Hutchinson gazette., 1897-08-19

900 population year Four Of them
were added last year
At Pratt recently chicken hatched
out from an egg in an egg-crate. 1t
lived only few days
An cid woman near Ottawa chases
prairie chicken hunters off her place
with Colr--45-calibre.
Agents taking pictures for art firms
to enlarge, have been receiving part
pay in advance and swindling people
in Eastern Kansas.
Plums are so plentiful in the neigh
borhood of Garden City that children
can make 81 a day at picking them, al
4 cents per basket.
The banks of Franklin county have
on deposit more than half million
dollars and the greater part of it be-
longs to the farmers.
Now thatthe Wellington waterworka
have been shut down by eastern CAPT
talists, the people of that town de.
nounce the original ordinance granting
the franchise scheme, fraud and rob
berry, secured by bribery.
Ed Howe says that old people are of
ten fretful and seemingly unressona'
BILE because they are sick. The young
should remember this. After man is
seventy years old, he is simply lot Of
decaying matter waiting for burial.
Another train will be put on the
Oberlin branch. This new arrange
ment is called for by the increased
business of the line. One train will
handle all through freight and ex-
press. The other will take care of
local freight Both trains will carry
passengers
George Zebb, farmer living west of
Lawrence, brought in load of oats he
sold to member of the city council.
He had the load weighed on the city
scales, and as he went to deliver it he
was seen to unload quantity of rock
concealed in the oats. Officers had the
load re-weighed and it was found AGO
pounds short.
A nest of thieves was found at Plema
last week and three burglars are now
held in the Reno county Jail. They are
VIM. johnson of 0ssawatomie, Tom
Harris of Indiana, and Charles Smith
of Springfield III. The trio has been
doing big business lately, and when
arrested were in possession of large
amount of goods stolen recently from
"A store at Sylvia. They admit having
robbed the store at Sylvia.
The rush of grain from the northern
and western points is so great that the
Missouri Pacific yards at Atchison have
been blocked for several days and it is
necessary to sidetraclS Central Branch
freight trains mile west of town. 1t
takes seven switch crews to handle the
business in the Missouri Pacific yards.
The Central Branch shops forces are
working 10 hours day to keep the
rolling stock in good order
Kansas was visited by another good,
soaking rain on the night of August
10, which did much good to growing
crops throughout the state. Especial
ly did it do much good to grapes, ap'
pies and peaches and all other grow
ing fruits and vegetation. The hay
crop is now assured and likewise the
kaffir corn. Besides all this the suffer
ing humanity were greatly benefited
by such a generous cooling off of the
J atmosphere.
The broomcorn harvest of the belt
where that product is raised extensive
ly has begun, and the fields are filled
with workers this week. There ai'
/ thousands of acres that will produce
little or nothing because of the dry
= weather, and there are many that viii
: be shortened. The early planting oil
, the uplands is particularly injured
and there is much discouragemen
among the Swedes and Mennonites
, who depend on this crop.
r BY an error just discovered in tn,
r schedule Of time to be deducted iron
t the terms of couvicts in the pen, it i
estimated that the state of Kansas ha
: secured from convicts within the pas
$ twenty-eight years, 7s3, 900 days worl
, to which it was not legally entitled
: This labor purchased at the ordinar.
$ rate would amount to more thai
: 81, 900, 900. The schedule was prepares
in 1867, and has been in constant us
without change since that time.
d The 100 pound rate is now in effec
@ on all the Kansas railroads and here
y after live stock will be charged for b
l. the 100 pounds instead of by the ca
+ load. Freight officials of the Santa f
= and Rock Island say that the fcelin
n among stock shippers has change
o during the past year, and that the ma