Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-26

"N"'N "'f W HbHN'"b ANA AN
Tho poor farm in Osborne county Il
a money maker for the county. Th'
humble hog is largely responsible fol
tho showing on tho right side Of thu
ledger,
Hodgoman county has twenty thous
and dollars In the treasury and is try
ing TO get IL into circulation by pay
Ing bounty Of one dollar on vol
scalps.
A southern Kansas congregation was
suffering terribly with the grip. The
bark was 30 great that the minister
could hardly continue with his sermon
for the noise. But after the contribu
tion basket had been around and reach
ed him, he gazed into IL and remarked
audibly; ~ would have thought this
congregation could have coughed uT
moro than that"
There has been a great deal OF dis
cusslon in the Kansas papers for the
past few weeks ns to when the new
century begins, and columns OF space
have been devoted 10 IL. The Chicago
Daily News suggests to those in doubt
that they borrow money, giving note
payable on the first day OF the new
century, and the bank will let them
know when the time arrives.
In the last issue of the Topeka Mail
and Breeze there is story about AL
bert Reid, an artist on the Kansas
City Star, who furnishes the excellent
cartoons which appear in the former
paper, Reid 10 Kansas boy-a west
ern Kansas boy-whose successful ca
reer Is watched with great interest
and satisfaction by many friends in
his native state.
Something unusual is on the tapis
down at Wcstphalia, The postmaster
is going to give up his job. More than
that, he is going out on his farm,
where he thinks he can do better. The
spectacle OF Kansan letting 60 his
grip on an Office simply because he can
do better in some other occupation Is
enough to make the average mans
eyes bug out wildly
On Sept, 20, 1906, Lieut.. Pike found
the Spanish flag flying over Pawnee
village in Republic county. By the
Louisiana purchase in 1903 the United
States acquired the sovereignty OF the
territory in which the village was To-
Gated. The Spanish flag had no right
to be there and on the same day that
Lieutenant Pike discovered IT he re-
placed IT with the American emblem
Of liberty,
Senator Anderson Of Shawnee coun-
ty, in n bill he introduced last week
asks that $1,000 be given Laura A,
Corns, whose husband was killed by q
fall into an uncovered grain chute ut
the state asylum for the insane in Sep
tember, 1890, A second bill calls for
an appropriation Of S., 900 to the widow
and children OF Milton Dwelly. lie
was killed by an explosion in the oil
room of the state reform school In
June, 1896,
A Sheridan county farmer came into
IoXie the other day for the purpose OF
paying off notes to the amount of SEQ
that he had given for having about SAC
worth Of lightning rods put up on his
place. lie takes the joshing of his
neighbors good-naturedly, and is not
saying much; but the next lightning
rod agent who ever tackles him with
an eye to doing business will be hor-
rible wreck before he has an oppor.
tunity to get fairly started on his
spiel.
A peculiar suit will come up before
the Lyon county court this term,
brought by man against his daugh'
ter. The girls mother died some
months ago, and since then she has
acted as her fathers housekeeper, in
consideration Of which he decided tC
her house and lot in Americus. HC
now brings suit to compel her to re-
turn the property to him. 1t is sale
that the prime reason for the bringing
Of the suit is that the plaintiff is agar
contemplating marriage.
In 1870 Charles Hertig arrived il
northern ottawa county as poor o.
any Of the pioneers who were coming
into the state at that tine. Last weel
he decided to each of his three sons
2OO-acre tract Of land southwest o
Delphos. After deciding away the 60
acres he has 1GO left for himself, be
sides lots of good American coin ant
personal property And land in tina
portion of the Solomon Valley can no
be bought for song, either. Thi
land given the boys and which is ire
of any incumbrance is estimated to b
worth $4,000,