Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-04


living grandparents and Ave toes on
each foot
The Law and Order league at Baxter
Springs is all agog and fighting among
themselves.
Lyons is threatened with woman
chicken thief and the authorities
threaten to end 'er..
At Emporia the young people enjoy
nutting parties. They gather pretty
leaves, wild grapes, walnuts and 'lit-
tie brown hands.
1t is no longer possible IN Kansas to
pick out banker on the street by the
cataleptic glaze over his eyes and his
pale drawn checks.
The average Kansas man wants to
become rich, so that he can have q
good brass band playing on his front
porch all through the day.
The county commissioners have pur-
chased the old Central hotel at Lyons
and will have it remodeled and used
for the Jail and sherifr's residence.
Those Cheyenne Indians who are
roaming over Oklahoma and southern
Kansas giving exhibitions claim that
they took part in the Custer massa-
ere.
The drinking of buttermilk has be-
come such a fad in Kansas that joint
keepers are keeping it in their chests.
The profit on its sale is about the same
as on beer.
A Winfield man has fine collection
OF Indian relics, among others the hat
of Ponca chief. 1t is a cowboy hat
but is painted and ornamented most
Enthusiastically.
The parents at FL Dorado are form
ing league whose object it will be to
force young men to pay for ther ltero-
sene and coal they consume while
counting their daughters.
A Chinaman who lives at Dodge City
says that the Cinnamon deform their
women's feet in order to keep them
from gadding. He thinks the plan
would be a good one to inaugurate in
America.
If you take the work of the Kansas
papers you will discover that the high
est price for wheat is paid in every
town in the territory, that is, the price
paid in all towns is higher than the
price paid in all other towns.
The state Editorial association will
meet in Wyandotte February 7. The
entertainment, in addition to the meat
and drink, will be Il glimpse of the
stock yard, Whit of the packing
houses and n pullman junket.
There is woman living at Lcaven
worth who has been married five time;
in six years. She is now looking
around for the sixth husband for the
seventh year. In all she has had thir'
teen children and still claims te be Of
middle age.
The coroner of Cowley county is
making a thorough investigation o.
the case of the unknown man foun(
dead in q straw stack near Arkansas
City, but so far no clue to his identity
or whereabouts of the parties who
murdered him can he found.
At Abilene recently a man hired {
livery rig to drive out in the country
and then went the other direction. IL,
kept the team longer than he expected
and when he came back he found h
had to pay for a lot of cards announc
ing a stolen team and ten dollars re
ward.
A visitor at the orchard Of Rober
Kenney, near Chapman, says: Thirteel
men have been employed duriag tn
past two weeks loading the team
which were coming in from far an
near. There are about 195 acres in tn
orchard. The yield this year will b
close to 5000 bushels. They are sci,
ing Mt 40 ard 50 cents bushel.
Seven years ago Henry Ewing,
colored man now IS years OF age, lei
the city of Lawrence and located nea
the little town of Loring, 20 miles ea'
of Lawrence on the Missouri Pacif
, road. He rented farm and put a
5 the money he had in seed potatoes II
5 sold his crop the first year for enoug
4 to purchase ana pay for 20 acres {
= ground. Since that time he has rente
/ and purchased additional lands, grow
e ing better off each year. This summit
he sold 50, 600 bushels of potatoes at a
e average of so cents a bushel, the tot
) cost of production being a little lie
J., than $4,000, leaving him profit
e about $4,000 He has just returnC
S from Minnesota, where he purchase
!. $4,000 bushels of northern grown pot
s toes at 40 cents. These will be shi