Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE Clay county cyclone claims thir
teen victims.
Trego county schools are superin
tended by Peacock
Ike Lambert of Emporia, is slated II
be speaker of the house next winter.
In western Kansas it is said divorced
women are called alfalfa widows.
Win White says that Charley Curtis
will have to meet a fusion candidate
1.-The festive bedbug is suffering its
annual prosecutions in the city of Rus
sell.
Kansas railroad men are rejoicing
over the prospects of good big checks
next pay day.
No use to plant potatoes. Ellis coun-
ty with fair yield will have enough
to supply the state.
Atchison county will soon have a
new courthouse. The contract has
been awarded.
A deputy sheriff in Wyandotte coun-
ty was killed last week while pursu-
ing chicken thieves.
1t is reassuring to note that the "a
thousand times, no" editorial writer in
Knasas is disappearing.
With all her bank troubles Yelling
ton would rather have a bank fail than
cyclone toy with her
The report that the Agora, the Kan
sas magazine, is dead, is mistake. 1t
is just resting for few months.
Abortion county man caught half
dozen and one coyotes and reaped the
bounty-thirteen and one dollars.
Kansas has about 1900 travelling
salesman, and every one who uses
groceries helps to pay their salaries.
That Holton man whose necktie
stopped bullet probably believes now
that four-in-hand is worth eight birds
in the bush.
When panics are on, Wellington
banks have always managed to wealth
er the gale. 1t is when it is quiet all
over the country that they are in the
most danger.
Judge Lester of Hamilton county re-
Gently held an autopsy of the charac-
ter of dead colored man, arriving at
this soul-chilling verdict: "His skin
was black, his blood red, and his heart
white"
The clapper of school bell in Lane
county was gone five weeks and the
janitor climbed into the belfry one
hundred and fifty times to tap the
bell. That should put to fight the pa
thence of Job.
,Wheelmen have become so strong in
Atchison that they are able to dictate
TO the city council. The time was in
Atchison when wheelman was look
ed upon as but one remove from a lu.
matte. But the procession has moved
little since then, and Atchison has
kept up with it.
Ben Reed, colored, called the strong
est man in Kansas, fell dead at Fort
Scott Saturday. He was a politician
and was once a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for the legisla-
ture. Recently he went blind and be
came insane and could be controlled |
only by seven men.
For assault a Kansas City barber
was fined $50. He had beaten the
owner of the building in which his
shop was located When the fine was !
assessed, he sarcastically asked the
Judge to make the fine 500 and send |
him to jail for six months. The Judge |
took him at his word and did so.
Benjamin Fuller of Rice county cut
his jugular vein with razor one day |
last week after arguing the matter all |
and half the night with his sons. He
was talked out of the deed several
times, Finally he was given a square
meal, and a neighber was called in to
dissuade him. But he was proof |
against all argument, and saying to
them, Are you doneP" slashed his
throat.
A German-Lutheran preacher who
holds forth five miles south Of Windon,
IS not found mapping much at midday.
He takes notes for his ministerial la.
bors. 1.-The performs marriage GER
emory, and the groom gives him but
five dollars and says he would pay
more If he had it to spare, the preach
er suggests that he give him a note
for another five, to draw legal inter-
est until paid. He pursues the same
course at burials and other places
where his services are needed. If the
church does not pay him what they
agree to, he takes the members notes
tor the part unpaid.
4 Every man in the last legislature
who is reelected to the next one will