Hutchinson gazette., 1896-06-11

year'Old girl regularly rides cultiva'
tor.
l At Dodge City citizen kicks because
the two cemetries are divided by a
wire fence.
C. NJ. BeesOn, near Dodge City, has
i25 acres of wheat and it run 35 bush
els to the acre.
In Barton county a citizen kicks be-
cause the two cemeteries in his neigh
borhoOd are divided by wire fence.
There are two worlds fair awards
at the postoffice at Lawrence, one for
clover seed and one for wheat, for
which no owner can be found.
Prof. L. L. Dyche has lett Lawrence
for Alaska, so he said, but it is believ-
ed by his friends that he has gone
for the long coveted north pole,
Coffeyville marketed the first car of
new wheat last year that was sold in
the United States. Her citizens are
making an effort to do the sane thing
again this year.
"Father" William NJ. Conkling died
at Lyons, June 2. He was born March
II, 1915. His first vote for President
was cast for William Henry Harrison,
his last one for Benjamin Harrison, in
1894
Lafe Smith has bought the Great
Spirit spring near Cawlier City. A ho-
tel belongs to the property, and he
extends cordial invitation to all his
old friends to spend a few days with
him and try the waters free of charge.
Away out at Cimarron the people
are praying for rain. The western
part of Kansas is not like any other
portion of the globe. Sometimes
when all the rest of the world is dying
of drouth, western Kansans will be
building arks to float around in.
One Of the leading pillars in one of
Chanute churches went to meeting the
other night and went to sleep. Hewas
called upon to pray and being dutiful-
ly punched by his better half beloved
out loud enough to be heard by all:
"Goedurn ye Betsy, kindle it your
self"
The new adjutanh general of the G.
A. R., the patriot who beat a
daughter of deceased old soldier out
of job, has beautiful lace curtain
whiskers and soft, velvetr voice.
You will not be mistaken when you
meet him; there is no other man like
him in Kansas.
Haskell county has a surplus of rat
tie snakes and cyclones this year. The
local paper says in many instances a
dozen may be found in single den.
Whether snakes or cyclones is a mat
ter for speculation or conjecture, left
for the reader to determine for him
self
At the last meeting of the school
board at Leavenworth, Prof James +.
Klocll resigned the superintendency of
the city schools to accept a similar
position in the schools at Helena,
Montana. 1t is now in order for
Leavenworth to mourn the loss of
their school Klock.
The executive council at Topeka.
has ordered search to be made for IL
missing carpet valued at something
over 500. The carpet originally COW
cred the floors of the offices fitted up
for Bank Commissioner Briedenthal.
and had been in use about year.
when it was taken up for the contract
ors to fit up that part of the state
house for the governors use. A coup
/ le of weeks ago, Breidenthal was as
signed to the rooms in the east wing
formerly occupied by the attorney
general A new carpet was necessary
and the carpet used in the east wing
was thought of. Then it was diseov-
cred that the carpet was missing, and
nobody seems to know what has be-
come of it.
During the progress of Jury trial
in Labette county the other day Judge
Skidmore left the bench for mo-
ment and stepped to the back part of
the room. While he was gone his
stenographer, Ray Ritter of Columbus,
perched himself in the judges seat.
While the judge stood talking with an
acquaintance a stranger accosted him
and asked him if he lived in the town.
The Judge replied that he lived in an
adjoining county. Here attending
court, suppose, the man said, and to
which the judge assented. The stran-
ger then asked: "Ilow old is that little
red-headed judge on the bench?' IL
don't know" Skidmore replied, "but
during the campaign it was reported
that he was about 40" "Forty! Why
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