Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-13

duction the talk of all New York, Chi
cago, Boston and Philadelphia, during
the long engagements of "The Brown
les" in these cities, will positively be
presented The storm and shipwreck
at sea, the earthquake and volcano,
the destruction of the magnificent pal
ace, and other wonderful spectular eff
fects will be shown in their entirety,
while the grand transformation scene,
"The Break of Day in Brownieland, 4"
it is promised, will surpass in beauty
and grandeur anything ever previously
exhibited on the Wichita stage.
Scarlet fever is making its appear
ance in several places in Mcpherson
county. Several deaths have resulted.
One case is now reported at Marquette.
Wolves are so numerous in Pawnee
county and their depredations upon
poultry, pigs and sheep so destructive
that the county commissioners have
placed bounty of So per head upon
their scalps. and will ask the commits
sioners of Barton, Stafford, Hodgeman,
Rush and Edwards counties to do the
same thing.
The required number of tax payers
have petitioned the city council of
Pittsburg to submit to the voters the
question of the establishment of free
public library. The present city hall
is being converted into headquarters
for the paid fire department and the
city will be compelled to build large
public building. The plan now is to
build building with an auditorium
seating 5000 people and have the pub
lie library and city offices in the same
building.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
desires to know the sentiments of the
people concerning his department.
There has been at times an effort to
induce the legislature to abolish it but
it has not proven successful. Attached
to the many blanks being sent out for
information from the varied classes of
business and manufactures is ques-
tion asking if continuation of the
work of the department is desired by
the people. In his annual report Mr..
johnson will make whatever recon-
mendations are demanded by the re-
plies to this.
The mayor of Cimarron is Mrs Cur
tbs, one of the very sharpest business
women in Kansas She keeps a store
and does thriving business. She
conducts the business of Cimarron
with a master hand, and while her
election was regarded as a joke, she is
now regarded as the best mayor that
the city of Cimarron has ever had.
Cimarron at this time is weighted down
with large municipal Indebtedness
contracted in a county seat war. Mrs,
Curtis has taken the matter in hand
and is handling it to the satisfaction
of the bondholders and taxpayers.
Articles of incorporation for another
Oklahoma railroad have been filed
with the secretary of the territory,
The capital stock is fixed at $780, OO
divided into 1000 shares of the value
of s25 each. The proposed road, which
is to be called the Missouri, Oklahoma
and Texas railway, is to be built from
Henrietta, Clay county, Texas, in a
northerly and easterly direction
through the Indian and Oklahoma ter
ritories to point on the north bound
airy line of the Indian territory, to be
selected by the company, between the
town of Chetopa and the point where
the Arkansas river is crossed by the
said north boundary line, with branch
TO be constructed from n point on tlR
main line between the point of cross
ing of the North Fork of the Canadian
river and n point due west of the town
of Wagner in the Creek nation, and
to run thence to Wagner over the
most practicable and feasible route.
The greatest liars in the worl1 are
the men who tell stories about the vast
herds of buffalo that formerly roamed
over Western Kansas. Major Inman,
in his new book, 1.-The Old Santa Fs
Trail" takes the talk Of these fellows
seriously. He makes the statement
that in the old days it was possible tc
walk all day without stepping off a
buffalo slaughtered by skin hunters.
Think of the absurdity of the state
ment! Now that the buffalo are gone,
the old timers cannot resist the temp
tatior 20 lie about them.