Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-07-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Concordla sentlment is crysthnIlhg
In favor Of a curfew ordinance.
The Meeiden creamery is now turn
ing out 400 pounds of butter daily.
Four hundred acres OF Pottawatomie
county land sold last week for 1900.
The people OF Ellsworth county have
subscribed for nearly $4,000 worth OF
war bonds.
No one is allowed TO loiter on the
streets OF Winfield after nine o'clock
at night
Recent prohibition rows at Downs
have resulted in adding one more joint
TO that town.
A woman is TO be nominated for
county school superintendent In Jeffer-
son county.
Lewis Phillips writes from Klondike
TO Lawrence friends stating that he
has seen few Indians up there,
Salina, which has $1,000 OF idle
money in the city treasury, is talking
Of putting up an auditorium.
]. r, Harrison Of Salina, postofiice
inspector has been promoted to the
chief bureau OF mail depredations,
A girl in Republic county lived thir-
~ minutes after drinking bottle OF
carbolic acid. Her name was Addie
Rudolph,
The editor OF the Eflngham New
Deaf says It is harder to find man to
do job Of work in that town now
than at any other time during the past
five years.
The ,Stuewe brothers OF Alma, cele-
brated the Fourth OF July by shipping
ten cars Of steers to Kansas City, The
steers averaged 81, 265 pounds and sold
at s4,65.
A Howard man, who found bunch
Of keys at the door of his corn crib,
courteously offers TO return them to
the owner II he will call and prove
property,
Citizens Of La Crosse furnished bar
rel of lemonade for train load OF
Pennsylvania volunteers who went
through there the other day bound for
San Francisco
An old soldiers reunion will be held
at Frankfort next month and the peo-
pie are going to great pains to make 1t
a success, Reunions this year ought to
he success. The Soldier spi"it' is
in the air.
There is a great hurry-scurryation
among the booze dispensers in Usage
county, where the grand jury re-
Gently returned forty-three indict'
ments, most OF them on uceSpnt OF vio'
lations of the prohibitory law.
a Postmaster Aldrich OF oswlter City,
keeps Gle order from the postofiice de-
partment requiring nm increase in box
rents on exhibition all the time so
that kickers can be convinced that he
did not make the raise himself, just to
be ornery. There probably isn't a
postmaster in the state who has not
been accused of being directly rcspon'
siRs ls for the increase
Miss Josie Smith, Of Jewell City, an
nounces herself In the regulation way
as candidate for superintendent of
public instruction of Jewell county,
II was not a great while ago when the
first woman was elected to this posi-
ton in Kansas; and it will not be a
great while, either, before they will
begin to regard this Office us their own
particular pudding; but they seem to
fill the bill all right,
One day last week the rope which
holds the flag at the top of the city
flag pole in Horton slipped through
the pulley at the top and fell to the
groung. An employee of the Rock Is
land shops offered to put it in place
for 81, and he did too. Some idea OF
the difficulty Of the job may be had
when it is known that the pole, which
is 81 feet in height, is made of four
inch gas pipe for the first g. feet, thu
top section of 20 feet having a diamete,
of but two inches.
1t happened in Saline county.
drunken husband who repeatedly abus
ed his wife, until in her despair sh
attempted to take her own life with
32-calibre revolver; but her aim wa
bad, and although the bullet barrel
missed her heart, II is likely that sh
will recover. A husband who will nc
in that manner toward his wife is to
much Of brute to be reasoned will
and has not enough sense to profit b
experience; but If he ever repeats I'll
offense there is an argument whic
will reach him, and it should be use'
A lot of Stevens county men turnC