Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-03-23
KANSAS ITEMS or INTFREsN

bethany college NJ LlndsporB,
now free from debt
A Stanton county man cashed In his
broom corn crop for 81, 800.
II is hard to find Kansas town
now that Is not grooming over a house
famine
Attorney Callahan OF Montgomery
county has started a campaign against
jointists
Owing TO the insufficient tax levy,
the state treasury is expected to run
dry in May,
Thirty sheep are killed for the Sum
day dinner OF the old soldiers at the
Home ut Leavcnworth.
Ottawa thinks II has reached the
degree OF gaycty where 1t can sport
and support lodge Of Elks.
Spinal meningitis Is epidemic in
Leavenworth county, the disease start
Ing January 95tb. There have been
fourteen deaths
The construction OF the addition TO
tho Topeka Federal building, for
which $4,000 has been appropriated,
will begin May l.
Galena Is putting us street signs and
having houses numbered, Galena has
population OF something over 5000
80 that this move is not made at all
too soon,
The talk Of Atchson now is that n
professional pitcher and catcher will
be secured and situations secured for
them, and that in the future Atchison
will have only Sunday base ball.
A western Kansas paper says that
the only sure sign of spring is the
sight OF n lot OF school girls out grub
bing for wild onions II Is fact that
about all the signs have failed this
season.
A man who joins the militia OF the
state Of Kansas not only gets to make u
display Of his patriotism, but renders
himself immune from the ravaging
raids Of the stony hearted poll tax
gatherer
The Philippine Islands are long on
snakes A Kansas lad, in letter to
his folks, says that the Kansas boys
greatly regret that ST Patrick did not
visit the islands with his Trough on
Reptiles
An Atchison colored fellow was CIV
en- ten months in the county Jail this
week for stealing canned fruit from
the cellar of housewife of that town.
1t Is a good thing for the judge that
his official position is not at all de.
pendent on the vote OF the women.
The women will say unanimously that
sentence OF ten months in the coun-
by jail for stealing home-canned fruit
Ia ridiculously light in comparison
with the cnormity Of the crime,
The grand lodge of the colorcd Ma
sons OF Kansas will hold It's annual
meeting In Atchison in August About
two hundred delegates will be present,
In addition to several hundred other
members Special Importance will be
attached to the convention from the
fact that u monument to the memory
OF the late d. G., Lett ut Mt. Vernon
cemetery will be unveiled, d. A. Jones,
grand master Of Kansas, will be in
Atchison in few days to make ar
rangements to have the monument
erected. The late d. G. Lett was the
first grand master Of Kansas, and the
Masons desire to perpetuate his mem
DRY with monument
Harry Tornbloom of Mcpherson
county, has Swedish dirk, the blade
OF which darts forth when n spring is
touched In playing with this the
other day Tornbloom touched the
spring by mistake and cut n cash over
n friends heart.
Mary Choteau, aged 70, widow Of
Pierce Choteau, the historic early set
tier who founded trading post in
johnson county, Kansas, near Turner,
years ago, is dead. Her husband ex-
plored and traded in the southwest
when 1t was still wilderness
at takes positive evidence to con,
Wet under the prohibitory law" says
a Kansas exchange; but from the way
some cases turn out 1t appears that
''positive evidence even, don't always
do the work.
The estate of John I. Lamborn,
murdered at Fall Leaf two years ago,
was settled last week. II amounted
10 $4,000 in value, and was settled
among five children. 1t will be re
membered that u son and daughter
were tried for the murder and acquit.
ted.
Norton's cheese factory recently
shipped lot OF its product to n point