Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-03

1890
4 ice this winter.
: Burlington's court house has besl
condemned as unsafe.
Most of the Kansas editors who wen
on the Port Arthur trip make fun o
that country.
The prairie schooners which are seer
in Kansas this year have the horses
hitched to the west end.
A gravel road connecting Louisville
and Wamego is almost completed. Sc
much for the good roads movement in
that locality.
Roy Loman, the hot little printer
catcher who played with Atchison last
year, has signed with Fort Worth for
the coming season.
The superintendent of grounds at the
Capitol has built trocha around the
State house. He says it is to keep peo-
pie off the grass, but it looks as if he
intended it as line of defense against
the Spaniards
An Emporia dealer averages shipping
a car of eggs week to New York City,
and as in each car there are 1870, coo
eggs, it will be understood that the
helpful hens of Lyons county are not
soldering" any.
0lathe has granted gas franchise
to a company, and as soon as the
weather will permit wells will be sunk
there. In case gas is not struck it will
be piped from Osawatomie. The COM
pany is under bond to furnish gas
within one year.
A Lincoln man who has been run
ming a corn shelter up ia Republic
county says that many of the farmers
in the northern part of the state are
badly behind with their work, and that
there are lots of them who haye not
finished huslSing their corn.
The docket for the present term OF
court in Republic county is the short
est one known for years. People up
there are so busy with that immense
corn crop which broke the record for
state and the world that they had no
time to fool away at Law.
The government has approved the
contract of ]. B. Belts, Of Topeka, for
the erection of the new chapel to be
built at Haskell institute. Work on
the new building will be commenced at
once. The chapel will cost $50, 900 and
will be a great addition to the cluster
of buildings now at the school.
Kansas has already furnished one of
the most famous jockeys in the world
in the person of TerriI, who used to
run loose in Harper county. Another
boy who is riding to fame is Jesse Hart,
who was raised at Paola. He is 81
years old. and is one of the most gen
tlemanly riders in the profession. He
has been riding about five years. and
was first brought into prominence by
Judge ArkelL
! John Fouloy, Hiawatha Chinese
laundryman is in deep trouble. He is
now visiting in his native land and q
recent dispatch in the daily papers am
nounces that he has applied to the
American consul for passports for his
wife and family, but the consul acting
under instructions from the state de-
partment, has refused him. Mr. Fou--
10y is naturalized American, but the
Chinese exclusion act shuts out his
family.
A war is on in Kansas between
preachers and civil officers over. the
fees charged for performing the mar
riage ceremony. A new law fixes the
maximum charge for this service by
probate judges and justices of the peace
at Sl.5O, Until it went into effect they
IS or rs much as the BRIDE
groom would stand. The new law
does not affect preachers, who get
from IS to $40, but protests from them
are coming from all sections of the
state. They claim that in order to get
any of the business they are forced to
marry people for 81. So.
A Hodgeman county hunter gives
the following reasonable tale and is
ready to back it up: Say, mister, you
may talk about the smart things done
by animals; how quick monkeys, dogs,
etc, will catch on to the tricks of hui
man bein's and soon learn how to be as
smart as they be or smarter, but of all
the cute things l ever see or hearn tell
on, is the way the rabbits are fixin
themselves since the bounty was put
on ag'in. T'other day was out hunt
in an seen a big jack settin' by a
soapweed an as he didn't seem inclin.
ed to move thought would see Jest
how clost could get to him. AS kept
a gettin' closter, he kept settin' there
quiet like; jest stuck up one ear kinder
prominent like an when l got closi
enough 10 see I-swan-to-man! Just as