Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-04

The youngest graduate in Kansas
was girl in Atchison-sevcnteen.
-Four men recently left Lyon county
for England with four hundred head
of cattle,
There is cred Pepper school dis
trict in Usage county, That's where
the boys get licked.
An enterprising Russell county man
with salt well proposes to engage in
the cultivation of oysters.
At Frankfort the cyclone knocked
the splinter out of two churches and
never touched joint,
The most prosperous town in Kan.
sas today is said to be Galena, in the
southeastern part of the state.
J. B. Chapman has settled in Otta
wa, where he is doing land Office bus
mess in defaulted mortgages.
A Haskell county man killed sixteen
rattle snakes and not druggist in
that county has liquor permit.
j. Kansas Morgan writes it .'the
Forest Oil company have" and "the
Buckeye company has. Win the
learned Kansas explain.
The wife of the Rev. A. S. Embree
of Topeka is dying of consumption.
She is well known in Northeastern
Kansas, where her husband has been
for n number of years.
The Usage Carbon company will
keep only one mine open in Scranton,
one in Peterton and one in Usage City
during the summer Three hundred
and eighty men have been laid off at
the three towns.
There is great kick because Con-
ductor Harry Griffin has been taken
off the Topeka and Atchison run by
the Santa Ee management. Griffin is
one of the most obliging men who ever
punched u ticket, and the women dote
on him.
The first alfalfa bloom of the season
made its appearance in Garden City
May 5. The ordinary reader will pass
this item by without comment, but
out in the short grass country it will
become part of the immigration
boom.
Auditor of State Cole made life easy
for the county clerks by getting out
the raj road assessment statements
in ample time for them to do business
on the stptutory dot. 1t is something
unusual, but good scheme and ought
to be pushed along.
The new adjutant general of the g.
A. r., the patriot who beat
of deceased old soldier out
of job has beautiful lace curtain
whiskers and Il soft, velvetr voice.
You will not be mistaken when you
meet him; there is no other man like
him in Kansas.
The thoroughgoing Kansas man
never says die" Your constitu-
ton is played ont; you can't live
long," said physician to Topeka
old stager the other day. "COnstitu-
ton gone! Is that all?' the man said.
"Hell, l can live ten years on the by
laws
Francis Murphy has been engaged
to put down the Demon Rum in Law
reuce, which moves Charley Finch to
say that while Murphy is an enter
tanning talker lie would better serve
the cause of Temperance by staying in
Topeka, where there are 100 joints.
In Lawrence, he declares, the Joint
keepers do not sell enough to pay
their fines.
Every merchant in Lawrence and a
of other Kansas towns, who
handle D. NJ. Ferry & Co.'S seeds have
been served with punishment no
tiee by number of Finney county
farmers. Last year the Ferry compa-
ny entered into contract with the COM
plainants to furnish given quantities
of certain designated seeds. When
the seeds were ready, the company e.
fused to receive them, alleging as an
excuse that the seeds were OF inferior
quality. The plaintiffs found out later
that the trouble with the company
was that they were badly overstoclsed
and straightway the disappointed
farmers brought suit for damages,
hence the garnishment service on
merchants selling Ferry's seeds
The Topeka Mail and Breeze mark
ed its twenty-ifth anniversary last
week by publishing an illustrated edi
ton of thirty-two pages. 1t contains
all the information about Topeka, and
Shawnee county that is worth know
ing, with pictures of prominent men
and and women and sprinkling of
ba bies; views of streets, houses and
ancient landmarks, The edition rep
resents the patience, search and in