Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20

IA may
Larned has telephone exchange
with twenty-five subscribers ano more
are daily coming in.
The Emporia people who saw the AIR
ship are mad because it turned out to
be paper balloon.
The citizens of Wichita are prepar-
ing for big time Decoration Day. A
big crowd is looked for.
The population of Leavenworth in
creased 4S6 the past year not counting
the penitentiary census.
There is Understanding station To-
Gated at Mulvane that is getting over
1000 pounds of milk day.
Western Kansas people never kick
because an entertainment has to be
postponed ON account of rain"
The convicts at the penitentiary will
have the same kind of uniform as the
cadets at the Salina military school.
City Assessor Stinson has completed
his assessment of Ell Dorado. The pop
ulation is 1900, gain for the year Of
14O.
The Abilene creamery promoters al
ways open their creameries with a
brass band and speeches by prominent
citizens.
Frank More, one OF the prominent
farmers Of Sedgwick county, says we
are having too much rain for the corn,
but that oats and wheat are looking
very fine.
An Emporia barber has invented a
chair for ladies to occupy while their
hair is being shampooed. Emporia is
reaching right out after the title of
ATHENS of Kansas"
On the night of May 18th at Peabody
the grain elevator, known rs the Sterl-
ing elevator, burned. The building is
total loss with It's contents, about
1000 bushels of corn, oats and fax.
The prettiest fight in Western Kan
sas since the county seat wars is that
between George Getty, Fitzgerald and
Tom Coates for land office job. 1t is
too bad there are not enough for all of
them.
j. w. Burton of Kechi township, in
Sedgwick county, says that alfalfa has
grown SO big this year that he is afraid
it cannot be properly cured on the
ground and will have to be spread out
on adjoining farms.
1t is said that the wheat crop this
year will be enormous Also various
kinds Of fruits are at present indicat-
ing good yields. In fact everything is
in the best of growing condition and
the average farmer is contented and
happy.
Some of the business men Of Bur-
lington are getting interested in the
matter Of organizing a Commercial
club, and are discussing it. The bust
ness men of Emporia, of Ottawa, of
Lawrence, and in fact of all the towns
of any prominence in Kansas now have
commercial clubs. The club keeps up
q fraternal feeling among the mer-
chants of the town and does away with
much petty strife.
The Abilene Yale college class has
has bought and presented to the Pea
body museum a valuable meteoric
stone, found three years ago on the
Smoky Hill river, this state. 1t weighs
65 pounds and is twice the size of the
next largest stone in the museum, and
the British museum collection contains
only two stones which are larger. 1t
has an enterprising neurological
structure which will soon be tested by
analysis. The stone was found in Els
worth county by some land prospec-
tors.
Frank A. Acocks, the man who start
ed out from GIidley four weeks ago to
walk around the world, carrying the
stars and stripes and selling his photo
graphs on the journey as a money
making scheme, came riding back into
Gridley last Friday night on hay
rack Acocks passed through Ottawa
Sunday, April is, and a large crowd
gathered around him as he walked
through the street next morning. He
had got as far along as central Iowa
when he played out and started home.
Manager Ruff, of the Topeka Base
Ball company, has signed six players
for the team this year and he announ-
ces that on Decoration Day there will
be two games to open the season. Kid
McHugh of Colorado Springs will play
at third base, Jimmy Driscoll at sec
ond, Tim Conlin, who played with In
dependence last year will be shortstop,
Matty Evans of California, will catch,
and Wingert, who played last season