Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-07-28
colored people viii celebrate eman-
cipation day at Winfield on AngSN
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papers IS 10 the king IA Kansas. Some
shy it'isIwhcat; soma corn, and some
the hog IL is neither OF these IL rs
either the hen or the COW, and sccre-
tpry cobrn ought 70 settle the ques-
ton. nIp1iir \,Lls,H/NIHli
\. A. Bucltlcs n jewcler at COTS, has
been working for some time ona sub
indrihe torpedo boat ofhis own inyen-
tion. The other day, while reading n
paper he ran across o description OF his
destroyer Some man down in Ken
lucky who had been struck with the
Same idea had beaten his time,
When the news reached lola that
fully 20 per cent OF tho local military
company had become engaged TO girls
in San Francisco, one of the lola girl
who belonged to the Soldier Sewing
SpGity sentlin her resignation with the
remark thatshe did not intend 20 sit
up nights making housewives and
nightshirts for the bcnAt of those bold
scheming, pie-faced California misses"
The estate OF j. 8, Collins has been
sued for money collected by Collins
and not turned over. Perhaps this
is another clue TO the murder, 1t Is u
lead that should be followed. The
more tralts made in the trail, the more
difficult IL will be TO fasten the crime
upon the devil who did the murder
that is to say the "slsulling negro or
the phantom Of tho Dewey parade.
A funny man at Hutchinson sent
some of the boys OF the twenty-Arst
regiment box containing q lot Of trash
This was the Hutchinson mans idea of
joke, A soldier can send letter,
the postage to be paid by the receiver
Every day now the funny fellow re-
ceives n grist of letters from soldiers
thanking him for the box, and promis-
ing that all the boys will write again
next day, and he has TO put up all the
postage
ga few years ago Mr.. Fox Tail, n
Comanche Indian, welded Miss Bull
tail, an Arapahoe girl, living near I'll
Reno Foxt Tail promised his wife's
father the usual number Of dogs, cat
tie, ponies and tobacco. Up TO the
present time Fox Tail has failed to
keep his promise with his father.in-
law and last week the father-in-law
went to the home of his son-in-law and
took away his wife and four children,
Now Fox Tail is bringing suit to get
them back.
Threshing has begun in the north
ern part Of the state and the first in
stallment Of Pawnee county's new,
1908, wheat crop has made its appear
ance on the market. 1t weighed fifty
six pounds to the bushel, and the field
from which 1t was threshed produced
twenty-five and a half bushels to the
acre. 1t is estimated that this years
crop in Pawnee county will aggregate
!, 100000 bushels, and the most of it
will grade fairly good No. g There
are now about dfty threshlng ma
chimes with their outfits at work in
Pawnee county, .Ir>
A talented young woman OF Kansas
who is fast making place for herself
in the art world, is Miss Jo-Shipley
Watson Of Emporia, Miss Walton was
a special student in Wellesley college
in 1sss-00, and afterward studied in
Paris and Berlin, where she became
proficient in the French and German
languages. She also gave her atten-
tion to music, which is her passion,
studying under the guidance of Helm
rich Barth, royal professor and court
pianist of Prussia, and was with him
three years. AS player Miss Watson
has won high admiration, both in the
east and the west, and since her return
to Kansas She has become q successful
instructor, not only in music, but in
the French and German languages.
Many of the Kansas farmers will
build granaries and store their wheat.
They are In condition now that they
do not have to rush all of their grain
onto the market lE.3g
As the Jensen Creamery company Of
Beloit each month issues about 1900
checks, twill dogits full share toward
paying the expenses incurred by the
war, Last month they paid SlO0.l7 to
Sutton Il Robinson for butter fat,
These gentIemep are IN the cattle bus
mess, and devote considerable care and
attention to their mich cows.
DR. George 4. Fairchild, ex-president
of the Kansas Agricultural college, has
accepted the,vice presidency and pro-
fessorship of English literature in
Berca college, Berea, Ky. The accep-
lance of this position takes him out OF
agricultural college work for present.
A ninc-year.old ,Muscotah lad was
recently given twenty-five cents by his
mother as an inducement to have him