Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tice of death from the cause.
The G. A. R. post at Pratt has raised
six dollars as contribution to the An
Jacksonville prison scheme. The scheme
is to repair the prison and preserve it
always.
Hodgeman county has a sensation
An apparition which looks like d man
is hanging to post, but no one has
had the nerve yet to get near enough
to tell whether it is fake or the real
thing.
DIR. H. A. Dykes. who was secretary
of the state board of health during
dwellings administration, has been
appointed on the board of medical ex-
aminers of Tennessee, where he went
to live in 1895.
Sheriff Mccall, of Missouri, secured
requisition paper on the 10th from Gov
ernor Leedy allowing him to take
Frank Doran to Missouri to be tried
for horse stealing. Doran was arrest
ed recently at Atchison.
The shipments of live stock from
Concordia this year are the largest
known in that section for years. The
shipments have been very extensive
over the Missouri Pacific and they are
short cars to supply the demand.
Col. A. NJ. Coffee, after whom Coffey
county was named, lives in Missouri
and has just passed his Odd year. He
was member of the Missouri legisla-
ture in 1851 and of the Kansas legisla-
ture in 1855.
The county commissioners have re-
ceived demand from the Winfield inn
beetle asylum for clothing for three
Shawnee county inmates. But the re-
cords indicate that but one Shawnee
county inmate is held there.
A Kansas short grass editor says:
"There is only one way to make a liv-
ing at the newspaper business in wes-
tern Kansas, and that is for the editor
to do his own work; work day and
night; live ON jack rabbit soup, and
run the rabbits down himself"
A Syracuse man went to Kansas City
and formed a partnership in collec-
tion agency. This is what he writes
home: 81 have been collection now
three months, and, it is no exageration
to say that / have eaten corn bread
until my teeth are worn to the gums;
and pork until the bristles on my back
are six inches long"
Three tramps broke into store at
Fredonia last week. They took the
goods stolen from the store to Bene-
dict, intending to ship them to Topeka.
An officer attempted to arrest them
when fight ensued. One tramp had
his head shot off and another one was
killed. The third escaped, The goods
were captured.
A Bourbon county merchant sighed
an innocent agreement with an agent
to sell spectacles an a receipt for doz-
en- of the glasses. Two days later the
agreement" turned up in the hands of
a broker as a note for S395 and the re-
ceipt was for a fine piano. He didn't
need the spectacles to see what kind of
a fool he had made of himself
A. w. Betchol, farmer who lives
miles southeast of Topeka, drove his
horse home Thursday evening hitched
to new buggy. lie tied it in front of
his house and went into the house.
Coming out soon afterward he saw the
horse break it's hitch rein and run to-
wards Topeka. He procured horse
and buggy and followud but has been
unable to find the animal or the bug
gy.
In Kansa, when men leave town they
do not take their signs along. They
hang there for years, when the man
who owned them are dead and gone.
The other day at Mcpherson a man
saw the name of his long lost brother
on a sign. He rushed madly up the
stairs. Another lawyer had the ROOM
but he had never heard of the man
whose name was on the sign. He had
moved away years before.
A Paola patriot has figured it out
that the cause of the hare times is
neither the tariff nor the money king.
He says: There are many little things
that help to make times hard and pro-
duets low. The Worlds Fair people in
this vicinity mortgaged their homes to
go to Chicago. The bicycle craze, in
temperance and the strikes are impor.
taut factors. Laboring men in cities
spend money for beer that should &c
for bread, and strike for higher wages
than the times will warrant"
The sheriff at Ashland issues a warn
ing to the boys that if any stones ar,
thrown on the roof at prayer meeting,
hereafter he will arrest the throwers
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