Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-28

Three Of the passes sent by the rail
roads to legislators have been returned.
None was sent to Governor Leedy. He
pays his fare.
Two boys at Fort Scott have been
arrested for stealing stereotype metal
from printing Office in order to make
bullets for this Cuban insurgents.
Major Price, the Cuban lecturer, in
order te induce sleep took an overdose
of choral at Kansas City the other
night and came very near dying.
A porter at Winfield in hotel show
ed blind man and his wife to room
and carefully lighted the gas and left
them. The gas burned all night
The Topeka newspapers refused to
make any mention on the inaugural
ball. They insist that some of the peo-
pie who attended were not proper.
The Kansas City Stock yards have
spread CONSERVATION among the legis-
lators by declaring that the Legislature
may do it's worst-no Doodle will be
forthcoming.
A Solomon man has given up good
steady job as railroad section fore
man and adopted the uncertain avoca-
ton as an evangelist. He says the
Lord ''called" him.
One of the Kansas expressions which
has survived grasshoppers and drouths
is that used of horse which is speed
ing and which is said to be "going o
pretty good hickory"
One of the cars which helped make
up the Mckinley corn train in June
passed through Eureka the other day.
1t still had some of its decorations rat
Ting around in the wind.
Reports from many agents for the
sale of Bryan's book in Kansas indi-
cate that the sale will be very small.
Kansas is state of newspaper readers
more than of book-readers.
The Hutchinson brigands who car
ried off Stella Mott tried to run away
with girl named Mary Wire the other
night. Hutchinson should take steps
to stop this wholesale competition of
Italy.
The Mcpherson clerk who has two
girls and wants to go home from
church with both of them realizes how
a member of the legislature feels as he
looks at his anti-railroad bill and his
annual pass.
There are ten nice girls to every
boy in Hiawatha and there are about
a thousand nice girls to every nice boy.
In fact, we know of no nice boys. Sure,
enough boys are tough and nasty.
Good boys are sissies.
Harris says the English farmers are
in better shape than the American far
mers. He says they dress warmer, are
more comfortable and have more stick
forgiveness. But they do not get
elected to the house of lords.
Anderson Gray, recently released
from the penitentiery where he went
for criminal hypnotism, it is said, will
not go back to his second wife, but
will hunt up his first spouse and re-
marry her, having long ago been d.
vorced.
Wellington has recently been troub-
led with blind man and his blind
wife who have been making Rome
howl. They quarrel night and day
and fought like cats, They were fin
ally disposed of by being shipped to
Kansas City.
A Butler county farmer and stock
raiser says he has spent enough money
for cigars to buy the best farm in the
county. He farther says he does not
regret it because he had had more
pleasure out of it than the best farm in
the county was worth.
There is man named Williams in
the legislature who was elected as a
Republican but is serving with the
Populists. He was nominated on a
silver platform before the st. Louis
He refused to change his
belief and Mcpherson county elected
him.
A Brown county jag bought some
candy and some strychnine and put
them in the same pocket the candy
loose. The strychnine paper broke
and as he rode rame he ate the candy,
wondering wh&J made it so bitter.
The strangest part of the story is that
the Lord had future use for him and
permitted him to live.
A Santa Fe clerk who desires to be
unknown, contributes the following to
a prominent newspaper: widows are
popular because they have nGne Of the
kittenish ways common to girls. The
startled fawn and the kitten business
is greatly overdone by girls. Widows
have lots of common sense that men
admire. If a mouse appears in front