Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-14

just as the legislature is to meet the
report gets out that the price of "a
small bot" is to be advanced in To-
peka.
Frank Doster recently said: ~ DO
not know what the legislature will do.
There is whole lot of queer talk
conservatism"
Old Dick Wake of Topeka has receiY-
ed prize from an English paper which
offered ten guineas for the best article
ON the direct vote.
George Martin has discovered that
Mark Hanna had an elder brother who
at an early age entered livery stable
and drank himself to death.
The pighton Dramatic company Is
going to assail Ness City All the guns
in Ness county have been loaded and
the town wall strengthened.
A stats officer objects to the publ
cation of the report of the state irriga-
ton board. He should not allow his
hostility to water to go to far.
A standard Kansas joke is for fell
lows horse to get out of its own stable
ut night and travel of its own accord
to the stable of some girls father.
David Gore is now treasurer of the
state of Illinois When Governor-elect
Leedy of Kansas was boy he lived in
Illinois and worked on Cores farm.
Governor Morrill, was given rice in
horseless carriage the other day in
Topeka and exclaimed: What can we
expect next?" The Governor never
was exactly epigrammatic.
Roger Sitter of Harper is out in an
interview in which he notifies the COM
munity that he has new boy in his
family and he doesn't have to raise
him on the bottle, either"
Wyandotte county stand first in pop
ulation among Kansas counties, and
first in amount of taxable property.
II is also first in potato growing, hav-
ing produced ss,779 bushels in 1896.
The western district fellows say they
will legislate Newt Try of Fort Scott
out of his Office. Try says they are
blufing. Try is the man who intends
to put western Kansas into four big
counties.
AS a man named Brown is to be
speaker and another Brown is to be
state printer some good strong man
by that name ought to throw himself
into the senatorial race and get the
tide at the food,
A Burlington cigar manufacturer
made 339, $50 cigars last year and paid
wages to the amount of 1905 a month.
He is greatly helped in his trade by
the town people, who make it rule to
smoke homemade cigars
On Christmas day the Arkansas City
football eleven beat the FL Reno club,
making them the champions of Kansas
and Oklahoma. The Fort Reno club
never been beaten before, although it
plays almost continually.
The Liberal News reports a man in
its town who doesn't take newspaper.
He recently sent so cents in answer to
an advertisement show to mals pants
last" He received the reply: make
your coat and vest first"
When a Ness county farmer runs
out of meat, he steps to his door just
before he goes to bed and lets go both
barrels of his shotgun. The next morn.
ing he picks up enough jack rabbits to
keep the pot boiling for week.
A Cheney man was recently asked if
he had ever heard photograph. He
said he had not and somebody gave
him a galvanic battery and told him
to put both the handles in his ears
He did so and he can hear the buzzing
yet.
A law suit has been commenced in
Cowley county over an election bet
between the bet that Kentucky and
California would go Republican. All
wager experts say that the man who
bet that Kentucky and California
would go Republican, won.
General Bucliner sent the voters of
dudley township, Haskell county, a
demijohn Of whisky and fifty dollars
Christmas Day. Dudley township was
the only place in the United States
where Palmer and Buckner received a
majority of the votes cast.
Isaac N Van Hoesen, a prominent
Lawrence man, was found dead in his
office on the morning Of Jan 9Th. He
had been suffocated by gas from coal
oil stove. He was pioneer of Kansas,
having located in the state in 1871.
He was 81 years old and carried SAL
600 life insurance.
Rev. G. Lowther, presiding elder Of
the Winfield district, in his church pa
per, the Christian Herald, advertises
for "a preacher who can preach like an