Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Out in western Kansas they say that
ducks back will turn water like buff
talo grass
Fire destroyed two large frame bus
mess buildings at Cimarron on the
night of November 3Oth.
An exchange sounds note of Joy
over what it terms the waning of the
card of thanks" custom. But as yet
the 'wane" is not perceptible to the
naked eye.
The gay winter season is now on in
Kansas Ed Smith of Wellington has
inaugurated the holidays by clipping
off one of his fingers while making
Bauer kraut
There was slight hitch in recent
wedding supper at Holtou caused by
two town hoodlums who raided the
pantry and walked off with all the
wedding cakes.
The Santa Claus ads have appeared
in the weekly papers a trife earlier
this season than usual, but the dealers
realize that this is the year for them
to get in their work.
A Kansas man feels like he is get
ting unsteady educated when he can
detect by the music two seconds be-
for it stops that the band is about to
concluds the tune.
If the Frankfort girls wish to remain
solid with their ''steadies" it will be
well for them to pay no heed to the
dealer who advises them to buy those
dollar-a-boX cigars for the boys.
The postmaster general has commits
stoned William b. Sampson, of Salina,
to be postmaster at the new town of
Skaguay, Alaska, and will start for
his new post of duty in a few days
Kansas farmers are shaking their
fat sides so heartily as they look at
their granaries and cancelled mort
cages, the impression has got out that
the state is experiencing earthquake
shocks
Marion county is the only county in
the state which produced this year
more than Il million bushels, each, of
the three staple crops, wheat, oats and
corn. This justifies our old time con-
tention that Marion county is the best
sll-around county in the state, says
the Marion Record.
The secretary of the Arkansas Val
ley Poultry Fancers' association looks
for the seventh annual show which
will be held in Wichita during the
week beginning December 10, to prove
an unusually large one. An extra
supply Of premium lists has had to be
printed to meet the demands for it.
Habeas corpus proceedings were ar
gued at Leavenworth before Judge
Hawn to secure the release from the
penitentiary of Albert Smith of Atch-
ison. He was sent in for five years
for burglary in tho second degree for
breaking into box car and one year
for larceny, in April, 1897, and it is
claimed that the state supreme court
rendered decision recently declaring
unconstitutional the law making the
breaking into car felony.
D. A. Garst, we'll known to the peo-
pie of southern Kansas as one of the
proprietors OF the Kansas Steam lauu-
dry at Wichita, has sold his interest In
that concern and has entered into
partnership with j, c. Casey in the
wholesale fancy grocery business.
This business had been well establish
ed by Mr.. Casey and with the added
capital and push of Mr.. Garst will be-
come one of the most important insti-
tutions in the city.
6 The 344 ricks of alfalfa hay on the
bottom lands between Dodge City and
CimawOn, contain from ten to twenty
tons each. Alfalfa growers who have
no cattle to feed, are selling this hay
at So ton on the ground. The de-
mand for it will increase as cold
weather approaches The number of
cattle in the country is greater than
the number last year, and it is not inn
probable to say that the hay will be
disposed of before spring.
Since the Public Library association
has taken hold of the dog tax matter
at Wyandotte, there has been a great
increase in the number of dog tax H.
eenses. The number has reached g
079, which is nearly 500 more than
have ever been issueI in single year
before. Sarah Richards OF the library
association has the matter of dog taxes
on her hands, and she is acquiting her
self in admirable style. Mrs. Richards
has had warrants issued for over zoo
delinquent dog owners This has
served to scare the rest into action in
time.
A Pennsylvania man has at last