Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20

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Gems at Emporia saw the air ship.
The grass on the range is excellent
this year and the stock is in the best
of condition.
Pitching horse shoes has knocked
the Cuban war and free silver out of
the popular mind at Richfeld.
If you owe tax on your dog, it is
no sin against the law to steal it from
you. So says the supreme court.
The new census of Concordia, just
completed, gives that city popula-
tion of 1850 against 9,74O in 1896.
It is plain that Topeka prefers drug
store whisky. 1t is certain that less of
it is drank. One swig of it is drunk.
Garden City has not refused to pay
the bills for the appellate court rooms
there and the court will not be remov-
ed.
The rain was so heavy in Western
Kansas that large crevasse is re-
ported in the levee along the Arkan.
sas.
The Topeka Elks who presented the
opera "Billee Taylor" have been pleas
ed and criminal proceedings will be
dropped
Ralph Easley, who was great joke
in Kansas, has been elected secretary
of the Chicago Civic Federation for the
third time.
While the supreme court may knock
out the bribery investigation commit
tee, enough testimony has been secur-
ed to make report, and trouble is
ahead for lot of patriots who dallied
with the "long green"
The west is boneycombed with fakes.
Every Kansas has said at least once in
his life that everybody "howled like a
Comanche Indian" Comanche Indians
are rather mild-vOiced and can not yell
half so loud as Pawnee.
Simon Gingish near Garden City last
week found in an eighty-foot dry well
two missing calves Neither calf was
hurt and he is spending his evenings
now trying to figure out why those
calves both selected the same well
The Salina Mill and Elevator COM
pany will expend $4,000 in improving
its property, beginning June l. The
south half of the mill will be run up
another story, making it four full stor-
les in height. New machinery will
then be put in throughout
For $40 per month the city marshal
At Garden City guards the city, patrols
all the streets, lights the lamps, catches
unlicensed dogs, keeps the sidewalks
in repair, cleans the street crossings,
herds the tramps and occasionally
turns the switch for the railroad sta
ton agent
Arrangements have been perfected
whereby the building of the new bridge
across the Arkansas river southwest of
Nickerson is now an assured fact. A
committee of business men, conformity
with the farmers south and west of the
river, has secured sufficient means to
commence operations.
A favorite place for osculatory ex-
PLOTS with the Topeka bellies and
beaux is on top of the dome Of the
state house. On this airy summit, $50
feet above the earth, it is the delight
of the amorous swain to take his sweet
heart and far away from the madding
crowds ignoble strife, kiss her to his
hearts content, with none to modest or
make him afraid. The ribald small
boy and the derisive young man, al
though armed with powerful field
glasses, are as If they were not.
Appointment Kansas newspaper says;
In Kansas lawyer who has been
successful county attorney gathers in
fat fees many years afterward by GER
tifying to the state board of pardOns
that murderers and thieves sent to the
penitentiary are innocent. What is
needed in Kansas is governor who
will haye the courage to get along
without board Of pardons and as
sumo the responsibility of the pardon
ing power which the constitution
places in him With only his own
Judgment and his own conscience to
guide him governor would be slow to
pardon notorious criminals.
The revenue collector at Beloit will
sell the moonshine whisky captured in
Mitchell county in the home of the
Simmons, about IA miles south of Be
lott on March 18th. The moonshine
stuff consists of IA packages or 3O5 gal
Ions. 1t was manufactured in Wyom-
ing and hauled by the Simmons broth
ers to their home in Mitchell county,
the United States officers getting on
the track of the whisky, which they
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