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

ncross the knW river
The telephone company is making
rapid progress In connecting two new
lines from Wichita to Arkansas City.
james Young, the quartermaster at
Frisco, n volunteer from Kansas, who
was convicted OF dishonesty, will get
ayear In the federal prison.
Jerry Simpson said at Denver that
tho report circulated that Kansans
were using steam mortgage cancellers
was just little exaggerated.
A tramp In eastern Kansas became
enragcd because woman refused him
something TO eat. Whereupon he pull
cd out n roll OF about $500 and showed
her.
There are swindlers in all classes Of
people. A farm hand named Ben Now
Is not altogether old. Ho swindlcd n
lot OF farmers in Sumner county and
skipped.
The Santa Fe offers TO give free
transportation TO the Hawaiian queen
who will come from Frisco TO reign as
queen us Topeka carnival.
A Chicago sculptor has been award
cd the contract to make the bust OF
Governor John A, Martin. The statue
will be unveiled at Atchison.
The Journal says that II every Kan
sns Town sent rs many visitors TO Colo
RADIO as Coffeyvillc did this summer,
the hotels out there would all need an
ncXes.
II has been custom In Jewell coun-
ty to 20 TO Burr Oak for county super
intendents. This Office has been filled
four or five times by parties from that
town.
Rev. II. D. Fisher is conducting re-
vivals in Nortonvillc, In connection
with exploiting the fact that he was
once In the ouantrell raid, and got
rolled out In IL carpet.
II this meets the eye Of any retired
Banker or Merchant or any other bus
mess man who desires good position
in good business, write Walker G.
Luling, No, 200 New England Bldg,
Kansas City, Missouri.
Four bottles OF beer with the corlSs
pulled were found in chimney In an
old deserted house, in q western Kan
sas town the other day. No one seems
to know why the beer was put there.
Maybe Santa Claus does.
An angry bull knocked Ezra Elliott
OF Pratt county, down, gored him in
the thigh once, left him unconscious
aud went on eating grass. 1t was a
one-round affair, and the strange part
was that the bull realized it.
Attorney-Gencral Boyle has render
ed an opinion in which he holds that q
parsonage owned by the church and
occupied by the pastor as residence
is exempt from taxation, together with
the ground upon which it is located,
not to exceed one-half acre.
Kansas is gradually arranging her.
self TO fit her climate, She is as far
south as North Carolina and Tennessee.
The vcrandahs on Kansas houses are
growing. The women are running to
light white attire. The clumsy men
still dress rs the Dakotans, but they
will come to u sensible dress some
day,
Warden Lands Of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary, is doing his best to get at tho
facts concerning the counterfeiting in
the mine by gang Of convicts. 1t
develops that plaster paris to make the
moulds was brought in by TRUSTEES,
and that convicts stole metal from the
machine and other shops and that they
received percentage of tho spurious
money coined in the counterfeit mint,
The fact of counterfeiting being in
progress was first brought to light by
fight among convicts over a division of
the bad coin.
John w. Brcidenthal, state bank
commissioner, is deluged with letters
from eastern men inquring how they
can borrow some Of the surplus money
in Kansas lie has received over fifty
letters during the past week, or since
financial interview with him was
published. One man wants TO borrow
$4,000 ON 1000 acres Of land in Illi-
nois, another wants $4,000 on 1900
acres of timber land in the south, and
Connecticut man wants $1,000 on his
home in New Haven. An Indiana man
wants to borrow $1,000 on stock of
groceries, and Philadelphia saloon
keeper would give his bar fixtures and
furniture as security for S7OO. Every
letter is written in good faith and has
stamp enclosed for reply.
When little town like Glen Elder
supports two billiard halls, where does