Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-15

Wheat brings fifty cents at the mill
in Rush county.
Eighteen professors employed in the
state university ride bicycles.
The official anvil-frer of Abilene has
been sent to the penitentiary.
The girls at Lawrence are so loyal
that they all wear yellow stocking.
"Curfew shall not blow tonight" is
the way it is rendered in Kansas City.
The western Kansas man with a
small bunch of cattle is in great luck
this year.
People of Clark county who indulge
in the luxury of coal fires this winter
will have to put up So ton.
Mr.. Bearup of Geary county ought
to be able to do it, considering that lie
owns $4,000 tolerably fat sheep.
Wheat is coming up all over the
eastern part of the state. 1t shows up
four or five days after planting.
The town of Rest in Wilson county
consists of two stores, blacksmith
shop, postoffice and brass band.
The Topeka girl who sat in the win
dow and let her feet hang down was
one of the features of the great parade.
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety will hold it's thirtieth annual
meeting at Topeka, December o. 10
and II.
The next time there is a drought in
Kansas City it Is proposed to swathe
the city in red and green and yellow
calico.
Official figures show that Kansas
COW located close to creamery can
clear eighteen dollars year above all
expenses.
The engine which exploded at Pete
ton was the one on which Becky
Sharp made her famous trip a few
months since.
The despised tumbleweed was used
in decoration at Topeka last week. In
tertN ined with bittersweet, the effect
was very pretty.
This is a great season for squirrels
in the valley of the Verdigris. Three
or four boys in Wilson county bagged
sixty one day last week.
Ora Harrison of Frankfort, was con-
victed of running a joint the other
day and his sentence included $50 days
in Jail and fine Isl, 100.
A Kansas hypnotist wants to bury a
man alive for sixty days, but the cleo
ton looks so close it has been pro-
posed that he bury woman.
Conner Davis, who already has daugh-
ters big enough to sit in the parlor
and entertain company" became the
father of another one last week.
Joe Thrasher, many years ago IA
nous at Atchison, and afterward at
Galena, as an auctioneer, is now mixed
up in some mines at Cripple Creek
Miss Peach is the name of the new
Alton schoolma'am, and there isn't a
kid in town who wouldn't fight if any
body insinuatud that she wasn't one.
The mighty Kansas frosts have had
no effect on the visiting grasshoppers
out in the short grass country. They
are still numerous, but have done no
damage.
Two years ago, Harriet e. Richey OF
Holton went to Arizona to teach
school. Last month she became the
wife of Elihu P. Van Kuren, very
rich man. The h are no flies on the
average Kansas girl.
Sergeant Henry Heuser of Troop G,
Second United States cavalry, station
ed at Fort Riley, is the best carbine
shot in the United States army, and
until it can be proved otherwise, is
the worlds champion.
Horace w. Blood of Petersburg, Ill,
slipped revolver in his pocket before
leaving home to come to Kansas tc
look his farms over. He presumably
was afraid he might run up against
Indians or bandits. At the house of q
friend in Finney county the weapon
fell from his pocket as he was prepar
ing for bed, the ball entering hi
heart People are safe in Kansas il
they leave their pistols at home.
A Topeka physician, who evidently
places reliance on faith cure as wei
as medicine, has large wooden dumb
bell painted iron black and marked
600 pounds lying in the corner of hi
office. When patient comes in VIII
thinks he is i'll, and is not, the docto
says, "You go home and take thi
medicine and when you come to m
again you will be able to lift thi
weight as can" and with that h
catches up the weight and losses it il
the air.