Hutchinson gazette., 1896-05-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Douglas county.
Chanute is going to have Fourth
Of July this year,
The Troy Chief is forty years old,
''fair, fat and forty"
Finney county has gained 565 in pop
ulation in two years.
Ness county reports an increase OF
population the last year.
General Rains has established head
quarters in Kansas again.
The acreage of Kaffir corn in Reno
county is three times as much this
year as last.
With eggs only six or seven cents
dozen, the Kansas hen joins in the
cackle for protection.
A common expression Of late is that
"the local shower yesterday was gem
eral all over the state"
lightning struck large corn crib,
at Labette city, that had just been
filed and burned every ear.
A western Kansas farmer expects to
make a small fortune this year out of
his orchard, it being principally all in
small fruits.
The Jetmore dramatic company
played "a Dead Witness" before a lot
of live witnesses at Spearville one
night last week.
H. E. Bird of Caney wants to lease
country newspaper. He asks no bo-
nus, nothing: He simply wants a
chance to hustle.
Mcpherson county reports wheat
five feet, nine inches high. That is in
fulfllment of Phil Armour's prophecy
that wheat would go up.
Natives of Ohio who live in Pawnee
county will picnic on May 80, and
form permanent association. The
Ohio man seems not to be getting his
share out there.
Alvah Sheldon says this years straw
berry crop reminds him of the early
days in Butler county, when a man
lost his life while loading a strawber-
ry on log wagon, the cant hook tear
ing out its bite, letting the berry roll
over him.
A circular from the state board of
agriculture names Doniphan as one of
the counties in which orchards are
suffering from the depredations of the
caterpillars, which causes Sol Miller
to roar and inquire if there is not
some mistake.
A Doniphan county woman had her
arm shot off by her husband the other
night. She calls herself "Mae," but
that was not why she was shot; she
was walking in front of her husband,
who had gun, which was discharged
accidentally, taking her arm off.
A Harvey county man estimates that
there are 10000 men in Kansas who
would be given a fresh start and a
chance to pay their debts by the pas
sage of the House bankruptcy bill.
He says some jobbers want the bill de-
feated because the present state law
gives them the first whacll at debt
or's estate.
Galena is now entering upon one Of
her periodical dull times experiences,
that is, if jack and lead does not rise
in price again very shortly. Times are
good or bad there and in Joplin and
other surrounding mining towns ac-
cordingly as the price of the mineral
is low or high. Saturday, jack took a
drop of 81 per ton and 800 men were
laid off in Galena, and other places
suffered in proportion to the extent of
their mines.
A Wellington kicker the other day
stated on the street that he would sell
his wheat crop for what the seed cost
him. Two men drove out, inspected
his wheat fields and then drove back
and offered him what he asked. He
crawfshed. Then they offered him
twice what his seed wheat cost him,
but he still refused. That only goes
to show that some men kick simply
and purely for the sake of hearing
themselves talk. They don't mean a
word of it when they let forth their
loudest howls.
Some enterprising fraternity ladies,
of Leavenworth, advertised ian old
fashioned maple sugar party" But
somehow this "old fashioned" maple
sugar don't taste so good as it used tc
just after the last stirring off" had
been completed and fat goose oi
chicken that had been borrowed fol
the occasion from the farmyard haC
been roasted to turn and laid out on
a slab of poplar bark. If mother,
favor was with the boys in their sport,
"corn pone" helped out the occasion
About midnight the ''sugar feast" wa!
ready, and great feast it was.