Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-14
The Santa Ee has ordcre d l,ooOnew


C, F. Mead of Abilene has be en-
looking Wyandotte over and may 10
cate there.
IS. o. Dunn formerly of Pratt county
is now the sole owner # . paper az
Quitman Mo.
George II. Closson of Pratt county
has been appointed guard at the state
reformatory.
Shawnee county has taken Eugene
Ware at his word and declared war
against Spain.
A. L. Sponsler, who recently got
money out of print shop, is now put
ting it in corn.
Burglars with terrible thirst broke
into the Atchison bottling works
Tuesday night.
c. B. Bachelor of Lyon county is o
brother-in-law of Governor-elect Brad.
ley of Kentucky.
A citizen of Topeka is q collector OF
eats and has the largest "mewseum"
in the United States.
Jack Richardson was probably sent
from Washington by mail, and is held
for postage some place.
One of the janitors of the state house
lives in Wichita county, where he ranks
as an Honorable"
A Harvey county woman is engaged
and wears wedding ring to go into
effect as soon as her present husband
dies.
A. W. Smith gets more mail at the
Groveland postoffice than all the other
men in the township. The old man
still keeps his ear to the ground.
The Westmoreland Record gives a
graphic account of the earthquake at.
Charleston, Mo-, but omits any men
ton of the event at Westmoreland.
The tendency toward drink in Leav-
enworth is terrible; even the cold stor-
age building couldn't bear to contain
apples until it had mashed them into
cider
A little child, three years old, il
Leavenworth was allowed to play with
matches and as a result was burned to
death and was laid to rest beneath the
sod this week.
The recent prairie fire in Greeley
county burned over about 100000 acres
and destroyed much grain and broom
corn. A number of barns and other
buildings were burned.
The apple carnival at Leavenworth
was so much of a success that the cit
liens have organized an annual carni'
val club and will pelt each other with
apples once year hereafter.
A Lawrence young lady celebrated
Halloween by giving taffy party in
her fathers barn. After the taffy was
all pulled grand ball followed and
the old barn floor was made to think
of the days when the wheat and oats
were 'tramped out"
The first time Peary went north he
was accompanied by Evelyn B. Bald
win of Oswego, and on his last tour he
had the assistance of Prof. L. L. Dyche
of Lawrence; it takes a much colder
and longer day than ever happens on
the other side of the arctic circle to
exclude Kansas from the midst of
things that happen.
An employee of the Armour Packing
company at Kansas City, William
Croft, in q fit of anger, threw bucket
full of boiling water on lad working
in the same room. The little fellow
was almost scalded to death, and the
brute who did it was sent to jail in
stead of more deserved place,
Would it surprise you II "a Kansas
man should succeed in establishing
the Star Spangled Banner at the north
pole-should change the much sought
old pole into flag staff for Old Glory?
Prof. Dyche, of the State University,
says New York parties are talking of
fitting him out for trip to that covet-
ed spot
An Ottawa boy got hold of an old
giant powder cartridge, with a half
burned fuse. 1t was supposed to be
harmless and the boy thought he would
have Some fun with it. He laid the
thing down and showed a firebrand I'M
to the aperture. The shell kicked up
behind, in front, sideways and every
other way, and now the boy is minus a
hand. An old dynamite shell is a sue
cess as a fun-maker.
A gang of freshmen at Ottawa got
the tables turned on them Hallowe
night and a severe rebuke was admin
istered to college students who so
much enjoy playing pranks on the
higher classes. The young men OF
the sophomore class were at an enter
tainment given them by the young
ladies of the class. The fun-loving
freshmen slipped into the cloak room
and carried away the hats and over
coats of the sOphs. Some OF them
were caught, however, and locked up
in a room in the college building and
their names published in the local pa