Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-08

Montana
Harper joint keepers are receiving
anonymous letters and are very indig-
nant at the violators OF law.
Burlington girls dress in Mother
Hubbards and go out serenading. The
young men follow at a safe distance.
Sherman Biyouac of Jewell county.
soldier organization, will hold Its an
nual reunion at Ionia July 10 and IA.
It is generally understood chat the
Topeka joints are now being protected
under a system of 500 month fines.
The Emporia girl who weeps every
time the home base ball club is de-
feated, ought to start an irrigating
ditch.
Fourteen cars OF tea in one train from
Japan en- route to New York passed
through Kansas on the Santa Fe re-
Gently.
An Arkansas City man is firm be-
lever in linen pants. He wears them
for trousers in the summer and under
wear in the winter.
A Wellington man has gone to Fort
Scott to start daily paper to advocate
violation of the prohibitory law. Its
ob;tua,.,, will o,oroa,. coon
A fishing party of fourteen people
from IIugoton caught one little cat
fish The trouble over the division of
the spoils was settled by putting the
fish back in the creek.
In a divorce petition at Wichita the
plaintiff named a half dozen promi-
nent business men as correspondents
Their wives are now preparing to do a
little divorce petitioning and the Gown
il as much excited as when Tiger DlI
resigned.
81 wish, said one of the central tel
ephone girls at Hutchinson the other
day, that l could walk into lions
den just as Daniel did and see if it
would hurt me- =" "Goodness!" exclaim-
ed her companion, "What for?' "Oh,
just for the fun of teasing the lion"
The Prairie Mound cemetery near
Solomon has queer epitaph. 1t is cut
on small tombstone and was SEEM
ingly put there by the child's parents
and reads: "A little weazen faced baby,
head too big for its body: two great,
staring eyes, seeming to wonder why
it was BORN
Last week was busy one at the
Leavenworth county treasurer's Office.
The collections for the month of June,
to and including Monday, the 21st,
amounted to $50, 1926. There being
but eighteen working days in this per-
iod, this made an average collection of
So, 100 per day. The total collection of
taxes for 1896 up to date amounted to
1920, 7l9 So, which is about $1,000 hess
than the amount collected at this time
last year and leaves about 100000 yet
on the rolls to collect.
There are more cattle in Lincoln
county than every before. The ass IS
sors return $4,000 over six months old
on the first of March. Several hundred
more have been brought into the coun
ty since then. All of the cattlemen
have made money in the last year
One of the most substantial feeders is
Abe Marshall of Lincoln, who has
made money enough out of his cattle
interests to have handsome Queen
Anne house at cost of from So, 900 to
S., 900, which he will erect this sum
mer.
Four ladies were out boat riding on
the night of June Goth on the Walnut
river near Augusta when something
jumped into the boat. Surprising it to
be mouse or a snake, several of them
contemplated jumping into the river,
when one of them being drawer than
the others decided to capture the rep
tile. After catching it she saw that it
was black bass and tool; off her neck
tie, run it through its gills and march
ed triumphantly home with bass IS
inches long, probably the largest bass
eyer taken out of the Walnut river.
Down in Harper county there is c
nice, fatherly old Methodist circuit
rider who evidently believes &at I'M
der certain circumstances that it is
proper to labor on Sunday. Recently
he preached in a country school house
while the air about him was fairly buzz
zing with the sound of harvesters as
they gathered the over-ripe grain.
When it came time TO pray he offered
up a supplication from which the fol-
lowing is an extract: "And, nov, o
Lord, look down upon and bless those
who are toiling in yonder fields. If it
were not Thy will, o Lord, that they
should work upon the Sabbath day,
Thou wouldst not have over-ripened
the fruit of Thy vineyard. Bless them
and sustain them, for they toll to ill