Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-23


The Mcpherson college is about out
of debt and many students are enroll
ing.
An abundance of all kinds of fruits
were raised in the Sunnower state this
year.
Many Kansas papers contain no
tees of emigrant trsins bound for
Oklahoma.
A show in northern Kansas admits
adults free but charges an admission
for children.
The mierobe on the roots of alfalfa
which converts chemical agents into
food, is necessary to the life of the
plant
Wilson county is trying to get fac
tory for the manufacture of corn-stalls
ship stuffing established at some near
/ point
1t is claimed that there are more
elf-reliant and seiflupporting young
women In Kansas than in any state of
the Union, population considered.
Within n distance of five blocks some
boys in Wellington have killed fifty
rabbits They ralsed 81. so out of the
county treasury for scalps.
eo,,tLorn Yons,,., ,,,,,, ,.,,1-o, l,;e
living by polishing COW horns and
making them into hat racks He re.
Gently purchased 500 horns at one
time.
Miss Rosa Packard OF Pleasanton,
the "wheat queen" of Rush county,
raised 1000 bushels of wheat this year
She teaches a county school in the
winter.
w. II. Haskell of Gaylord, the cattle
feeder of Smith county, is feeding
about 400 head of export cattle this
winter. Many of them at this time
will weigh 1000 pounds
Nearly every Kansan will now will
ing confess that when wheat jumped
ninety cents the first time, he expect
ed it to drop back to sixty cents in a
few days.
A Kansas farmer looked up on the
wall and studied the old Glotto: sin
God we Trust" then he said to his
wife: Maria, wonder if the India
people have those signs, too.
1t would make Andree awfuIly hot
il he could know that Buffalo Jones
is trying to divide public attention
with him by disappearing in the same
part of the world and at the same
time.
On account of the malignant type of
scarlet fever that has been prevailing
in Wichita, the board, of health has Or
dered that no student of the city
schools who has had the disease since
the opening of the present year, be al
mitted to the buildings, and no pupil
having the fever now should be admit
ted under six weeks
1t has just been divulged that many
of the society young women of Topeka
serve wine to their guests. Think of
it. Kansas for many years has been
flooded with book showing three
stages of man: FIRST. girl giving her
fellow sip OF wine. Second, the fell
low standing at the bar Third, the
same fellow wallowing in the gutter
A camp of Gypsies is holding forth
in Cowley county. Gypsies appeared
in Europe first in the fifteenth CEN
tury. They were people driven out of
India by the Mohammedcms, that is
Buddhistic Hindus. When the Kansas
farmer sees Gypsy he secs the brother
of the fellows over in India that are
suffering for the benefit of his wheat
crop.
Ira f. Hodson, lawyer OF Maneato,
is believed to have been the victim of
A week ago the body was
found in the thicl, brush of the river
bottom, the Lands and feet tied and
two bullet holes through the head.
The body has been identified as that
of Hodson by friends in southern Cali
fornia from photograph of the mnr-
dered man. lie has been missing since
the day before the murder
Under the provisions of the law Gre
sting and establishing the state re-
formatory at Hutchinson the superiu-
tendent OF the institution is required,
when a convict is sentenced TO the re-
formatory, to go after HIM and escort
him to the place Of his confinement.
This duty has ordinarily devolved
upon sheriffs and some of them still
insist upon taking their own prisoners
to Hutchinson and charging up the ex-
penses and mileage to the state These
emoluments belong to the superinten-
dent exclusively and desiring to pro-
tect his rights Superintendent Case
asked Mr.. Boyle for legal opinion in
the matter and the attorney general