Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-01

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Apooks.
One farmer near Solomon Is said &c
have two hundred acres In watermel
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A man living In Mcpherson county
has alarmed the natives by beating
his wife.
Green Kafilr is getting in It's work
on stock; the usual thing at this season
of the year.
Kansas has nearly one hundred and
fifty distinct species OF weeds and there
are others yet to come.
II Is said that q Cowley County dairy
man, out of consideration for his GUS
toners, filters his water.
A Kansas farmer says there will be
more wheat In Kansas this year than
Secretary Coburn figures on.
Tom Norton, an old time Kansas
newspaper boy, has got inso the legal
department Of the Santa Fc at Chi
cago.
A southern Kansas man does mot
drink water because he says that he
has cnst-iron constitution and he Is
afraid II would rust it.
A Reno county farmer put 600 pounds
Of watermclons In load OF hay. He
sold / 400 pounds OF hay for ton, and
then sold his watermelons.
An Atchison preacher kissed an eight
ecn-ycar-old girl member of his flock,
and she told her papa. tits quite like
ly the preacher will resign.
A girl living at Hutchinson in an
swering note from her sweetheart to
call, closes 1t with the timely advice to
come early and avoid the rush."
An aged man fell dead in the circus
ut Usage the other day just rs the
clown made his appearance in the ring,
Those clowns are never happy unless
they are working of something old.
A six-year-old Seneca child, while
playing with 99-calibre rifle, shot q
three-year-old baby, the ball passing
through the right ear, entering the
point Of the shoulder and coming out
ut the arm pit.
Westmoreland has n new public
school building, and II Is said that ow-
ing to bad weather while 1t was in
course OF construction the contractors
will not make cent out Of the Job,
This Is something new under the sun.
A letter addressed 10 James Kindig,
v Scranton boy who is with the regu-
lars in Cuba was returned TO Scranton
che other day with the information
that the young man is dead His COM
pany took part in the battle Of Santa
go, but Kindig did not participate in 1t
himself, as he was one of q detail
which was doing guard duty over sup
plies. This is the first intimation that
he had suffered harm, and the suppo-
sition is that in yellow fever he met
his fate.
A young woman Of Harvey county
had hard time in getting her silk
dress to wear when she was married.
One evening few weeks before the
ceremony was performed she went out
buggy riding with another young
man, who offered her five dollars for q
kiss. She needed the money to buy
silk wedding-gown, and silly-like, ac-
ccpted the offer. He thought the kiss
sweet, and purchased another and an
other, at the regular price of five dol
lars each. But imagine the brutality
of the whole affair, when the girl went
to have the bills changcd-all were
counterfeit
Have you ever thought about thisp
In reading letters from the Kansas
boys in the front every one expresses
nm opinion that Is different in regard
to the conduct of the war. Kansans
are free thinkers II nothing else.
An unusually large lot of buns and
thugs appear to be following circuses
through Kansas this season. They
have heard Of the prosperity the peo-
pie Of the state are enjoying, and are
after their share Of it; and Judging
from the reports which appear in the
newspapers they are getting it, too.
just as southern Kansas iointist
had finished doing time in the Sumner
county Jail for violating the prohibi-
tory law, he was seized and placed in
limbo again for similar offense by
the officials of Sedgwick county.
A Sumner county lad who stole
whips from buggies belonging to par
tics in attendance at camp meeting
will take course at the Reform
school. Anyone mean enough to pilfer
from persons engaged in divine wor-
ship would steal billy goats from q
public pound.