Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-10

LnaJ IL takes TWO COnFlCOS w carry OhO
to the book-keeper.
These Kansas zephyrs that we hear
so much about get very rambunctious
at times. One of them tipped over the
mail wagon three times between At
wood and Colby on one trip last week.
Twenty young ladies of Council
Grove BACKED up and gave minstrel
show for the benefit of the town lib
rary and while it was rather trying
ordeal for the audience it cleaned up
s1OO
The country correspondence in all
the weedly papers in Kansas shows
very little intrest in the war news.
Kansas has become so sensible that
she will not permit herself q few days
war drunk.
The Santa Fe will rent the sides of
its freight cars for advertising pur-
poses. While these advertisements
will be poor, they will be better than
advertisements in some OF the newspa-
pers the Santa Fe owns.
The father of the Kansas fat girl, Of
Wakefield, has received offers from
museum managers of Chicago and New
York who wish to place her on exhibi-
tion. She is eight years and seyen
months and weighs 2s4 pounds.
A Zybs woman shot target last
Sunday and as she went to see whether
she had hit the mark her 4-year old
boy took up the gun and aimed at the
target. The bullet took effect in the
woman's side mortally wounding her.
The manufacturers understand the
condition of the Kansas farmer mans
pocket book this year, and have put on
the market riding cultivator with a
canopy top sun shade; a little extra
frill that the farmers will be perfectly
willing to pay for.
Two cattle men of Harvey county
sold two lunches of cattle to outside
parties for a sum aggregating over
50, 900. Sales of this size are getting to
be matters of every dey occurrence and
cattlemen come here from all over the
state to buy feeders.
F. M. Whitlaw, of Dickinson county,
who has in the past proved irrigation
to be a good thing for vegetable farm
ing, will this year go into it more ex-
tensively than ever and of his fine river
bottom farm fully 65 acres will be un-
der irrigation. Part of this land will
be in Spanish onions, ten acres. Five
acres will be in watermelons, five in
sweet potatoes, five in late cabbage,
thirty in irish potatoes and the remain
der in small truck.
There is station agent out on che
western end of the Central Branch who
is leary of cyclones, and is pretty we'll
fixed should one come frisling around
his way. He has a caYe dug near the
depot, and also one at home. The
latter one is connected with the cellar
under his house by subterra mean
passage so that he can take refuge in
it without exposing himself to the fury
of the storm, and he can 90 out either
directly into the open air, or by way of
the house in case it is not wrecked.
On February 2Sth Mrs. Anna Keller,
living near Good Intent, Atchison
county, was found dead by the road
side near her home by some school
children while on their way to school.
Her husband had joked her about some
trivial matter and she became so an
gered that she went to stream near
by and jumped in. 1t is the supposi-
ton that the water was too cold to
die comfortably, and she got out and
started back to the house, dying from
sudden exposure. She was 81 years old
Four Summer county convicts depart
ed March for Lansing to serve out
their respective terms in the state
penitentiary. The convicts who were
taken were Sam Smith, the Summer
county desperate, convicted of grand
larceny; George G Cox, the Arson depot
burglar; Chas. Meade, one of tia men
who stole Judge J. w. Chapmans har-
ness and John James Jones, the man
who stole wheat of f. NJ. Yates of
Milan. Cox was convicted Of burglary,
the other three of grand larceny. Each
was sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary.
Marion county is abundantly pro
porous under peculiar conditions-pec-
uliar because last year was the worst
corn year since the memorable grass
hopper season" early in the '7Os for
the greater part of the county. Corn
was almost complete failure in the
south two-thirds Of the county, while
the north third had about one-half crop
A short corn crop in this mart of Kansas