Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-12
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

A smallpox expert who is working
N Atchison gets sl5 day for his SER
hces He Is from Chicago
An old soldier at Leavenworth who
Is aged "A years, is suing his wife,
aged "a, for divorce, charging adult
Try.
The raiile fever always reaches It's
height during the holidays In Chau-
lauquA county man raiiied of SOW
and litter Of pigs
After reading the paid write-ups In
Kansas special edition one might be
led 10 think that all the best men OF
The earth had located In one town,
COTS is small town TO have union
depot The Central Branch and the
Northwestern use the same building.
concordia ought TO have a union de-
pot
Wheat thieves are causing much
Ioss 10 farmers In northeast Dickinson
county, driving 10 the granarles In the
night and taking loads boldly TO the
market.
The Santa Te officials deny that the
fast mail will be discontlnu ed, GEN
cral Manager Frey says the train has
had no more wrecks than, any other
train, and that It's service is good.
The rooms OF the Historical society
are so clustered up that II one gets in
side and wishes TO remove his overcoat
he Is obliged to go out In the hall to
do so. The work Of the society is Inn
portant and IL should have more room,
The Gaylord Herald's weather proph
ct who has predicted this last cold
snap, says there will be worse one
about the lith OF this month. II is
claimed by the Gaylord Herald that
this same weather prophet isa very
hot article
The Criterion says that Lebanon
man Is deferred from putting up ice
because there are so many little fishes
frozen In II, and he does not believe
that the people OF the town would take
kindly 10 the idea Of having their wa
ter coolers turned into fish ponds next
SPINNER.
The attorneys for John Collins give
thirteen reasons why he should be CIV
en- rehearlng, to the effect that the
verdict was contrary TO law; that the
jurors read papers and gave opinions
during the course of the trial; that the
county attorney misstated the evidence
In his closing statements; that new
evidence for the defendant has been
discovered, and that the verdict was
contrary TO evidence,
Carefully made experiments show
that fresh manure taken directly from
the stable TO the held is worth about
double as much to the land as old
manure that has been piled up and al
lowed to rot and decompose through
the winter And II would lose far
more OF It's fcrtilizing qualities in the
summer months than in the winter.
AS II decomposes on the field the fer
tilizing elements will go into the'
ground and enrich the soil,
The Goodland Banner secured state
ments from the merchants of that town
and found that the total amount Of
sales during holiday week aggregated
Bl1,s OF this amount Ss,670 went
for Christmas presents, This Is an in
dication of the wonderful amount of
business done by Santa Claus and his
assistants in Kansas this year. Good
land II should be remembered, Is away
out in northwestern Kansas. People
who wanted to be mean used to say
that there was no God out Goodland
way; and 1t was there that Rainmaker
Montgomery, with his scheme of over
turning natures laws, rose, hourished
and FELL but the town and country
about It appear to be all right in this
particular year Of grace.
A Kansas boy, Chas Rounsavill, who
took part in the battle of Manila, un-
der Dewey, in writing to relatives at
Circleville, says that the majority Of
the people of the United States seem
to think that there was only one man
in that fight while allowing Ad-
miral Dewey all the credit" says
Rounsavill, 'it would be we'll to re-
member that the enlisted men served
and fred the guns, and that without
them Dewey could not have won the
battle" Dewey has received a gener-
Gus share of commendation, it is true,
but no more than he deserved; and the
assurance of the Kansas boy that the
admiral did not sink the Spanish fleet
single-handed and alone was hardly
needed.
A formerly Of Atchison boy has turn
ed up editorial writer on the Washing
ton Post. The time will come when n