Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-03
Cowley county girls go bathing and

| that cost him seven dollars.
A preacher of Chautauqua county
pluclled up courage the other day and
married girl who writes herself
Mae" And he went all the way to
Iowa to get her, too.
Hiawatha has come to the front as a
cheap lunch counter town. Sir Ches-
ney McPot of jug trade fame says you
can eat more for ten cents there than
any place in America.
The law failing to accomplish the
purpose, the people of Atchison county
have adopted the shotgun method OF
stopping the practice of SEEMING in the
lakes. Not a bad idea.
1t is said that when any of the peo-
pie leave Stanton county they are
dead sure to come back again, even if
they return in worse shape than they
left, which is often the casO.
The colored people get up mighty
queer names for their secret societies.
At Leavenworth last week there were
meetings of the international Order
of Twelve" the True Eleven" and
the "Heroines of Jericho"
John Witt, a patient confined in the
Osawatomie asylum, escaped a short
time ago and made his way on foot to
his home in Rush county. The jour
ney occupied seventeen days and Witt
declares that once on the trip he went
four days without food.
Chancellor f. II. Snow of the Uni
versity has arrived home from a sum-
mer camping trip with party of ed
ucators from Leland Standforn uni
versity. The party spent the summer
in the California forests, and the last
part of the summer in Yosemite val
ley,
Paul Curlette, who, as postmaster at
Fort Larned in the early days, was
looked upon as the richest man in Paw
nee county, is now rear brakeman on
Santa Fe train No. and wheels his
dusty way three times week by the
spot which was the scene of his form
glory.
Down in Sumner county there are
seven sisters, all of whom are married
and live in the same neighborhood.
The seven give entertainments to2eth-
err, and even the brothers-in-law don't
fight. 1t is the first instance on record
wher so many kin folks were crowded
into one township without having a
family feud.
When Frank Ellis of Fort Scott went
to the probate judge to get his mar
riage license the other day he had to
take his mother along to give her con-
sent, as he had barely reached 10.
We imagine that if anything on earth
would make young fellow feel fool
ish it would be to stand around while
his mother was getting his license for
him.
The board of education at Lawrence
made the tax levy for school purposes
and thought they would have about
nine months school. But it seems
that they did not fully understand the
conditions of the school fund and fail
cd to provide for certain obligations
pending. The result is, the board is
face to face with short tuition fund
and the question vexing the board and
the citizens is how to get out of the
trouble without getting into debt
again.
A few days ago the sheriff of Las
Animas county, Colorado. had the
sheriff of Comanche county arrest one
John Lake of Comanche county, who
was working near Etna, of that coun-
ty. 1t seems that q fellow by the
name of John Lake had stolen a horse
in Colorado, and they had located one
John as the man. The sheriff took
John back, but soon learned that he
had never been west of Clark county;
so Mr.. sheriff took John around the
town, paid him 81 per day for the time
he was gone and paid his return fare.
The Galena depot on the Memphis
road is to be moved to the Galena side
of Short creek, Originally the station
was called "Short Creek" and estab
lished in Empire City. Afterward
when Empire City had almost lost its
place oD the map the name of the sta
ton was changed to Galena, but still
it was within the limits of Empire
City. One night man half drunk go
off the train, and enquired of the
agent; us this Galena?" mo; thi
is Empire City," replied the agent
"Galena is across the bottom, aud you
want to be careful for you may b,
robbed" "Well, bought ticket t,
Galena," the man retorted, as he sur
yeyed the dark distance between him
selt and the lights of the town, ian,