Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-30

The Usage coal miners are working
more than for several years.
The authorities at ottawa are arrest.
ing men who do not pay their pOll-tax.
Chanute has nineteen school tenchers
and most of them are nineteen years
old.
The grand jury question is the only
thing Lyon county peoply have LETT to
fight oyer.
A Saline county man has started a
skunk farm. He will also raise crop
of polecats.
Camen's military band at wellington
will lead the Priests of Pallas parade
in Kansas City.
The best illustrations of the infer.
iority of the new school books in Kan.
sas are the illustrations themselves.
There is said to be places in Wilson
county where man can be admitted
to the bar" without passing an exami'
nation.
Jewell county farmers who were
elated by the wheat crop and the corn
prospect are cast down by the rayages
of hog cholera.
Coffeyville is to have an electric.
light plant owned by the city. The
proposition is to spend SIT, 900 for the
creation of a plant.
Owing to the high price that wheat
has brought this year, the real swell
society events in Kansas this winter
will be given in the country school
houses.
One trouble about making statutes
of the old Kansans is that marble il
white and correct representation Of
the primeval Kansas shirt front would
be impossible.
Two head OF cattle have died in La
bette county and the Government Stool
Inspector pronounces their death due
to Texas fever. A rigid quarantine
has been established.
Mosquitoes are so bad in same part
Sherman county as to become me
mace to life. Horses and cattle suffer
terribly from their attacks and chill
dren have to be kept shut in the houses
The six great corn counties, Smith
Jewell, Republic, Washington, Mar
shall and Nemaha-all in row on the
Nebraska Unexpectedly will produce
over forty million bushels of corn thii
year.
At business meeting of the South
eastern Kansas Log Rolling associa'
ton, after hot fight between Galena,
lola and Coffeyvllle, it was finally de-
cided to hold the next log rolling at
lola.
The most conscientious man in Kan.
sas is Conductor French of the Missouri
Pacific, who liyes in Coffeyville. He
has just returned from fishing trip
up north and absolutely refuses to lie
about his catch.
A Harper county woman after being
pounded severely by brutal husband,
has spent the last three months trying
to get him released from the county
Jail. And she succeeded. She must
want more pounding.
A mother and daughter put up at
hotel in Ottawa. After two weeks
stay they left in the night without
paying their bill, and it was found
that they had used the hotel linen ir
making underclothes.
The farmers of Labette county have
adopted new plan for enriching then
land. Already this season the county
has received 20 carloads of fertilizer
from Kansas City factory and other
farmers haye ordered more.
Fort Scott's prohibition quarrel seems
to be getting along just now without
the aid of the professional agitator-
the lawyer for saloon revenue, who
once ran drugstore at Bronson and
got into trouble for selling whisky.
Topekas saloons are running again,
but the barkeepers wear the same old
hunted look. What Topeka needs is a
return of confidence; condition that
will make a barleeper feel safe al
least take the necessary time to mix
cocktail.
The boom seems to have struck Cher.
ryvale with full force. Every store.
room in the city is now occupied and
several parties are unable to getrooms
The vitrifed brick works and the zinc
shelters, soon to be built, are causing
the boom.
The Hutchinson salt plants are now
employing more men and making more
salt than at any time since 1893; so per
cent more than in August, 1896. Since