Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

state is looking fine, and the ground is
in fair condition.
A young Cowley county man who is
q good poker player, at one time held
enough diamond shirt studs to start q
jewelry store.
Within distance of five blocks some
boys in Wellington have killed fifty
rabbits. They raked 81. so out of the
county treasury for scalps.
A Kansas editor points out that that
poem, Hang up the baby's stockings
the dear, little dimpled darling has
never seen Christmas yet" is fake, as
no child a year old can catch onto
Christmas.
On December 21st James Claire, of
Paola, committed suicide at his hO'ce
by shooting himself with revolver.
Claire was % years old and until re-
Gently had been working as a harvest
hand IN western Kansas. His act was
due to dependency.
4The steam heating system in the
round house at Newton is being run in
a peculiar manner. The pipe line from
the round house to the back shop is
not in working order and it is impossi-
BILE to get steam from the boilers to The
shop. 1t is too cold not to have heat
of some kind, so it was decided to con-
meet an engine with the pipes to fur
nish the necessary system. Engine
SIS is furnishing the necessary steam
to keep the round house warm.
The farmers of Barton county, now
that wheat seeding is thing of the
past, are devoting their spare time to
shooting jack rabbits. The method of
hunting them followed by the majority
of the hunters is for six persons to
combine, two of them having teams
and wagons One team of young men
from the western edge of the county
bagged 1,649 rabbits in two days and .
half last week. The rabbits are ship
ped by the dealers of the county di-
rect to the New York markets. An av-
erage of about two car loads week
are shipped out of Barton county.
William Altman, q prominent farmer
Of Cheyenne county, has just been
taken to the state penitentiary to
serve two years term for larceny. In
some way he was siezed with a mania
for stealing harness. Within the past
three months more than 20 farmers
have been robbed of harness. The
man stole harness simply for pastime.
Every time he would steal a set he
would take it to his farm and burn it,
and throw the buckles and castings
into the we'll. Altman declared that
be could not help stealing harness. He
said that it might be good thing for
him to go to prison for awhile; it
might break him of the habit.
Mrs Phoebe Bare, superintendent Of
the industrial school for girls at Be
lott, proposes to make an example of
people who aid girl inmates of that in
stitution to escape A few weeks ago
a couple of girls escaped, and it was
found that they had been aided in get
ting away by a couple of young men
from Cloud county, The girls were
afterward recaptured and taken back.
Mrs. Bare has caused warrants to be
issued for the arrest of the young men,
and they will be taken into custody
Immediately. She has received an OPP
inion from the attorney general that
the girls can be used as witnesses in
the case. Attorney General Boyle has
promised to assist in the prosecution.
After two years Of suspense, it is
now certain that the Kansas, okla
homa Central & Southwestern railroad
from Coffeyville, Kansas, to Vernon,
Texas, by way of Guthrie and Ell Reno
will be instructed, and it is not i'm
probable that six months will see the
roadbed completed. The Oklahoma
Central has been hampered, owing to
lack Of proper backing since it's incep-
tion. Two years ago the late Secre-
tary Robert Martin made a special
trip to Europe to float the bonds of the
road, but was unsuccessful. The COM
pany has a franchise and is fully
equipped for operations. Lately Geo.
Gould has taken an interest in the
scheme for making Missouri Pacific
connecting link with Northern Texas,
through the territories, and it is stated
on unquestioned authority that he will
build the road. Orders have been is
sued from New York to perfect the
survey of the road and begin active
work. 1t is stated that orders for ties
and iron have already been placed
As evidence corroborating these state
ments, officials OF the Central are NOW
in the field examining the survey.
There is project on foot throughout
Usage county looking to the organiza-
ton of Womans' Relief corpC county
reunion association. The object of IT,,