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

The Lawrence street railway Will DC
sold at receivers sale.
Lacrosse wants state normal school
and an appropriation.
The smelters and joints occupy the
big buildings at Pittsburg.
Mistletoe was scarce at Great Bend.
but so far neither party has moved for
q recount.
The Larned amateurs who went to
Great Bend with a play received the
marble heart.
Forty years ago in Kansas it was a
punishable offense to talk or write
against slavery.
A young man at Harper is getting so
fat he will have to wear crupper to
keep his collar on.
Dick Blue thinks that in a war with
Spain we would get the worst of it for
q while at the start.
A good quality of coal is mined on
Deer creek in Douglass county and
marketed in Lawrence.
One of the business men of Winfield
is really burning corn in his house and
store. He says it is cheaper than coal.
Chester Long is asking S79 a month
pension for William Blades of Sterling.
Mr.. Blades is SO years of age and help
less.
Fisherman are taking carp out of the
Kansas streams by the wagon load.
That's good. Perish the man who puts
more in.
Sixteen thousand pounds OF jack
rabbit were shipped from Larued one
day last week to New York commits
zion house.
Socialist Clemens of Topeka is at
tempting to prevent the Populist state
officers from kissing the Bible when
they are inaugurated.
Texas has made Oklahoma different
from Kansas In Kansas no snuff is
seen for sale in tobacco stores. In Ok
lahoma it is plentiful.
The discovery of clay near Burling-
ton, which will make good jugs is like
ly to create strong resubmission sen.
timent in Coffey county.
None of the Kansas congressman
have railroad passes all the way to
Washington. All pay their fare east
of st. Louis and Chicago.
A Burlington man who is fond of
shooting will fight the game law, and
the county attorney is getting ready to
take him down the line.
4 George B. Smelling, the assistant at
torney general, is a good partner for
young Boyle. Both men are young and
will improve the Office Of attorney gen.
eral.
A Horton man took dose of medi-
cine in Denver and came to his senses
in Minneapolis, Kansas, The funny
part of this is that he came to his
senses In Minneapolis.
An EmporiA mau recently received
IN alligator from Florida which was
torpid from cold. An Emporia man
put it into the drum of the base.burner
and it is now skittish.
George 7. Anthony never allowed
the state accountant to examine his
books The state accountant insisted,
but Anthony said he was not thief
and refused to let him go through the
books.
L. j. Pettijohn is being pushed for
the receivership of the Garden City
land Office. Pettijohn has been work.
ing hard for the party in southwestern
Kansas for years and The fellows are
resolved that Mckinley reward him.
> Governor Leedy announces that he
will appoint one populist and two
Democrats on the Leavenworth police
commission. There is a possibility of
no more fusion If this sort Of an ar
rangement Is carried out all over the
state.
The Leavenworth Times recently
said that nine out of ten men never
think of winding the clock until they
have put out the light and got into
bed. The whole story of Tristan
Shandy is written with this for a
foundation.
A Lawrence woman whose husband
is in the habit of coming in tipsy at
night, decided to Brighten him as a
cure. The other night she arrayed
herself in frighttul apparel and when
the booty husband opened the door,
said in q dead and sepulchral tone,
"Come with me, am the devil" "Zat
shop" said the husband; "Shake! I'm
your brother 'n-law-ma-marrie your
sister"
Ed Hackney, the Wellington member
of the legislature, proposes that the
penitentiary convicts do the state
printing. He does this seriously,