Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Caterpillars are destroying fruit
prospects in eastern Kansas.
, A Valley Falls boy has broken one
of his legs nineteen times
One-half pay was the length Of the
term of district court in Morton coun-
ty.
A Leavenworth man has written n
book which entirely settles the money
question.
The man who lives in Southern Kan
sas never prays "Thy kingdom come "
He is satisfied where he is.
Ed Hackney, a nephew of Bill Hack
ney, will be admitted to the bar in
wellington this week.
Pending the arrival of the wheat
liar, an exchange entertains the peo-
pie with stories of thirty-two inch al
falfa.
A widower has filed lien on the
only eligible woman in Bremen, and
the young men of the town have pub
lished protest.
Sol Miller wants to know what has
become of the old-fashioned woman
who made one chicken "do' for a
large family by cooking dumplings
with it.
Webb McNall's Cripple Creek COM
pany has money in the treasury to
pay for advertising. That is evidence
enough that the company has struck
pay dirt.
The Abilene Reflector which is usual
ly fair congratulates Topeka for send
ing aid to the cyclone sufferers. 1t
makes no mention of Leavenworth
which sent more than Topeka.
Judge Steve Osborn's son Roy won a
cash prize of S15at the annual spring
oratorical contest of the state univer-
sity. The Judge has done better than
that in his time but not with his |
mouth.
John D. Knox of Topeka, who dur
ing the boom was bigger man than
old Mulyane, is now giving fifteen
cent lectures in Kansas. Kansas is
state of changes. Ingalls, who crowd
ed the Senate now charges fifty cents.
It's all very strange
The Santa Fe hospital at Topeka,
said to be the finest railroad hospital |
in the world, was formally accepted
Tuesday by General Manager Frey as
chairman of the board of trustees, and |
the building is now the property of
the Hospital ASSOCIATION.
Clay Valentine who is slow of speech
is blessing the man who invented the
new lapel button bearing the inscrp-
ton "If you love me, grin" Dell
says a young man who can't propose
now is fit subject only for red-head-
ed old maids and grass widows.
Colonel Harry Smith, who has been
drawn from the regular army to make
real soldiers of the Kansas militia, was
in Atchison visiting his.wife when the
governor called the troops to arms
Monday night and so missed the OPP
portunity OF his life.
The prohibitory act provides sal
airy OF S15 per annum for every 1000
inhabitants, to be paid to probate
Judges for services rendered under
such act. No services of that charac-
ter are rendered by the probate judge
of Jackson county, there being no
liquor permits taken out by druggists
there, but the county commissioners
pay s1OO quarter, just the same, and
the Signal, very properly, is making
fuss about it.
There is fight on against Super
intendent Glotfelter of the Atchison
schools. He gave good satisfaction,
and was one of the best superintend-
cts the city ever had; but the old sol
diers of the G. A. r. are opposing him
because he refuses to consume the
time of the schools with flag drill |
that the soldiers had arranged, under |
the pretense of teaching patriotism" |
The soldiers are getting old but they |
should not get cranky. Patriotism is
a good thing, but it is not taught by |
paradcs and drills. The old soldiers |
who went into the war were patriotic
but we venture to say that it was not |
taught them at school by drills and pa
rades They got plenty of that in the
army, but they were patriots before
that Some of the boys would be pat
riots if they were raised in a coal
mine; and some could not be made so,
if you were to drill and shoot it into
them every day. Flag drills, to take
up time that should be devoted to
studies, will not accomplish it. You
may water and hoe around brickbat
every day of your life, and you can't
make it grow into a gooseberry bush.
A Leayenworth man who has n disa-