Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-05

Topeka has booked Murat Halstead
for lecture this winter.
A son of the late General Blunt lives
at Greeley, in Anderson county.
The father Of the late Senator
Plumb is still living and is in Lyon
county.
Nineteen statesmen are applicants
for the janitorship of the government
building at Salina.
The people of QHenemo meeEly sub
NIT to "Uncle Toms Cabin. In other
respects Quenemo has good deal Of
self-respect.
An Atchison county candidate is said
to have such wet breath that the
barometer rises whenever he comes
into a township.
One of the issues of the campaign in
Dickinson county is the kick of the
country teachers against doing their
own janitor work.
After Lawrence young man has
called on girl regularly for year,
he finds he has told her all the inter
esting incidents of his life. The alter
native of holding hands or quitting is
then presented.
VIM. Brandt, boy Of Barton county
had one arm taken off by threshing
machine last summer. The commits
sioners of that county are magnanim-
GUS enough to assist him in getting an
education, and allow him 81. so week
for thatpurpose
A Topeka bicycle dealer says that he
is sure that even more wheels than us
ual will be sold in 1897. The new ones
will be constructed of large tubing,
narrow tread, little larger tire than
this season, and will way about TWEEN
ty-three pounds
An old fashioned silver fork was re-
Gently found several feet down in ex-
cavating for pier at the river in To-
peka. 1t was scarcely furnished, and
was not worn, having, evidently, been
lost when new. 1t said Rogers 1877
upon it, and must have been lost many
years ago.
After November Sd the passenger
train on the Strong City branch of the
Santa Fe will stop at Concordia, u mix
ed train doing the work the rest of the
way to Superior. Mixed trains will
also take the places of regular passen-
ger trains out of Abilene on the Salina
and Minneapolis branches.
The following is given by an old
Kansas woman as a sure cure for diph-
liberia: Take crude copperas, mash it
fine, and put it on griddle on the
stove. Let it cook until it gets brown,
and then put a half teaspoonful of the
powder in half glass of water, and
have the patient gargle his throat
with it three OF four times a day.
Chairman Caldwell of the Western
Passenger association has authorized
rates of fare and third to be made
to the following Kansas meetings:
Meeting of the Kansas Dairy associa-
ton at Abilene, Nov. IS to 90; South
eastern Kansas Teachers association
a. Fort Scott, Nov. 90 to 2s; Southwes-
tern Kansas Teachers association at
Wellington, Nov. 81 and 90.
An Atchison paper which has been
prone to poke fun says: major Tom
Anderson headed the Rock Island dele
CATION to Canton Saturday, and his
claim that he and Major Mckinley are
old friends has been established MS
true beyond a doubt. Mckinley held
Tom Anderson's hand exactly four Sec
onds longer than that of any other
man that day."
Milt Brewer, living near Mount HOPED
one day recently found horse with
his foot attached to pillow with one
over trace The man put his foot on
the trace to get the horses leg back
when everything stopped. When he
picked himself up from the ground his
foot was broken and the horse was
still standing in the same position APP
asleep. He does not know
what happened.
Engineer Joseph Collins vino was
killed at Beaumont in wreck one day
last week, was one of the oldest en-
gineers on the Frisco road He was
wealthy, perhaps worth hundred
thousand dollars. For a number of
years he had not worked regularly, but
ran his engine part of the time more
for recreation than for the money in it.
He could not be contented idle all the
time, and found the fascination to
work part of the time irresistible.
lat Saffordsville, early last Friday
morning, Night Operator and Agent
Patton was made to throw up his
hands at the muzzle of a revolver by
"short" man with soft hat, and the