Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-14

A lot of new books have been added
to the public library at Halstead.
Thirty-seven thousand acres Of wheat
are growing in Wichita county.
Snakes are so bad in the short grass
country this year that they eat sheep.
Corn blowing in the southern part
of the state is driving the tramps
north.
The new woman has struck La
Crosse and advertises her 'side saddle"
for SALE
A Smith county man has sued his
wife for divorce because she wore
false hair.
The pay roll of the Santa Fe com
pany amounts to about $4,000 per
month in the state.
THE latest oil well in Wilson county
is claimed to be a rea: sprouter, with
a 600 barrel capacity.
There is water enough in the ground
to put wheat to head. Th0re is only
one danger-hot winds.
A woman who lives on the Paradise
in Russell county named her son and
daughter Adam and Eve.
Justice Brown, of the supreme court
declares that while the scripture is
all right, it is not always good mod
ern law.
The eighteenth of the twenty exper-
mental plants to be located by the
state board of irrigation has been
fixed at Liberal.
Western Kansas must be sprouting
another boom. Nearly 10000 acres of
Hodgman county land changed hands
last week.
The appellate court clerks have a
scheme to raise the limit of jurisdic-
ton and grab some more business from
the supreme court.
Wichita county has $1,000 acres of
wheat. The prospects now are that
the yield will be big-not less than
forty bushels to the acre.
Cherokee has let the contract for
its waterworks to Kansas City firm.
The contract binds the firm to en-
ploy only Cherokee labor.
M. +. Knappenberger, who used to
run for things and be a hello fellow
in Jewell county, has settled down to
the slow pace of selling farms
Last week small cyclone, which
did not get into the dispatches, struck
Benton, in Butler county, and knock
ed one side of the G. A. R. hall in.
A Kansas physician claims to have
discovered that premature old age is
due to the excess of lime in the human
body, caused by the water taken into
the system.
A Chautauqua county man has
pumped forty thousand barrels of wa
ter upon his strawberry patch and is
prepared to pump 10000 more should
the plants need it.
F. NJ. Baker of Elgin, Chautauqua
county, owns a fiddle which a court
has said is worth 5000. Some time
ago he left the instrument with a
friend and went away. He was gone
so long that the friend sold it, think
ing its owner dead. Baker turned up
the other day and sued the third par
ty for the fiddle.
Warning to Kansas farmers: Plant
no corn within fifty feet of buildings;
should the stalks topple over they
would bring destruction in their path.
Lariat no cattle to corn stalks; you are
apt to find them high in the air next
morning. In planting pumpkin vines
have your fastest horse in readiness
to escape from the clutches of the
growing vile as it rushes after you.
Cowley county assesses corn at Is to
"a cents per bushel, Dickinson county
at IS cents, Wilson and Osborne coun-
ties at 10 cents, johnson county 10
cents, Ottawa Scents, Geary cents,
Reno cents and 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 adjoin-
ing counties would seem to be neces-
sary.
Some of our Iowa exchanges are
about Iowa county, in that
state, having nineteen postoffices. We
don't deny their statement, neither do
we look upon that as small potatoes,
out we only wish to invite our friends
to come out to the great fertile Arkan-
sas valley and live in Sumner county
where there are thirty-three post
offices and 535, 191 bearing peach trees,
all heavily laden with fruit; where