Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-31

Now, when the weather is too COO
| for lemonade a circus is coming tt
Burlington.
The Chicago Lay Quartette is star
ing in Kansas and gaining golden
opinions at every point.
Charlie Lobdell has been buying
some young cattle in Iowa for his
ranch in Lane county.
A Topeka undertaken has made $40,
900 out of his business and he has moi
had many funerals, either.
u1A man who has considerable nerve
has applied for franchise to build an
electrid street railway in Burlington.
Eugene Scott, the famous counter
feiter, died in the United States peni
Tertiary at Leavenworth last Friday.
There are $50 artesian wells in Meade
county, where Bob Painter divided his
tire between law office and a
cattle ranch.
The Lawrence World suggests that
football is great game but the pig
skin should not be placed before the
sheep skin.
There is an A B c bath house al
Atchison. Can it be that Atchison
people are still in the rudiments on
this subject?
The highwayman who held up
farmers wife near Bronson, aud got
four cents would better have robbed
hens nest.
The revival meetings have started
early at Baldwin this year before ex,
perience makes the new students
"hard to catch"
After years rest, Chanute people
feel sufficiently recuperated to hear
the "Pirates of Penzance' again by
local company.
1t is announced that the new Santa
Fe flyer will whistle at Lawrence, a
distinction for which that town is pro-
foundly grateful.
Kansas had it's regular bank failure
Thursday. Fortunately the farmers
OF the state have large share Of their
surplus in the cornfeld.
6 When a charivari party at Eudora
to have blow out, it isn't
done by halves. The boys take
stick of dynamite along.
Some of the corn in the kingdom of
Doniphan is "chatfy," and Sol Miller
thinks the average will not exceed
th1rty-tive bushels an acre.
Papers are poking fun at Cherokee.
There is a new bell in the new school
house and they say on still day it
can be heard almost block.
In consignment of fish shipped
from Denver to Abilene several fish
were found alive on reaching their des-
tination and they were packed only in !
ice.
The young and tender brides at Ga |
ena have taken to the habit of spell
ing ther husbands names out in full.
It would seem that brides at Galena
Ire just as silly as those elsewhere.
A Lawrence girl refused $40 for her
,et cat and the next day it died. A
at with that much money in it was
pound to get its digestive apparatus
tut of order.
In twenty-five years the Missouri
Pacific, by taking out some kinks, has
hortened it's line between Atchison
md st. Louis three miles. The dis
ance is now $50 miles.
A sign on farm gate between Law
ence and Eudora reads, Potatoes 5
ents a bushel." A few things like
hat and story will be out about
Kansas burning potatoes.
Mrs. Carrie J. Carver Monday fled
uit for a divorce from her husband,
)r. William j. Carver, the champion
hot, 1t is on statutory grounds.
they were married in 1870. DIR. Car
'er at one time owned a fine farm in
'owley county, Kansas, where his
mother and brother still resides.
w. R. Marion farmer living eight
niles north of Fort Scott, was killed
IN the Memphis railroad crossing
Monday morning. The train run into
lis team, throwing him over a hedge
ence into field. One of the mules
vas killed and the wagon was crushed
nto splinters.
The apple carnival at Leavenworth
vas wonderful success. Thousands
If people were jammed along the main
and every building and
tore front down town was gorgeously
decorated with apples of all sizes and
.olors and the apple carnival colors,
ed, yellow and green were conspic-
lous everywhere.
The ulsimate exhaustion of the oil
ields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi-
ina is causing all eyes to turn to the
lew fields of Kansas and Oklahoma.
f the partial development in Wilson
county and the adjoining country
iouth, is as good as reproted, those To-
,alities may expect an extraordinary
impetus in prospecting and producing.