Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-15
Cattle buyers are numerous in STAN

Inc pOlco HDOdru AZ. AeAVenWOrJn
met on the 1OtI and made several ap
/ poihtments.
The Harper boys Will take their
i their lives and horns in hand and give
y concert at Anthony.
Wichita gave Leedy l,4OO majority
last November and elected the straight
Republican ticket this spring.
Barton. county farmers are damning
the draws. The draws are filled with
water and are not the draws that don't
'!.tIl." r. II =,
A prominent Kansas paper notes
that this is,the time of year when the
Ancient Order of Hen sIrooers are call
ed to order s,sasss.. - .-'i :t'
"A western Kansas pan sSidI the de-
scription Of the pri2eF6gAtI sounded ia
miliar enough except f6fl4Be omission
of the usual "s5 and costs.
There is merchant in Logan county
who sold goods payable "when Bryan
is elected" You can guess who he ia
in favor Of for president in 1900.
The Wichita Beacon has received a
warm letter from the people of Chand.
Ter, thanking Wichita people for do,
nation of SOL. SO to the Chandler relief
fund.
A man who never reads the paper;
except when he can borrow them read
an adj headed: "How to Make Pantq
Last" He sent so cents and received
the reply, snake the coat and vest
first"
An Atchison man complains that so
many poor, worthless kin hold down
jobs in that town that really meritor.
ious men have no chance. He says too
many high-up men have runty rel
atiyes to suit him.
Six weeks ago an Atchison woman
announced to her friends that sine had
decided to move to Chicago Since
then the local papers have kept caseS
on her daily and she likes it so well
that she has not departed yet.
A Garnett woman got ratified when
she went to vote the other day and
handed the judges letter to put in the
ballot box instead of her vote. When
it was handed back to her she said:
"Oh, did 1 forget to put stamp on it9"
A heavy rain fell in the vicinity of
Larned on the night of April 4th, Also
at Burdett, Garfield, Jetmore andPaw.
nee Rock AT least two inches of rain
fell. Wheat prospects have advanced
at least so per cent in the last two
weeks.
During the past winter, Walters and
Ackers of Denver, Colorado, fed and
fattened about 1000 sheep and 200
head of cattle on the Prairie Dog, adj
joining Almena. 1t took over 10000
bushels of corn and 1880 tons of hay
to fatten them.
Bob Fitzsimmons telegraphed ex-
Senator ingalls, denying the published
statement that he had called Mr.. In
gals liar. Mr.. Fitzsimmons states
that he had no interview in relation to
any such matter, and that he had new
er had occasion to apply such term
to Mr.. Ingalls,.
The prairie grass is exceedingly for
ward this year and only needs few
more warm days to push up and con-
ceal the brown stubs of last years
crop Grass-short, curly buffalo grass
is the most valuable crop ever raised
in western Kansas if harvested right
ly; and the only way to properly har-
vest the same is through the medium
of the COW.
A superintendent of public schools
says that country children are better
fitted for the business of life than are
their city cousins. He draws his con-
illusions from the answers which chill
dren of both kind have given to this
question: "If I should give you dol
lar what would you do with it?" The
country children have better business
ideas, because they hear their parents
discussing their business affairs of the
household. They know how much the
cow brought and the prices of eggs
and butter. Town children seldom
hear business affairs discussed
The Emporia Gazette says: "All the
truck that Kansas raises, her wheat,
her corn, her broom corn, her beef, her
hogs, her timber, her Sleeps wool, is
dumped raw into box car and ship
ped out of the state-Often a thousand
miles away-before it finds a lot of
men to work who will turn it into the
finished product. There is a place in
Germany or Holland that is noted for
the large per cent of stupid people in
its population, but no one in that town
ever thought Of giving every mouthful