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

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ty printing he says it will amount tc
only 5000. When the other fellow gets
it he says it amounts to 100000.
Topeka's acknowledgements club
seems to fill long felt want. The
drug stores reported only 1878 sales
of drink in April, against g. s5 in April
1895.
Chancellor Snow says the orchard
worm, which is now doing business in
Kansas, is the forest tent caterpillar.
1t will run from London purple or
Paris green.
Walter Price, who has gone to South
Africa to superintend some gold mines
formerly was a printer in Atchison,
and ten years ago was page in the
Kansas legislature.
Girls are so scarce in Lacrosse that
young men are compelled to embrace
opportunities, and they say editor
Whiteman has very sweet "oppor
tunity' which he often embraces.
The editor of a western Kansas pa
per invites his subscribers to visit him
at his home and see him push a lawn
mower. He is advertising the mower.
The advertisers are asking little toe
much of the editors.
A Lyons paper makes the astound-
ing and cold declaration that you
can't plant pumpkin seed and raise
a rose bush. Yet some people declare
nothing can be learned from reading
country paper.
A number of Topeka musicians as
sisted in the program of the Social
Science federation free of charge, and
it is said that the church in which the
sessions were held was given gratuit-
ously. Topeka is really becoming
liberal.
A tally-ho party from st. Joseph
broke into Atchison one day last week
and rounded upat the Ingalls, man
sion for luncheon: The mates stared
as the pageant passed through town.
1t reminded the old settlers of Ben
Halliday's express
If some of the people in the eastern
part of the state who haven't been
west lately, who are given to sneering
at irrigation, could see the thousands
of acres of alfalfa and thrifty orchards
growing in western Kansas, they would
stop sneering and go to praising irri'
cation and that section of the state.
A Kansas City corporation went in
to court and asked permission to en-
Ter suit under the pauper clause to
recover the price of steamboat sunk |
in the Kaw river some years ago. The !
boat foated against a railroad pier |
and the company is made defendant |
in the case under the pauper clause.
The judge said he would think about
it for awhile.
The orchard worm has wrought
great damage in Wilson county. John
Callahan testifes that he saw an or
chard of twenty-five acres that had
been stripped clean. At points along
the railroad the ground was covered |
an inch deep with the pests and the
track was made so greasy with their
that the sand boxes had to
be used to keep the car wheels from
slipping. Their work of destruction
was not confined to fruit trees, but
shade and forest trees and even the
jack oaks along the railroad had been
stripped bare.
Thirteen years ago this spring a
herd of Texas cattle passed Gene Mil
ler's place in Lane county, and left
behind little heifer calf, too weak to
follow the herd. Gene raised the calf,
and promised it and all its increase to
his oldest son, then a babe, till he
should be of age. Last week that
calf died, but the increase amounts to
twenty-three head, and there will be
an addition of fourteen this spring. II
you want to get rich, just so to Lane
county, invest few dollars in Texas
cows, turn them out on the buffalo
grass, and the thing is done.
The condition of the Kansas wheat
crop to-day surpasses anything in the
record. Not word of complaint has
been heard from a spot in Kansas.
The government report last heard from
put the condition at about Sc per cent
Of full crop, but it is now considera,
bly, over 100 per cent. There never
was first of May before when wheat
showed as fair promise as it does to-
day wherever the seed has been put
in the ground. Owing to the favora-
BILE season, the area was no doubt con-
increased after the reports
were in last winter, and it may now
approximate million acres. On this
If crop reaches the average
Of 1889, twenty-five bushels per acre,