Hutchinson gazette., 1896-05-28

many years.
A colored lad at Lawrence was ar
rested for stealing chickens, whereup-
on he became insane but was locked
up in Jail, On account of his mental
condition he has never had trial but
will be taken to the insane asylum.
The supreme court of Kansas has
held that when a telegraph company
receives a message and cannot find the
person to whom it is addressed it must
be delivered to some member of his
family.
The first case of a young lady reap
ing the full benefit of leap year oc'
CURED at Downs a few days ago. A
winsome lassie of 18 proposed to her
intended husband of 80, was accepted
procured a license and they were mar
ried.
"Shrimps are plentiful and live on
whatever they can get," explained
Prof. Dyche in one of his lectures,
''and fish live on the shrimps. The
she seals live on the fish, and the wal
rus live on the SEALS" The Smart
Alecll in the audience called out:
"What do whales live on?" swell,
they live on Jonahs principally, and
you want to keep under cover when
there is one around" answered the
professor, to the great amusement of
the crowd.
Garden City Imprint: One party in
Garden City has placed more than S4O,-
900 in the past two months in cattle in
this vicinity, and says that it is much
easier to get eastern money on cattle
in Southern Kansas than it is to get
money for the cattle industry in the
eastern part of Kansas or in Missouri.
The reason for this is that cattle can
be produced in the west part of the
state at much less cost than in eastern
Kansas or Missouri, and consequently
the danger of loss is much less in the
short grass country than in the corn
feeding district.
Ewing Herbert, of the Hiawatha
World, offers silk shirt waist to the
Kansas high school girl who first sends
correct solution of the following
problem: ga man purchased grocer
les to the amount of thirty-four cents.
When he came to pay for the goods
he had only dollar bill, three cent
piece and two cent piece. The store
keeper had half dollar and a quarter.
They appealed to by-stander, but he
had only two dimes aud penny. AT
ter some perplexity the change was
made to the satisfaction of ALL"
In the Troy cemetery there is q bu-
rial lot out of the common order. and
perhaps the only one of the kind in
the state. 1t is of white people buried
in Indian style. 1t is the lot of the
late John Story Briggs and his daught-
er. He was for many years u member
of the Order of Red Med, and had also
long lived among the Indians in wes-
tern Kansas, and was familiar with
their ways. On the lot is represent
alton of an Indian wigmam, being
three tent poles cut out of solid rock
but exactly resembling with the bark
on. There are stone posts at the cor
ners of the lot, resembling the poles
of the wigwam. On one of the poles
is carved "Minnewa Wigwam, 1870"
beng the name of the wigwam of
which the deceased was q member,
with the date of membership. To the
north of the wigwam are the graves of
Briggs and his little girl. At the head
of each grave is vacant chair, cut
out of solid rock, with the names cut
on them. Theirs is also on the lot the
foundation upon which will rest an
immense boulder, as soon as it can be
removed from farm lately belonging
to the Briggs estate. Mrs. Briggs has
lately had this work done, at the cost
of some hundreds of dollars.
A thief at Leavenworth stole a suit
of clothes from a railroad station
agent. In the evening of the same
day the agent was sitting in his room,
absorbed in thought of his lost suit
when bundle came sailing in through
an open window. At first he was
afraid of the bundle thinking it might
be an Internal machine or a dynamite
bomb. He finally mustered up cour-
age to pick it up and upon examination
found it to be his missing suit.
What would poor old Missouri dc
but for Kansas, anyhow. When she
wants few millions of wheat, she
sends to Kansas for it. When she is
in need of few thousand cars of corr
she sends over into Kansas and gets it
If she desires few hundred thousand
barrels of apples, she can always gel
them in Kansas. When few Thousand
cars of hay, horses, hogs or cattle are
needed, Kansas always has them t.