Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-05
KANSAS rTEMu OF rSrnnEsE
A two days Catholic fair ut Clay
Center netted $500.

Clgnrette smoking ls prohlplJeu IN
The postoffice building at Beloit.
A AKansas barber Is advertising baths
NJ seven for dollar as matter OF in
Producing them.
Wellsville Baptists raised $3.50 at the
recent dedication Of their church and
Are out OF debt
The Kansas papers had better run
Of Christmas advertising this year
than ever before.
Wichita is having trouble with it'
electric light company and may find
Itself in darkness.
The farmers OF Barton county esti-
mate that they raised 1850, 200 bushels
Of wheat this year.
What Kansas needs moro than any
thing else is intermarrlage with q race
with less hysteria.
II Is difficult In the whole state 10
find single woman who believes that
John Collins was guilty.
Most of the corn cribs in Kansas are
filled TO their fullest capacity at the
present time, 1t is Of mighty good
quality, too
A wealthy Atchison county farmer,
who lives south OF Atchison, is organ
izing q band. Look out and stand
from under.
W. II. Haskell OF Gaylord feeds
daily 800 worth of corn to cattle and
hogs he is fitting up for the market n
little later on
An exchange says the only wonder
about the fast mail up TO date is that a
big freight train has not come up be-
hind II and smashed IL.
The stay-at-tent vote among the col
prcd boys Of Kansas in Cuba is suili-
ricnt indication that the American cit
izen when his vote Is going TO be mi
'roscopically counted, prefers not to
Tote.
The most intelligent witness that
has appeared in the Collins murder
rasc so far is q g,rl of twilight com
plexion named Kitty Smothers, The
ablest lawyer in the case couldn't rat
tie her.
Christmas day there was o rumor all
over Kansas that John Collins had
committed suicide. The rumor was
broadcast simply because II occurred
to people in widely distanced places to
tell the same lie,
The business OF the Hutchinson and
Southern railway in Oklahoma has in
creased so much that two new trains,
passenger and freight, will be add
ed TO the service. Medford is now the
southern terminus,
Some Kansas men should learn from
Hobson the little lesson that farce
comedy does for the stage, but 1t can
not be attached to man who is
knocking about the world in u per-
fcctly human way with safety.
A great deal of roaring has been
heard in Kansas on account of "hard
times" On account Of two crop fail
ures in succession in q province in
China, thousands and thousands of
people are dying Of starvation, the
death rate having reached 1870 in one
day from this cause. Kansans should
thank the Lord that never yet have
they been up against hard times of
this nature. The inability to get thu
best there is in the market, with thea
ter tickets at will, starts the cry OF
"hard times" with two many Kan
sans.
A lot of ''hnrd-working" men, bar
tenders, etc, have been thrown out OF
employment in Allen county recently
by their employers being placed in
Jail. Thus the cruel arm OF the law
takes bread out Of the mouth OF the
''poor but honest man.
Missouri and Kansas are gradually
monopoliSing the interior department.
Hitchcock is from Missouri. Tom
Ryan is from Kansas and Webb Davis
from Missouri, Harrison started II
with Noble. Cleveland switched off to
Georgia for Hoke Smith once
A Central Branch locomotive engi.
neer has quit the road and is now pres.
ident Of bank at Corning,
]. w. Gillett, hardware and imple.
ment dealer, has turned over his bust.
ness at Woodbine to his creditors
Gillett is brother OF Grant Q. Gillett
the absconding cattle king, and helt
100000 worth Of cattle paper ISSUED
by his brother. The cattle which j
W. Gillett supposed he owned have
been found to have been mortgaged Il
others, His assets are placed at $50,
900.
A great many of the people who be