Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-12-15

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tenn.
Lightning rod sharks victimized
farmer near Hays City out of $500 last
week.
Six jack rabbits are selling for o.
nickel in the county seat OF Lane
county.
An eastern capitalist is flirting with
Hoisington on an electric light propo-
sition.
A young lady holds down the posi-
tion Of prescription clerk in Norton
drug store.
The Seventh district OF Kansas cast
us many votes as thirteen congression-
al districts combined In Arkansas and
Mississippi.
Miss Lizzie T., Wooster, formerly
teacher in the schools of Salna, Is n
candidate for the position now held
by Annie L. Diggs in the state librar-
ian's Office.
The taste Of Coffeyville doesn't run
so much to pottcd plants rs it docs to
pottery plants. One pottery plant has
been secured and the citizens are MAX
ing strong pull for another.
Many improvements nrc being made
just ut the present. Good substantial
sheds and shelters are being put up to
protect the stock from the coming win
ter. Generally, the stock Is looking
we'll.
The most intelligent witness that
has appeared in the Collins murder
case so far is girl Of twilight COM
pleXion named Kitty Smothers. The
ablest lawyer in the case couldn't rat
tie her.
During the recent blizzard farmer
of Barton county named Wise went
out to drive his stock, and he has not
been heard of since II is feared by
his friends that he was lost and frozen
to death.
Pete Swensen reports great devas-
tation among the swine in the neigh
borhood OF Dwight with cholera. He
says he has lost 100 head OF good hogs,
and his neighbors have met with losses
more or less.
Chief OF Police Mcfarland of Kansas
City, Kan, has instructed his men to
keep close lookout for suspicious
characters and to prevent If possible
any visitation from those now being
ordered out Of Kansas City, Mo.
In western Kansas the school popu-
lation is continually falling Off, while
the voting population is, in many
places, increasing. 1t is due to the
fact that families aro moving out and
stockmen with their cowboys are taxi
ing their places,
Measles have been having big run
at Logan, though no serious cases have
occurred. The doctors there report no
less than one hundred cases since the
epidemic broke out In some depart
ments in the schools the attendance
has dropped Off nearly one-half on ac'
count Of 1t.
improvements at the waterworks
pumping station ut Salina are being
pushed rapidly with view of COM
pleting by January LIST, Two 10O-horse
power boilers have been received. Sup
erintcndent Bishop claims they are the
best boilers ever brought to Salina. A
new feature in the construction is the
seamless bottom" that is, the boilers
are made from two large horizontal
sheets of steel of 60,OJ0 pounds tensile
strength. The horizontal seams arc
double riveted above the fire iron.
Because OF the cold weather work
has been temporarily suspended on the
new prison site at Leavenworth The
outside force has been getting things
in readiness for the erection Of the
now brick plant The machinery fol
this plant has arrived and will be put
. up at the earliest opportunity. AL
, the brick to be used in the erection o.
. the new prison will be made in thu
prison brick plant and Warden French
= hopes to save enough money in very
short time to pay for the machinery
used
l. There is sure to be q fight in tn,
a Kansas legislature for a new stat,
|. normal school this winter. Year af
Y ter year the fight has come up anC
l. has been defeated by friends of tn,
70 present Emporia normal, aided by thu
IS board of regents, but this year the re
Ie gents of the normal in their biennia
IS report, have recommended the estub
d lshmcnt OF another normal school
Al and the board will go before the legis
ID iaturc, asking for It, Heretofore tn
TO regents have stood by Emporia, bu
ID this year they will maintain that a
IN the normal is so badly crowded, owe