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Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
HUTCHINSON IN LINE.
POnullsi State Nominating Convention Should
Come Here.

The populist state nominating con-
yention has not yet been called, but
probably win be within two or three
weeks, If Hutchinson wants the con.
ventlon, and OF course she does, she
can probably have II. And judging
from the size and enthusiasm Of the
convention at Tokeka, II VIII be no
small gathering, II the democratic
conventlop is allowed TO come OIL at
Wichita the popullst convention will
not be taken to that city because
there Is big meeting Of some lodge
TO come OF there at the same time
and the entertaining capacity Of the
city will be strained without adding
the p0pullst convention to tho list
of numerous guests. 1t Is well I'M
dewtood by all who are familiar with
the temper and feeling Of the popu-
lists Of the state and the state com
mittee that the convention viii, be
called ut the same time MS the demo-
cratic convention, but on account Of
the above mentioned difficulty II will
not be called for the same place un-
less the democratic convention is
changed, One Of the committee re-
ports that was submitted to the con-
ference at Topeka recommended that
the popullst convention be held at
either Hutchinson or Topeka. 1t is
likely that one of these
two cities will get the convention,
with the democratic convention at !
Wichita, Hutchinson should have the
decided advantage,
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
NEBRASKA INTERESTED.


To show something of the interest
which Is being aroused in the matter
|.of cooperative elevators and the ship
ping Of grain, and especially the
prospect Of large and important
meeting In this city on March 18th
and 9TH, the following is clipped from
The Central Farmer, Of Omaha, Ne
braska, concerning our meeting:
"The growth Of cooperation In
handling grain by farmers elevators
Is an astonishing feature Of the de-
velopment Of the trust idea from the
phase whore a few are the beneficial
rles into the broader and better phase
where all producers are members and
all alike are benefited, 1t Is also re-
markaOle that Nebraska has given no
attention to this work while other
states from Oklahoma to North Da-
kota and Minnesota are organizing
and are either shipping or are prepar-
ing to do 1t. We are reliably informed
that one elevator company operating
a line Of elevators in Nebraska made
a profit or dividend Of fifty per cent
on its investment last year. OF
course that profit came by enforcing
a lower rate Of payment for grain than
1t could afford to pay, and the farm
ers' are the losers Of so much. There
Is small doubt but other grain COM
panies made similar profits and that
In the grand total the farmers have
lost by the action Of the grain trust
in Nebraska, will round into millions
of dollars. 1t is past understanding
why, with adjoining states all organ
izing for the interest Of the producers,
Nebraska farmers submissively kiss
the hand that Smites them and fondly |
feed the trust that skins them. There |
is time yet for localities to send del
egate to Hutchinson on March 4th TO |
learn how Kansas is conducting her
grain shipping to the benefit of her
and prepare to engage in a
similar work here.
"If prompt action is taken by those
who first read these words, meetings
may be called of a few interested per-
sons for Saturday, March 1st, and n
delegate selected and sent to Hutch
nson, Kansas, for the March 4th
meeting. One and a third fare is
granted by railroads from Nebraska
points as well as Kansas and Okla
loma stations. Buy your ticket
through to Hutchinson and take a re-
;eipt for it. Let Nebraska be largely
at Hutchinson.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
THAT COUNTY PRINTING.
Some Interesting IslOs Of How II Was Done
and Why.

| There are sometimes some interest.
Ing tales of public concern that dc
not become public till long after the
date of their occurance. For In
stance, the county printing was Let
some time ago, but the negotiating,
the lobbying and the craftsmanship
OF the transaction has never been
reported. When the lobbying com
menced, n gentleman Of the cloth,
one Of the iinanclers Of the county
approached Commissioner Myers in
the interest Of the Herald He was
informed by the latter that the let
ting OF the county printing was a
political job In which he was not al
lowed to participate, that 1t was let
for the benefit Of the republican
party and that the News was II, and
would therefore get the printing.
The reply Of the solicitor was that
there was too much truth in the
statement and 1t ought not to be so.
Mr. Myers said he had been laboring
for several years to the best of his
ability to prevent such condition
and was glad to have at least one
convert. Then when the proposition
came before the board John Lawson
appeared with bid and statute
book from which he read the provls-
ion that the old soldier should be
considered in preference TO all Others
In the distribution Of the public
sweets that are made up into pie.
He was informed that his statute had
been repealed twenty years ago. Mr..
Myers said he wasNn old soldier and
never In his life had he been able to
get anything because Of that fact
Then he proposed to relieve the
two republican commissioners of en-
barrasment under these peculiar cir
cumstances and offered to make them
a proposition. II they would agree
with him on his old contention of a |
fiat price Of fifty per cent Of the legal |
rate on everything, instead Of making
the tax list bear the whole expense,
he would agree to let them name any
paper they wished, After little
parley they agreed and in the after
noon decided the News was, and is,
md by right ought to be at" These
notes are reported by a mouse who
was hid in the waste bakset, and have
been held profound secret to this
very day
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
BLOWN. OUT,
The Independent Salt Company Has Evap.
GRATED.
waived.

There has been no change in The
status of the affairs Of the Independ
ent Salt company's business in this
city. 1t is now probably at least si1
or seven months since any work has
been done and almost as many months
since the first attachments were Is.
sued against what visible assets there
were. 1t seems trifle peculiar that
in all this time none Of the company
that invested so much capital should
appear to take any interest in the dis
posal of the effects. At the last term
Of court Percy Thompson, who had
the contract for boring the wells and
had finished two or three of them,
obtained Judgment against the COM
pany for something more than a thou-
sand dollars due for work completed,
and three thousand dollars for dam
ages caused by failure to fulfill the
contract conditions.
The opinion Of those who have had
most to do with the company in a
business wayseems to be that the
was bought out by the
Observation-Disclosures company, com
monty called the trust. If thisis the
case it is thought they or their repre-
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
Not Clear Yet.

There is something peculiar about
the legal entanglements Of the Shaw
theater. 1t as understood that the
difficulties had been adjusted or at
least disposed Of for the present.
There have been mechanics liens, and
liens for seats, and attachments,
and receivers appointed and dismissed
and so many other complications 1t
has been impossible for anyone but
the lawyers and Judge that tried the
cases to keep up with developments,
and 1t may be seriously doubted If
they have done 1t. Now II. White
side has posted a typewriter notice
In front Of his Office to the effect that
he as attorney for the Andrews Op-
era company Of Chicago, will sell all
the chairs in the theater to satisfy
their lien, on March 9th, and give
possession of them under the terms
of an order Of court dated last Octo-
Der. OF course they will probably be
bought by those who are now in
charge who are paying up some'of the
liens.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
THEY VISITED US.
Hutchinson Is Taken by tho Kansas City
Commercial Club.

The Kansas City commercial clut
has been taking its whirl around the
circle and on Its swing took in this
city for about an hour Saturday.
This commercial club gets together
It's bottles, its good clothes, its best
smiles and handshakes and niger
porter and starts out to scatter sun
shine and have fun and get business.
They came this time in a train of
eight OF, nine cars including the com
missay department. and the good
things to drink. They have made the
rounds of about all the towns Of any
consequence in this state and Okla
homa, and in short covered about all
the territory from which Kansas City
draws her subsistence. They arrived
In this city a little before noon, Sat
urday and numbers of our suffering
citizens were given an opportunity to
smell the breath that came from the
commissary car They were met at
the depot by u committee of the
Hutchinson commercial club consist
Ing of II. L. Martin, II. Whlteside,
Frank Vincent, j. S. George, John
Kinkle, W. Y. Morgan, G. A. Ryker,
Charles Smith and Mathew Smith.
No really formal reception was
given as they had sent word that
their stay would necessarily be short.
They scattered over town and visited
their customers, both their old. ones
and those they consider prospectiyely. |
This Office enjoyed short call from
q couple of representatives of the two
respective type foundries who are very |
cordial and pleasant gentlemen. They I
came in on the Rock Island and pro
ceeded on to Mcpherson and other
towns northeast.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27

sentatlyes will appear to buy In the
claims when they are sold by legal
process, and get something OF by
managing thus. However, IL this Is
the case, 1t Is altogether likely that
they will go on and finish the plants
that have been given so good a start. /
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27

Bring your job work to this office.
We are getting new matrial, have a
first class job printer, and will do
your work at living prizes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

able to relax even enough to climb upon
the seat box for minute. This require
ment severe as it is has caused many
Santa Fe fremen to quit and go tosother
roads where the engines in use We're
smaller
The same rule applied in a way for
The engineers And the trainmen made
the plea that with the increased size
of the locomotives they had found
greater difficulty in fulfilling their re-
quirements. Trains twice the size of
those a dozen years back are being run
over the main lines of the road now and
there is every prospect that they will in
crease. At the same time the cost oe
living for laboring men as well as 9TH
ers have increased so that the same
monthly stipend of a man two vears
ago will not go nearly so far as then.
Thus there was abundant evidence for
the railroad men to offer their superiors
in asking for more pay, and the officials
for the most part have recognized this
in a way that shows they have been
convinced of the Justice of the request.
They have granted it. and there is.
better feeling generally between the
railroads and their men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
STREET RAILWAY SITUATION

There seems to be considerable diver
sity of opinion in regard to the desira-
bility of having a car line on the street
in front of ones house.
When it was announced that the
Vinewood Park road would build out
toward AuburndaIe and Washburn, the
people living in those localities whose
property was, according to the pros
pectus, on the new line, were generally
well pleased. They looked upon it as
dollars in their pockets to have the cars
of the Vinewood company pass their
lots, and figured that about 10 per cent
could be added to the salable value of
their properties.
On the other hand, the down town res
idents are almost as unanimous on the
other side of the question. The people
who live within block or of the
car line. and have pavements in every
direction are not anxious to have their
streets disfgured with steel rails or
their peace and quiet disturbed by the
roar and rumble of electric cars.
So the war between the suburban
residents and the down town folks is on,
and the city council will have the case
to settle. great majority of the coun-
cilmen live in the suburban districts.
as it happens, and they will no doubt
be inclined to give the people who want
the lines the best consideration possible.
Meantime. the question has arisen
whether the proposed new Vinewood ex-
tensions will be built at ALL There is
good reason to believe that the fight"
between the VineWood company and the
city railway, which is equivalent to sui
eide for both lines if carried to its limit.
will fail to come up to its advance no.
tees. There is plenty of evidence that
neither road is anxious to cut its own
throat, and the only logical outcome of
the present situation is consolidation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
JAYHAwKER Jors

An automobile factory at Smith Cen
ter will start the wheels of industry.
A Leavenworth man who stole a gold
watch will have time for three years
in the coal mines.
A Wellington girl has returned her
engagement ring and the ex-lover has
returned it to the jeweler
A Coffeyville man has gotten up a
limp to enable him to wear cane from
a tree on Abe Lincoln's homestead.
The case of DIR. Brownfield at Ell
Dorado should furnish a fine bit of
warning for professional buttinskys
A coming church event at Neodesha
is stylishly styled "a dollar social" But
in reality the lunch will only cost Is
cents.
Senator Burton lost a $40 bet on the
election in Smith county and paid it
this week.
The latest dinner table fad at Abilene
is clans Mud creek will furnish the
succulent bivalve cheaper than Balti-
more oysters.
Gallery gods at Neodesha are by far
too noisy Nothing less than train
hold up. with shooting, can be heard by
the audience
Brakemen say that the Missouri Pa
cific is so slow that it never gets ready
for winter, says the Atchison Globe, I'M
til the following spring.
. The lola editor took it all back
WilSH seven Indignant CnOfuS girls
whom he had termed hays blew in
with their war paint on.
There's evidently a coal shortage at
Whitewater The editor of the indie
pendent says knotty wood Will be ac-
cepted the same as cash.
Mrs Nations latest raid recalls the
thought that those who mind their own
business are the most successful. They
have so little competition.
Mrs. Nation is back in Topeka again.
From her conversation it is to be judged
that the saloonkeepers have gotten in a
heavy supply of ''falI' goods.
An EmDoria. man who got too gay is
now taking his meals in jail. A man
often thinks he is feeling his oats when
in reality he is feeling his rye.
Right in the heart of the sausage sea-
son an Allen county farmer notifies the
papers of fourteen stray hogs found.
His wife probably stirred him up to
avoid rendino the lard.
The "old swimmin, hole" at FL Dorado
made famous by Will Whites Boy
vile stories is being painted on china
plates. The scene is so cool and shady
it will save ice bills next summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
RAILROAD WAGES.

Two weeks ago the Santa Fe granted
an Increase in pay to a number of its
employees, especially those in the service
of the Atchiscn. Topeka & Santa Fe
proper, or that part of the system east
of Albuquerque N. NJ. That move was
made at a time wren the public was
not acquainted with the general facts,
and the reasons for the increase to tili;
employees.
AS matter of recent history it is
only part of a great movement which
has passed over the country, resulting in
q raise Of the wage schedule for most OF
the railroad men. It has come not so
much tie answer to a request of the
officers of the employees brotherhoods,
but more because the men who asked it
had the best OF the argument. Then
there is a better feeling between en-
plcyers and employees now, probably
than ever before, and this had something
to do wits the amicable way in which
the terms were reached.
Fer the Santa F'e the logic which the
engineers and firemen used in their plea
for more money was in the main that
within recent years the company has
bought a great number CT locomotives
having twice, at least. the motive
capacity OF those IN service on the road
a few years ago. While the size hao
been increased. the pay for operating
them had not, and there was where tie,
enginemen and the officials discussed the
s.trnt.oa-
1t is a notable fact among the fire.
men in particular that the present Prai-
RE type locomotives in use on this pat.
Of RE road tax. 10 the limit the man
who is held responsible for the .oca tson
Of the hand on the steam gage dial 1t
is indeed small part of the time while
train is in motion that a fireman is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
MR.. eoDARD's NOVEL REPORT.

In his forthcoming biennial report
which will probably be out next week.
Attorney General GODDARD will recon-
mend that the present ballot law be
amended so as to strike out the squares
after the words, mo Nomination" He
says he was compelled to hold that the
squares had to be printed on the bal
lots under the present law because they
so appeared on the sample ballots which
were made a part of the law but he
characterizes such q provision which
makes the unwary or ignorant voter
lose his ballot as being too much of
trick. He also recommends that the
number CT ballots which the law re-
quires shall be printed be cut Gown, as
the present number is a useless ex-
pense. Mr.. Godard's position on the
ballot law is one that will merit general
endorsement.
In reviewing the work of his office.
one of the duties of which is to act or
the committee which has charge of the
state house and its grounds, he says
that it has been impossible to keep peo-
pie from walking on the grass in cross
ing the grounds on account of the bad
condition of the gravel walks, and he
recommends that the coming legislature
gravel with better material.
Mr. GODDARD refers to his retirement
from office in a rather novel manner,
and while admitting that he has enjoy
ed his term of office. he says it is be-
cause of its pleasant associations and
not because Of the salary thereunto at
tached. He says:
In conclusion l desire to say that it
is not without some regret that 1 re-
tire from office. My occupancy of this
office has in the main been a pleasure.
While the labor has been severe and
often very wearisone, and many of the
duties of a nature to call for the pro-
verbal profane objurgation in either
alternative. yet the congenial associa-
tons with the other tenants Of the
building the new and pleasant ac-
quaintances made, the opportunities oc-
C.zsionally offered for assisting friends.
together with the favors usually ex-
tended to the occupants of such posi-
lions. are in measure compensatory
for the troubles and labors of the office,
more nearly adequate than the warrant
issued by the auditor of state on the
last of each month fer that purpose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

and all others taken to the pond to be
drowned.
A woman who sues for breach of
promise is almost as unpopular as the wo-
man who talks about her kin.
When a woman loves a man to the point
of distraction. other women abuse her for
not having more PRIDE"
In some families it must take about ell
that the father has laid away for cid age.
to get his sons out of the police court.
An Atchison man who insisted that his
doctor tell him the truth, has been seeing
the inscription on his monument ever
since. W.
We have reached that time Of life when
we wonder that some reformer does not.
in the name of humanity, demand larger
print. LITE 4;
When we are slowly freezing to death,
it makes mad for cheerful person to
come in. and say II just love this
weather.
After a woman has had her thirty-ffth
birthday she worries more over getting
bank account. than she does about meet
ing her fate
The great trouble with every young
husband is the discovery that he no long
er has any choice left in the manner OF
spending his evenings.
No woman is so anxious to see her
church fair success as to wish to see
her husband there surrounded by other
women who are selling him things
The average man Is cross when things
are not well cooked. and eats so much If
they are that he is uncomfortable, and
gets cross about that.
Somehow, when people see woman
with the front of her dress brfstling with
pins, they decide that she either has no
children. or that they are all grown.
So many girls who had faKIans last
winter are not wearing them on the
streets this year that there is a suspicion
that they are sleeping in them at night
People are funny. For weeks they have
been saying: This Is unnatural weather,
1t is SO warm Today they are saying.
isn't it cold, for so early in the season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

Most of the universities of the east
and middle west have signified their in
tention of availing themselves of the
opportunity afforded by the educational
exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position at St. Louis in 1904, to present
a resume of their growth ana develop
ment to the beginning of the twentieth
century, and to make thorough depart
mental exhibits of the universities as
they are now rganized. Harvard, Yale.
Columbia. Chicago and the University
of Missouri have already accepted and
are making preparations for the exhibit,
and Princeton, Cornell and many others
are favorably disposed, but are awaiting
the action of the board of trustees in
granting funds before outlining the ex-
tent of their exhibit. The exposition
will present what has never before been
attempted namely. systematic ar
rangement of higher education from the
leading universities Of this country and
abroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.I
The bill collectors work is always dun
Even a clock may show the ravages
of Tina
Let us hope that Penn NAV have
cause to be thankful.
The girl who marries for money takes
man for Just what he is worth.
Sometimes, in beastly weather, it rains
cats and dogs, but the dog reigns just
COW.
When a man carries a picture in the
woman in the case.
The man who sows his wild oats when
he Is young must expect to look seedy
when he zrDws old
When crook adopts an alias. he
finds it the easiest thing in the world
to make a name for himself.
Nc, Maude. dear; we have never heard
that the worknien at Baldwir1's werS
liable to loccmotor staxia-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

trading lines for IS, 029. e43. compared
with 707 in 1901 for 81 SIG, 275; and in
other commercial lines, not properly in
cluded in either of the two chief classes.
there were Al defaults with liabilities of
$S55,S compared with 81 a year ago
for $726,476. Banking and other strictly
financial insolvencies were only four in
number and $157, 1863 in amount, while
in November. 1901, there were two fail
lIres for $3.50 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.l

The family line that is the most useful
but never Dragged about is the one
where the wash is hung.
It's discoura ging thought that the
tongues whic., never get tired of wag-
ging are the shrewish ones.
The worscan WHO washes her black
hairSred has a pretty poor opinion OF
the woman who washes her pale cheek
pint.
In a wind storm # a woman holds on
to her slzirts she loses her hat. and If
she holds on to her hat she loses her
modest. ss -
You would think from the way We
men hold on to their bustIes when they
are on the street they were afraid some
body might try to steal them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

The supreme court of Ohio has held
invalid the eight hour labor law on q
case that came. up from the city of
Cleveland. The city had let sewer con
tracts and stipulated that the eight hour
law should be respected under penalty
of SO for each violation. In settling
with the contractors the city held out
$500 on this account and the contractors
sued for the amount and have now re-
covered. The moral of this seems to be
that the=laborer is considered worthy OF
his hire and viii get it under any and
all circumstances.