Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-10

catch Knute Ury and see where he is
at"
Associate Justice Allen denied the
report that the plutocrats have bought
him.
The Brown county exposition is
bankrupt. Perhaps it didn't have fair
show.
Abilene is slowly getting herself
seated in the creamery throne Of
Kansas.
Congressman-elect Mccormick Of the
Sixth district, served as Confederate
soldier.
Everybody would be surprised If Cy
Leland should get an appointment in
Kansas.
Win White will speak on Kansas at
the big Ohio banquet. He will ''stand
up" too.
Billy Nelson continues to take shot
at the administration, whose end is SO
near at hand.
Governor Morrill, will break up house
keeping this winter and live at a hotel
in Hiawatha.
This is december, and while death
hasn't come to all the people in Kan
sas, taxes have.
Atchison is the only town in the state
that has man who sharpeus skates
and advertises it.
Kansas is just'now enjoying squirt
of fine weather, which is duly welcome
after the recent cold snap.
Jerry Simpson on second thought
will not make Myron Reed of Denver
chaplain of the next house.
Farmers in Shawnee county say that
many cattle that have been turned
into stock fields are dying.
If Reed and Mckinley fall out, there
will be mighty little picking for the
congressman from Kansas.
At Pratt this winter the ice has al
ready been three inches in thickness.
Last winter there was none.
The Oklahoma football team will
tackle the Arkansas City team at Ar
kansas City one day this week.
The Lincoln curfew bars girls Of 1s
and boys of 20. That's more like it.
Better still make it 81 all round.
In the first story in Will Whites
new book, did the congressman run
again for congress or did he not?
Charley Harger of Abilene is writing
stuff for the Chicago papers by the
column, and the Chicago papers pay.
The talk about Senator Baker and
Cy Leland being at outs is all stuff and
nonsense. Somebody is always snoop-
ing around in Kansas feeding impossi-
BILE fires with rocks.
A Kansas editor assures his readers
that if they overlook the shortage in
local matter this week on account of
the arrival of a ten-pound girl baby,
he will see that the same thing does
not occur again"
DR.. Smith, the gentleman from Sher-
man, thinks the irrigation commission
law should be repealed and the unex-
pended part of the appropriation con-
veyed back into the treasury. He says
the money spent has proved nothing.
City Physician Mitchell, of Topeka,
says that there are but seyen or eight
cases of scarlet fever in the city and
all are of mild form. The disease
has been less fatal than usual. Not
single death in Topeka has been attrib-
uted to scarlet fever, but the report for
November will show large record Of
scarlet fever cases.
A practical woman of Topeka, has
scheme to shut out quack doctors.
She suggests that the bars be let down
for anybody and everybody to offer
their services as physicians, but that
the regular graduates and none others
be authorized by law to put out red,
blue and green signs; red for the allo-
paths, blue for the homeopathic and
green for the eclectics. Then If the
people want to take chances on death
by quackery, let no one interfere.
The newspapers are printing state
ment that Greeley, Scott, Stanton, Has
kell, Seward, Stevens and Morton coun-
ties will lose their legislative represen-
tatives this winter, because they failed
to register $50 votes at the polls in
November. This is an error. Only
four of the counties named may lose
their house members, The constitu-
ton provides that before a county
shall be given representation it shall
have cast $50 votes at a general cleo
ton, but it may not be deprived of its
member unless thereafter it shall cast
less than 200 votes. At the recent
election Greeley and Scott cast more
than 200 votes. The other five fell be-
1o,,y tho constitutional ,ninirnuu, lint