Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-26

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The slaughter of ployer in the short
grass country is immense.
James Long, near the town of Jen.
/ nifngs, was killed By lightning recent
ly. ~ VI Ga :
-E---Fhe- state officers. have been invited
to attend the Neosho Falls old soldiers
reunion. - -
r Dwight Fowler, formerly OF Newton,
was drowned near Dyeap Alaska, while
trying to florida streatnya
Kansas products will bring more
money this year than ever before in
the historyof the state.
Thieves stole two Windsor bicycles
in Newton EeceHtly, and s35 Is offered
for the return of the wheels.
1.-Two brothers named Palmer, Of Oak
Valley, were in the pen at Lansing,
and one recently made his escape.
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Seventy coaches of Kansans rolled
into Kansas City one Sunday recently
That town has open saloons on Sunday.
irr A1prisoner in the Fort Scott lookup
refuses" to work on the rock pile and
he" gets nothing to'eat but bread and
water
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(, The LeaVenwOrth city council has
increased the tax levy, the necessity
for such action being due to previous
misrule.. "a " V .|
l,.r > u lua 200 b . 10
Era The Usage, county Fair Association
will hold it's twenty annual fair
at Buraugame September 741O. There
win be special features each day.
Madison Staley Of Ottawa, who was
killed in bicycle accident last spring,
carried $4,000 life insurance, and his.
wife has Just received the first pay.
ment. d =. Is " l.''.' 'a'' ''
The state board Of railroad commits.
sioners has been requested by ], A.
Mosher of Rydal, Republic county, to
order the Rock Island to establish
telegraph office at that point E
"A western Kansan, having been de-
serted by rich woman! whom he had
married, is suing her for years sup
port The poor fellow thus thrown on
the world, has no wife to provide for
hum. COS
"A bushelof corn makes four gallons
of whisky which retail at SIS. Out of.
this the government gets So, the rail-
roads 81, the manufacturer So. rs, the
vepder 81, the farmer 25 cents and the
drinker the jim-jams-sometimes.
Those government engineers who
have been around through the north
md east portions of Smith county for
some time, are now having 70 foot
tower built in Smith Center which win
be set up near ReanIsyille for an OBJ.
servation tower and land mark.
The broomcorn harvest of the belt
where that product is raised extensive
ly has begun, and the fields are filed
with workers this week. There are
thousands of acres that will produce
little or nothing because of the dry
weather, and there are many that will
be shortened.
An Atchison woman kept store for
her husband one day recently and
wrote twenty-three letters to friends.
This is the first time that she has had
time for letter writing since she was
married six years ago, and she wishes
to hear nothing further of how hard
her husband works.
We should hate to tempt the good
young women of Harper, who have re-
solved not to go with" any young
man who drinks, smokes or uses pro-
fame language, by planting young
man in Harper who does all three
with a certified statement that he is
eligible and gets $500 month.
Tho church and Sunday school peo-
pie of Usage county are anxious to see
something of the dark side of life and
have arranged for an excursion over
the Santa Fe to the State penitentiary
at Lansing on September l. Inciden-
tally, the Soldiers home at Leaven.
worth will also be visited. The excur-
sion train will start from Usage City
and will take on passengers at Carbon
dale, Burlingane and Scranton. It is
expected that eight coaches will be
needed for the excursion.
The new hedge law is now effective,
but it rests with the people of each
county TO say whether it shall be made
operative. To put it in force in
county is determined by the people of
the county. The principal provision OF
the law is contained in the section re-
'quiring owners of real estate to keep
their hedges trimmed along the public
highway to not over five feet in height,
except trees not less than sixteen feet
apart aud hedges necessary as n pro-