Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-09

Wellington has organized club for
the enforcement of the game law,
Spring township, Butler county, is
afflicted with wildman of the corn
fields.
Newton ladies are organizing Choir
us and much melody is anticipated
from their snowy threats.
1t will cost IS to get into the Floral
ball at Topeka. Five bushels of wheat
or thirteen ounces of silver.
Hungarians of New York are talking
of establishing colony of several
thousand persons in Kansas
The railroads, smelters and coal
companies at Pittsburg pay nearly
$3.50, 1000 in wages every month.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company are pushing their new line
from Kansas City to Pittsburg.
The is many a wheat granary in
Kansas that could be easily traded
bodily for many Kansas bank
Since the joints have closed num-
Der of Newton people have gone to
drinking water and claim to like it.
There is a war among threshers at
Great Bend. The price has been cut
to two cents and is sure to go lower.
A Western Kansas man who raised
wheat is making a mistake in prepar-
ing to spend the money in running for
office.
The female brass band with trav-
cling show made lot Of masculine
hearts at Council Grove go "toot,
toot."
Burglars at Newton have such a
time picking out sand burs that their
night excursions are no longer enjoya.
BILE.
The base ball clubs of Emporia, To-
pekr and Atchison have disbanded,
leaving the Liberal club the champion
ship
Hoisington is to have flour mill
and elevator at once. 1t will be three
stories and basement with daily
capacity of so barrels.
The Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
Band association will meet at Winfield
September Is and 16. They will make
much music, fundamentally and chin
fully.
Farmers are much excited over the
discovery of large number of Rus
sian thistles growing along the rail
road track In Barton county. The
section hands gathered and burned all
found around Albert. Most of them
grew around the depot and some were
found up near Shaffer
Charley Mcintosh settled in Jeffer-
son county five years ago, renter,
with S319 so in money Last spring he
bought farm of 100 acres, which he
sold last week for So, 700. He has the
money in the bank and owns fifty head
of cattle, ten of horses, a bunch of
hogs, 1000 bushels of corn and farm
machinery to run three teams.
w. q. Smith, the Wilson county
school teacher who, while engaged to
one girl, induced another foolish fe-
male to fall in love with him and then
insisted on prosecuting the girl for an
alleged attempt to get away with the
first, has found the atmosphere of
Neodcsha rather too sultry to follow
the business of school teacher at that
point and resigned,
The meeting of the Mitchell county
Teachers association held at Beloit
last week was well attended. Out of
129 employed there were present 49,
The object of the meeting was to Sc
cure a better uniformity of work in
grading, promoting, order and supple
mentary work Ninety per cent Of
the schools of Mitchell will be in ses-
sion by October The terms are gen.
orally longer and better than hereto
fore and the wages paid are from SIS
to $40 a month.
The internal revenue collections for
this district, which includes Kansas
and the Indian and Oklahoma Terri
tories. for the month of August
amounted to s25, 559O7. The collec-
tions for August last year amounted to
ST., 574sI The increase is mostly
from tobacco stamps and it shows that
the manufacture of cigars is being re-
sumed in Kansas. There was an in
crease in oleomargarine stamps, and
in all revenue receipts connected with
business enterprises.
Wier City has a curfew ordinance,
the first section of which reads: It
shall be unlawful for any boy under
the age of II, or girl under the age of
is years to be found upon the public
streets, alleys, or public grounds with
in the city limits after the hour of 7:a0
o,cloclr n m during the nipht between