Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-09

easements IN KANSAS papers OF unln
numbered land for sale
A farmers wife near Ottawa found
two gold nuggest in chickens crop
while dressing it for dinner.
Tee Woodmen of St. Mary's are max
ing preparations for big time at their
annual log.rolling on September 20.
The Salvation Army has won its
fight against the Topeka police and is
now allowed to run as open as the
joints.
A Greenwood county mau has sue
ceeded in growing figs by keeping the
bush in tub and taking it indoors on
cold nights
A man who is running a campmeet-
at Sterling has issued decree that no
man or woman shall go to the postof-
fee on Sunday.
The young men far ners in Kansas
who are in love are all miserable.
They fear that their girls love them
for their money.
Farmers near Solomon have lost hum
dreds of hogs from swine fever, which
was brought into the community by
hogs from Texes.
Touch-the-Clouds is the name of the
Cheyenne brave who will lead the
grand march in the Indian war dance
at the Topeka festival.
Wabaunsee county has 4425 children
of school age, and the apportionment
of interest ON the state school fund is
s1OO2.75 this year, which is 40 cents
per capital-O cents higher than last
year.
Henry Glllum, boy fourteen years
of age, has been committed to jail at
Independence to await trial by Dis
trict Court on charge of grand lar
ceny in stealing u bicycle at Coffey-
VILE.
Ward, the Kansas Pacific engineer
who was killed at Byers, Colo, few
days ago, vas the engineer who broke
the long-distance record in pulling the
DeWolfe Hopper special from Denver
to Topeka last spring.
The state library now contains 49,
900 yoluD-es and is increasing at the
rate of $500 volumes per year. The
state Historical library contains 3d.
900 volumes and is increasing at the
rate of 1000 volumes year.
Twelve Wichita girls had their pic
lures taken with their heads in wheel.
IT the artist could have taken the
wheels in their heads ut the same sit
ting, the photo would have resembled
machinery hall at the worlds fair.
The town CT Pittsburg has surpassed
Fort Scott in population. The Fort
Scott papers are trying to figure out
why Fort Scott, which kept its joints
closed part of the time, should fall be-
hind town that has always had open
places,
A man recently drove from Yelling
ton in Kansas, to Perry in Oklahoma,
through interminable lines of wheat
fields When he arrived at Perry he
was insane and all he could say was:
'Loolk at the stacks! Look at the
stacksr'
Cora Hubbard, the girl bandit of
Wier City, has been induced tc don the
same suit of mems clothes she wore in
the bank robbery, for the purpose of
being photographed The picture
doesn't resemble Mother Hubbard"
little bit.
Doc Crauston, OF Silver Creek, Cow
ley county has an apple tree % years
old, which bore this season GO bushels
of apples. He sold them on the tree at
25 cents bushcl, receiving SIS in cash
and not turning hand to them. Gram
ston, spare that tree"
A curfew ordinance has been adopt
ed at Mound City and the first individ-
ual to feel the grasp of its relentless
hand was 4 young man who had called
on the police judges girl and fingered
at the gate. The young man was talk
en- before his presumptive fathcr-in-
law and fined 81 and costs.
The Santa Fe has deaf and dumb
employee ut Wellington who is an ar
list of rare ability and one of the COM
pany's most reliable workmen. He
does all of the artistic painting upon
coaches and engines and has now con-
sented to paint the Santa Fe float
which is being prepared to go to To-
peka.
Recently a small boy ate buttercups
and as result died. Since then there
has been published list of poisonous
wild flowers, popularity considered
harmless, but certain to be fatal il eat
en- by a careless person or ignorant
child. These flowers are buttercups,
| celandine, wood apemoue. dafodils.