Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two Hamilton men, neighbors, have
killed forty-one coyotes this winter in
the vicinity of their farms.
In western Kansas town recently
man ADVERTISED a horse for sale:
"Horse with halter S.; horse without
halter 60 cents.
A western Kansas prophet says that
good crop years always abound in cy-
clones. He is putting new roof on
his cyclone cellar.
1t is said that the late cold snap in
Southern Kansas lacked about Is de-
grees of doing the fruit any harm or
the plumbers any good.
The postofIice at Sherwin Junction,
six miles west of Columbus was robbed
Saturday night of number Of letters
md pouch key was taken
Ben Matchett has returned to Os-
borne from Selling, Ok, where he con-
Quoted a revival. lie has been offered
pulpit there, but he prefers to live
in Kansas.
A Sumner county shoemaker has in
his shop a rag baby with the sign
stuck to it: "If you must handle
something, handle this" His visitors
leave his tools alone.
Atchison is the only big town u
Kansas which lost no letter carriers
by the recent raid of the special de-
tectives. Atchison seems to haYe got
down to its old time gait
The bicycle riders are now clamor-
ing for guide boards. They get what
they start after. 1t is folly for Sol
Miller or any body else to oppose
them. They have come to stay. Even
the ridiculous man who makes himself
conspicuous by wearing knee breeches
has come to stay.
Ira Travers of Fort Scott is mourn
ing the loss of horse and buggy. A
faw days ago an old man giving his
name as Roberts came to his livery
karn and hired team, but the buggy
and man never came back, nor has q
most diligent search on the part of
Travers discovered the least trace of
him.
Charles Eberstein, Duncan Agar,
Ray Tinney and Walter Moulton of
Kirwin lett this week for the gold
fields of Alaska. The band played
several selections as they were about
to start and finished up by playing
"The Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" They
started off full of hope and good
spirits.
Bennett Brown, state mine inspec-
tor, of Girard, says in circular:
"You will please have each boy now
employed in your mines, who has not
attended school, to do so the balance
of the school term, and refuse to EN-
ploy any boy under that age unless he
can furnish satisfactory proof that he
has attended school as required by
law"
From the present outlook it is safe
to predict that IN few years Kansas
will be one of the greatest tobacco
producing states in the Union. The
tobacco plantations in the southern
part of the state are constantly in
creasing in size and number, and we
suggest that some of those who have
large irrigation plants to try tobacco
raising by irrigation instead of devot-
ing so much time to onions. which is
a much harder crop to grow.
Mrs. J. II. Maui, of Eudora, while
in the stable milking her COW, was
struck by the animal and pitched for
ward in such manner that she struck
the edge of the ma gey with her head,
cutting and tearing the skin loose from
her forehead, from temple to temple,
so it hung down over her eyes and face
like curtain. She was not injured
otherwise and will recover. She is
seYenty-tive years old.
Some Topeka amateurs, spoiled by
kind words said of them at home, will
take the "AIikado" to Atchison. They
would better be warned by the hard
luck of the unfortunate Bester G.
Brown, who, deceived by the flattery
of the Topeka papers, took a show to
Atchison, and from that moment he
has been wiser man, but crushed and
disappointed. He no longer lives in
Topeka. That one unfortunate mis-
take of imagining that he could "actr
haunts him to this day, and he will
know no peace of mind this side the
grave.
Kitty Mitchell, the lively brunette
who is making a hit in the Boston
Athenaeum and whose picture APP
peared in the New York Dramatic
Mirror last week, is niece of James
w. Brown of Leavenworth. She was
born in Leavenworth 80 years ago and
is the daughter of VIM. Mitchell, an
old Leavenworth printer. While a
child her parents removed to st. Louis
and when four years old she began
her stage career by playing the ehild's
part in one of Frank Mayo's old pieces.
She is Kansas girl and strongly OBJ
jects to being billed as London sen.
sation," as she has been in several