Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-17


a real hot time they visit in Emporia.
Miss Ruby, who lives at Arkansas
City, will be treasure for SEINE man.
Dyche has started out again. He will
lecture in Hutchinson on December ~.
The salt well which was found in
Dickinson county last week has been
lost.
A great Kansas man once said that
our debts were evidences of our pros
perity.
Perhaps the 400 deserted wives of
Topeka refused to support their poor
husbands.
Senator Baker has gone to Washing
ton. He will not return to Kansas for
the vacation.
Lyman Nauglc comes out like man
and acknowledges that he would like
to be state printer.
Paola ships 1900 rabbits week to
New York and it is feared that the 400
will have the govt.
The Lawrence opera house is reno
waited, refitted and ready for another
amateur show or fire.
A Harper county farmer has $4,000
bushels of wheat which he is holding
for one dollar per bushel
Phil Knowlton comes out in favor of
a cooking school. Phil is anxious she
should learn how to cook.
Calvin Hood of Emporia held one
$4,000 block of stock in the Kansas
City bank which failed last week.
The irrigation appropriation has not
been wholly without good result. The
state ponds afford excellent skating.
The Topeka woman who drove nails
in the stucco work in the representa-
tive hall didn't do any worse than the
voters who stuck sticks in the hall.
The fellows who do not think that
Judge Dennison is running do not
know the man. He has never vet en-
tered a race just for the excitement.
A Brown county schoolmarm walks
around a section of land every evening
after school. 1t takes muscle to teach
the Brown county idea show to shoot.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gar
vey's position as government statistical
agent is under civil service rules there
are half a dozen Topeka men who are
after it.
This years increase in the acreage Of
alfalfa is put by correspondents at 30
per cent Assessors returns show the
years area in kaffir corn as 373, O5s
acres, gain of 1888, $50 acres, or 1O2. SO
per cent
The price of corn now being contract
ed to feeders and others is from 10 to
IS cents per bushel, with an average in
the contrasting, cattle-feeding coun-
ties of between IS and 16 cents Forty
per cent of the crop is likely to be sold
at these prices before January. The
number of cattle to be fattened is about
the same as last year.
Governor Morrill,, who will control
the appointment of postmaster at Hia-
watha, has not joined the Ewing Her
bert boom, but is said to favor a man
who has long been on the public pay
roll. Mr. Morrill, will come round all
right at the proper time The newspa-
per men have been good to him, and he
will not go counter to their wishes in
making a postmaster at Hiawatha.
Addie R. Connor, wife of VIM. H.
Conner, half-breed Usage Indian,
treasurer Of that tribe, who sued her
husband for divorce some time ago,
has filed a petition in court for $4,000
aiimony. She alleges that Conner is
worth 100000 and that his yearly in
come is $4,000. Mrs. Conner is the
daughter of q rich Dexter, Kansas,
merchant. She asks for the custody of
her 10 gear old boy. 1t is reported
that Connor is dying with consumption.
The wife's petition for divorce is ex.
ceedingly sensational.
The Kansas Board of Agriculture has
issued final bulletin showing yields
of the more important crops grown in
the State in the year 1896. The total
yield of winter wheat is 27,153, 365
bushels, or 11,641, 1874 bushels more
than in 1895. Its total value is put at
sl3,O16,220. The average per acre for
the entire State being 81 bushels.
The corn crop is 921, 4l9,4l4 bushels, or
1909, O1s bushels more than last year,
the average being 2s.O3 bushels per
acre. It's value is $50, 633, Ol3, as against
SAG, 1891 for the previous years crop.
OF oats the yield is 1s,314,772 bushels,
against 81, 664,74s bushels the year pre-
yious The yield per acre was but
1906 bushels per acre, and the value of
the crop s9,7O6,659. Spriag wheat
| shows n WELD of Init col 503 bushels