Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-24


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It is reported That four horse team
is necessary to get load of produc,
from the farm to town in eastern Kan
sas now
The Women's Relief Corps of Sedg
wick is raising a fund for the purpose
of placing in the cemetery mounted
cannon as memorial to the unknown
Dead" of the cival war.
No one will question the action Of
the examining board Of Smith county
in -evoking the certificate of teacher
ON account Of the excessive use of Ii
quor. He was recently found in town
beastly drunk.
Mush dissatisfaction is being express
ed by the Leavenworth policy holders
of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life COM
pany Of New York, an insurance COM
pany that was barred from doing bust
ness in Kansas few years ago by COM
missioner Wilder.
A young Swede farmer living in
Marshall county has been getting
along in pretty good shape and recent
ly advertised for a wife. His ad was
answered by young lady in New York
who arrived last week and the mar
riage took place promptly.
The Coffey county court house has
been condemned and the men having
offices therein have been advised to in
sure their lives heavily. But little
thing like this will have no effect on
the patriots who are anxious to success
a place on the county pay.
w. S. Stambaugh, who novel from
Dickinson county to Dakota a few
weeks ago. sent back home last week
for tub of creamery butter. He will
be coming back before long where he
can get his butter at close range, like
people will who leave Kansas for a
better land
Atchison, which had the best ball
team in the state last year, still has
hopes of getting up as good a CLUB for
the coming season, and is working to
that end. Tommy Cope, who is known
to most of the base ball cranlSs of Kan
sas, has signed with Des Moines for
the season.
Ike Wilson, Greenwood county
blacksmith, will start for the Klon-
dixie, taking with him a three-inch
bit of the finest steel, with which he
will bore for gold He says it is great
scheme, and that he will have no diff
Guilty in going through the frozen
ground to the treasure.
A number of leading central Kansas
cattlemen are arranging to call a meet
ing about March 10, to organize a state
association. The growth
of cattle feeding and breeding has
made it necessary to have u union of
those interested in such business. 1t
is proposed to arrange for annual meet.
ings and it is believed that an attend
Ance of 300 can be secured. Leading
cattle operators of Kansas City and
Denver have just leased 4s sections in
Dickinson and Morris counties and will
pasture 10000 head thereon during the
summer 1t will make pasture scarce
for local farmers.
The Independence Gas company has
secured from the Forest Oil company
the Ringle and Henry gas wells in the
of Table Mound. The Ringle
well is considered the greatest gas pro-
Queer ever struck in the state and the
Henry we'll is not far behind it. These
wells were drilled by the Forest com.
pany a year or two ago and have re-
NAMED securely bottled up ever since.
The company will extend their line of
pipe three or four miles in a short
time and connect these wells with the
system at Independence. This gas is
not needed for the present supply,
which is ample, but has been secured
with direct reference to the brick
plant and other con templated manu-
factories.
The price paid for milk at the CEN
trail Kansas creameries this month, the
being made February 18th,
are not up to the prices of January,
it being is cents or II cents and return
the skim milk, instead of 81 cents
last month. This is the same rs was
paid in Feb, 1897, and cent under the
rate of the corresponding month in 1896
Creameries of Dickinson county are re-
ceiving almostone third more milk now
than o year ago at this time, the result
partly of the mild weather, but also
due to the growth of the business. The
stations started last year are just get
ting their full capacity and the extern
sion of creameries last season will be
felt this year in q greatly increased