Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-14

The Mulvane Record is printing tales
of travel in Europe.
The First National Bank of Dighton
will become state bank.
Abilene will have a football club
fully armed and equipped.
Seven divorces were granted in one
day last week at Leavenworth. .f.
Farmers OF Dickinson county are or
ganizing to fight the swine disease.
The old soldiers of Kingman. will
have reunion October 10, IA and Is.
A man named Deering is in Jail at
Salina for cruelty to animals and for
stealing.
The block system on the Santa Fe
has turned the hair gray Of an Ottawa
engineer.
The suit against the city of Douglass
on the sugar mill bonds, is going
DouSldss way
The stables at the lola fair grounds
caught fire one day last week and were
entirely consumed.
The Odd Fellows grand lodge of the
state of Kansas will hold its next
meeting at Topeka
Some Mount Hope people are after
the girls who go to church TO chew
gum, and talk and giggle.
The Sterling Bulletin claims to be
the broom corn organ of Kansas. The
Bulletin always sweeps clean.
Six hundred and seventy-five rail-
road men reside in Newton, and the
merchants there are glad of it.
The bondsmen of DR.. Ballou at
Hutchinson have asked to be released
because the doctor has been drinking.
Michael Moore, who died at Nc Pher.
SOD, OF years old, served in the war of
1912, the Black Hawk war and in Mex
leo.
Five young men were arrested for
fast driving in Hutchinson. Some of
them resisted and got bumped as well
fined.
1t is said that the yellow fever cpl
demic in the south will shut off further
shipments of bananas to the northern
states.
Smith county has reduced its mort
gage Indebtedness approximately $780,
900 the pastyear Conditions very much
improved.
VIM. and Theodore Cooper, of Stock
ton, will feed about 10000 sheep in
Rocks county this winter, purchased
in New Mexico.
Barney Sheridan is paying out an
other 25 per cent dividend to the de-
positors of the Sumner county banks
for which he is receiver.
AS to corn the prospects of a month
ago have diminished until in several
counties the crop has been virtually
destroyed, while in a number of Others
it has been greatly injured by the in
tense heat and lack of sufficient rain
fail. On the whole, however, a very
fair crop will be raised, as in a number
of counties the yield will be considera-
bly, in excess of last year. The reports
further show that in some counties the
price of corn has advanced over that of
last year. This luay be accounted for
from the fact that the farmers of Kan
sas, especially in the western part of
the state, have gone very largely into
the business of feeding cattle, being
attracted by the good prices that now
prevail.
The City of Columbus has bought the
water works plant there, paying s32,-
900 for it
The Sunday School association Of
Kansas will not allow it's members to
accept free board and lodgings at fu-
ture conventions
The yield of winter wheat for the
entire state is over 100000 bushels
and the ability of the farmers to dis
pose of their crops at the high prices
now prevailing will bring many mill
lions of dollars of fresh capital into the
state of Kansas alone.
Hagler and Whitehead are held In
$500 bond at Salina for robbing blind
man. The accused are two young men
Of respectable families.
In parts of the drouth-stricken re-
gion in the western country the earth
is cracked wide enough to admit an ele-
plant, it is said.
The live stock sanitary boards Of
Kansas, Illinois Missouri, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Montana. Colorado and
Texas decided in joint meeting at Fort
Worth to call It southern and not Tex
as fever.
chautauqua county produced 246, a4C
bushels of wheat and released $50, 0OC
of mortgages, 10 per cent of its total
mortgage Indebtedness.