Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-09-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ing out to other towns.
Mr. Herbs, of Clay Center, is faith
healer. He ought to be an Indian
doctor.
The Wellington band has received a
lot of new music including "the band
played on"
Mr.. Hawks is a successful chi cken
raiser of Douglass county. Hawks
are generally successful chicken rails
ers.
A Burlington man has written sew
enty poems in thirty days, and there
seems to be no disposition to kill him
either.
Frogleg is the name ola Holton man.
The "last chance" young of Hia-
watha have gone back to leap year
parties,
Since it was reported that "Jack
the Hugger," was haunting Ottawa,
large number of visiting girls have APP
peared in that town.
A Wellington picnic party stole
lot of watermelons. That is, they
thought they did, but the melons turn
ed out to be gourds
A colored man named Moore, near
Leavenworth, has raised good field
of cotton this year. If Northern Kan
sas can raise cotton, Southern Kansas
ought to raise oranges.
Ed Howe angrily demands to know
who buttons up girls dress when it
opens in the back, and Dick flares up
and says, mot knowing the girl he
refers to, we decline to answer"
A Kansas City colored girl has been
cutting wide swath in Leavenworth
society by declaring that she is not
school teacher, as she claims, but
"society domestic" A society domes-
tic, we wish to remark, is good.
Speaking of the suicide of young
girl down in southeastern Kansas the
other day, one of our exchanges de-
clares that shot herself with "72-
calibre pistol" An ordinary sized girl
could crawl down the barrel of ~
calibre pistol.
From good results obta ined in rails
ing tobacco in the Indian territory,
competent judges of the quality and
profitable yield of this plant, say it
should be more extensively cultivated.
What is true of the Indian Territory
in this matter is also true of Oklaho-
ma.
Talk about the unselfshness Of
women" comments Ed Howe, after
racking his brain to find something
mean to say about the fair sex, "the
men boarders at an Atchison boarding
house have to sit up till midnight
awaiting a turn at the bath tub, which
is being used by women boarders who
have nothing to do all day"
All Kansas people will be glad to
know that 7. ]. Morton, a former Kan
sas newspaper man, has become part
ner in the big law firm of Collins &
Fletcher of Chicago, and is making
good money. 1t gives him a position
in his profession that ordinarily law
yer at the Chicago bar must work ten
years to attain.
A young man rushed into Kansas
journal office the other day and raised
great roar because the paper had
printed a piece about his prospective
brides lingerie. He clustered around
and swore he could whip four kinds of
whey out of "any man who wrote lines
about my girls underclothes," Bill
White, who wrote the piece, says he
can whip the man who told the young
fellow lingerie meant underclothes.
In the meantime the girl is stitching
away at her things with lodging" on
and is glad Oft.
At a meeting of the city attorneys
of Topeka. Atchison, Leavenworth, FIT.
Scott and Kansas City, at Kansas City
last week, arrangements were made to
bring test suit involving the question
whether on not n city can recover from
its county that proportion of delin-
quent tax sale penalties which has
been realized from the sale Of city pro-
perty for taxes and appropriated to
the county fund. The attorneys all
agree that the cities can, under a re.
cent decision of the appellate court, re.
cover the amount of such penalties
together with the interest for three
years back. City attorney Solomon o
Atchison, and others are Of the opin
ion that the statutes of limitation viii
not OBTAIN in the case and that tn,
cities may recover their proportion o
all such penalties since incorporation
The test case will be brought by til,
city of Atchison against Atchisci
county. The council of that city kal
expended several hundred dollars II
computing its claims. Large sum