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

tence to hang.
The most terrible form of punish
ment known to children in southern
Kansas is to be whipped with wet
rope
According to an exchange the time
will come when every bushel of corn
raised in Kansas will be sold on the
hoof.
One man in Barber county now has
800 acres of corn under cultivation.
And the price in Chicago continues to
go down.
The Topeka fall festival will include
lot of floats representing scenes from
Venice. A good many people will go
thinking it is Venus
The gratifying rate at which Dick
inson's court docket dwindles away
with each succeeding term indicates
that the world is growing better.
The Lawrence Journal has been Civ
en- the county printing at full legal
rates. This full legal rate business
appears to be growing in fashion.
R. W. Turner has quit Cripple Creek
and returned to Mankato. lie got a
sore throat and, afraid that it might
turn into something else, FASTENED
back to Kansas.
Alonzo Cunningham has sued the
Santa Fe for damages-S15, O00-in the
Cowley county district court. He was
hurt at Shoemaker, New Mexico, last
Christmas day,
Jerry Black has been married
whole year and he still keeps his
clothes brushed and his feet well
shod. He also lifts his hat to his wife
when he meets on the street.
Last week horse slipped in the
mud, fell and broke both legs of a
western Kansan: "They hurt terribly,
DOCTOR" he said, "but | amt COM
planning. Thank God for the rain"
Leavenworth has broken out with
the bicycle fever. The LeavenwOrth
girls enjoy life now that they can
chase out to the fort every few hours
TO watch the soldiers breathe and eat.
Richard C. Meade, the Atchison thief,
ldventurer and all round scoundrel,
whose penitentiary sentence has been
affirmed by the supreme court, is i'm
patient to get to work." but cannot
pc taken to Lansing until the official
mandate comes from Topeka.
A Topeka justice of the peace has
decided that the services of a "spotter"
n securing evidence against whiskey
sellers have value, and that the Off
GER employing such person must pay
5he bill out of his own pocket. A
spoilers" chief value is to make fees
or justices of the peace.
Col. Moore, in charge of the state
arm in connection with the peniten-
larry has already put in about thirty
ores Of potatoes and one acre each of
MONS and peas. The farm force con-
lists of twenty men and three teams,
nd a good seasons work has been cut
nut for them. The colonel intends to
nut in sixty acres of potatoes in all,
'esides eight acres of sweet potatoes,
en- acres of cabbage, six acres of sweet
orn, four of onions, two of peas, two
f carrots, eight of tomatoes, one of
,arsnips and one of beans. In addition
o all these there will be thirty acres
# cane for sorghum fifteen for feed.
The farm force viii also be utilized
turing the season in materially in
reasing the fruit plant. There will
,e set out 500 young apple trees, 600
,each trees, 100 cherry trees, fifty pear
rees and 5000 blackberry vines.
Billy Morgan, who keeps his eye on
he main chance, thus cultivates the
nen of the "short grass country"
The inhabitants of the short grass
are distinguished for their
their frankness, their lack
If conventionality, their loyalty to
each other and to the prairies which
hey have converted from a desert
INTO garden spot. The traveller can
tell the difference when he crosses the
line between Barton and Pawnee cOun-
ties, After that he is no stranger.
No native of the short grass country
ever thinks of riding in car seat by
himself, of estimating the character
Of an acquaintance by the cut of his
and judging him by that
standard. His religion, his politics or
his previous condition, even his name
in his old home, are not subjects of
criticism or investigation. He is ac-
copied as an honest man, and if he
does not respond in the same spirit
and take his new friends as they are
willing to accept him, he had better
continue his journey or return to the