The Hoyt Sentinel Jackson County Saturday November 8, 1902 Seriously Injured. On Saturday afernoon a youth of seventeen years named Paul DURKINS, an adopted son of Pat Durkins, of Union Hotel, Railway Street, North Topeka, came up to Hoyt for a large grey horse, which he started to ride to Topeka. When passing along the road in the vicinity of the residence of Mrs. Holt, she saw a boy ride past and fall to the ground. She immediately called assistance and the unconscious boy was taken to Dr. J.W. Pettijohn's ofice and given proper attention. Not improving, the boy was taken upon a cot to Topeka on the evening train, via the Rock Island System, and delivered to his relatives. The tearing of his shoe, the upper portion of its sole, and the mark of mud on coat and head indicated that when the saddle slipped around the boy had been dragged by thye stirrup until the shoe was torn in two. The lad is reported to remain dangerously ill, and is at Christ's Hospital, Topeka.