Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-28

in favor OF the miners.
Muscotan claims ODE the only ''dry"
town in Atchison county,
The old soldiers are having good
time at Stafford this week.
After her festival Topeka discovers
that she is $4,000 in the hole.
Coyotes are numerous and doing
much damage in Harvey county.
An independent man at Wellington
is wearing his wife's shirt waists.
Thirty head of early spring calves
brought S1s apiece at sale in Jewell
county.
The state Sunday School convention
will be held at Newton, October 81, 9S
and 90.
Grading on the road from Parker to
the Kansas state line was begun octo-
Der 10th.
The Harvey county poultry show
will be held in Sedgwick City Deem
Der 6 to II.
The best looking young man in
Hutchinson is soon to marry widow
in another town.
The banks of Lawrence show on de-
post over 100000 more than they had
this time last year.
Hutchinson blows fire whistle every
time citizen is robbed and people pile
out and seek the robbers.
Galena and Empire City are going to
fuse-consolidate under one charter
under the cognomen of Greater Galena.
Sumner county is overrun with ia
kris, sham cripples and grafters of all
kinds, says the Wellington Daily Jour
nal
The Emporia city council is consid-
ering plan for more effectual fire
protection. A department with half
dozen employees is suggested.
A Blue Rapids woman has hen with
double joints in her knees and toes
pointed both why's, so that she can
walk forward or backward with equal
case
Dodge City is in Egyptian darkness,
the electric light company having shut
off the lights few days ago. The city
cannot afford to light up the main
thoroughfares.
Kansas prosperity is signalized in
remarkable manner by the rush of far
mers to buy bicycles and the fact that
few of them are compelled to purchase
on the installment plan.
The regents of the University of
Kansas have appointed Prof E. Miller
to represent that institution at the
formal opening of the new obserVa-
tory of the University of Chicago.
The cheese factory at Dodge City
shut down last week for the season,
which has been prosperous one. The
factory has been unable to fill their
orders nest of the summer and will
start up early next spring.
Wellington has laid in a large in
voice of 4O-pound balls and 14-carat
chains for offenders against the peace
of the burg. Those who decline to
wear the jewels will be fed on naked
bread with water on the side.
There is great deal more supersti-
ton in this world than people general
ly believe. The lola Register recounts
that no one has yet been found in that
town who is willing to take the num-
Der 10 on his telephone. This number
has been vacant from the beginning.
Michael Lawless has fled suit in the
District Court at Leavenworth for d.
vorce from Katie Lawless. Michael
alleges extreme cruelty and abandon
ment in his petition, citing instances
when Katie worked on him with club
and also injured his pride by calling
him vile names.
A man living at Argonia had mar
row escape from death one day recent
~. He is a section hand and was work.
ing at sand bank when it caved in
and filled around him to the waist.
He caught hold of the car when the
second avalanche piled up to his neck.
his son and some neighbors rescued
him, although he was not in an uncon-
scious condition.
October Goth near Pleanonton a seri-
Gus accident happened. Three young
men Of Fort Scott were on their way
in wagon to the Marals des Cygne
timber to hunt While going up hill
one of them was walking behind the
wagon when he saw one of their guns
slipping out. He pushed it back when
it was discharged, its contents OF bird
shot striking his left shoulder and
tearing the flesh from the bone. He
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