Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-11-10
KANSAS rTaEMsoT lNrIsRnsE.


Ing marketed in KanaRs just at pres
emit.
Thousands OF tons of baled hay Il
being ahipped out of Kansas every
week.
just at the present time everything
is apparently ON the boom in the Sun
flower state.
There is no getting around IT, Win
ter is here. II Is noted by the Gaylord
Herald that the price of eobs has been
doubled.
A cattleman is authority for the
statement that not drop of liquor Ia
sold In Long Islandi and cattleman
ought 10 be considered good authori'
w.
New and substantial residences are
continually being erected in the Kan
sas towns, and there seems 10 be em-
ploymcnt for everybody that wants TO
work.
Students at Midland college In Atch-
ison have more than their share OF
grief The faculty is against the prac-
tice OF playing foot ball on Thanks
giving day.
The furniture stores are bearing
down hard with their advertisements
just now. This is the year that farm
ers will proceed to put little slick
ness into their homes.
A Frankfort man has applied for u
patent on a washing machine. Wash
lang machines and car couplers seem TO
afford an attractive field for the wits
Of chose Of nm inventive turn OF mind
So mapy improvements have been
made by the Rock Island at Phillips
burg that the townfolk are half In
clined 10 consider 'hom as signs that
II is destined to be one OF the main d.
vision points.
Lots Of people living in western Kan
sns, where q person can stand on the
prairie and see for miles in any direc-
tion, probably think 1t strange that
there Is so much uproar about the
"hedge law" In eastern counties.
The boys OF the Twentieth were
greatly interested in Watching the
movements OF whale in the bay near
their camp for several hours one day
recently. 1t was one OF the very few
things they have seen In that country
which they were unable to swear
could not be beaten in Kansas.
A CRATER Is working Kansas farmers
on seed corn racket. lie has some
immense ears Of corn which he claims
were produced from seed recently dis
covered In Egypt. AS matter of fact
The ears were made up from slices Of
common corn in such n cunning man
ner that II is hard 10 detect the fraud |
without q close examination, which is
probably not allowed He sells his
valuable seed at from 10 to rs cents q
grain, and at this rate Of pay can easi-
~ afford to devote considerable time
10 the manufacture Of his bogus grain.
Frank Graves, living in Cherry Creek
township Cheyenne county, has been
experimenting with growing sugar
beets this year, and small patch that
he raised made the astonishing yield Of
"a tons, S95 pounds to the acre, He
has sent II sample Of the beets to the
experimental station at Manhattan,
where they will be tested. He has
one beet that weighs fifteen pounds,
but the size preferred for making SUI
gar is from one to two pounds. The
price usually paid Is said to be $3.50
ton. This would soon open up won
derful field for tho production Of sugar,
where it is universally admitted that
I'VE can raise the finest beets in the
world, and may lead to great results
In the near future.
Every time gold is discovered any
where on earth in any great quantities
there is a hur'ah and whoop which
is heard around the globe. Yet not
great many people in Kansas arc fa-
miliar with the wealth producing pow
ers of tho mining country in the
southeast part of the state, The couu
try around Galena is marvelously rich
in mineral wealth. OF course It is not
shining gold, Instead Of that IL is dull
colored lead and zinc, but they count,
just the same. Everyone in Kansas
has heard of the wonderful tales from
Cripple Creek, and not many months
ago great many Kansans returned
from that town bringing nothing but
tales with them. Few people in the
state though, know that Bradstreet
classed Galena with Cripple Creek,
stating that they were two of the rich
est towns in the world in proportion
other size.
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