Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-24
Kansas lTEMs or INrERNsr.

peka.
Jerry Black will light all his cars
with gas.
The Santa Fe pays 100000 a year
taxes in Kansas
A single firm in independence does
an egg business of S95, 900 year.
A. L. Sponsler is a versatile man.
He recently quit newspaper work and
now is in the grain business.
Broom corn buyers are in Western
Kansas. 1t has been good year and
the farmers are getting good prices.
Speaker Lobdell is said to be punch
ing cattle in western Kansas, and incl
dentally studyidg the "lay of the
land"
The state we'll in Grant county con-
tains ninety feet of water, but sinking
will not cease until coarse gravel is
reached.
Holton is building a telephone line
to the capital. Being but thirty-two
miles away, she ought to have had it
long ago.
The only way to convict bank wreck
ers in Kansas is to first manage in
some way to deprive them of the mon
ey they steal.
The Burlingame Enterprise is the
title of a new venture. 1t begins with
good local page, but it threatens to
be funny and says it has to fill long
felt want.
Janitor FUELS case has f2oved the
executive council to issue a general
order forbidding the use of the unoc-
cupied rooms of the state house as
sleeping quarters.
Burr Oak township, which has not
had postoffice since before the war,
is to be supplied with one. 1t will be
called Lee and man from Missouri
will be postmaster.
One of the victims of diphtheria in
Topeka last week was the bright little
S-year-old daughter of John f. Mitch
ell, chief clerk of the Santa Fe passen-
ger auditing department
A Johnson county man went to the
national encampment and then visited
through Kentucky, Indiana and Illi-
nois. He has returned and is better
satisfied with Ka9Sps, now, than ever
before.
Last Saturday Governor Morrill, re-
stored the rights of citizenship to four
teen convicts in the penitentiary,
whose time will expire within the
next month. Seven of the men are
from Cowley county.
Thousands of cattle are weekly
driven from "No Mans Land" and
shipped to Kansas City from Liberal.
Over 1000 head have been shipped
since the season opened, and the rush
has only begnn.
Topeka city water contains an in
gredient that eats holes in tin. What
Topeka needs is an influence that will
compel the water company to bore into
the bowels of the earth couple of
thousand feet after pure water.
1t is said that 800 per cent more
Kaftir corn was raised in Sedgwick !
county this year than at any time in
the past The yield is from so to 1875
bushels per acre, and the grain is said
to make excellent feed for stock.
Mrs. Martha Kinnaman lives in
Chautauqua county and has thirty
acres of corn that is huslling out sew
enty-five bushels per acre, enough if !
corn was good price, to equal the !
value of the land upon which it grew. /
Harry NJ. Baker of Cowley county, |
took Len Ginger, an infirm old man,
from the poor farm Saturday Mr..
Baker said that Mr.. Ginger had been
one OF the most prosperous farmers in |
Ohio, and had helped Baker when he
was tramping for work.
Lyons has a musical composer, Mrs.
A. L. Mcmillan, of considerable merit.
Her last production is entitled; "If it
were not for Mollie and the babies"
which is spoken of quite favorably by
music critics. She was for long
time editor of the Sterling Bulletin.
Camping in the Wilderness" is
fad in Burligame society. The room
is arranged to resemble a wilderness
and the feed consists of a quart of |
oysters and a niclAl's worth of crack
ers for sixty persons. 1t is said to be
funny by the idiot who invented it,
but nobody else thinks so.
DR.. Eva Harding of Topeka, is the
proud owner of little Chinese straw
berry bird, so called because of the re-
semblance of its plumage to a straw
berry. The bird is very small and
sings little piping tune. It's bill and
breast feathers are blood red, and the
entire, plumage is fecked with tiny
white spots, like the seeds of a straw
berry. DIR. Harding says it is the only
bird of its kind in Topeka.
A. A. Robinson's private car is paint
ed black with white stripes and on the
top margin are the words Central
Mexicano."