Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


draw poker"
Speaker Street of the house of rep
resentatives is experimenting with q
cure for hog cholera.
Emma Kelly, the Kansas girl WHIT
married rich in Klondil1e, sent hel
father in Kansas $500 for Christmas
present.
The officers stationed at Fort Leav
enworth are said to be almost unanim-
ously in favor of war, reports to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The seed stores in Kansas are doing
more business at the present time than
ever before noted in the history Of the
state at this season of the year.
Last week the Bank of Beloit and
the First National bank, two of the
oldest and firmest institutions of north
west Kansas were consolidated.
Thank beauteous heaven that the
day is gone in Kansas when man can
put theory at the end of a pole, shake
1t and scare this state into Mysteries.
A deputy sheriff of Cowley county
went to Dexter a few days ago to ar
rest horse thief and got so drunk
that he was arrested and locked up in
jail.
All the Rocks county teachers in at
tendance at the State Normal school
are Christians, and every Saturday
night they hold rousing prayer meet
ing.
The city dads OF Irving have put up
a tank and will pipe water to public
watering trough. Nothing is too good
for the Kansas farmer when he comes
to town this year.
There is man living in Woodston,
Rocks county, who makes handsome
thing every year raising ct. Bernard
puppies for sale. He has SONS magni-
ficent dogs of this breed.
The Manhattan lodge of Knights of
Pythias has secured a fine new ster-
eopticon, and will hereafter be enabled
to turn on few extra side lights for
the benefit of the new candidates.
The towns along the line of the north
prong of the Central Branch think
they ought to have better train SER
vice. They have thought so for long
time. The line is eighty-four miles
long, and has one mixed train each
way day.
The county commissioners of Jeffer-
son and Douglas counties held JOINT
session at Lawrence and decided to adj
vertise for bids to construct bridge
across the Kansas river at Lecompton
The bridge will be built jointly by the
two counties.
The disciplinary committee of the
Kansas University faculty has sent out
notices to $50 students who have been
negligent in complying with the rules
of the institution, The committee will
act on the cases if the students do not
report promptly.
The Graphic warns the wife beaters
of 0sawatomie that unless they let up
they will be given an opportunity of
finding out how wet the water is in the |
river there. There is one man there to
whom the warning does not apply. He
went home with good sized jag few
nights ago and tried to clean mp the |
mouse, when his wife laid him out with
stove poker
A fellow down at Clement, who |
claims to be able to mesmerize animals
is laying foundation for n fortune.
He Is teaching chorus of cats to sing. |
He claims that they can already carry .
a number of tunes, OF course, they
cannot articulate the words, but they
give the tune. If they attain the
proficiency the mesmerizer anticipates,
he will travel and give cat concerts.
Who would not give dollar to hear a
dozen musical tom cats sing. "a Hot |
Time in the Old TOWN."
During the past year over two thou
sand cars of wheat were shipped out of
Rush county. A little figuring will
show the magnitude of the statement.
Call it an even 1000 cars, each averag-
ing 700 bushels and the total amounts
to 100000 bushels. Eighty cents a
bushel is not too high an estimate for
for the average price paid for it, and
and this runs up to 81, 100, 900, Accord
ing to Secretary. Coburn's report for
1856 the population of Rush county is
almost an even 5000; so that the
proceeds from the sale Of this amount
of wheat may be said to present 5000
''per capiter" or $1,000 for every family.
averaging five each.
Fred Gaunt, an Alton grain dealer,
shipped over ten thousand bushels of
wheat last week. During the same
period he also sold thirty thousand
bushels of corn to feeders in that COM
munity.