Hutchinson gazette., 1896-06-11
KANSAS r1EMs OF INTEREST.

Another "wet goods store" has beef
opened at Moundridge.
Four men recently left Lyon count!
Or England with four hundred hea'
If cattle.
Madison has woman barber, ant
I'll the other artists had to leave town
driven out.
"Sister Alice is the churchhoOd ap
pelation of Holiness female gosre
Dxpounder of Chase.
A man hauled 900 bushels of oats
10 Concordia and his best offer was
hine cents bushel
Mound City is compelled to pay a
dollar hundred for ice, and the peo'
pie are making great fusss about It,
A wolf came within 300 yards OF
Paola one day last week, and chat
tel mortgage dealer shot it with rifle.
It is told on good authority that
Kansas suffers more from flood than
from drouth taking run OF ten years
The Dickinson county farmers want
the railroad commissioners to recog'
nize Kafir corn as a marketa BILE prod
net and add it to the grain schedule OF
rates.
Superintendent Nudge of the Santa
Fe says the reason passenger trains at
Wellington were reduced was because
the travel appeared to have taken to
the Rock Island.
1t is generally conceded all over
Kansas now that the thing to do when
\ cyclone approaches is to rush for the
cellar and pull the other fellow out Of
the southwest corner.
When you see a man digging in his
back yard at night he is not hunting
treasure trove. He is digging a cy-
clone cellar and he doesn't want his
ueighbors to know it.
A school teachers position in Atch-
lson that pays SIS per month pays SlOO
In Topeka, but then look at the differ
ence in the kind of children to be
taught. That is something.
Item in Kansas newspaper: "John
Hicks went into his storm cave with
his family last night" A year ago a
man would have fought the editor for
that squib. Now it is taken as mat
ter of course.
Beer tickets are no longer sold in
Topeka six for o quarter The price
is now five cents glass straight.
Should the sheriff make another raid
and reduce competition, the price
would advance to ten cents.
The Globe says there are a family
of girls in Atchison ready for adoption
by any kindly disposed person, among
whom are girls big enough to marry
and girls small enough to raise as
pets. Their names have been sent to
Mayor Loomis of Cowley county.
In response to public demand the
new president of the Kansas Woman
Suffrage society has quit katie" and
returned to the good old name, Kate.
katie" is all right for a summer girl
but it don't fit woman who is in the
saddle to enfranchlse her sex.
An Argonia man has chicken with
four legs. When it moves forward
1t uses two of the legs, but when it
goes in the opposite direction, instead
of turning around, it merely reverses
itself like a locomotive, by putting
the other two legs into operation.
A woman went into an Atchison
bank Wednesday and said she wanted
to borrow S.. Just for fun the cash.
Ter asked what security she could offer
whereupon she produced a $50 gold
piece which she said she would leave
at the bank. The security was ample
and she secured the loan.
&C. Blair of Glen Elder, deputy
clerk of Mitchell county, has Invented
a wheat drill, which he will haye pa
tented. The machine is entirely differ
ent from drills now in use. 1t hai
two revolving disc instead of the no,
or shoe. The discs open the gronnC
always at an even depth and prevents
clogging. The side carriage wheels
are eliminated and the weight of thu
drill rests on the discs.
While some men were digging ;
grave at the Indian Hill cemetery a
Chapman Wednesday afternoon, they
unearthed an Indian grave and fount
an old Al flint-lock rifle, tomahawli
bracelets and the bones of supposed
Indian. Sixty years ago two tribes o
Indians had battle on this hill anC
from this event the hill got its name
The bones were found buried thre,
feet deep, covered with stones anC
with head to the east.