels was raised and
harvested on 100000 acres
Professor II. 5. Carr, of the electrical
engineering department of Kansas
university, has resigned from the facul-
ty and will go into business at Cleve.
land, Ohio.
One of that breed of takers called
travelling doctors, got in his graft on
parties in Chautauqua county and is
boarding now at the expense of the
county in jail
Simon Bomguard's barn near Canton
Mcpherson county, was burned, to-
gether with four horses and severa