Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The irrigation ditch at Garden City
froze up last week.
The Normal college at Salina has
closed it's first winter term.
The central Kansas Farmers Insti'
tute met at Hutchinson Feb. 5th aud
9th.
There is another sign of Improvement
in Kansas. There is no more talk OF
hyptotism.
A man at Newton claims TO have
found something which looks like gold
in lump Of Usage coal.
The January blizzard filled every ice
house in Kansas. In the northwest
even churches are used.
Twenty-one years ago the editor OF
the Journal in Coffeyville received a
letter which everybody in town exam
ined. 1t was the first typewriter let
ter ever seen in Coffeyville.
While four Munson brothers were
skating at Jennings Feb. 9TH the ice
gave way, precipitating them all into
the water. Two managed to get out,
but Ben and Bert were drowned. Ben
was a married man, leaving a wife and
one child.
Postmaster Mead of Hutchinson has
been fred and Mrs. Nettie Beard has
been appointed. She will not take the
place until her appointment is confirm
ed. 1t is understood that her term will
run four years from the day of her ap-
pointment.
The month of December was an ex-
ceptionally hard one on the Kansas
jurisdiction of the A. o. U. W. There
were forty eight deaths, which neces-
STATED the payments of 100000 in ben
efits and called for a double assess
ment. OF the deaths four were from
suicide.
An exchange says: "What do you
think of an artist who painted cobwebs
on the ceiling so truthfully that the
hired girl wore herself into an attack
of nervous prostration trying to sweep
them DOWN." Th9re might have been
such an artist, but there never was
such hired girl.
Near Emporia there is farm. In
one house on this farm lives j. W. Os-
burn; on the other side Edith Osburn,
his daughter-in-law. They quarrelled.
The old man esta blished a trocha.
Each was TO keep his and her side Of
this. The old man violated the rule,
got over his trocha, the woman attack
ed him and he hit her with revolver
The case is now in court.
A Nemaha county man recently
lost twelve nice young hogs before he
discovered what was taking the hogs
off. He had cut hole in the ice in his
pond about twenty feet from the edge
to give his hogs water. His shoats be-
gan to disappear, and the mystery was
not cleared away until one day he saw
one in endeavoring to drink out of the
hole, plunge in and disappear under
the ice. When the ice melted he fished
twelve nice pigs out of the pond.
An editor over in the jack-rabbit belt
is fugitive from the righteous wrath
of beautiful young lady of his town.
and is in an adjoining town endeavor-
ing to square himself by mail. In
writing notice of wheel ride taken
by the young lady he said "she lost
her path and wandered around in the
woods till dark" He admits that his
pen is little "straggly," and that
there is little similarity between the
words path" and pants" but no ar
gument can convince him that the
printer didn't do it purposely.
]. E. Brewer, of Abilene, shipped a
car load of eggs on the sth. 1t is so
common a thing for him to ship car
loads of eggs that it is scarcely worth
mentioning. lie is kind of an egg
prince. In 1896 he shipped so carloads
100000 dozen, 100000 eggs. Think
of it you people who consider the
Dickinson county hen loafer. The
aforesaid hen has bought more parlor
lamps, easy chairs, new dresses. organs
and carpets than any other class of be
ings whatever unless it be the Dicliin
son county COW.
A Paola patriot has figured it out
that the cause of the hare times /.
neither the tariff nor the money king
He says: "There are many little thing,
that help to make times hard and pro
duets low. The Worlds Fair people il
this vicinity mortgaged their homes t,
go to Chicago. The bicycle craze, in
temperance and the strikes are impor
tant factors. Laboring men in cite
spend money for beer that should g,
for bread, and strike for higher wage
than the times will warrant"
About seventy-fve wagon loads o