Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

Newton ladies have organized a
chorus and expect to have sixty mem
bers.
Two colored boys at S. John have
been found guilty of violating the
game law, and SIS.
The opening of the schools of Rice
county has been postponed q few weeks
in order to give parents chance to
work their children in the broom corn
fields.
Auditor of state Morris and Secretary
of State Bush counted the money in
the state treasury and have certified
that they found s011,74s,sO in cash on
hand.
A colored man strolled into Yelling
ton the other day and paid taxes on
his farm of $40 acres. This is remark
able, when you consider that this man
was slave less than forty years ago.
The hunt for pearls which has crazed
half the population of Arkansas, has
followed the creeks and sloughs until
it has reached Cherryvale and numer-
GUS persons are seen daily wading in
Lake Tanko catching clans and ma
laria.
On September 4th oil and gas were
discovered on farm adjoining the
city of Pittsburg. The flow of the gas
is quite strong and well will be sunk
at once to test the quality and force of
the supply.
Box cars at present fill the place of
the Frisco depot burned at Neodesha
last week. Railroad officials have
been in the town surveying the ruins,
but no plans regarding new depot
were divulged.
The farmer is the favored man of
this bountiful year, and schemers, IA
kris and sharpers are not only seeking
his cash, but highwaymen are holding
him up on lonely roads. He will soon
have to use an iron clad wagon box
with port holes on the side.
Hutchinson is to have a new finan-
cial institution. 1t is the St John
Trust company, with paid up capital
of 100000 Two banks of Stafford
county aud the bank of Macksville
have united to make loans on cattle
and buy and sell cattle paper. The
new company will move to Hutchinson
at once.
Why is it that ladies will visit the
seashores, don their bathing suits and
dash into the surf with mass of other
people of both sexes, but at their Kan.
sas homes they would not be seen in
the aforesaid suits for four thousand |
dollars-more or less? 1t must be
matter of progression or education.
Two women in Wichita who wore
bloomers and bicycle boots three
years ago were oggled and guyed ''out |
Of their boots" but the same toggery
attracts little attention now. There
is nothing like getting used to a
thing.
A strange disease has broken out |
among the cattle near Mulvane, and
about 200 belonging to one man in that |
have died Nobody |
seems to know what the disease is.
The cattle come in from the range at |
night looking well and drinking in the
heartiest manner In the morning
they are found dead. One veterinary
has suggested that the trouble comes
from letting the cattle feed on the sec
ond growth of sorghum cane. The
state veterinary surgeon has been call
ed and steps will be taken to prevent
the spread of the disease if it proves
contagious
From Secretary Coburn's extra re-
port on corn it appears that the crop
this year will be about 166 million
bushels This would be big crop any
other year, and added to the immense
stores Of corn still on hand it assures
the farmers abundant feed for live |
stock during the year. Six northern
counties raise Al million bushels and !
have some 20 million bushels on hand.
Secretary Coburn has rendered the
state timely service in getting out
this extra report and his industry and
enterprise will meet with appreciation
from the farmers and all persons in
terested in grain.
The 15-year-old daughter of D. c.
Moore was kidnapped at the soldiers
reunion at Baxter Springs on Sept. 8
and no trace of her has been discover
ed. She is supposed to have been car
ried away for immoral purposes and
may have been murdered. She was
last seen IN the midst of the crowd at
the reunion about o'clock on the
above mentioned day, having left her
hat, parasol and gloves at one of the
stands and gone over to the merry-go-