Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05
KANsAs 1rEMs OF INrEREsT.

town in the state.
Newton is becoming a great shipping
point for live stock.
Seed wheat is being shipped from
Abilene to Missouri
The skid" drum corps at Garden
City is the best in the state.
A number of Kansans are gong to
the Alaska gold fields seeking for
tune.
Fort Scott will soon have four springs
of mineral water all of different and
very healthful properties.
Barton county is to have another
big ditch and the Arkansas river be-
low Barton mk ht as well give up try
ing.
johnson City Is to have ball carni-
val August 18th. Two base ball games
in the afternoon and a grand ball at
night
A base ball player at Newton was
fined IS and costs for licking the UNI
pire Sometimes it is worth that
much.
In an Arkansas City store a young
woman is in charge of the overall and
a young man presides at the corset
counter
The postal department has promised
to discontinue the newspaper train
from Kansas City to Newton as soon
MS possible.
Judge Riggs Of Lawrence has re-
fused to grant temporary injunction
against the owner of building where
a joint is located,
The "Dutch picnic" is regular in
stitution at Emporia and is always fol-
lowed by headache which affects a
large part of the town.
Abilene shows an increase of seven
ty-seven school children over last
years census. Abilene people are de-
voted to infant industries.
The cooks and dshwashers of the
MeMahon circus struck at Atchison.
There were enough dishwashers among
the performers to save the day.
The hardest proposition that the
public has ever been called upon to
tackle is that Western Kansas was
once lake filled with wales and other
fishes.
The small boy base hall club of Mead
is going TO play the big girls. The
big boys are putting the b'ds up to
some mean tricks, and an arbitrator
may be needed.
Costa Rico, TO which General Cald-
well has been appointed consul is
about half as big as Kansas. Fears
that it would not hold General Cald-
well may be dismissed.
A Wellington man recently counted
a25 stacks Of wheat from the court
house tower, which gives slight idea
of the immense amount Of wheat har-
vested in Sumner county this year,
In one Kansas iowa citizen is cam
paigning against Sunday evening
shurch services on the ground that the
heat and bugs will damn more souls
than the religious exercises can save.
No Kansas man who has called at
White House has failed to see McKin-
ley. One editor from Massachusetts,
has waited in the ante-room three
months and hasn't seen the president
yet
Tho fruit farm adjoining the home
of w. A. McCroskey of Logan is a sight
worth seeing. He has about 200 cherry
trees which yielded close TO 50 bushels,
besides, his peach trees are laden
down with fruit.
The Phlllippsbnrg slsimming station
is about to be enlarged and made into
a full Aedged creamery. The skim
ming started out with $500 pounds of
milk on the FIST day and on the eighth
day had s,711 pounds
Farmers in South Dickinson county
report injury to the alfalfa from a
small insect or worm that eats the
substance out Of the leaves, nothing
bat the skeleton remaining and maxi
Ing the fields look white. Fields about
Navarro are badly hurt.
A steamboat captain in an early day
refused TO let two Germans whose
coats had been stolen, eat at his table.
Dan Anthony was abroad and took his
pistols, took off his coat, gave il 10 one
of the Germans and while eating him
self commanded the German TO eat; as
soon as the first German had finished
the other took Anthony's coat and ate.
Meanwhile the captain of the boat hid
out down in the engine room and pray,
ed to be spared
Forty-seven out of 100 applicants fol
teachers certificates failed to make
the required grades in the recent ex
animation held at Emporia Many o