Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cherryvale wants canning factory
and is hustling for one.
Elnporia is arranging to buy the
electric light plant for $4,000.
The Topeka wheelman came out sl6O
behind on their state bicycle meet
It cost jointist $50 and costs to
learn that Peabody is a law-obeying
town.
Some Of the Kansas papers are pub
fishing list of farmers who haYe paid
off their mortgages.
The Kansas sled corncutter is max.
ing large crop of cripples this year,
but it cannot keep up with the runa-
way horse.
The young men farmers in Kansas
who are in love are all miserable.
They fear that their girls love them
for their money.
A Kinsley preacher is opposed to
church socials, missionary teas, etc
How does he expect the women to
raise his salary?
It is estimated that there will be
about $4,000 head of sheep wlntered in
Cloud county this season in the neigh
borhood of Clyde.
There is to be "a battle of flowers"
at the Topeka fall festival. All sun
flowers weighing over ten pounds
should be barred.
The purchasers Of the late Bank of
Hutchinson are paying depositors so
cents on the dollar and many of them
are glad to get it
Judge Haen of the Shawnee county
district court decides that justice of
the peace in Kansas has power to inn
prison for contempt
The Anheuser-Busch people have
sent S25 to the band association at
Winfield to be contested for as the To-
cal managers see fit.
That fake story about Kansas banks
being overcrowded with money is cal
culated to cause bank hooters to do a
lot of extra work for nothing.
Kansas should congratulate herself.
We are geographically southern state
but we have no great waterways and
the yellow fever can't touch us.
A Galena man who died leaving a
insurance of $4,000, hast
ened the end by drinking $50 bottles
of beer the last three days of his life.
A Kansas man has just fallen down
\ 1900 precipice in Yellowstone Park.
The side of the mountain was Scared
badly but the Kansas man was unhurt
The Lawrence Journal thinks that
Kansas could never forget politics
During the boom Kansas forgot them.
In some counties it was absolutely
necessary to beg men to take nomina-
tions, in 1886.
The disease that has been killing so
many hogs near Solomon has about
died out because there is practically
no material in that immediate locality
for it to work on. 1t is, however,
working westward.
Seen" Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
hermit, has just returned from 4 1000
mile tramp. He is the worst case of
hair in the state, and the prevailing
south wind has hard time in getting
through his tangled lilacs.
A prisoner IN the Fort Scott jail who
refused to crack rock was put on a diet
of bread and water. He took the mat
ter very philosophically and sent out
an invitation to the ministers of that
city to dine with him on Sunday.
The three boys who robbed a store
at Sylvia, on August Z, have been
caught, and one was sentenced to the
reform school at Topeka, one to the
reformatory at Hutchinson, while the
other has not yet been sentenced.
A carpenter in the Santa Fe shops
at Ottawa made an interesting find in
an old box car. The car was in the
shop for repairs, and this necessitated
the removal of the lining in the inter
ior. In tearing away portion of the
sheathing, the carpenter observed a
bundle of paper snugly tucked in at a
crevice; removing it he found a big en-.
velope addressed to Postmaster, Nal.
vern, KAN. containing a large number
Of United States postage stamps of spe.
cial delivery and newspaper varieties
to the value Of about $40. The envel-
ope had been torn in removing it, but
it was intact enough for two inscrip-
lions to be read; one was in ink, giving
the date, July l, 1885," and the other
in print, the date "1O-15-'s5." The
package will be forwarded to Washing.
ton.
Coffeyville is trying hard to secure
the X, o. C. & S. w. railroad. Her
citizens are considering proposition