Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-15

out window lights.
Manhattan, the circus man, was shot
at Wichita April Sd from the effects 81
which he died on the 9TH.
The Santa Fe will spend $4,000 on
the new depot and other improvements
at Dodge City this summer s
Ora Melton, the Lawrence boy who
was captured near Cuba on the Com
petitor, is still in Spanish dungeon.
The Topeka joints are driving the
drug stores out of business. 1t Is
easy to guess what kind Of business.
5John Wolf of Washington is poor and
glad Of it. He makes living that
way. He is living a skeleton in circus.
1t only took two hours after adj
vorce petition was fled in WinA I'D
court to get the decree and alimony.
According to the Chanute Tribune
the Office fever can give the mountains
fever big start and run man quick
err.
Wichita is to have fair and fiesta
next fall. We suppose this Fiesta
business is the old thing with new
name.
Kansas has overwOrled the word
"plug." It means hat, a stopper, a
railroad train, an old horse, blow, a
mutilated coin.
An Atchison man walking out on a
common the other night with absolute
ly nothing but the sky above him was
hit on the head by potato half-pealed.
1t came right down straight and was
probably dropped by the cook on the
airship.
The people in the vicinity of lola are
in bad fix. The roar of the Palmer
gas we'll in that town can be heard for
ten miles. If cyclone should APP
proach it would drown out the roar of
the wind and the people would be
without warning.
A Eureka man has issued note to
his neighbors explaining why he has
been so unsociable and unneighborly
He says he was so because he wanted
to conceal his real condition. He is in
sane and has been so adjudged, on the
evidence Of the note.
At Wellington photographer an
nounces that he wants a photograph
of everybody in Sumner county, over
is years of age. For that reason he
will take them free. 1t is taking
scheme to get people to take the pho
tographs after he has taken them.
Rice county was visited by another
big rain on the nigh of April G. Never
before has the ground been more thor
oughly soaked at this time Of the year.
Crop prospects at the present time
could not be better An increased
acreage over last year of both corn and
broom corn has been planted
Ex-Congressman r. W. Blue an
nounces his intention of removing to
Leavenworth for the avowed purpose
of beginning the practice of law. It
is generally believed that he has an
eye on the congressional nomination
in the new Fourth district and is NOV
ing there to get in on the ground floor.
A churnery and Swimming station
will be erected OF Wichita. They will
be placed at Peck and Riyerdale. Man
ager Nissley said: "We will establish
these stations in ali directions from
Wichita wherever conditions warrant.
Probably at Conway Springs, Maize,
Colwich, Derby, Valley Center, Furley,
etc. This ought to be as favorable a
place for starting creamery as Abb
lene, and we are doing nicely there,
both for ourselves and the farmers.
We have learned at rough estimate
that there are 10000 milk cows in this
county, while there are only 1900 in
Dickinson county. The creamery pay
rolls for Dickinson county entire
amount to more than s35, 900 per
month, and it ought to be greater here
in the course of time when we are es-
tablished."
The new text book law fixes the fol-
lowing maximum prices: Spelling
book 10 cents, first reader 10 cents.
second reader II cents, third reader 90
cents, fourth reader 80 cents, fifth read
er 40 cents, mental arithmetic, 20 cts,
intermediate arithmetic 25 cents, COM
plete arithmetic IS cents, elementary
geography 80 cents, complete geog-
raphy 75 cents, elementary English
grammar 20, complete grammar 80
cents, physiology and hygiene so cents,
history of the United States so cents,
civil government 40 cents, elements Of
natural philosophy so cents, ELEMENTARY
algebra so cents, physical geography
so cents, bookkeeping 40 cents, writ
ing books cents 1t is estimated that
it will cost every pupil s1.25 to equip