Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16
KANSAS ITEMS OFINTEREsT.

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In the Santa Fe there are 1884, s4t
shares of stock, of which only 34l are
owned in Kansas.
The Leoti mills are running in full
blast again and the farmers in that
community are happy.
A man can be happy in Kansas He
is not compelled to attempt to grow a
blue grass lawn. 1t is not compul'
sorry.
That resignation of the Garden City
postmaster has been lost in somebody
inside pocket, says a prominent news
paper.
A genuine black jack rabbit was
killed in Sumner county the other day.
Black jack rabbits ara very scarce in
this country.
In Mcpherson county, Frank Slade
has just sold his farm for So, 500. Thos.
Wortley, neighbor of SHADES, sold
his for SO, 200.
There are eleven counties in the
Fourth congressional district and only
ten candidates for congress- Which
one is not represented?
A southern Kansas man makes his
living by polishing COW horns and
making them into hat racks He re-
Gently purchased 500 horns at one
time.
Six tramps were arrested in Cowley
county recently for burning railroad
ties They were brought into court
One of the tramps was lawyer He
rolled up his sleeves, pulled down the
statutes and cleared himself and his
companions, the county attorney col
lapsing.
A special election was held in Coffey-
will for the purpose of voting on prop
osition to issue the bonds of the city to
the amount of SIT, 900 to be used in put
ting in an electric system to be owned
and operated by the city. The vote
in favor of the bonds was nearly three
to one.
A special meeting of the Cofferville
school board will be held on the even
ing of December co. at which time the
salaries of the principal teachers and
janitors of the public schools of Cof-
feyvile, for the month of December
will be allowed. This meeting was
arranged SO that the teachers and 9TH
err employees might receive this months
salary before Christmas and would be
better prepared to celebrate the holt
days.
In one of the school districts OF Lo-
gan county the directors employed
young woman to teach seven months
Mt $40 a month. Early last fall she
had two or three pupils, but when cold
weather came they quit attending, and
for month not single pupil has en-.
tered the schoolhouse. The young
woman tired of her lonely occupation,
has offered to compromise by taking
five months salary and closing the
schoolhouse as soon as she shall have
completed the three months of the fall
term. The directors agreed to com.
promise and County superintendent
Haskinson wrote to State Superinten-
dent Stryller, asking if such a compro-
mise could be legally made Superin-
tendent Stryker sent the letter to AS
sistant Attorney General Smelling.
who says the law makes no provision
for such an arrangement The only
remedy left the teacher is to abandon
her school and trust to the board not
to sue her for specific performance of
contract
Secretary Bliss has taken prominent
action to avert possible invasion of
the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma
by whites with the idea of forcing
upon congress the opening of the coun.
try to white settlement. Reports have
just reached the department that GER
tain persons are declaring their inten.
tion to organize large party in the
state of Kansas or elsewhere, to invade
the Wichita lands with the object
stated Instructions have been wired
to all the agents and inspectors in that
section to make inquiries and ascer.
tain as far as possible the truth of the
rumors, and report the. result here.
The agents are called upon to exer.
else great vigilance to prevent any
such invasion, and in case of necessity.
where the Indian police force is inadi.
quate; military assistance will be
promptly furnished. This action is
more of precautionary measure than
in anticipation of real danger. Officials.
while taking proper steps to meet any
emergency, do not apprchend any SER
ious disorder
1t is now just 356 years since Coro.
nado came to Kansas and cussed the
state because it wasn't what it was
cracked up TO be.