Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-28

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1t is said that the best poker ple yer
In Pratt is "a Sunday school teacher
The Topeka auditorium matter is
progressing finely. Ample subscrip-
tions have been received to insure its
reconstruction.
There are alOt of men in the Strip
who live in Oklahoma one year, in
Kansas the next, in Oklahoma the next
and SO on. OF course they will die
poor.
If the rain record of Kansas during
the last week keeps mp little longer
the grass in the bed of the late Arkan-
sas river will make good early pasture
for cattle.
Adisease something like measles and
something like scarlet fever, is in
southern Kansas and Oklahoma. The
doctors do not know what to make of
it. 1t is not serious.
The Wichita jingoes took a back
seat during the bigG. A. R. encampnent
there last week. Real fighters had
possession of the city. They are the
men who have proved themselves to be
patriots.
During the last big rain three inches
of water fell in western Kansas The
ground is thoroughly soaked and the
streams are all bank full. Wheat is
looking fine and the oats are coming
out nicely.
There is slight difference of opin-
ion between the Topeka State Journal
and the late Noah Webster. The lat
ter says that patriotism is love of coun-
try, while the State Journal calls the
refusal of Virginia lady to eat Span
sh salad patriotism.
There is one institution in Kansas
that the war with Spain will not bene-
fit financially, and that is the canteen
at Fort Riley Nobody is now left to
drink from that same old canteen but
those two jolly old veterans, Sergeants
Buchanan and Thornhill.
A effort is being made to get Jack
Burke of Sedgwick county out of the
penitentiory on account of i'll health.
He was sent up in 1895 for burglary
and grand larceny, during the com
mission of which man named Nc
Ginty lost eight hundred dollars and
an arm.
Assistant Secretary of State Charles
NJ. Ross of Kansas thinks from the
present outlook in Jewell county that
so far as that particular locality is con-
cerned the mortgage holder will soon
follow the troubador and the mound
builder into the realms of complete
extinction.
Harper county was organized in 1873
on bogus petition gotten up by some
swindlers who Immediately issued $40,
900 in bonds which they sold and then
pocketed the proceeds. This occurred
three years before there was perma-
nent settler in the county. This story
is told by the Anthony Bulletin.
With the exception of the days of
the boom Kansas papers never con-
tanned SO many notices of improve
ments being made as are now noted at
the present time, and in striking con-
trast to the conditions which prevailed
during the boom era, the improvements
now being made are the result of a
natural healthy growth.
An Osborne county woman who
wants divorce alleges that her hus-
band is over-bearing, domineering and
tyrannical that he made her attend to
the stock and do out door work; that
different times he struck her, spit in
her face. called her vile names, and on
two occasions she was obliged to seek
safety in her mothers home. This is
not case for the divorce court. 1t be-
longs to the local vigilance committee.
A number of Salinas business men
are interested in new telephone in
vented by F.. II. Brown, of Chicago,
upon which patents have Just been
secured and which will, it is believed,
completely revolutionize the telephone
system. The reason why this result
is expected is that the Instruments may
be built much more cheaply and they
give perfect service. The war and
navy departments have become inter
ested and will likely introduce them in
the service.
Superintendent Stryker, on behalf of
the committee on education appointed
by the Kansas Omaha commission. is
sending out a circular letter to county
superintendent asking them to make
arrangements for the preparation of
material for the educational exhibit at
the Omaha Exposition. The letter