Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-21

OF the state is driving the tramp
north.
The Topeka Journal runs the lin
Eek Rays" over its exchange clip
pings. An appropriate title.
]. W. Gleed has taken the road will
lecture: "A Higher Education ant
What the World Thinks of It."
l. Conroe, who once headed rail
road strike in Kansas, is now travel
ing engineer for one of the roads.
The Lacrosse Clarion will take any
thing on subscription: even mess o.
"greens" will go occasionally.
Farmersburg, Chautauqua county,
will have to ship in apples this year.
The worms have taken the orchards.
John Brooks of Lane county is rs
years old and has 200 acres of wheat
growing. He is a year younger than
w. W. Stacy of Rush county, who has
$50 acres.
Necessity is the mother of invention
and out in the shorr grass country a
man has invented machine for lift
ing water out of the ground that
winds up like clock.
DR.. Mitchell, who is city physician
of Topeka, has just submitted his an
nual report which shows that there
were SO more deaths than births IN the
city during the past year.
Prof Blake, of the state university,
has succeeded so far with his electric
al experiments that he is able to sub
ject his physical makeup to a voltage
of half million in single current.
The Greedy County Republican says
that if Morrill, had to go down it wants
him to understand that the people of
Kansas feel grateful to him for the
way IN which he has conducted the
affairs of the state
Everybody in Lawrence eats cat
fish for breakfast, dinner and supper
every day in the year. The big fish
can't get past Brewersocks dam, and
they become the easy prey of mar
ket fisherman who lives in the town.
During the absence of Andy Felt in
the South the Atchison Champion,
which was founded by John Martin,
who believed woman had no place out
side of home, is edited by woman.
An Atchison man landed in Valley
Falls one Saturday night with a key
of beer and gallon of whisky. On
Monday he was studying geology with
a log and chain fastened to his leg.
Atchison men are safe as long as they
stay between the river and home.
One day of the Ottawa Chautauqua
June will be devoted tothe women of
the Kansas press. Ollie Royce will
talk on Fellowship in Journalism"
and Mrs. Willis Lord Moore will tell
what she knows about "Women as
Editorial Writers"
If some of the people in the eastern
part of the state who haven't been
west lately, who are given to sneering
at irrigation, could see the thousands
Of acres of alfalfa and thrifty orchards
growing in western Kansas, they would
stop sneering and go to praising irri-
cation and that section of the state.
April 10, 1867, the Junction City
Stone Saving company was awarded
the contract for furnishing the stone
used in the east wing of the state
house, and from the looks of the de-
cayed building it will not be far from
April 10, 1897, when another contract
will have to be let.
Doniphon county grows the best va
rieties of peaches in Kansas. The Re-
vile boys are responsible Cor this.
When they settled in the county the
country was new, and they set about
to introduce the best varieties from
their own state of Delaware; and well
did they succeed in producing larger
fruit, and sweeter and better than
any other.
Cowley county assesses corn at Is to
"a cents per bushel, Dickinson county !
at IS cents, Wilson and Osborne coun-
ties at Is cents, johnson county 10 |
cents, Ottawa Scents, Geary cents,
Reno cents and a large number at
the same rate as Morris, cents, while
Franklin assesses it at 16 cents. A
little reform in the assessment laws
that make it possible for the valua-
ton of corn to vary so much in adioin-
ing counties would seem to be neces-
sary.
Garden City Imprint: One party in
Garden City has placed more than s4O,-
900 in the past two months in cattle in
this vicinity, and says that it is much |
easier to get eastern money on cattle
in Southern Kansas than 10 is to get |
money for the cattle industry in the
eastern part Of Kansas or in Missouri. |
The reason for this is that cattle can