Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-26

The school boys of Santa Fe have
been called to the pillow, and the les.
sons will be heard no more until fall.
A new island has formed in the Kaw
river, just above the city of Lawrence,
and is growing perceptibly from yeal
tC year
The Atchison school board have
abolished the ESSAY and grafton bust
ness" in the graduating exercises OF
the public schools.
The citizens of Lawrence have heen
kept so busy watching the comat that
has just passed that they have not
had time to register.
The investigating committee in
Harvey county has reported. 1t cost
Harvey county just S26,O73.12 to send
Rogers to the penitentiary.
Grandma Hedges of Monett, who is
&c years old, walked four miles on IN
GRAND last Monday, rather THAI hare
her team taken from the pillow.
The people of Atchison are kicking
against a sewer bond proposition.
AtchisOn is the old fashioned town
which can get along without sewers
The Y ray is not new to the Kansas
editor. The editor who wants an eX-
change and is too tired to write let
ter has long used the rs in profuslOn.
Columbus society claims ''Nellye, :"
and the spoiled beauty frequently
breaks in on Joplin as the guest of
"Mae," who now has become back
number.
There were 047,745 hogs shipped in
to Kansas City stock yards during the
season days ending February 30. Of
these, SOS, 944 head were packed by
local packers.
ATopelSa oculist says the eyes should
not be used in sickness, The doctor
would no doubt have his patients un-
button their eyes and hang them on
the back of Il chair.
An Atchison girl who knows the
value of u dollar and what it will buy,
recently threw over a Fort Leaven-
worth lieutenant and will marry u
Kansas City soap-boiler'S son.
One wife year is pretty smart
record, but n Kansas man kept up that
average for nine years and showed no
signs of fatigue until the courts in
terfered with a charge of bigamy.
An elevator containing 10000 bush
els of corn was destroyed by fire last
week In country where people
throw corn upon the ground and tramp
it into the mud, little loss of that
kind is of no moment.
Buffalo Bill declnres that he was
the first child born in Leavenworth.
Its no wonder Bill was so handy with
a gun. The man who made his APP
pearance in Kansas those days, could
always draw IA bead"
David. Coulter, who shot and killed
15-year-old Edward Illston near Tope-
ka last October, was sentenced Thurs
day by Judge lIazen to 81 years in the
penitentiary. He killed Illston to
gain possession of team which the
boy was driving along country road.
S. h. Poor and C. J. Lamb have pur-
chased large tract of land just west
of Abilene where they will engage in
irrigation gardening Water is found
in abundant quantities at a depth of
fifteen feet and they propose to sink
wells and pump the water by horse
power.
The county commissioners, in estab-
fishing rock pile at Abilene on which
prisoners work out fines, have solved
u much vexed problem. A fresh lot of
rock has been hauled and that already
broken is being hauled to the poor
farm, where it is being used in con-
creting the cellars, making walks,
drives, etc
The Indian school teachers of the
south and west are to meet in Law
renee jury 1918. There will be about
200 present, and they will come from
al over the country, the most of them
being from schools in the southwest.
DR.. w. n. IIailmann, superintendent
Of Indian schools, will be there, and
also number of the supervisors.
Peter Lowrie of Hamilton county,
who is said to have struck it rich at
Cripple Creek, is son of the Lowrie
Of Pennsylvania who, desiring to look
through Girard college, was barred
because ne wore the aspect of a clergy
nan, that profession being prohi bited
in old Girard's will. "You can't en-
ter, b" said the doorlleeper. 'The hell
can'tw exclaimed Lowrie. pass in"
said the doorliecper
Fools are gong to Cripple Creek and
the streets for a job, and wise
men are going to Short Creek, Kansas,
md striking fortunes in lead and zinc.
Short Creek is the best poor mans
Oh earth. In proof of this the
ialena Post tells the following: Hen
~ Jones will give Elmer Hoffman and
George Elliot u dollar apiece to kick
him over one of Alaska'S mountains
when he reads this item: Just before
leaving Galena he sold his third int err
est in the Horse Shoe to Ed Stice for
S5O since tho immanSa etril-a thara