Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-02
W. A. Harris calls Wabaunsee coun.
ty the Switzerland of Kansas.

county,
The coal business is so dull at Leba-
non that dealers are giving 1900 to
the ton.
1t cost n Mama county young man
S14 for swearing aea Franklin county
woman.
Corn planting is in order at Elgin
and whist and foot ball have been
suspended.
The annual meeting of Democratic
editors will be he held at Leavenworth
April 14th.
Straw hats are ripe in Erie. A local
dealer is getting rid of his old stock by
a five-cent bargain counter,
AT Lawrence young girl has been
arrested for coal stealing. The law
must, at all times, be maintained.
The best part of John Speer's Life
of Jim Lane is the stories he tells
when he is getting a man to buy d
copy.
John Longmate, an old citizen Of
Scranton was run over by heavily
loaded wagon and killed one day last
week.
The revival meetings which began
at Canton on New Years eve have just
closed and the total saved" numbers
TIA.
The Montgomery county oil fields
are considered equal to the best IN the
state, Chautauqua next and Cowley
will soon follow.
Professor Dyche's advertising agent
announces that people contemplating
making a trip to the North Pole should
hear Professor Dyche.
Lacrosse has a bachelors club.
They do their own cooking, and each
boarder is sworn to make his OVID
bed at least once week.
The Topeka amateurs did not take
the "MilSado" to Atchison. 1t was a
choice between that and ank a dane
ing party at home, and as there is but
one up-to-date orchestra in Topeka,
legs won. Legs always win in Tope'
ka.
Congressman Curtis has bill before
congress authorizing the issuance of
patents to the Swan Creek and Black
River Chippewa Indians in Franklin
county, and for the sale of their reser-
walton. The bill also authorizes the
payment of S42, 500
Judge j. D. Guthrie, one of Cowley
county's successful farmers, says that
each days blowing should be harrow
ed before leaving the field By this
means, he says, all of the
rain will soak into the ground and in
nearly every case Insure good wheat
crop
A committee appointed by the Com
mercial club at Coffeyville has rented
and furnished large hotel for the pa
tients of Julius Goodwin, "healer"
who has just arrived in that town.
Goodwin claims to cure by means of
magnetism, and large numbers there
claim to have been relieved by him.
One man in Clay Center whipped
his mule and was fined S35. Another
whipped his wife and only paid SO. 1t
is all owing to locality. Some time
ago, man at Smith Center undertook
to whip his wife and the doctor bill
was $50. Since then, no one has had
any experience in that town and there
is no fixed price,
The state boardof health has made
its eleventh annual report to the gov
ernor. The report shows that there
are ., 437 registered physicians in Kan
sas--regular, 1906; eclectic, 272; HON,
eopathic, 175; midwives, 12l; physio-
medical, .; scientific, =; vitopath, /;
new school, 2; physio-pathic, /; Inde.
pendent, .; not stated, 40. The gen,
eral health Of the people is reported as
good.
At Hiawatha Saturday night about
0 o'clock, two men, tall and short
one, attacked Grocer Conser as he was
about to enter his yard through the
alley gate. They threw him down
and took from him Sis in money and
$3.50 in checks and notes. 1t is posi-.
BILE that the checks cannot be cashed.
They did not attempt to search his
pockets or they might have found
some silver. The men are believed to
be persons who watched Mr.. Conser
count his money before leaving the
store.
Hanging in the railroad commission.
ers office in the town of Washington
is portrait of Jim Lane, and there is
a little story connected with it. Years
ago before Dave Ballard got his eye
teeth cut he was one of Jim Lanes
boomers After awhile he concluded
that he ought to be rewarded for his
faithfulness and he went down to the
capital to pick out his job Eyes,
Ballard, said Lane, "you have been
my loyal friend, and you shall have
something. 1t is one of the delights
of life to reward ones friends. Come
with me to my committee room. Here"
he said, reaching up into a desk and
getting picture of himself, ''take
this, keep it in memory of Jim Lane.
| Ballard was APPALLED, by the mans