Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-12
KANSAS 1vEMs OF INTEREST.

Within a few weeks cracker fac
tor will be in operation at Independ-
ence.
The ratio in the Hutchinson grad
mating class is twenty-four girls to
three boys.
Oakley has an idea that it will be
made the Union Pacific division point
this summer.
1t will be largely brunette war
with Spaniards. A yellow fever mi
crobe can smell blonde ten miles.
Boys from the prairie state of Kan
sas appear to cut just as much ice in
the navy as others who are descended
from long line of sea dogs.
An old timer in Phillips county comes
to the front with the cheering assur-
ance that in Kansas a cold April al
ways means good corn and wheat.
Fairview bases its claim to public
attention on the fact that citizen of
that town attended school with Clara
Barton years ago in Massachusetts,.
Go long white folks! A circus and
a meiry-go-round both the same week
in Jewell City. And every man, woman
and child in Jewell county has money
to spend this year.
The Efingham band is in tune with
popular feeling. 1t is giving open air
concerts, playing patriotic airs. There
Is double advantage in this. 1t pleases
the people and then such music is easy
to play.
]. G. Carver of Wellington has had
fourteen years of military experience,
and although he is colonel in the
militia, his friends fear that no place
can be made for him in the organiza
ton of the volunteers.
The first assessor to report in Neosho
county says that the valuation of prop
erty in the township in which he work
ed increased $4,000 over last year.
And there will be lots of others that
will beat this record.
In speaking of the death of a prom
inent citizen paper in western Kan
sas says that 'he was lawyer by pro-
fession, but never have we heard a per-
son say that he had wronged them in
the least particular.
There are sixteen panels reserved in
the dome of the state capitol building
for portraits of distinguished sons of
the commonwealth. The Kansas vol
unteers should recall the fact every
time they line up for battle in Cuba.
One of the best shots in Shawnee
county was rejected by the recruiting
officer because he had lost his trigger
finger. He offered to bet 500 that he
could shoot with his second finger bet
ter than any man in the county, but
the recruiting officer told him that it
was against the ethics of war to kill
Spaniard with any but the trigger fin
ger.
The members of the North Central
Kansas Editorial association, which
holds its annual meeting in Concordia
this summer, will take trip to Omaha
after the meeting. There are prabably
no newspaper people in the state who
manage to have any more fun on the
side than the members of this associa-
ton. Last year they went up north to
the lakes.
That was sad death which occurred
on train near Garnett a few days ago.
Mrs. NJ. j. Newkirk, of Kinkman, was
being taken to the asylum at Osawato-
mic, in charge of the sheriff, and ac-
cOmpanied by her husband The poor
woman and her husband were asleep,
his arm wrapped tenderly about her,
when the conductor passing through
noticed that she was strangely white,
and on investigation it was found that
she was dead, passing from her nap to
the past sleep so quietly that no one
had noticed it.
The FL Reno Supper Bell says: A
letter from Secretary Frazier, of the
Kansas, Oklahoma Central ind South
western railway company, states that
the company has let the contract to
the Ohio construction company, CT To-
ledo, Ohio, for the first fifty miles of
the road, reaching from Coffeyville,
Kan, to Pawnee, o. T., via Pawhuska.
Work is to commence at once and the
ears to be running by October l.. A.
c. Spring is now ut Coffeyville attend,
ing a meeting of the officers of the
company. FL Reno is the objective
point OF the road, and a movement is
now on foot looking to the building OF
the line between this city and Guthrie.
The money is on hand for 100 miles OF
construction, and it is thought that
work will soon be in progress at both
ends of the line.