Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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In Dickinson county.
A camp of the W. W. A. will be or,
ganized in Glen Elder
A Horton whisky spotter has been
convicted of stealing apples.
There are bad little boys in Meriden
and the Ledger reads them lecture.
The band concerts at Fort Leaven-
worth have gone inside for the winter.
The condition of wheat all over Kan
las was greatly improved by the rains
this week.
Belleville ships In potatoes from
Iowa. That section will have better
luck next year.
The Argentine board of trade in
spected more than $500 cars of grain
during October
Fifty-seven SHOWS are prophesied
Tor this winter. Put up your single
and keep count.
The Baxter Spring News has large
overdue subscription, and it calls out
for "corn or cash"
The Rev. Elihu Gum, a veteran
Baptist preacher of Iowa and Kansas
died at Fort Scott recently.
Frank W. Arnold has quit the YER
million Record and gone to Alton to
take charge of the Empire.
Greeley county people have started
their irrigation plants so as to have
their land ready in the spring.
There are a number of people in
Norton, says the Champion, who are
against woman suffrage, but din't OBJ
ject to doing business in their wife's
name.
During the month of September the
Topeka druggists filed 5,261 prescrip
tions for liquor, while &c, October the
record shows 6,376, or an increase of
LIS.
Council Grove has borrowed 81 500 to
run the schools through the current
pear. Kansas never permits ques-
ton of money to stand in the way of
education.
The Marion women knows a good
thing and they are bound the frost
Ihan't kill their plants. So they are
storing them in the court house which
is heated by steam.
Prof. Dyche may be placed in charge
Of the next polar expedition, and if he
Is he will get the north pole, stuff it,
mount it and place it in the Kansas
University museum.
The bank deposits at Manhattan
banks average S57 for every inhabi-
amt, and yet there are plenty of peo-
pie there who couldn't pay for shave !
5r bushel of potatoes,
It is to be hoped the Dillon man who
vas knocked senseless by a stick fly
ng up when he was splitting kindling,
las learned lesson. The moral is,
lave somebody else build the fires
30n gathering this years corn crop,
It has been found by many that it will
fall short from 80 to so per cent from
the estimate. There is no question
whichever but what the Kansas crop
s short at least 80 per cent.
Prof. Blake seems to have made the
according to the university
policy, of giving his diphtheria cure to
The public at once instead of letting !
iossilhiz1eed doctors um ali over it until !
the children were all dead,
Luther Dickerson, an old time farm
err of Atchison, who has lived in the |
Missouri valley fifty.one years, says he |
has never known any previous dry !
spell to be as severe as the present |
one. Even in the fall of 1860, the
great drought year, these was more
rain than this season.
A mantle Of snow covered North
western Kansas last Thursday, and
railroad trains were blockaded. But
one little corner of the state does not
make the weather for Kansas. Else
where in the state the balmy sky has
been unbroken by cloud since the
equinox, and along the eastern border
the haze of Indian summer adds to
the beauty and charm of days nightly
freshened by touch OF frost.
Mr.. William Scully, widely but err
roneously known as Lord Scully,"
has been in Marion the past week. Mr..
Scully never claimed any English title.
He is plain Irishman, now seventy
odd years Of age, and, though he
probably owns more American land
than any other one man, he is as un-
assuming in manner as the humblest
citizen. He has recently become
citizen of this country, so that laws
against alien land ownership no lon
ger affect him.
An Atchison scoundrel who stole
the money of widows, deserted his
wife and children and ran away with
young girl, is likely to escape with
only a nominal punishment. 1t was
in Atchison some years ago that a
man was fined a dollar and costs for
killing another.
Everybody who can raise enough