Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-08

baHon town In Smith county,
The Kansas university Mt Lawrence,
expects a large attendance this year.
A black rat, covered with white
spots, has been caught IN cowlcy coun
ty.
Two hundred men are wanted In the
broom corn fields OF western Kansas ai
once.
A number OF Kansas City, Kansas
ministers have left for China Us mis-
sionarlcs.
II Ia announced that the Santa FC
California flyer will DO restored by
October l.
81. Mary's college at Topeka opens
early in this month. A large attend
ance is expected.
Smith Center ministers exchange
pulpltsi IN evidence OF the existence OF
the proper spirit,
A patriotic farmer in Logan county
has had the fans OF his wind mill
painted red, white and blue.
A big band contest Is on at Empoia,
1t will last several days Bands are
there from all over the state,
A fiddler is working In western Kan
sns. He doubles teams withsome home
talent aggregation and addlcs for u
whack up,
A man at Abilene Is spending his va
cation ut home, lie goes home In the
morning at ten and remains until four
in the afternoon,
Earnest p. Rochester was the only
recruit TO enlist from Scott county and
citizens Of that county Clipped In and
presented him with gold medal He
10 third sergeant Of company A, 21st
resiment.
The College of the Sisters of Beteany
will open It's school yearin September,
with greatly increased attendance,
Prospects now are the most fattering
in the history OF the institution.
Bethany college is as old as Kansas it.
self, and has the reputation MS girls
school throughout the west. Its faculy
has always been the strongest and its
influences the best, Bethany Is under
the auspices Of the Protestant Epis-
copal church, and the personal care Of
the bishop of the diocese, Miss Annie
j. lIoolcy is principal,
II is said that the scrip injunctions
are causing no inconvenience TO the
companies in the coal mining districts.
They continue to issue scrip us far as
heard from, and they do it in this
manner. The employee comes along and
wants five or ten dollars in scrip. The
company hands him five or ten dollars
in cash, for which he in turn purchases
from the company its scrip or coupon
credit books, and thus they have paid
the employ in cash and continue to is
sue the scrip as before the injunction
writs were served
Whom They Write tho President
The State Department has given over
to the Ladies' Home Journal for publ
cation its "Royal letters addressed to
the President Of the United States by
Napoleon l, Queen Victoria, the Prince
Of Wales, Napoleon III, and Emperor
William of Germany. Napoleon an
nounces such things as his marriage to
Marie Louise; the birth Of his son, the
King Of Rome; his return to the throne
Of France from Elba; Victoria an
nounces her accession TO the throne OF
England in 1896; her marriage to Prince
Albert; the birth OF the Prince of
Wales; the death Of the Prince Con-
sort; and the famous letter thanking
President Mckinley for his congratu-
lutions on her Diamond Jubilee will
also be given, The whole collection,
in fac-simile, will be presented In the
October number Of the magazine.
Along the boom days of Kansas,
about eight or ten years ago, there
lived in Hutchinson u family named
Stevicls. The father of the family kept
u grocery store. There were three
girls in the family-Farie, Isabel and
Marie, They were plain, common cit
liens, with nothing particular to dis
tinguish them from tho common herd
of Kansans. The girls had great
habit of singing. They sang morning
noon and night, and the ncighbors
who heard them were wont to remark
that those girls would be heard from
some day, Well, in the course of time
the family left Hutchinson, and
were soon forgotten by the citizens of
the town. Now they IRE heard from
again. Earle, the eldest daughter, is
the wife of Oliver Skinner, the direc-
tor Of the Wesleyan Conservatory of
Music, at Bloomington, Ills, and she