Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lyon county pauperS are ourleu aO
cost to the county of IS cents foot.
Comic valentines were the cause OF
row among the 400 of Harper society
Pittsburg is inclined to brag over
having the only opium joint in Kansas
The real plutocrat at Dighton is the
man who had sleigh during the snow
which lasted twelve hours.
The story that the wheat in Kansas
is hopelessly dead, is intended for the
perusal of the Chicago board OF trade
only.
The people of Anthony have given
up hope of train service on the Frisco
They say that they do not want one
train day, as it would do them no
good.
When the Andrews Opera company
recently appeared in Newton the whole
town turned out to hear the Misses
Price, who have parts and used to live
in Newton.
The Anthony churus will attend the
Hutchinson jubilee this year. Anthony
has a large number of good singers
and will furnish strong chorus for
the contest.
A Butler county man has an old lith-
ograph of Carroll Hall, Fortress Mon
roe, where jeff Davis was made prison
er while this Butler county man was a
guard there.
The oil leases of land adjacent to
Toronto have been surrendered by les
see. Two years ago an eastern COM
pany leased 10000 acres of Kansas
land for prospecting purposes.
Hodgeman county has sensation.
An apparition which looks like man
is hanging to post, but no one has
had the nerve yet to get near enough
to tell whether it is fake or the real
thing.
One evening recently some fellows
AT Caldwell got to dreaming among the
fumes of their liquor about the good
old days and went out and proceeded
to shock the community by shooting
up the town.
The flight of ducks has been obsery-
ed by Leavenworth sportsmen. Goodly
numbers of mallardS and pintails were
bagged by the sportsmen whose in
stinct tells them when to HE away to
the duck grounds,
5The Winfield council and the water
works company have settled their
quarrel. The water company get 81, 900
for all claims prior to January Is, 1897,
and 81, 200 annually for the remaining
six years of their contract, payable
twice year.
A l6-year-old boy was ground to
pieces in the Leavenworth switch
yards on the 23d. The boy was cross
ing the track when he was struck by
freight car, knocked down and his
body cut in two at the abdomen and
otherwise crushed.
Win Long, who was arrested in
Franklin county charged with the
burning of a new school house near
Bronson, has confessed and implicated
MS two younger brothers. They are
all in the Franklin county Jail await
ing the action of legal authority.
An Atchison girl, recently admitted
to practice IN the criminal courts at st.
Louis, has been appointed by Judge
Zachritz to defend Jennie A. Johns, IN
dicted on a charge of criminal larceny.
This is the first time n woman will APP
pear as counsel in 81. Louis criminal
court
A blind man who has been begging
in southern Kansas was suspected and
searched at Arkansas City. He had in
a valise 5000 in gold; two expensive
meerschaum pipes, blind mans watch
costing $500, four boxes of cigars, 200
watch charms, a piccolo, a quart of
perfumery and numerous railroad
passes.
The difference between Arkansas
and Kansas came from the Indians.
The name ark means a cactus from
which the Indians formerly make bows
The Indians who carried these bows
lived in Arkansas but were related to
the Indians who occupied Kama. They
were known as Arc-Kanzas
A Syracuse man went to Kansas City
and formed partnership in a collec-
ton agency. This is what he writes
home: 81 have been collection now
three months, and, it is no exageration
to say that l have eaten corn bread
until my teeth are worn to the gums;
and pork until the bristles on my back
are six inches long"
The criminal courts expenses for Cow
ley county have been uniformly deceas-
ing for years In 1898 these expenses
were sci 900; in 1896, $1,000.
ATopeks man will establish pickle