Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-07
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new leaf and will begin The New
Year right
The Tribune literary society is solv
ing all the great problems with neat
ness and dispatch.
Undertakers are doing so we'll at Sa
lima that one pulled up and went theri
from Abilene last week.
AT an FL Dorado masque ball, on,
young woman appeared in the imper
sonation OF "a girl of sixteen"
A bloomer club has been organized
by the women of Wathena. Long
dresses no longer are visible on the
streets
If Governor Leedy tries to enforce
the prohibitory law he will not get the
assistance of Attorney General Boyle
so it is said,
The probate judge of Harvey county
claims to be BILE to tell when a man il
going to apply for marriage license
by his walk.
The Topeka papers now think tina
Fave Overmyenstandr chance for the
United States Senate OYermyer live.
in Topeka too.
Jack Remington, who used to whach
the mules on the stage between EN-
poria and Eureka, lives near Eu.oks
and is prosperous.
Southern central and western Kan
sas now has chance to get United
States Senator and should insist
Northwestern Kansas should have a
rest.
The good town of Holton has become
used to drug store whisky, and last
week mass meeting of citizens adopt
ed resolutions opposing constitutional
conventions.
The first severe storm of the season
began Jan. I'd, Hster twenty-foul
hours rain. The wheat crop through.
out the state will be helped by the
rain and snow.
Some one has resurrected the fact
that Tom Anderson led the Greedy
campaign in Kansas. The idea is thaA
this will iniure Anderson with Mckin
ley. 1t will not.
Three men in Kansas have detied al
the analyses of newspaper correspond
ents-Frank Doster, David Martin and
John j. Ingalls,. Neither ono has ever
been truthfully analysed.
Jerry Shaw, an engineer on the San.
ia Fe, says he has made the run from
Garden City to Dodge, distance of fifty
miles, in 43 minutes. Few engines on
the road can make this tune
If Frank Doster were not on the SUI
preme bench he would be in the race
for the United States Senate Doster
would not he in the Senate two months
before he would be national figure.
In the ancient sacrifcial mound near
Arkansas City which is being explored
heavy verified paving bricks have
been found. Can it be possible that 10
some ancient day some one raked OF
something in a paying contract>in an
extinct Kansas town?
In every Santa Fc passenger coach
is a saw, an ak and Ratchet. This
had long puzzled prominent Kansas
editor and he asked Il conductor about
it the other day. He told the editor
that they were provided to enable the
train crew to get away with the chick
en- Sandwiches which are sold on the
depot platform at Emporia.
The farmers of Pottawatomie county
are much excited over the advent of
land jumpers who have sprung up
since it became known that much o
the railroad land held by residents of
the county had never been patented
The farmers of the eastern and west
ern portions of the county have formed
societies for preventing illegal home
stealing. The i'll feeling cngendered
is growing in intensity
There are seven separate and distinct
salt companies in Hutchinson, owning
fourteen salt plants" The compan-
les are: The Hutchinson Salt Company
the Kansas Salt company; the Hutch
inson Packing company; tie Barton
Salt company; the Union Ice and Salt
company; the Star Salt company; the
Crescent Salt company. These plants
have combined capacity of about
/, $50, 900 barrels of salt per annum.
They are 70. worked t. their full ca
pacity as the freight rates stop the
market east of the Missouri river, and
the Rocky mountains bound it on the
west. The total amount of salt made
during the past year was not far from
1000, 900 barrels.
Cy Leland is buying one hundred
loads of corn day.
The last remains of Mr.. Knute Try
were swept up by the western E.aEsas