Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05
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Of Liberal people with music.
A new industry has been started at
Wichita. Robbing tool boxes on bicy-
cles.
Ralph Winslow, of Fort Scott, heads
the Kansas delegation to the Klon-
dyke.
The new ditch out in Barton county
is full and running over in Kansas City
papers
Finney county is noted Tor its i'm
mense alfalfa, successful irrigation
bitches, etc.
A Klondyke expedition has been or.
ganized at La Crosse and will travel
over 'the branch"
Newton city water is filed with
dead fish. At least that is what the
Newton people think they see.
A Stafford girl says she prefers to
be kissed by man with gold filed
tooth. 1t tickles her tongue better
It is said that Edwards county farm
ers are provoked because they have to
build bigger granaries to hold their
crop.
Marshall's band will shortly give a
concert, every number on the program
of which will be by Topeka com.
poser.
A Missouri man who went to New
ton to flirt was charged s95 and costs
by the police Judge. That's high Ii
cense.
There is prisoner in the Ness coun-
ty Jail, the first for two years He had
a mistaken idea that prohibition does
not prohibit.
The veterans of Morris and adjoining
counties will hold their annual reunion
at Council Grove August II to 90, with
good speakers.
A month after Emporia inaugurated
a license system the council ordered
the electric lights reduced in number
to save expense,
A Sedgwicli county farmer, renting
from mortgage company, has bought
the farm with the proceeds of this
years wheat crop.
For several days past, for some un-
known reason, the grasshoppers have
been leaving Rawlins county in vast
swarms going southeast Much dam
age has been done in Rawlins county
by these pests.
An Atchison woman made wager
that she could start in with an empty
larder, and feed her husband, self and
four children for a month at an expense
of SIS. She won the wager, but her
husband looks like the picture of Be
fore Taking"
Texas fever broke out last week on
the c. P. Dewey cattle ranch ten miles
south of Manhattan. DR.. Mayo, State
Veterinarian, pronounced it to be such
early in the week but would give out
no report, He telegraphed for the
State Sanitary commission, which con-
frmed DIR. Mayo's report after an in
vestigation. Some twenty-five ami
mails have died and many more are in
fected. The disease is, however, con-
fined to the one bunch of cattle. The
ranch being an isolated one, positive
quarantine has been declared and
there is no possible chance for spread
of the fever.
AL Harrison of Atchison, who is in
Alaska, is doing well. His companion,
Thomas B. Rau, writes to his parents
in ST. Joseph from Dawson that their
prospects are very encouraging. The
two men had a one-fourth interest in
claim. They paid $4,000 for it and sold
it the next day for 81, 500. They then
bought two more claims for $4,000.
He says he and Harrison travelled 1900
miles last winter to the arctic circle.
He regards Klondyke as the greatest
place on earth for single man, but
thinks it is no place for woman.
The pay of a laboring man is from $40
to SIS day.
A few miles below Atchison on Owl
creek is high bluff overlooking the
river which is known as the Devils
Backbone" on account of its resemb-
lance to an immense vertebra. The
bluff is full of caverns wherein dwell
all kinds of reptiles. 1t is known that
there is a den of wildcats, a panther
and innumerable wolves, foxes and
other animals in this secluded place,
besides the largest den of rattlesnakes
in this section of the country. John
Jett, a young colored man living in
that vicinity, is preparing to set a lot
Of traps and capture the wild crea.
lures for the purpose of starting q
Kansas zoo or menagerie which he
proposes TO exhibit about the country.
He expects to have an aggregation