Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-22

supply SOWn VI o3OVO 1udDltduba
with fuel.
The board of managers Of the Hutch
insoD reformatory want $50 car loads
of stone. There is pointer for Cow.
ley county contractors,
Already there have been thirty-three
applications for the chair of Latin Ian
guage in the state university, made
vacant by the death of Prof. Robinson.
The McLouth man who bought old
corn for speculative purposes, is out
about $4,000. He was sure of fail
ure in Kansas and put in his cash 40
cordingly.
The Lacrosse Clarion sees no reason
why man should be ashamed to have
it known he has taken out marriage
license. 1t says he ought to be proud
that any woman would marry him.
A family named Drinkwater were
compelled to leave Dodge City and
go to Chicago an account of the search.
ty OF drinking water in the former city.
Dodgeites don't drink water unless
compelled to-
1t is said the daughter of minister
who once lived in Atchison Travelled
10000 miles to marry an Atchison man,
all OF which shows that in spite of the
best training people sometimes display
the most outlandish taste.
A Lawrence man told funny story
the other day and one of his hearers
laughed so hard he died in few min
utes. The strange thing about it is
that the victim was man, for girls
are alwaps "dying a-laughing."
From oskaloosa comes the word that
wild plums are more plentiful than for
years, wild grapes are loading the
vines everywhere, and hazelnuts are
bending the bushes low with their
weight. 1t is a great fruit year.
A ten or twelve million bushel corn
crop in Reno county was necessary
this year to bring up the general aver
age. just like Kansas-it finally
comes to the front with its unexam-
Piled resources and redeems itself.
There is an eccentric hen in Hopkins
which persists in going each day to
the top of tall cottonwood tree in
the yard to lay. The children stand
under the tree with their aprons spread
to "catch the precious missile as it
falls"
Hiawatha World: Rev. Mr. Honnell,
who was famous in this section in the
early days as missionary among the
Indians, is fatally ill at the home of
his brother, T. C. Honnell, at Everest.
An operation was recently performed
on the sick man and he cannot recov-
er.
A Marion county farmer has discov-
cred gypsum bed, sixteen feet deep
ON his farm and he is trying to decide
whether the gypsum is worth more
than the crop growing above it. That
gypsum won't spoil and he might do
well to wait till his crop is harvested
anu Chen get the mineral.
Mrs James II. Brady has brought
suit against Colonel James II. Brady of
the Kansas Land company of Topeka,
one of the leading real estate dealers
of the state, alleging abandonment.
They were married in Abilene nine
teen years ago and Brady made for.
tune out of railroad building.
Prof. Ira Hicks says Kansas will en-
joy twenty years of unprecedented
prosperity on account of the good |
rains that will fall during that period.
If that prophecy proves true, here is
another; Kansas will be the greatest
producer of any equal amount of ter.
ritory the world has ever known.
A man in Ottawa who doesn't take
his home paper because he can get the
"Fireside Companion" paper twice
as big for half the money, sent dollar
in answer TO an advertisement Of a
scheme that was warranted to save
half the gas bills. He received a card
with this printed on it: "Burn can
dies"
A man rushed into the Clarion Office
at Lacrosse the other day, gave Bro.
Whiteman the granger's grip and with
tears in his eyes blubbered forth: "Good
Lord, what shall 1 do? havn't a nub-
bin on my farm. My corn has cared
so large that even the steers can't eat
it, to say nothing of the calves. I've
got to give up a whole lot of the crop
to get corn shelter. On such q
country"
A most brutal assault was commit
ted on the person of William Barkus,
a well-known farmer living six miles
northwest of Atchison, Tuesday morn
ing, by tramp. For some time the
tramp in question had been stopping
in the Hayes Schoolhouse, two miles
from the Barkus home. The tramp
became sociable and began visiting in
the neighborhood. He became &C
quainted with Barl1us and learned in
some way that he kept money about
the house, and on Tuesday morning
the stranger appeared and without the
least provocation began beating him