Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

southern Kansas, gathering up inform
alton for big write-up.
B. F. Hildebrandt, who established
the Hiawatha Journal, now has job
OF the st. Joseph Herald.
AS soon as an Atchison couple be-
come engaged they quit buying seats
in the parquet and patronize the gal
lery.
W. C. Gum, Fort Scott hustler, is
bringing Iowa families into Bourbon
county. He located eighteen families
there last Sunday.
The farmers who last fall pulled out
of Washington county on account of
the crop failures are drifting back and
will resume work on their old farms.
The Hiawatha Democrat prints the
names of $50 citizens of Brown county
who have lived there over twenty-five
years, The oldest settler arrived in
1854.
The evangelist on duty at Hewins
thought he was done, but finds that
satin has been among his flock, and
he must 'conre2t" some of the town
bad boys over again.
In an Atchison schoolroom of TWEEN
seven boys under 0 years of age the
clothes of every mothers son of them
was found to be shy from one to q
dozen buttons. This illustrates the
firm hold whist has taken on that
town.
An FL Paso man who held stakes for
couple of sports who bet on the
prize fight ran away with the money
and came to Kansas. But Kansas is
not refuge for a scamp of that kind;
when Il man came with requisition,
the fugitive was turned over to him
very promptly
A rock pile has been established at
Abilene by the county commissioners
for offenders to work ont their fine
and costs. Monday Mckinney and
Murphy were menacled to ball and
chain, given hammer piece and
set to work The novel sight drew
great many people around.
L. NJ. Crawford has paid the Leaven-
worth opera house license for 1895
amounting to 500 with balance due
the year previous, and the case which
has been against him in the court for
several months has been dismissed.
The license for 1896 became due the
first of the present month.
Mineral water, which, it is claimed,
is equal to that found Mt Excelsior
Springs, Mo, has been Struck at Peter
Becker's place, just west of Atchison.
The water was struck at depth of
300 feet, and is almost an artesian
well, coming up within few feet of
the surface of the ground.
The old soldiers in the national
home there want the next G.. A. II. en-
campment held at Leavenworth. There
are $500 of them, and if genuine sol
der sentiment prevails in locating the
meeting Leavenworth will be selected.
Besides, Leavenworth is hospitable,
and knows how to entertain visitors.
Major B. w. Stout of Wilson county
once took the longest uninterrupted
horseback ride on record. At the
close of tho war he was stationed at a
post on the Gulf of Mexico, and, upon
receiving his discharge, rode to his
home in Wisconsin. The trip was
made on a single horse, which stood
the trip remarkably well.
The Manhattan Nationalist con-
tanned unique advertisement last
week, A wall paper dealer had six
inch square sample of his best gilt pa
per pasted in the center of his an
nouncement. 1t must have taken in
finite labor to paste the sample in
each of the Nationalist's large circu-
lation of papers, but the advertise
ment was worth it.
At Pittsburg Superintendent Bar
rett has secured the right of way for
the extension of the electric lines, from
the county commissions. The survey
as now made begins at Frontenac and
runs to shaft 81, thence to Litchfeld,
Midway, Cornell, Yale and Minden
Missouri, giving to the line the larg-
est mileage of any electric road in the
state. President Simons, who is now
in New York, writes that he will
geach Pittsburg in short time, and
work will begin at once upon his arri-
val.
In Harper county the acreage to
oats this spring is unusually large, and
the conditions at seeding time are very
favorable. 1t has been several years
since the farmers have had a good
crop of oats, and they seem to think
this will be the successful year. Wheat
is daily gaining in vigor, and is in
splendid condition, but the crop is
never sure until it is in the bin. The
preparations are being made for anoth-
er large acreage of corn, Indian and
Kafiir, and some of the farmers will
commence listing the first of next
month.
Out m Mcpherson county it Is re.
garded as a sure sign of gagcment
when young couple cease taking bug.
nv rides on Sunday and 20 to church