Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-12

not self supporting.
II was the warmeot July Kansas has
experienced for seven years
Pratt county will vote on the county
high school question this fall.
The building of new car shops at
Topeka gives emyloyment to 300 men.
The Santa Fe railroad win soon have
electric headlights of great briIiancy.
Kansas has 3,483 old soldiers and
their pensions help to relieve the mon.
ey cramp.
Thirty applicants are lined up for
the Syracuse schools. Worse than =
postoffice fight.
a Cottonwood Falls man has bought
sHit of fur clothes and will go to the
KAOndylie fixed.
In Leavenworth where they license
this joints city taxes were increased
five mills last year.
An Ottawa bridegroom got scared at
what was ahead of him and hid out
until friends treasured him.
A Mulvane man found his wife site
ting on another mans lap. He made
the consumer pay the tax, $500.
ASchison women will run the street
cars one day and give the receipts to
the corn carnival fund to buy red ears
More sensational things happen at
Wichita than in any other Kansas
town, at least they get into the news
papers.
The Biographies to supply the
schools of Kansas will be printed liz
Chicago, and 1T will take twelve cars
to haul them.
Lee Peters, who brutally assaulted
two men with poker in Salvation
Army meeting at Fort Scott, has been
caught and jailed.
The institute has begun at Jetmore
and the young men who have been in
the harvest field are spending their
money on ice cream
The Missouri Pacific received forty
cents from conscience struck Wichita
minister who once beat the corpora
tioH out of a railroad fare
A Salina beau gave his best girl
jeweled garter. She afterwards went
back and him and he now wants it re-
turned. But she isn't built that way
The ministers of Waterville are ag-
itating n stricter enforcement of the
Sunday observance law of that town.
Other towns in the county will do the
same.
A Kiowa shoemaker has just beaten
an editor in securing the postofiice.
The editor is mad. lie thinks the
shoemaker should have stuck to his
last
The Fort Scott occupation tax inn
poses IL license on preachers and rot
on newspapers, Why this discnmina-
ton between workers in the vine
yard.
Young men arc leaving Fort Scott
rather than work out their poll tax.
The women who voted at the last elec-
ton are standing their grounds like
Amazons.
Two women had lnock-down fight
at Galena recently. 1t occurred in
grocery store and they knocked down
about half IL ton of canned goods. 1t
was all about man.
The celebration of the Santa Fe Sill
yer Jubilee on Wednesday of Festival
week at Topeka September 2o,) will
be the largest gathering of railroad
men ever seen in Kansas
On account of the heavy movement
Of wheat. three new telegraph Offices
have been opened on the southern die
vision of the Santa Fe. The new offices
are at Wilmore and Auness on the Au-
gUsta branch, and Lawric on the main
line in Oklahoma.
The stueeo industry is proving a
rushing ole at Dillon. The mills are
running extra and an increased output
is expected for the next year. One OF
the leading manufacturers says that
the industry has been barely existing
during the decrease in the building
trades, and that now there are indica-
tionS that there will be revival all
over The country and that the building
trades will be the first to feel it. In
luiries are coming in from the east for
the stucco and the gypsum properties
are in more demand than for o long
time. The stocks of the material are
not large, and the demand will set
many more men TO work aud give to
Kansas much increased labor. The
owners of the gypsum beds are much
encouraged and will doubtless increase
their capacity for manufacturing the
popular building product The Texas
beds that have recently been purchas-