Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-07

for the annexation of Hawaii.
| Four boys all less than fifteen years
of age, celebrated Christmas by getting
drunk on Hutchinson whisky.
One barber at Chase plays the cornet
Rad the other the fiddle. It is Close
shave as to which is the worst
| Santa Claus undertook to fill Rev
ton girls stocking, but had to sublet
the job to her. 1t was too big.
An Anthony man says he doesn't
need any assistance from mistletoe,
All that is required is persistence.
Three cases in the Harper police
court last week showed that the cele'
bration of Christmas is not dying out.
A northern Kansas paper says that
no governor of Kansas ever had curly
hair. But they have all had their legs
pulled.
Dawes says that ever since the as.
sistant attorney general part of pro-
hibitiOn was inaugarated prohibition
in Kansas has been on the wane.
The stenographic field is not the only
arena for women in this state. TWEEN
ty Kansas women were elected county
superintendents at the last election.
1t is probable that the King of Cow"
ley county will get out of the race for
the United States Senate. He daesn't
stand ghost of show and he will
grapple with the fact before he is
many days older.
The Emporia papers believe there is
gas beneath the town and are advo-
eating hole. The hole business is a
pleasant plaything which costs lots of
money. Emporia 9sseu)d let private
enterprise find the gas.
On Christmas day the Arkansas City
football eleven beat the Ell Reno club,
making them the champions OF Kansas
and Oklahoma. The Fort Reno club
never been beaten before, although it
plays almost continually.
Beneath she flippant paragraph
Johnny Gilmore hides grief: "The bru-
nette hat trimmer and gray nocturnal
skirt dancer of lovers lane was Undue
ed to informally depart the town few
nights since, to the regret and chagrin
of her masculine worshipers, married
and single.
w. II. Martin, of Marietta, Indian
Territory, Christmas day, was on the
Santa Fc train coming out of Kansas
City. He went to sleep and snored
loudly all the way to Peabody. The
people in the car dcrided and joshed
him. When the car was in an uproar
a man shook martin roughly by the
shoulder and said: Give us q rest"
Then all laughed. Martin hiccoughed
twice and was silent. A young doctor
rushed forward and said: The mans
dead" He was Then the crowd felt
mighty mean.
A story is going the ROUNDS to the
effect that married lady in an adjoin-
ing county had birthday anniversary
a few days since, upon which her hus-
band presented her parlor lamp. He
was much battered when she intended
to give it his name, until he asked her
reason for so peculiar u proceeding.
"Well," said she, you know, dear it
has good deal Of brass about it, is
handsome to look at requires n good
deal of attention, is sometimes un-
steady on its legs, is liable to explode
when half full, flares up occasionally,
is always out ut bed time and bound to
smoke.
An Ellis county woman poisoned her
husband few years ago because he
was too poor to provide her with luxu-
ries, and to make the way clear for her
to marry q richer man. She was ar
rested, but escaped severe punishment
through the negligence of the officers
of the law, and married the man of her
choice. Misfortune after misfortune
overlook them until they are now poor
err than the woman's first husband ever
was. New Years day she received
word that the man she has poisoned
had fallen heir to an immense fortune
in Germany, and asking the proof of
dis death.
A we'll known young farmer Of But
Ter county has n novel rabbit trap on
his farm. He had been digging a els
tex, some time back and after finish
ing the excavating he was compelled
by the stress of other business to stop
work on the cistern for time, and af-
ter covering the opening with boards
he left it alone. The other day he
CHANGED to be passing, and removing
the boards he looked down and saw
eleven rabbits at the bottom, ten feet
below the surface, He at once con-
cluded that the cistern would be a good
place to keep his rabbits for the winter