Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-07

Billy Edwards Kansas book will be
issued about the middle of July.
The cruel county printing war is
still being waged in Barber county.
j. L. Bristow has bought home in
Ottawa. Another evidence that he
has come to stay"
1t is said that Editor Mcdonald is
already firing of his life in Paris and
may return soon.
The old soldiers are planning for a
reunion at Malvern, in Usage county.
The date will be fixed in few days.
An ordinance has been passed in
Lawrence, prohibiting the pasting of
pictures of high liicliers an the bill
boards.
The Atchison Globe says the 'ordin-
airy girl wears four pairs of stockings
in order to fill out her bicycle leg
gings.
A. A. Brown, of Olathe, has eonch
shell that has been in the Brown fam
lily for 300 years. 1t is a perpetual
roarer'.
Preparations for the "fall festivities
at Topeka are being pushed. Three
new social clubs were chartered
there last week.
NJ. j. Kirk has just published geo
logical salt survey of the central and
western portions of Kansas for the
state university.
The first estimate for the Kansas
wheat crop, this year, is out and is a
paralyzer The number of bushels is
placed at 100, 900, 900.
1t is said that the time will come
when western Kansas will be as IA
nous for its alfalfa as Kentucky is
now for its blue grass.
The fruit destroying bugs are very
in Kansas this year. Farm
ers are spending more time in their
than in their fields. The
wheat grows without watching.
The Kansas editors who got up too
ate in the morning the day the Santa
Fe railroad was sold, may now have a
,hance to buy the Northern Pacific
lndera foreclosure mortgage of $12,-
100, 900.
A Wellington jointist was arrested
'ecently on a state warrant and the
goods" seized. A constable was left
n charge while the jointist went to
tx his bond. Some acquaintance
anne along and "entertained" the con-
stable in brilliant conversation, while
he entire "plant" was stolen.
An Atchison mother has ordered
hat her third and fourth daughters
hall wear their hair hanging down
heir backs until the first and second
are married. These girls
re now 90 and 20, and the neighbors
re beginning to protest against dres,
ing grown women like babies,
An Ottawa woman his discovered
hat beer and a bit of cheese off in
ide room always bring the men to her
,arties. She first introduces stupid
Ugh five, and the men play like man,
moving what their reward will be-
1t 1890 she springs the refreshments.
The men nibble at the angel food and
ce cream a moment, and then sneak
If to the smoking room"
Herman Mitsch of Woodbine is test.
ng the efficiency of sub-irrigation by
ling. Finding his young orchard
bout to perish he purchased $50 worth
+ three inch tile, planted them two
eet under ground in rows twenty
eet apart, between rows of trees
he pipes are filed with water lifted
90 feet and from the same well that
waters his stock. The effect upon the
rees was visible in less than ten days.
lie is delighted with the result of his
experiment., has saved his young or
hard and, if the work had been done
few months earlies, would have
,een double the value.
Carl TIoffman's Chiclsering hall and
lis wholesale and retail music house,
# Leavenworth, the largest in Kansas,
vas damaged by fire early Friday
The building was valued at
bout $4,000 and the stock and fix
ures ut $4,000. The loss on the stock
md fixtures is $4,000 and on the !
$4,000. The building is in
ured for S13, 900 and the stock and fix
ures for $4,000. Many pianos and |
,ther musical instruments were either |
or ruined by heat, smoke
md water. The fire started in the
room in the basement, and
vas not controlled for three hours.
Prof Lucien l. Blake of the Kansas
State university lectured in Chickering
nall last night on Roentgen rays and
made a number of experiments in pho