Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-28

In the last year the population Of
Larned has Increased 300.
Strong City stone will be used in the
Territorial Normal building at Alya,
Okla.
Jockey Terrill, who is very hot ar.
ticle in racing circles, came from Har'
per county,
G. w. Click is in Omaha for the pur-
pose of pushing the work on the Kan
sas building.
Paul Hudson is the name of BARI
tone singer belonging to company
now touring Kansas.
There is no question now that war
has a bearing effect on wheat. War
scares have bull effect.
Topeka captured the populist state
convention. 1t will be held June 18th
after the republican convention.
Coburn, in his new book on bovines,
favors currying the COW. There isn't
a man IN Kansas who curries his COW.
! A rate of SO for the round trip will
be made from Atchison to Omaha for
the opening day of the exposition.
An old cat that is doing the mother
/ ly act to little kitten and five young
squirrels is on exhibition in store at
Howard.
A Methodist preacher who has been
assigned to the church at Clyde will
not accept. He will open furniture
store at Beloit.
| The commencement orator who wants
to get the popular shout this spring
will wave the starry banner and rip
the Spaniards.
Kansas papers do almost as much
Dragging about the statements of their
local banks this year as they do of the
condition of the wheat fields.
A cyclist at Salina the other day
while wheeling on a sidewalk ran over
child, and since then no wheelmen
are allowed on the sidewalk.
About four hundred Kansas papers,
more or less, convey to their readers
the regular annual notice that the ''po-
litical pot is beginning to boil"
One of the things we cannot under
stand at this moment is the complete
eclipse of Ona Melton, the Kansas lad,
who recently returned from Cuba.
Severance sports run up against
couple of crap shooters from st. Joe
few days ago and as a result the per
capiter of the town has been sadly cut
down.
Much of the fruit in Kansas has not
been damaged by the March freeze and
there will be an abundance of it all
ever the state 1t is reported by par
ties who are supposed to know, that
only very small per cent of the early
peaches were killed.
Wichita is peculiar town. The coun-
ty has had to bid in a number of town
lots at tax sales. Last year it requir-
ed an effort to keep people from NOV
ing houses off of them. This year new
trouble is being made. The people
are hauling off the lots for grading
purposes.
The editor of the Fairview Courier
who witnessed the recent pow-wow of
the Indians on the Brown county res
ervation gives it as his opinion that
there is less sense in it than in the gum
sucks and play parties he attended
when boy. But as he was satisfied
with the gum sucks, and the Indians
probably are with the pow-wow, whats
the odds?
In recent sermon Crawford coun.
ty preacher took occasion to object to
the statement so frequently made in
funeral sermons that the Lord removes
friends and loved ones in order to
draw people close to Him. He is in
clined to the belief that death is only
the fulfllment of II natural law that
must come to all, sooner or later.
gentleman who has been making
regular trips through Kansas for the
past fifteen years remarked that while
passing through the state recently he
noted wonderful change in the meth
DDS of farming. In the neighborhood
of Emporia he says that in the early
days one could ride for miles through
wheat fields with scarcely a break.
Now almost all of that land is in al
falfa, and the country is full of hogs
and cattle and has a much more pros.
porous look than formerly.
The Meade Globe states for a sol.
emn gospel truth that there are so
many town cows running loose there
that it is impossible for the honest
farmer man to get into the city with a
load of hay without having half of it
devoured by the critters: and the other