Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11

The district conferences have begun
and the smart pullet is hiding out.
The Leavenworth district court has
record of a Divorce in two minutes.
Kansas was visited by four inch
snow during the first week in Febru-
airy.
The Halstead city council has decid-
ed to rebuild the old dam by the mill
site.
There is either mountain lion or a
monumental liar prowling around Ell
linwood.
The newspaper war at Newton makes
the Cuban affair seem like very small
potatoes.
The change in political control did
not affect the game at Topeka. 1t is
still poker.
The Missouri Pacific is said to be
planning to extend from Kanopolis tc
Ellsworth.
The resignation of the city librarian
at Ottawa is agitating the public mind
of that town.
An Argonia Justice has just fined
four boys there for disturbing the peace
of pie social.
Ell Dorado people are chipping in"
to fight the suit brought against the
title to half the town.
The people of Haskell county are
considering plan to reduce the num-
Der of townships in the county.
The Hotel Ryan which burned at
Pratt recently, was built at Saratoga
and afterwards moved to Pratt in sec
tons
Professor Franklin of the state uni
versity has joined the travellers. He
will go to Costa RIGA to look into some
mines.
Emporia has organized a Business
Mons Association" and any creameries
or factories waiting locations will be
given a chance.
Ellen Beach Yaw did not take we'll
in Emporia where there are about for
ty soprano soloists who think they can
beat her singing.
The State Journal says there are
fifty joints in Topeka, which isn't very
many considering the way politics
drive men to drink.
An Emporia man six feet in height,
recently stumbled into a room occu-
pied by an engaged couple. 1t was an
accident, and he apologized, but that
didn't save him from cold stares of
contempt that reduced him to three
feet in height before he got out.
Up in Dickinson county as in other
counties the country correspondents of
papers often get into discussions. The
discussions in Dickinson county was
over what animal Nebucadnezzar was
changed into. Some said an ass, others
an eagle and others an OK.
What the Legislature ought to do is
pass law that any paper that uses
more than eight columns week fight
ing for the county printing shall be
considered ineligible to receive it. Kan
sas people must get awfully tired read
ing the county printing wrangles.
February end is generally known as
"ground hog day." and the condition
of weather that exists on this anniver-
sary is supposed by the superstitiously
inclined, to indicate the kind of wealth
err that will prevail for the next six
weeks. If the ground hog didn't see
his shadow when he sauntered forth |
from his hole about noon it was not |
because the sun was hidden, for that |
luminary was shining bright at the |
hour mentioned.
Kansas was thirty-six years old jan
uary Goth. Thirty-three states were
in the Union before Kansas was adj |
mitted, and eleven came in since her
entrance. In certain sense she is
among the new states, for the govern
ment under the constitution was near
ly three-quarters of a century old when
she was let in. Hardly any of the for
ty-hve states, however, have helped to
make more history. In this respect
she is not much behind Virginia, New
York, Massachusetts, or any other of
the original thirteen. Much of the
history, too, has been highly credita-
BILE.
A lady, a smart, intelligent, educa-
ted woman, too, and old enough to
know a thing or two-went into drug
store few evenings ago in certain
Kansas town. She had about dozen
empty quinine capsules, and with an
innocence, not to say ignorance, that
staggered the druggist, asked him to
fill them up with quinine for her. The
obliging druggist did as directed, and
putting the refilled capsules in a box,
wrote directions on the lid: Swallow