Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-15

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Harper joint keepers are receiving
anonymous letters and are very indig'
nant at the violators of law.
The grass is so short in Western
Kansas that it is hard for some of next
years candidates to keep out of sight.
A contract has been let for the build
ing of an addition to the high school
building at Wichita. 1t is badly need
ed
The drouth in Sumner county was
broken on the Fourth. Two car loads
of beer arrived on the night Of the
Bird.
A Ell Dorado checker game under
big tree has been in progress three
weeks while the farmers are still cry
ing for harvest hands.
The young men of McCrackeu went
to throwing water on each other fol-
sport the other day and several needed
baths were the result.
The good looking young men of
Tribune have gone away to harvest
and the girls are left without any
beaux in ice cream lime.
A gospel wagon has started from
Abilene to oklahoma with six young
men in it who will carry the news to
the inhabitants Of that country
The coroner's jury at Winfield found
verdict which substantially charges
the conductor of the train on which
VIII Bovpee was killed with negli-
gence.
The Prohibitionists of Winfield PEE
titioned the city council to enforce the
Prohibitory law. With only one man
objecting the council tabled the petit
tion.
The reunion association of Washing
ton county has decided to hold the Sol
diers' reunion in Riverside park, ad-
joining the town of Washington, Aug
ust IS, 10 and 90.
The rainfall at Ness City for the
month of June was one inch and ninety
five hundredths, which was about two
thirds of the average for the same
month during the six proceeding years.
Kansas has many man whose am
bition has been satisfied by laying out
a town, calling it by his name, pub
fishing paper with his name as editor
and writing personals about his own
family.
A new kind of gold bug" is report
ed to be destroying the cabbage fields
over on the river southwest of Pratt.
1t is fiat bug about the size of po-
tato bug and has bright gold spots
over its body.
The Fourth OF July ON account of the
confusion of dates and other matters
was very mild in Southern Kansas and
a number of groceries and book store
men have a surplusage Of pyrotechnie'
on their hands.
The date set for holding the soldiers
reunion this fall has been fixed fol-
October 4th, 5th and 9th, at Smith
Center 1t is proba BILE that there will
be an old settlers reunion in eonnec
ton on the nth.
A Newton miller has an order fol
1000 bags of flour to be shipped L
England, part to London and part t
Hull, shipment to be made this montl
and next The flour will be from whea'
grown in Harvey county this year
There will be twelve carloads in thu
order.
The county commissioners of Jeffer
son county have appropriated $500,
for bridge across the Kaw at Lecom
ton authorized by the last legislature
and the Douglas county board is ex
pected to made similar appropriation
in November, which will be followed
by work on the bridge ut once.
In Harper the other day on the bust
ness street the marshal tore up an ole
wooden sidewalk in front of business
house. A boy found dime and a grea
crowd Of youngsters with ralies ant
hoes swooped down on the place ant
examined the dusty old ground. Abou
81 in all was brought forth in ali con
ditions of rust.
The number of convicts at the Kan
sas state penitentiary has been stead
lily increasing of late and now number
800, of which SS5 are males and IA fe
males. OF these there are 631 whit
males and white females, 23s colore
males and colored females. Their
are 12 Indians and 4 Mexicans and II
convicts sent up from Oklahoma
There are 43 prisoners under the deaf
sentence and &c sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. The United States has
prisoners confined there, civil and
military. One of the female prisoner
3 is sick and it is feared that she cannC