Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-17

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Dp, D.aGwinn. Of Moran, disappeared
mysteriously Monday and no trace Of
him can be found.
E. B. Whaley is now book agent
and he whips customers who kick and
want to back out. U.-i. Il I.
Now commences the season Of the
year when the tumble-weed begins its
annual pilgrimage over the Kansas
prairies.
A Cowley county physician is writ
ing drama of "three acts and four
scenes" He says one ,'seen" is worth
the price of admission.
Lottie Bowes Of Topeka, a hand
some and very bright young girl,
has joined the Alabama company, I'M
der the name of Charlotte Crane.
A Topeka woman has so many kin
who insist upon breaking into all her
functions that she must bar many of
her friends, and in consequence she is
gradually dropping out of society.
During the past two month nine To-
peka young men and young women
have gone to Asia to do missionary
work. Topeka is good field, but Gyp
Wood is amply able to take care of it.
The Rev. S. Y. Lum, 70 years old,
who conducted the first religious SER
vices ever held in Lawrence, and who
organized the Congregational church
there, was killed by train at Ruth
erford, N. S. last week.
Mike Hazen of Butler county has an
apple orchard of 100 acres, and has
seventy men employed in picking and
barreling the apples. The 100 acres
will yield 10000 barrels of apples,
which are worth S1.4O barrel.
There is man living in Chautauqua
county who, rather than work his road
tax, left the county and went over to
Baxter Springs, where he got his leg
broke in two places. He then return
ed home without fear of molestation
as he was no longer an able-bodied
man.
Harry Root, who knows Grace Sny-
der well, says of her: Grace Snyder
can tell the difference between a good
horse and poor one. In her Cawker
City items in the Beloit Gazette last
week there appeared not less than five
separate items about that animal.
The next thing we hear of she will be
betting on horse races.
A threshing engine in operation near
Hayesville Thursday slipped from its
fastenings and rolled against the sep
arstor, imprisoned, Wesley Robbins
between the separator and fire box
and horribly roasting him. The skin
peeled off from his body when his
clothes were removed. The injuries
are very serious. ~ 5,tt l'+,
The state fish commissioners has
placed twenty-eight croppie h the
not far from Topeka, He
expects the spawn to stock the stream.
Twelve years ago $4,000 croppie fry
were placed in the Walnut and that |
stream now contains many thousand |
Of that species of fish. They inhabit
all the deep holes and far outnumber
the bass,
], F. Goodale, of Gridley disappeared |
in Kansas City about three weeks ago
and nothing has been heard of him |
until Sheriff T. L. Reid located him at |
Coffeyville, Saturday, where he was
about the Missouri Pacific
yards, insane. He had S2O5 left of the
300 which he started with. He is now
with his family at Gridley,
The "wheat feeding" report issued |
by the Kansas state agricultural de-
partment has been adopted as a text |
book in four agricultural colleges, and |
now the Massachusetts, agricultural
college desires to make the report of
Secretary Coburn on alfalfa its text
book on that subject If there is any
thing else the rest of the world wants,
1t has only to let Kansas understand |
what it is, and the want will be
promptly supplied.
Lawrence World; "Ha, this is my !
kind of weather., said Judge Norton,
his hands as Whit of cold
air followed the entrance of
the reporter "This is the weather for
squirrel hunting. There's nothing
like it; if l had an old Kentucky rifle |
would go up the Wakarusa to-day to a |
place know where they are thick.
The only way to hunt squirrels is with |
long barreled rifles like |
we used to use on the Ohio in Mason |
and Bracket counties used to start |
out in the morning with ten bullets
and never come back with less than
nine squirrels. We took piece of |
creased patching and rammed it down |
with a bullet, and never brought back |
less than nine, you understand, and |
nearly always ten. One day brought |
back eleven;two squirrels were fighting |
over a hickory nut and they both |
tumbled. Yes, sir, it was so tame |
shooting ten squirrels that / got to