Hutchinson gazette., 1896-05-28


Ia Hodgman county citizen offers 70
"swap truth for lies"
Over $4 900 was contributed for the
relief of the cyclone sufferers at Cliff
ton.
A Lacrosse minister last Sunday
took for his text: "a Coffin Out Of
Egypt"
Thomas Emmett Dewey has taken
the road with lecture, Poetry in
Song"
There is some ia Tx of locating the
Masonic orphans asylum at Leaven'
worth.
In some parts of southern Kansas,
Tuesday, the hail was big enough to
break window glass.
The Wellington lecture bureau has
good reputation and S4OO cash left
over from the season.
In personal of a railroad man
Wellington paper speaks of 1.-THE gem
ial car-whacker"
A barber county man lost $1,000
colt because its pedigree was so heavy
it couldn't stand up and suck.
Complaint has been entered against
the bawling of calf at Russell. The
calf itself may go unpublished.
A young colored lawyer of Lawrence
was arrested for "subordination TO
perjury" Wonder if it's ketchin?
Abilene offers to vote a block of
bonds to a preacher of the Episcopal
faith who will become resident there
and preach two sermons a week.
The highest ambition of an Atchison
girl is to become Cecil Spooner and
play at Efingham, Padonia, Tongan-
oxie and like bucolic settlements.
IA Lawrence man at Cripple Creek is
making fortune by exchanging hot
biscuits for nuggets at ratio of about
100 to l.
A Kansas cyclone is pretty bad, but
when Kansas and Nebraska go into
partnership in the cyclone business II
is terrible.
The belle beau of the fly town of
Lananian holds down the "second
chair" of the fashionable ton3orial par
lor of the place.
AS no accident happened at Moscow
and no one was killed we are unable
to tell whether Kansas man was al
the coronation or not.
]. Kansas Morgan writes it ''tht
Forest Oil company have" and "the
Buckeye company has Will the
learned Kansas explain.
From the number of tornado reports
it is plain that some Kansas newspa-
per correspondents do not know where
the whirlwind leaves off and the cy'
clone begins.
The new curfew bell at Leavenworth
will ring at o'clock When it is rig
idly enforced Judge Culver should go
up and look the town over and see how
much it has improved.
Twenty-Five years age this month
corn was selling in Wilson county at
81. 35 bushel. The volume of the cur
rency had nothing to do with it. 1t
was grasshopper year.
Ed Howe, in declaring that it is in
bad taste for woman to sit with her
knees crossed, also remarks that it is
in bad form for woman to take any
attitude that is comfortable.
A rooster in Durham township, Otta-
wa county, is patiently covering thir-
teen eggs and expects to hatch them
out. The story is bit shady as the
name of the rooster is not given.
Webb McNall came to Topeka last
Saturday and showed his scars, and
afterward took a train for Cripple
Creek, where his men are uncovering
stuff that will go s24O to the ton.
A Kansas druggist was shot and
dangerously wounded by unknown as
sailants one night last week. Kansas
people will stand great deal, but
when the whisky gets too bad they
kill.
A Wellington husband who is try
ing to preserve his wife's nerves, reads
the daily paper carefully through ev-
cry day before his wife is permitted to
see it. If there is an account of a cy'
clone he destroys the paper.
Ewing Herbert was on the ground
within an hour after the news reached
Hiawatha of the death and destruct-
ion dealt to the town of Reserve by
the cyclone Sunday evening, and early
the next day the World published an
extra. That's the kind of a newspa'
per Hairpin Herbert is.
The bicycle face" has appeared in
Atchison. Young people go around