Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A taxpayers league is being organ
ICED in Cowley county.
A'man named Vaughn has been ar
rested and taken to Pawnee for horse
stealing.
Mr.. Goddard, of Texas, mustered up
courage enough to come to Kansas and
marry one of those blaclt-eyed Well
lngton girls
WIN Weaver, Seneca sailor lad, do
ing service on the bastleship, Olympia,
now in the Orient, will we'd a Japan
csc lady of noble birth.
Hitherto Topeka has been the "holier
than thou section of Kansas Now
western Kansas puts up claim for
being the holy section.
Ten years of timber-growing in
western Kansas this year make it pos
Hible for the western Kansan to bring
q Yule log that is not twig.
Salina business house sent adver-
Using hand bills to Abilene and the
people of Abilene are so mad that they
can hardly keep their clothes on.
1t is announced definitely that with
in six weeks there will be lodge Of
the A. p AS. in Newton, the member
ship of which will reach as high as 200.
Young people of Pretty Prairie have
passed through matrimonial epidemic
and the supply of manageable folks
is exhausted, but there is fine new
crop coming on.
Some mIscreant broke open the pres
sure relief valve of the water works
pipe at point four miles west of
Newton, and allowed tens of thous-
Rnds of gallons of water to escape.
THE postmaster general has commits
stoned William b. Sampson, of Salina,
TO be postmaster at the new town of
Skaguay, Alaska, and will start for
his new post of duty in few days.
Joe Highlands, near Anthony,
large cattle dealer, while feeding from
a wagon fell under the wheels and
suffered compound fracture of the
leg between the ankle and the knee.
Win Christie of Cowley county was
riding horse bareback and chasing
steer when the horse threw him upon
the animals wethers and injured him
SO that his life is hanging by thread.
A letter from Julius Pohl, the Brown
now trying to reach the Klondike gold
fields, states that he has already spent
more than one thousand dollars and
does not consider it possible for any
one to reach to reach the gold district
at less expense that two thousand dol
lars, after bearing numerous untold
hardships 1t is best for Kansan to
remain where he is.
The Hugoton Hermes comes to the
following wise conclusion: The man
who gets start in cattle and turns
our wonderful pasturage to his profit
learns little OF the practical side of
irrigation by growing garden, wa
tered from his wind pump will be in a
position to put down his artesion well
and take full advantage of that tide
in the affairs of men, which taken at
its food leads on to fortune" Stevens
county will some day support large
population in all the luxury of the
ideal PASTORAL life
Junction City has given up the idea
of city ownership of u light plant and
has accepted a proposition to furnish
10 to IS all night arc lamps for the
street lamps at Sc each per month.
Private consumers are to pay IS
month for arc lights and 81 month
each for l6 candle power incandescents
with a reduction of one half per light
II five or more is taken. Where lights
are put in houses with meter attach.
ed the charge is one cent per amphere
per hour. The city has heretofore
paid $40 month per arc light and the
price of incandescents has been also
decreased by the new rates.
The Santa Fe has a mile of double
track at Arkansas City and the COM
pany is now having combination
switches put in at each end so that
trains can switch without stopping
The switches are so arranged that all
south bound trains will take the west
track and all north bound the east
track. The switch at the south end
throws the north bound tram on the
second track and does not prevent the
south bound train running onto the
main line. The switch at the north
end throws the south bound train on
track No 1 and permits the train on
the second track to depart without
stopping TO switch.
The little rown of Tescott is figuring
on boom on the strength Of the ru.
NOR that the Union Pacific will buy
the Kansas Central and evtapd "a f.,,,,