Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-17


still burning issue.
The store clerks Of Marysville request
the people to boycott merchants who
keep open later than half past o'clock.
Franklin county has formed I'M asso-
citation of Ohio settlers with an enroll
ment of 81 names. A big picnic will
be held July 81.
An Atchison man who became mis-
sionary and went to South America
was set upon by natives soon after he
reached there. The heather knew the
real thing from the false.
Frank Zimmerman of Osborne coun.
ty threw his wife down and sat on her
for two hours because she would not
sing. His wife thought he was carry.
ing his love of music little too far
and complained to the probate judge
that he was insane When the sheriff
and deputies went after him he was in
the field listing corn. He promptly
gave them notice to get ready for a
good fight as he would never go to the
probate court alive; and they had the
fight and it was a lively one, but Zim-
norman was at last overpowered,
handcuffed and bound. The jury ad-
indeed him insone
A party of eastern geologists are in
Cove, searching for fossils Around
Castle Rock several fine specimens have
been discovered. Castle Rock is a sim
gle column of Niobrara chalk, having
two castles like towers rising to the
height OF 20 feet from the level plain
which surrounds it on every side. The
Niobrara chalk abounds with the fos.
sill remains Of many curious animals.
They found in the chalk the teeth and
bones Of three kinds of elephantia. A
birds jaw, 23 inches long, containing
Al teeth. A fin and the teeth of many
sharks An almost entire skeleton of
shark which measured over 10 feet
inches as it lay on the rock.
1t is impossible to take ride across
the state of Kansas right now and not
feel like this would be a good place
for Gabriel and the Heavenly choir to
come to for a vacation. The wheat
fields wave with ripening grain, the
corn rows spread out like squares on
a magnificent checker board, the cat
tic are pasturing on the rich grass
which covers the hills and prairies. 1t
makes you feel like you were eating
big square meal and were just con-
fronted with heaping saucer of
peaches and cream. Your soul fills
with ecstasy and you years for the
presence of the eastern plutocrats who
have been running down Kansas, so
that you might choke them with the
good things before you. Of course this
is not reasonable" but with such Wis
ions of loveliness around him, the Kan
sas man has a right to let his thoughts
mount to the stars and his heart throb
a few thousand extra revolutions a
Raising alfalfa and starting cream
erles are putting great change on
northwest Kansas, Where there is a
paper, every town is asking for
creamery, and where there is q valley,
there you will see patches of alfalfa.
They are raising it this year out in
Thomas and Sherman counties for the
first time. Three miles east of Norton
A. N. McLennan, one of the largest
farmers and stock and hog raisers and
breeders in Norton county, has 100
acres of alfalfa, doing nicely. w. A.
Reeder of Logan, Phillips county, says
he won't quit sowing alfalfa until he
has seeded 500 acres, he is so firm be-
lever in this farm cereal. Hundreds
Of farmers in Norton, Thomas and
Sherman counties are raising alfalfa
aud planting less corn this year for
the first time. The farmers, too, of
these counties, have come to the con-
clusion that they don't have to raise
corn to succeed. Alfalfa, hogs, cattle,
poultry and creameries will make them
Central Kansas has been thoroughly
drenched with showers of late and the
corn crop in different parts of the state
is suffering for dry, hot weather.
After July 1st, 1897, Seward county
will have but three townships-Liberal,
Fargo and Seward. An act of the re.
cent legislature attached Springfield
township to Seward, Garfield to Liberal
and Cimarron to Fargo The floating
Indebtedness of the disorganized town
ships shall be assumed and paid by the
townships to which the territory is at
tached.
An evangelist who is operating at
converted nine cowboys last
week and almost drowned a woman
whom he was baptizing in Rock creek.
In all he baptized thirly-two converts
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