Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-08-13

Seventy-fve recruits were sworn in
to the ranks of the Salvation army at
Atchison Sunday night
The johnson City Journal thinks
Johnson City has an over-production
of politicians per capita.
The dog tax collector is abroad in
Atchison and nailed forty Of the best
citizens there in one fell swoop the
other day.
Kansas has $4,000 members Of the
Grand Army of the Republic. One
hundred and fifty members have died
since January LIST.
A Leavenworth boy amuses himself
stealing horses he finds hitched on the
streets, riding them out on the prairies
and turning them loose.
Mr.. Booze is the name of a Jewell
county farmer who says he never took
a drink of anything stronger than al.
berry wine in all his life.
You have noticed how superior"
some girls are to their male relatives:
there is lovely creature in Atchison,
10 years old, who will not speak to her
own father, he is so common. CJL--
A farmer over in Greenwood county
is preparing to build a roof over his
cornfeld. He says if he hnsks his
corn he cannot get it back into the
same space and has concluded to let
it stand.
John Jackson who deliberately muir
dered John Smith at Yale, Kans. bout
a year ago, was caught last week at
Warrior, Ala, and Sheriff Deets, of
Crawford county, left for that place to
get him.
A Chicago young man who is stop
ping at a Kansas town is making him
self unpopular at his boarding house
by continually roasting Kansas. Kan
sas is also roasting him at temper
allure of 90.
If $4,000 people visit Topeka, Fall
Festival week, they will spend no less
than IS apiece or $95O,OOO This is put
ting the festival in a sordid light, but
that is one way in which it must be
looked at.
A cultivated sunHower in north
Atchson bore such immense blossoms
that one recently dropped onto the
roof of wood shed near by and its
weight was such that it crushed the
roof in.
The editor. of the Atchison Globe
has discovered that Lydia Pinkhan,
Of Vegetable Compound fame, is a
man. AS Lydia has been dead some
years, this discovery is startling and |
important.
Governor Morrill, is asked by a wo-
nan in Kentucky to pardon her hus.
band out of the penitentiary, with the |
following strange prayer: "Now, dear
governor, please let my husband come
home TO his wife and children. We
need him. He has one little child |
years old and another 2 years old, and
ne has never seen either of them"
The second crop of alfalfa in the vi
Unity of Oberlin is coming on finely. |
One field of tifty-five acres near town
has alfalfa measuring fifty.one inches
n height. The owner estimates that
lie will secure not less than one thou
and bushels of seed from 1t, and as
he average price of seed is S. per bu-
shell, the farmer will be sure of fair
wages for his seasons work.
The federal detectives arrested Henry
Wells, young attorney of Girard, and
Tom Hobson, also of the same place,
charged with using the mails to de-
'raud. They were charged with having
been connected with a big swindle, and
with having necessarily used the mails
70 accomplish it in different towns in
and Kansas and the Indian
territory.
The members of the Ananlas club in
4 certain Kansas town are becoming
noted for their prevaricating qualities.
They also have rather loud voices.
Some of them seem to have become
conscious-stricken as the following
which was heard while |
passing their club rooms, will show:
Say, Blank, sad one of the most pro-
minent members, 'do you suppose that |
st. Peter will let us into heaven when
he learns what sort of fellows we are?" |
Needn't let that worry you this year"
Blank. "Why?" Because
all you have to do to get to heaven is !
to climb up on 4 stock of Kansas corn. a" |
Miss Tena Knox, the head waitress !
Of an eating house in Edwards county |
which burned down, is said to have
lost $500 in diamonds in the fire.
Head-waitresses often do things like
that without thinking. Did she have