Hutchinson gazette., 1898-10-13

last Thursday morning by u young
horse and was pretty badly bruised up
Grandma Slegrist arrived home last
Saturday from trip to Illinois
The good rain Sunday night VIII
benefit the wheat wonderfully
WAS,
EDITOR GAZETTE; | told you In my
last that ! would write you OF some
things of interest In Ripley and Deca'
tur counties, Indiana, The surface OF
the land is for the most part level HAT,
but 10 trayersed by many small creeks
and branches along which are deep hol'
lows, or we In the West would call them
canons The hills along the water
courses are very steep and stony, and are
of little value for agricultural purposes
The level lands are composed OF a white
clay soil with a sandy loan, and with
proper drai mage and liberal use OF FER
tilizers produc. fairly good crops, Es-
peclally this year corn will yield from
forty to sixty bushels per acre ald
wheat from twenty to forty. The c0un'
try is we'll set to red clover and the helds
are looking fine. The land ranges ~
price from ten TO forty dollars M acre in
Ripley county according to quality
and location, and from twenty five to
seventy. five dollars in Decatur county
| visited the farm of Mr.. DAILY Wilson
near Osgood in Ripley, He has about
one thousand acres Of fine lard and runs
large dairy on his farm. lie employs
about one hundred men constantly on
his farm. He is called the boss farmer
of this county. found Mr.. Wilson II
very pleasant gentleman to conyorse
with and while | don't think 1t right for
one man to have such n corner on ma
lures bounty 0s Mr., Wilson has, yet be
ii said to his credit that he has come
from the &. o. p, to be free silver dem
ocrat
also passed through the farm OF MI
A. II. Robins of Decatur county. He Is
famous as owning the short horn herd OF
cattle that took the sweep stakes prem
inm nj the Chicago Worlds Fair, | saW
part of the herd In this county
also saw the monument erected ut the
centre OF population of the United states
in 1890. 1t is composed Of gray granite
and red sandstone in alternate hlocRt
and ls about three feet square by ter
feet high. Another curiosity ! sow wal
ut Greensburg, the county seat OF thl'
county. II is an elm tree growing on
the dome Of the court house. Iht
place where it finds place for ~
roots 10 about eighty feet from The
ground. twelve or fifteen feet higl
and looks as green and thrifty as thi
trees around that grow from Tho ground
Back "a Versailles the county seat o
Ripley county, visited the jail iron
which FIVE men were taken by a mol
some FIVE or six months ago and hung
Some of the blood stains are on the stair
way yet. They were dragged by thei
necks about forty rods and hung to Al
elm tree. Nearly all Of the limbs ar
kept trimmed off by curiosity seekers
One limb on which two Of the men wer
hung has been cut off close to the tire
and the part from which the limb wa
cut is polished smoothly and medi
cine man has his pills advertised there
They tell me now that mans properl.
is perfectly safe in Ripley county.
had the pleasure to meet with MI
Abe Gray, editor OF the Ripley count
Democrat. Mr.. Gray is very pleosau
affable gentleman and of course is max
ing gallant fight for Bryan and FIRE
silver. also had very pleasant cha
with Miss Fannie Yates of Osgood,-
aunt Lizzie was not with me- thel
Miss Yates is reporter for a number {
different papers and magazines, ard
an able writer. She once lived I
Hutchinson at which place she probobl
received her inspiration.
A.l ,nu, ,,,n ,,,nat ,nInr, 20 n,p hntp
in Kansas to combat once more with I'll
grasshopper and drought, or be lulled
sleep by the chirrup of the cricket or
shiyer as the north wind shall whist
his weird dirge around our cot. Yet "
feel we are able for the emergency
we are healthy and fat
y. +. and A. L.