Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

usual session, ADJOURNED FRIDAY e'eh-
ing, March u.
The clamor for an extra session of
the legislature comes from the Topeka
boarding houses
The inauguration ceremonies were
graced by the presence Of the mayor Of
St Mary's, Kansas
DickersOn, the Sedgwielr hotel mAa
who was shot in the recent ARRAY there,
will probably recover
The Kansas legislature will soon
make publiea manifesto showing what
the legislature has done.
The frst thing on the program Of
the Hutchinson jubilee this year will
be the school ehurus contest.
There are more candidates for the
pOstofice at Wichita than there are
ways Of dancing the two-step.
The authorities OF Reno county have
decided tn create q roekpile for the
prisoners to spend their time on.
The Free Silver campaign pole at
Wellington has been cut down. 1t
overbalaneed and became dangerous
OF the 1876 car loads of stuff handled
by the Missouri Pacific out Of Sterling
during the month of February, 81 ears
were of corn.
Two hundred and sixty-five Harper
county people have petitiOned for the
removal of Governor Lewelling from
the railroad commission.
The farmers of western Kansas are
sowing oats and declare the ground to
be In better condition for seeking than
they have ever seen it before.
A Topeka man asking for divorce
from his wife states in his petition
that they were married in 1895 and
have two children, the eldest being 10
years old.
An Arkansas City man who has been
for years an Indian trader has just
moved to Montana next to the Cana
dian line where he will trade among
the Blackfeet.
1t is pointed out by Kansas paper
that years ago March was moment
GUS date in Mckinley mind simply be-
cause it marked Fourth of July just
four months away.
The company playing Marriage is a
Failure got as far as Lawrence, and
could not escape with its baggage
The company was a failure whether
marriage is or not
The hole of the gas company at lola
turned aside and the drill was lost in
the we'll, All efforts to recover it
proved fruitless and new well has
been started five feet away from the
abandoned one
Abilene young men have been in the
habit of letting the girls go the dances
without male escorts. The girls form
ed union and struck, with the result
that at the last club dance the entire
attendance was seven men and no la
dies. The men are now trying to arbi
trate.
An Atchison man who is on his way
to the poor house stopped long enough
this morning to say that owning
buggy and a typewriter were what
sent him there. They were both con-
stantly out of repair, and ate up all
the money his horse left He says that
an extravagant wife is not as costly as
buggy and typewriter.
Two hundred and seyenty-6ve men
worked like beavers between and 10
o'clock on the night of March LIST, in
and around Medford. They were lay
ing track on the Hutchinson & South
ern railroad. At II o'clock the first
engine on the road ran into Medfcrd.
1t was great work for the company and
the completion of the road to Medford
at 10 o'clock saved to the company SlO,-
900. The people of Medford had offer
ed bonus of that sum to the H. & s.
people, provided an engine was run
into the town on or before March /.
A revival has been in progress for
several weeks in a town neighbor to
Abilene, and the young bachelor
preacher who is conducting it has en-
couraged his converts to believe that
the Lord makes himself known to them
in personal way. Last Wednesday
nighta young woman arose to give in
her experience. She related a wonder.
full vision which she had been favored
with and concluded by saying that il
was revealed to her that she was t
marry the young preacher He says
he already engaged to another young
woman, and that he fears it wasn't the
Lord the young convert was hold ng
sennce with.
A lot of fellows lost their money tn
other day in Jewell county on the OLE
joke that horse cannot drag bag o
sand on the end of 5O-foot rope.