Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-04

One of the characteristics of west
ern Kansas wolf hunt is that it Is al
most always failure.
A blacksmith, a general store and a
doctor are among the long felt but un-
filled wants at Monett.
Knute Try has compromised on his
consolidation scheme by introducing a
fire insurance bill in the legislature.
The O. NJ. B. and the temperance
people of Burlington are about to COM
promise and buy the water works
plant.
A grip and sign man invaded Alma
recently with new lodge. That gives
the men leave of absence six nights in
a week.
One of the candidates for the postof-
fee at White Cloud lives fifteen miles
from the town, and is not a patron Of
the office.
A Lawrence girl froze one ear and
had another one burned by cigar the
same night. Lawrence girls always
go to extremes,
The Emporia minstrel started out to
star Kansas, but got no further than
Cottonwood Falls Walking is not
pleasant these cold days.
A professor of two-step, who has es-
tablished herself at Galena. has been
granted permit by the mayor to spell
her first name Jeanne"
A Wichita woman has been arrested
on the charge on insanity because she
does not believe her husband when he
tells her they can live on faith.
The Junction City man who ran
away from Kansas City and left his
wife there, added insult to injury by
lying about it. He said he forgot her.
In Kansas the thermometers so rare.
ly go down that the glass at the lower
end of the tube gets dirty and you
can't tell its cold when it is, except by
feeling.
Sherman county farmers express the
opinion that sugar beets can be sue
cessfully grown in that county, claim
ing that their assertions are justified
by experiments.
Manhattan has passed an ordinance
compelling folks who own chickens to
keep them out of their neighbors'
yards. The militia may be called out
to protect the councilmen who voted
for it.
A man at Arkansas City was arrest
ed for stealing coal. He declared that
he was sleeping in the car only. "Pret-
ty hard bed" asked the judge. "No,
your honor" said the accused, sit was
soft coal"
Columbus Means, who was pardoned
by Governor Morrill,, because he was
dying of consumption, died in the Os-
age country, Indian Territory, last
week. His crime was robbing the Mis-
souri, Pacific station at Peru.
Down deep in the trunk of certain
man, among his treasures, is a bit OF
Scottish Highland heather. The Scotch
are everywhere, but their hearts beat
true to the "banks and breas OF bonnie
Doom" The gentleman above referred
to resides at Goodland.
A Farmers Institute will be held at
Garden City in February and the ques-
ton of establishing pickle factory at
that place is one of the interesting top
les that will be under consideration.
A prominent Topeka man will be pres
emit at this meeting and present the
benefits of such plant and also an
idea of the amount of vegetables re-
quired.
The Lane county man who forbade
the school children from skating on
his irrigation pond because they tluffed
up the ice and let a lot of it blow
away, is almost as mean as the Geor'
gia man who is described in a local pa
per as follows: Any man who would
keep dog that would jump fence
and freak rail and scare mule that
would throw a niger and break jug
of whisky in a.dry country is too cuss'
ed mean to live.
Capt. ]. II. Towne, the popular Mis-
souri, Pacific conductor, is the owner Of
dog that possesses more genuine
sense than most dogs He knows
enough not to go to Wichita when he
can help it. A few days ago the dog
was at the depot in Conway Springs
where Captain Towne resides, making
himself at home, and unthoughtedly
climbed on the Wichita train. TIL
train men knew whose dog it was and
remarked that they would take gooC
care of him and bring him back home
next morning. The train the dog wal
on passes the evening train from Wich
tia at Oatville, and when the baggage
car door opened there the dog saw tn,
| otbar train standing on the sidinO- ant