Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FiftV-four postothces were. rdiscon-
tinued in Kansas last year.
The new telephones at Hiawa tina
are to cost $3.50 per month.
Painted on a window of North
Topeka confectionery is Hay and
Feed"
The grasshoppers noticed in South
ern Kansas are like everything else in
this state this year-hying high.
Ed Greer says that Lord Durraven
simply proves by his talk that "there
is many slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip"
Some of the farmers in Elk county
are complaining that the mosquitoes
are sucking all the juice out of their
late fruit.
AS an evidence of returning pros
perity in the west "A Fatted Calf"
company has taken chances on its
brisket and will play Kansas this year.
The Howard Current has found an
other fellow we can spar; the fellow
who starts to telling something by
saying, las there are no ladies pres
ent"
Guffey & Galley nave drilled LOG wells
for gas or oil in Kansas, and they
think they ought to have the lightning
franchises in the towns in their terri
tory.
John Seaton will open his new thea
ter at Atchison September 3oth, and
has taken half the house for his friends.
If you have not been invited there is
some mistake.
A young man in Holton who was
waiting for something to turn up was
Rstonished the other day when he pro-
posed to girl and she
turned up her nose.
DR.. Hubbard Linley of Atchison, who
can go into the human bowels with a
knife and yank off the vermiform APP
pendix, has been summoned to South
ern Illinois to try his skill.
Sol Miller has started tracer after
Albert Griffin. The last heard of Mr..
Griffin he had gone to Texas to hold |
the funds of the North and South"
road, of which he is treasurer.
Notwithstanding dry belt and two
dry spots, Kansas will this year eX
coed by fifty million bushels any pre-
vious corn crop, says Secretary Co.
burn, and he generally talks by the
card,
D. A. Stahl, eX-county treasurer,
was badly hurt Saturday at his place
near Americas. He took his mules to
water and short time thereafter was
found in an unconscious condition. 1t |
10 presumed he was kicked by one of
the mules.
Fred Funston has been in lola all
week in the intesest of his Mexican
coffee enterprise. He has been busy
this summer organizing company
with capital of 100000 to take hold
of the business, and the stock is nearly
all taken.
Secretary Coburn boils it down in
this statement: Surveying the debil-
ity and oppression common in late
years to all sister states and countries,
Kansas now seems agriculturally and
financially convalescent, and in her
old time form is again headed for
prosperity and the stars.
Edward R. Morton has brought suit
against Thomas Wright and Jacob
Ward of Robinson for SO, 900 damages
for selling his sixteen-year-old son
liquor. Ward is jointist at Robinson
and Wright is the owner Of the build.
ing in which Ward did business, and |
is made party to the suit,
Mr. Stanley, living a short distance |
southwest of Circleville, hearing COM
motion among his chickens, went out
and found one in the possession of a |
weasel. At his attempt to rescue it,
the animal attacked him, biting him
through the middle finger and hold
ing on with such tenacity that he cut
its head off and then had to force its
jaws open to get his finger loose.
Harry Dunlap and Ralph Shiffer,
two boys aged about seventeen; have
Just been fined $50 and costs each for
robbing the corner stone of the Bap-
fist church at Sabetha. The papers
which the box in the corner stone con-
tanned were found in an old elevator
and the box under the mill-steps.
The box con tanned S1.19 in pen
MES and nickles, but the boys sup
posed the sum much larger.
There is a demand from all parts of
Western Kansas for laborers to har-
vest the immense crop of broomcorn.
In Morton county the schools have
been dismissed and the children sent
to the fields to assist in saving the
crop. At least so young ladies, daught-
ers of farmers, have donned old gloves
and sun bonnets and gone into the
fields with their fathers and brothers
and are working 10 hours day. 1t is
estimated that there are 1000 900