Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
STATE spoRrsMENs ASSOCIATION.
Call to Organize in Wichlt, During the
at Fair.

ing the state FAR, ana De present on
the 1st day of October, 1897, to help us
organize 1.-THE State Sportsmen's asso-
ciation," an organization for the pro-
lection of the game and fish of the
state af Kansas
We now have the laws and need your
presence to help us enforce them, and
when you read this do not think it
means the other man, for it means you.
If you think it possible for you to come,
send your name to DIR. j. w. Shuts,
state fish and game commissioner,
Wichita, Kan, so that proper arrange
mcnts may be made for your reception.
Wichita FISH AND GAME CLUB.
Wier City has passed a curfew ordi-
nance.
The electric belt fakir worked 0tta-
wa where there are two daily newspa-
pers
Spring township, Butler county, is
afflicted with a wildman of the corn
fields.
Pennsylvania seed wheat will be
bred to Dickinson county soil the COM
ing season.
The city council of Fort Scott have
decided that high school pupils must
pay their tuition or quit school
A little tot at Eldorado got hold of
cup of gasoline and drank a quantity
of it. Its life was saved with difficult
ty.
1t is given cut that 195 to $50 men
can secure work in the vicinity of
Sterling at S1.25 day cutting broom
corn.
The Garden City fire department is
electing queen. A fire department
queen ought to have no trouble about
hose.
The onion kings of western Kansas
are the Stevens brothers, who will this
year raise 1000 bushels on their farm
In Elk county.
Three men haye been arrested for
selling liquor in Leavenworth, strange
as it may seem, and their places have
been iniuncted.
The general advance of prices has
raised the board in the normal clubs at
Emporia from 81. 40 to 81. AZ per week.
Now look for kick.
A Great Bend girl was walking down
the main street and lost her garter.
She screamed, sank to the ground and
told the men who rushed to her as.
sistance she had sprained hee ankle.
1t is estimated by the secretary Of
agriculture that there will be an in
crease of 1s per cent in the acreage OF
wheat sown for 1898. This will make
total acreage in the state of wheat
sown 3,040, 10 acres.
There were several pickpockets on
the wrecked passenger train near EN-
poria, and during the excitement and
amid the crowns of the dying, these
fiends snatched at diamonds and ripped
open satchels In search of yaluables.
A strange disease has broken out
among the cattle in the vicinity of Null.
vane. No ono knows what the disease
is, but the cattle are dying with it. II
is conjectured by some parties that
feeding kafIir corn has something to dc
with it.
For the first time in a year the wa.
ter in Smoky Hill river is so low that
the mills could not be run and engines
were started to take the place of wa
ter power. Lack of rain in western
Kansas has nearly dried up the small
feeders of the stream and greatly him
dered wheat seeding
There was shipped from Cheney sta
tion during the month of August just
passed thirty car loads of wheat. This
would be about 10000 bushels, repre-
senting a money valuation of nearly
s15, 900. At this rate the mortgages on
the farms will soon be a lingering re-
membrance, with no wish for their re-
turn.
BY actual count 144 new houses have
been built in lola during the past year
and half, and more are under con.
struction now than at any other time
during that period. Eight new two
story houses will be completed within
the next two weeks and every room in
all of them, above and below, will be
occupied as soon as ready.
A man playing the Kentucky colonel
visited Newton for week or two. He
had the broad accent in speech and the
flaming red breath characteristic OF
Spch, and he mixed with sporting men,
but took his liquor straight, setting
them up TO the boys at frequent inter