Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

has almost 100000 bushels of corn
and 100000 bushels Of oats.
At Wellington just after the earth
qNalse, a woman woke her husband up
with shake and said; "For heavens
sake John, quit your snoring. You
actually shook the bed"
That Topeka man who has invented
an airship Sin which he win soon de
part for Klondike' will find that An.
dree didn't glut the terminal facilities
of the glory shore so that sufficient at
tention can not be paid to welcoming
him.
"Ladies and gentleman, said Kau.
sas man in an eastern hotel corridor,
81 am from Kansas. This is my son,
Willy. He is eight years of age. He
has lived his whole life in Kansas.
Now, Willy, did you ever see grass.
hopper?" And Willy responded, mo"
81 see, said the old Kansas farmer
who had just slowed the thresher
away in a shed, fed 200 pigs, hayed 95
horses, bedded "a cows, carried water
to 400 sheep, and carried up ten buck
cts Of coal, that some fool scientist
in New York has discovered the secret
of sleep"
After receiving and paying for the
bill Of groceries he had purchased from
the travelling "agent" Cawker man
went to his old home grocer with
meekness and contrite spirit and beg
ged him to please administer kicking
where it would do the most good. He
was thoroughly convinced from exper-
fence that it was always best to buy Of
home merchants.
Republic county this year produced
7,739, 166 bushels of corn and takes the
place of Jewell county, which has
heretofore held the belt as the cham
pion corn county of Kansas. just
think of this vast amount of corn be-
ing raised in one Kansas county! And
how the eyes of the eastern farmers
who scratch around on little truck
patches, would bug out on being told
this fact.
The stucco manufacturers of Dickin,
son county are investigating the new
Canadian process by which marble il
made of gypsum. 1t is claimed thai
the gypsum is crystalized and harden,
ed INTO solid white mass by chemi
cal process and is easily worked with
chisel or lathe. The southern part OF
Dickinson county has immense depos'
its of Gypsum, and if marble making
is success, the owners of these beds
will make test The stucco manu-.
facturers claim that they will be able
to obtain better results than the Cana.
dian company on account of the super
iority of the Kansas gypsum.
Mr.. Jno. e, Frost, land commissioner
of the Santa Re, states that the sale OF
Kansas farming land still continues,
and that the majority of purchases are
being made by local parties. Much of
the land held by the Santa Fe in the
central and western portions of the
state has been sold in quarter section
and half section tracts during the past
eight months Much of the money re-
ceived in the state this year for wheat
and corn is being placed in Kansas
lands by the Kansas farmers. There
is more inquiry for farming land at
present than there has been at this
season for years, and sales are being
made steadily. While some land ia
being purchased by outside parties,
the larger number Cf sales are being to
local landowners.
Some interesting reports have been
made by Indian agents in their annual
review of developments in their fields
At the Pottawatomie and Great Nema-
ha reservations in Kansas there are
about 10000 acres of surplus lands in
the prairie band reserve that are likely
to be a subject of contention in the
future, and there seems to be grow
ing sentiment in the tribe favoring
their sale. Major Woodson, of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, in Ol1laho-
ma, writes: The mother-in-law is
much in evidence among these people.
She makes herself holy terror unless
the family affairs are conducted &C
cording to her ideas. Much of the
agents time is occupied in the settle
ment of family quarrels and in bring
ing together husband and wife, whose
troubles have been of sufficient gravity
to cause a separation. His powers of
persuasion are frequently exerted in
vain, however, In most instances the
wife, backed up by the mother-in-law,
is most obstinate and proof against all
argument and entreaty to return to
the family abode Recommendation
is made for Withholding gratuitouI
subsistence from the non-progressive
Indians not disposed TO labor for their