Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-17

was a very swell affair.
Hard cider is under The ban Of the
city ordinance At Ottawa.
Wellington has caught on and Or
ganized creamery company.
The $4,000 mortgage on the McPher'
son college building has been paid.
Chsnute people dance the German
but they do it in low Dutch way.
Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe eating
house man, will pull his system on The
Frisco
A Wellington man has dog tina,
chews tobacco and drinks beer like q
temperance lecturer.
Five hundred tulip bulbs have been
planted in the city park of Marion and
young folks who want twolip salve
know where to go.
1t is said that VIII White has sold
his paper in Emporia and accepted a
place in the east. 1t is not possible to
drive win White out of Kansas.
The Kansas newspapers preparing
to educate the people up to the fact
that it isn't refined to get your job
work done somewhere else and then
ask the newspapers to puff your show.
The Eiklors trial is now in progress
in Comanche county. This was the
case in which dispute arose as to
where it belonged. The shooting took
place on the corner of two Oklahoma
counties and two Kansas counties.
A farmer wrote to an Atchison law
yer the other day as follows: "Will you
please tell me where you learned to
write? l have boy wish to send to
school, and am afraid he may hit on
the same school that you went to-"
Misfortunes and blessings never
come singly. On last November Sd,
prominent young Kansas man was
defeated for the legislature and on the
18th his wife eloped with young man
from Texas. In the evening a loud
noise at the barn caused him to go out
to Investigate and while he was at the
barn his wife ran out to the road, got
in a buggy with her lover and drove
off.
The Paola Republican says: "Alph.
Gus is is receipt of paper from Victor
ia, British Columbia, under date of No
vember %, containing the particulars
of an accident sustained by his uncle,
Vernon Lane, and the probable death
of his son and companion. Mr.. Lane
and son Arthur were on a hunting trip
near Sidney when Mr.. Lane fell over
precipice and was badly injured. His
son took him home to Victoria, and
with companion started in boat to
return to Sidney for their hunting out
fit, and it is thought both were drown
ed by the capsizing of their boat, as a
severe storm prevailed soon after they
left Victoria and their empty boat has
since been found. Vernon Lane resid-
ed in this county, in Usage township
from 1856 to to 1872. His son Arthur
was born here"
Louis James.
Louis James, Americas representa-
tive tragedian, supported by the Wag-
enhals and Kemper Company will APP
pear in "Spartacus," DIR. Birds famous
prize play, depicting gladatOrial life,
at Crawford Grand opera House, Wich-
tia, Kansas, Christmas Day matinee
and evening.
Mr.. James is an actor, few of which
have been seen since the days of the
Booths. FORESTS and McCulloughs.
His manly figure, handsome face, and
wonderful acting, add much to the
part; and in some of the exciting scenes
last night, the house shook with the
great applause, and several times the
great actor was called before the cur
tain. Before one can realize tie grand
ness and effectiveness of Mr.. James
grand and vivid production of Spar
tacus," it must be seen.
His first part on the stage is touch
ing, as a chained slave, unkempt, un'
shaver. He is more beast than man,
having been whipped and robbed of his
wife and child and liberty. Again, his
appearance in the arena, when he has
been induced to fight for his liberty,
he is shaven and shorn, and presented
magnificent picture. His answer to
the Praetor as to what he thought OF
Rome was magnificent display of elo-
guence and acting. From first to last,
in ferocious tenderness, DESPERATION
from slave to conqueror, and to his be-
trayal and terrible death, Mr.. James
makes every point possible, and his
portrayal is grand throughout
The scenery is magnificent and
grand in every way, and in the amphi-
theatre scene where Spartacus meets
his brother and defeats the greatest
Gladiator in Roms- the situations are