Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS.


of imitation dirmonds to the people of
Burlington.
The state board of irrigation has let
the contract for the erection of a
plant in Wallace.
You can get life insurance, employ
physician and buy coffin in the same
Office at Lawrence.
In Lawrence there is an undertake
ing firm and an insurance agency in
the same store room.
Topeka had horse show in which
all the handsome women of the city
took part. Topeka is sporty.
Buchan's wife is the daughter OF
W. p Converse of Kansas City, and
Converse is an uncle of Mark Hanna.
81 like hiking" said Topeka new
rider Wednesday, at brings one in
such close contact with so many peo-
ple."
Ed. Howe says that in eve ry crowd
you will find man who cannot at
tract any attention unless he gets up
a fight.
One of the exciting political dead
locks is at Lawrence, where the school
board is balloting on the election OF
janitor.
johnson county is in the midst Of a
building boom. More than SIS, 900
worth of new buildings have been
erected in Olathe, Gardner and Spring
Hill.
One of the delicious Montgomery
county brides who stood up in white
swiss last week and promised to cher
ish her honey boy, was Miss Rose
Hiltabiddel.
The farmers of Dickinson county
broke last Sunday into thousand un-
sanctifed piecs. Wheat was over-ripe
and in every direction harYesters could
be seen at work.
Robert Dennison, youth of is, and
Iva Bell Munson, slip of 16, were
married in Abilene the other day and
the parents of both kids stood by and
never raised hand.
1t is not always true that when a
man dies he must leave behind him all
he has accumulated on this earth. For
Instance that Atchison sexton who
was buried in the middle of his own
graveyard the other day.
Twenty-one carriages were counted
waiting for as many different clerks in
the Santa Fe offices at Topeka the
other day. If you want to ride IN a
sorrel cart behind strawberry roam
horse get job as Santa Fe clerk.
Twenty-Five Shawnee county farm
ers turned out with guns the other
night to capture man who had stol-
en- ten shocks of oats. If the state
university graduates will permit the
expression, oats is oats in Kansas this
year.
The auditing committee of Kansas
City cut down the pay roll of the po-
lice department about $1,000. This
precipitated general hubub in the
city council and as a result the city
pay roll is on a strike behind u dead
lock.
The Missouri Pacific company has
received quite recently several cars OF
jack and lead ore from the mining dis
trict adjacent to Galena and 3Dplin
for shipment to England and Wales,
Why is this thus-that our crude pro
duct must go to Europe to be worked
up2
A White Cloud young man called on
young lady in his town who had a
pet dog. She was trying to make the
uOB DdIhf Dub hc NOuluh U uhJh NIX
finally said: "Fido, if You bark fol-
me, I'll kiss you" Then the young
man up and said ~ can bark pretty
well myself" The girl simply SEN
the dog out of the room, and the young
man began to bark.
When the nights are hot cut in tn,
vicinity of Liberal it is customary t,
spread pallets on the grass and sleel
thereon. The other night a Mrs. Wei
and her two children sought rest OF
such bed. Soon the wind rose, ant
boards nd other loose things begal
to fly through the air. Mrs. Weir AM
the children made a rush for the house
The children reached cover of the roo
in safety, but Mrs. Weir stumbled owe
chair in the yard, and falling upo
it one Of the legs entered the ABIDE
men, causing a dangerous rent.
physician arrived in time to save he
life. but the next time she is temple
to sleep out of doors she will consul
weather bureau before deciding.
Mr.. Seacat is living high and dry O
the uplands of Clark county.
The Rev. Simon McChesney, WI
was naStor of the First Metbodi