Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06

An Emporia policeman is advertising
for club he lost while sonambulating.
During the recent foods Atchisou
county has lost SO, 200 worth of good
bridges.
Nine-tenths of the broom corn pro-
duct of the United States is grown in
Kansas.
The Emporia newspapers have form
ed combine and will charge for lodge
notices.
1t is q fact startling but true that no
one ever starved to death in all the his
tory of Western Kansas.
Some one at Sterling started to get
up car load of corn for the famine
stricken people of India. But the car
doesn't I'll up.
Rev. Holmes of Caldwell believes
that every man is born to die but
thinks that safety is good thing and
has built himself cycave.
w. H. Brown of Wellington, an early
timer, believes that it was not Indians
who killed the famous Pat Hennessey,
but an organized band of horse-thieves.
The county attorney of Harvey coun-
ty has got the Board of Pardons to
thinking that George W. Rogers, the
famous Newtonian should be pardon
ed.
The creamery at Solomon City has
eighty-6ve patrons who deliver on an
average 1000 pounds of milk daily.
About 300 pounds of butter is made a
day.
One of the sweet girl graduates of
the Chetopa high school can kick
eighteen inches higher than her head.
She ought to be salutatorian of the
class.
1t is said that Oklahoma man
started the airship story. He saw it
at Ellinwood and it was worth seven
dollars as specials" to metropolitan
papers.
Fritz Schultz, an inmate Of the Paw
nee county poor house died, but not in
time to escape surgical operation for
which the county commissioners had
appropriated thirty dollars.
The Salvation army is talking of try
ing its hand on irrigation in Western
Kansas. If man will take faith and
bass drum out into Western Kansas
he may accomplish wonders.
The Rock Island will ballast its
track between Caldwell and Yelling
ton with burned gumbo. The gumbo
is prepared by burning with slack coal
in immense pits and makes and excel
lent road-bed.
George johnson has been arrested at
Sterling. Johnson's graft was new.
He went to a whisky seller and claim
ing he was an officer arrested him and
then told him that if he would put up
privately he would release him.
Grand Master Workman j, II. Crider
of the Kansas jurisdiction of the A. o.
U. w. announces that the membership
has just reached the 10000 mark. Cri-
der has appointed Representative Wei
lep of Crawford county to go to Okla
homa to arrange for the reunion of the
Oklahoma and Kansas jurisdictions
under the Kansas officers.
The semi-annual state convention of
the county superintendent will meet
in junction City May 19 and 10 at the
First Baptist church, An open half
fare rate has been secured on all roads
The Junction City schools will furnish
the music Superintendent George E.
Kyner at Junction City will answer all
all particulars regarding the meeting.
An epidemic of measles has broken
out among the convicts in the United
States penitentiary at TT, Leavenworth
and the working of many of the men
has been suspended Those with the
measles have been quarantined and all
newcomers are put in sepatate cell
house. The disease is proving very
troublesome to many of the prisoners
and the hospital is crowded.
A man was up before the police Judge
of Topeka the other day for stealing
coal The railroad detective SAID he
caught the fellow in the coal car, but
the man said that he was only sleeping
there because his wife had locked him
out and he had no money to go to a
hotel. Pretty hard bed, wasn't itP"
asked the Judge "Oh, no, sir" he an
swered, ut was soft coal" And the
Judge was so struck with the joke that
he let him go
Manager Harry Love of the Nilsson ri
& Kansas Telephone Co. reports hays
ing reached distance of seven ana
half miles north of Pittsburg with the
extension of the long distance line;
also that the soil so far has just been