Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-25
KANSAS HAAS o. lN4AnAsT.

Atchison, Leayenworth or Topeka.
Lewelling, it ia said, will not give in
his resignation as senator until after
the special aession.
John Temple Graves Of Georgia
loves Kansas Every year he travels
up here and delivers his lectures
The Christian church at salina has
made net gain of thiriy'six, with
several precincts to hear from.
I. F. Eaton, the leading merchant of
Lane county, whose mind has been un-
balanced for the last six months, is
dead
The imbecile asylum at Winfield is
to have an additional cottage for which
the legislature appropriated the sn:u
Of $4,000.
A Hiawatha doctor has made the dis
coyery too late for legislative action,
that sitting in revolvidg chairs causes
insanity,
Dan Muck, farmer near Haven,
Reno county, last Sunday pointed an
old revolver at his wife in fun. The
bullet went through her and killed
her.
An expert accountant went over the
books of the treasurer of Elk county
and found that the county owed its
officer money. The expert also charged
for his work
Bernard Kelly has been appointed
presiding elder Of the Independence
district of the Methodist church and
is consequently considered a political
power again.
A gentlemanly promoter proposed
to the merchants of Norton to put up
compress. His offer was accepted
but he at once disappeared and hasn't
been seen since.
When the Cheyenne bottoms in Bar
ton county become an inland sea, Ell
linwood and Great Bend will be COM
PEELED to support navies to use in case
of actual hostilities
An Atchison girl has gone to New
York to go on the stage This is bet.
ter than organizing amateur shows
and invading ncighboring towns like
they do in Lawrence.
A Topeka school teacher told a boy |
that when she was his age she knew |
all the presidents names by heart.
'Huh' he said "Thore weren't so
many of them them"
Senator King of Cowley county is be- |
ing roasted by his constituents because
lie prevented the passage of meritor-
GUS bill by attending a theatre with
the bill in his pocket.
The fine rain on the night of March
18th put the finishing touches on the
ground and placed the soil in prime
condition for spring planting and the
farmers are taking advantage of it
and pushing their work along.
The good houselSeeper is just now
busily engaged with the spring house,
cleaning, arranging her outdoor flow
er beds and preparing her garden for
the usual spring seeding, which is the
general routine as the spring time APP
proaches
Mr.. Delesdernier of Greeley county |
has at last found his calling. He is
taking a part in amateur theatricals.
People go miles to see him. If people |
didn't go miles he wouldn't have any |
audience, as he lives in that kind of a
country.
Charley Strohm, who used to live in !
Arkansas City, moved to Chicago, be
come superintendent of terminals of |
the Santa Fe and bought jewelry |
Burglars took it the other night. The
moral to this is that Kansas is safer
than Chicago, if you are poor in Kansas
and rich in Chicago.
Peter Roach, farmer living at Bass
hor, between Leavenworth and Kan
sas City, has been placed under arrest
for spreading hog cholera. 1t is re-
ported that Roach dragged twenty
seven cholera hogs into ravine in !
Stranger Bottoms, instead of turying
them, causing the disease to spread.
Roach paid no attention of the re-
quests of the neighbors to comply with |
the law.
The Grain Dealers association held
their convention at Topeka on st. Pat
riek's day. This association is com
posed of buyers ana grain dealers who
have organized for unusual protection
all over the state of Kansas. The or
ganization has about 100 members.
The topics discussed at their meeting
were "How to secure a margin on the
grain you ship; undue shortage in
transit and at terminal markets; the
manner Of weighing and inspection"
Governor Leedy has begun war on
the joints at Topeka This is very
rood Topelxa has never had n rao1