Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-31

committee recommended fourteen APP
plicants for state jobs, and the fellows
who were not Endorsed are kicking.
An Ellinwood man sold team of
horses to Kansas City Brewing firm
last week. Commercial relations with
the Helms are still maintained there.
When Leavenworth girl gets an
engagement ring she takes it to a jew
eler to have the set frightened, and in
cidently asks: what a stone like that
COSTS"
The people of Pratt county are in
such frenzy ever the courts order to
tear up the Wichita & Western track
that three preachers have opened reviSS
val meetings.
Professor Dyche warns Kansas peo-
pie not to go to ALASKA. AS none OF
the Kansas railroads connect with AL
aska and transportation is high, the
warning seems superauous.
A living picture of ''Uncle Sam De-
Tending Cuba" will be presented at a
Chanute entertainment. The old gen.
tleman will probably be shown pre-
senting resolution of sympathy.
Yellow Bear and Spotted Pup, two
big Indian chiefs from the Usage ma
ton, passed through Topeka this week
on their way to Washington, D. c.
The two chiefs are to arrange some
land matters in reference to the reser-
walton of their tribe.
Kansas is still catching it. A New
York paper relates a story Of Kansas
wreck. All the people in one car were
imprisoned. A traveller from Connect
icut cut hole through the car and
stood on the outside and made every
body whack up quarter to get out
The boundary lines of Kansas now
form an immense corral within which
are quartered millions of western cat
tie. At least seven of the western
states and territories have sent their
share to swell the immense herd, and
for probably the first time in her his
tory Kansas is this winter the greatest
feeding for cattle in the United Statess
The state of Texas, with her countless
acres of prairie land, which has for
years held place as the greatest cattle
feeding state in the Union, has thus
surrendered her title to Kansas, and
more than this has aided Kansas to ac-
quire it. Within the last two months
train load upon train lUad of Texas
cattle have been shipped over the Pan
handle division of the Santa Fe into
the southern counties of Kansas to
winter on Kansas corn. The almost
total failure OF the cotton crop in Tex
as this year is responsible for this exc
dus of stock, as cotton seed and cotton
seed meal form the winter feed of cat
tie in Texas But not alone to the cat
tie of Texas has the yellow corn Of
Kansas formed a winter attraction.
From New Mexico and Arizona, Colo
RADIO and Utah, Wyoming and Montana,
herd after herd of cattle has been ship
ped to Kansas for winter feeding.
R. NJ. Wrights reminisceuce in the
Dodge Globe Republican: Of course it
was not always fight and run, and run
and fight; VIC had our fun, too. One
day stage driver, Frank Harris and
myself started out after buffalo. They
were very scarce, for wonder, and we
were very hungry for fresh meat. The
day was fine and we rode long ways,
expecting sooner or later to rouse up
bunch. Late in the afternoon we gave
IL up and started for home. OF course
we did not care to save our ammuni-
ton, so we shot it away at everything
in sight-skunks rattlesnakes, prairie
dogs, and so on, until we had only a
few cartridges left Suddenly up
Jumped an old bull. Harris emptied
his revolver into him, and so did /, but
the old fellow stood still and refused
to die. 1t was getting late, and we
couldn't wait on him, so Harris said:
81 will dsmount, creep up behind him
and cut his hamstrings with my butch
or knife" the bull by this time having
laid down. Harris commenced his for
ward movement, but it seemed to in
fuse new life into the old fellow; he
Jumped to his feet, and with his head
down, away he went around the out
side of the top Of the sand hill. twas
a perfect circus ring, and Harris, who
had gotten him by the tail, never lei
90 Of his hold of the bull He did moi
dare. 1t was his only show Harris
was a tall, lank fellow, and his legs
were flying higher than his head as
around and around he and the bull
went. really thought that the ole
bull would never weaken. Finally the
ring performance began to get slower
and slower aud Harris at last succeed
ed in cutting his hamstrings, wher
down went the bull. We brought il