Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-08-25


old newsboy
Winfield society people have water
melon parties.
Marysville accommodated $4,000 peo-
pie ut the Modern Woodmen log roll
ing,
Bonner Springs gus drillers have al
ready got down 1000 feet, and still no
gas.
Ground has been broken for new
depot, for the Memphis route at Pitts
burg.
The Santa Fc has put In new sys-
tenn OF block signals at Fort Leaven-
worth.
In Atchson the city council has
made q fat rate Of $50 per month for
saloons
Green Kafflr il getting in its work
on stock; the usual thing at this season
OF tho year.
A Kansas farmer says there will be
more wheat In Kansas this year than
Secretary Coburn figures ON.
A southern Kansas man does not
drink water because he says that he
has cast-iron constitution and he is
afraid II would rust IT,
A girl living at Hutchinson in an
swerlng note from her sweetheart TO
call, closes IL with the timely advice TO
"oome early and avoid the rush"
In ottawa when ono merchant gets
IL In for another he circulates story
that he is u Spanish sympathizer The
unlucky merchant at once loses all Of
his trade,
II girls are made conductors of Law
renee street cars, their sweet voice OF
fare please, will always startlc man
in the midst Of an interesting ncwspa-
per story.
Have you ever thought about thisP
In reading letters from the Kansas
boys in the front every one expresses
an opinion that is different in regard
TO the conduct of the war, Kansans
are free thinkers II nothing else.
Westmoreland has new public
school building, and IL is said that ow-
ing TO bad weather while II was in
course OF construction the contractors
will not make cent out Of the job,
This is something new under the sun.
It is said that Wichita county will
have more good corn this year than ut
any time in its history. Do you know
where Wichita county is2 II is so far
west that II IL was very much farther
II would be over in the state Of Colo
RADIO,
Mcpherson county teachers will be
better paid this year than they were
last year, Judging from what Supt.
Stryker says Of the poor pay received
by Kansas teachers this ought TO be
the case in good many other Kansas
counties.
DR.. Quayle, the well-known Kansas
City Methodist divine, is n Kansas
man. He was raised on u farm in
Shawnee county, where his father still
resides, When he was boy he gave
no promise Of being the vineyard
worker that he Is,
A Kansas man predicts that Dewey
will be the nominee for president in
1904. Quito probable in 1904 Dewey
will not be able to converse fluently
in the English language, having been
80 long accustomed to living on a
snake farm in the Philippines,
In the midst OF tales of suffering
which come from the troops in Cuba,
what do you think of this from Cor
poral William Schaeder, Kansas boy,
with the regulars at Santiago; This
is a very rich country and has very
healthy climate, All kinds of fruits
grow wild. We have been having a
little rain but not enough to amount
to anything,
A letter addressed TO James Kindig,
Scranton boy who is with the regu-
lars in Cuba was returned to Scranton
the other day with the information
that the young man is dead His COM
pany took part in the battle of Santa
go, but Kindig did not participate in It
himself us he was one of detail
which was doing guard duty over sup
plies. This is the first intimation that
he had suffered harm, and the suppo-
sition is that in yellow fever he met
his fate,
This is the way a northern Kansas
exchange looks at 1t: Whether John
Collins is proven guilty of numbering
his father or not, he has already suf-
fered a punishment worse than DEATH
or any other that the law could inlet
The woman he loved, and for whose
sake he committed the crime, If he did