Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-19

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and ten cent hose.
Haskell county produced good Gro
of peanuts this year.
Dodge City had three shows in ter
days, not counting election.
Governor Morrill, last week clandes
timely issued Thanksgiving procla
nation.
Charley Curtis has got over his scare
and is loaded with lecture on the
Ralston cure.
Governor-elect Leedys family con
sists of two grown daughters and O.
year-old SOC.
Royal Matthews of Mcpherson is the
only Republican state senator in the
Seventh district.
An Atchison man sought peace in the
bottom of the Missouri river because
his wife nagged him.
The Emporia society men who gave
minstrel show last winter have been
given permission to do it again.
The Kansas fellows who are hunting
for unlisted federal snaps should not
forget the army paymaster gold mine,
The Swennson Swedish ministry
boom while wandering about over the
prairie of Mcpherson county three
weeks ago fell into an abandoned well
and no one is able to find the well.
If Cy Leland gets to be secretary of
the interior ten thousand men in Kan
sas will simultaneously awaken to the
convection that the United States In
dian service cannot survive without
their aid.
There are more men after the United
States marshalship in Kansas than any
other position, and it has been practic-
ally settled for year who was to have
1t if the election went certain way.
Some one is being badly fooled.
The Botkin family all got there; the
one running for governor in Wyoming,
the one for congressman at large from
Kansas, the other for the legislature
from Hutchinson, and the one after the
county office down in Oklahoma.
"Heavens!' said man yesterday,
"The Populists will get to quarreling
among themselves over state patronage
and the Republicans over federal pat
rOnage, and what mixed old time we
will have in Kansas two years from
now!"
Two real tramps hearing as "tacky
party" in Guthrie the other night,
took it in, and the hostess did not
catch on until she missed some silver
ware the next day. AS the Logan
county girl said: Guthrie society is
great joke"
Some of Topeka's benevolent ladies
are trying to get transportation to
Texas for the old blind woman named
Robbins who used to play the organ
cite on the streets last summer. She
is very sick and thinks Texas climate
would do her good.
A Topeka man who has tried being
supported by the city and by the coun-
ty and by begging has given up and
will go to work. IF they can't treat
me as well as they do some others" he
said today, "I'll show them l can get
along without them"
A sealed bottle was taken from the
Kaw river at Topeka Sunday after
noon. In it was a bit of paper, and
upon the paper the following was in
scribed in firm, steady hand: 81 seal
this in bottle and set it adrift on the
bosom of the Solomon river, Monday,
November 2, that all the world may
know that l have not been fooled
lick in the road since the st. Louis con-
vention. am whipped man, and
single gold standard did 1t. Stranger
why may find this please give it to the
newspapers II. E.
The Eureka Herald says: How many
defective ballots were found when the
vote of the recent election was cam
vassed it is impossible to say, but judg-
ing from the feel of the several sealed
packages the number is considerable.
Some of the packages disclose the num-
Der therein, but others do not. The
Twin Falls precinct, which cast go
votes, sends in twelve defective ballots,
q loss of 20 per cent, II one half of
this percentage of loss prevailed
throughout the county, the loss would
reach fully 400 votes. In what way the
the ballots are defective we have no
means for knowing, nor can the mat
ter be ascertained short of contest,
and contest is not likely. 1t would
be interesting to know what the trou-
10 was, and to know it would doubt
less be profitable, for it would enable
the importation of little useful infor-
nation. Why any person should make