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

lodge OF Sons OF veterans Will oe
organized at Eudora.
A Brown county man sold team Of
mares last week for $3.50.
Good prices are the rules at the pub
lie sales throughout Kansas this
spring.
Newton is going to have new band.
1t is to be called the Middle Division
band.
Many Kansans are getting their gar
den seeds planted several days earlier
than usual this spring.
In Kansas theatres there is never
such thing as small audiences. Small
audiences are known as "a fair crowd. :"
The Kansas farmers are wondering
why some fellow doesn't invent =
rocking chair as seat on the reaper
and binder.
March came in like lion in south
ern Kansas this year 1t is the first
time in years that March didn't come
in like dandelion'
John Hedger of Haskell county died
of old age last week. He was 100 years
old. He left widow nearly as old as
he was and three sons.
There was fire at. Rome the other
night and nobody fiddled. Rome is
twelve miles south from Wellington in
Summer county and only one house
was burned.
George NJ. Munger is selling fence
posts cut from trees planted on his
Greenwood county farm within the
last ten years. He has cut 1000 posts
this winter.
1t seems almost impossible to break
up the scarlet fever in Wichita. Since
early last fall there has not been day
when there has not been a case or two
of it in town.
In digging sand in the bed of the Ar.
kansas river near Wichita the other
day, workmen found twelve bottles OF
beer. They had been buried there APP,
parently about twelve years.
The Cove county school ma'ams are
growing mighty independent. Offers
of marriage by mail receive no atten7
ton. The man who wants Cove
county instructress of youth must go
and see her himself.
Warden Lands has fled his report
with the state auditor for the month
of February. The report shows the
total expenditures for the month to be
S12, 963.S1. The earnings of the coal
mine in detail are as follows: Charged
customers, S291.5s; charged state insti-
buttons, S0,515.17; coal sold to wagon
trade, $4,000; total, $40, 1869. The
earnings from other resources amount
ed to SO, 1928.
A warrant was issued last week for
the arrest of Bert Ludlum on charge
of assault and battery. Ludlum is a
school teacher in Minneha township,
Sedgwick county, and recently admin
istered corporal punishment. The par
ents of the boy punished caused the
warrant to be issued. Ludlum is the
fourth teacher arrested in Sedgwick
county on like charge since the COM
mencement of the school year. Prose-
cutions have failed in each case.
The petition in the suit of the state
Of Kansas against the city of Lawrence
to recover on bonds issued by the city
for the university and held by the state
school fund, was fled in the Douglass
county district court last week The
petition is the largest ever filed in the
court, comprising 1000 pages. The
Gmount sued for is s143, 791, with inter-
est amounting to S1,971. 1t will be
some months before the issues in the
case are joined so that it can be tried.
Harper county is infested with an or
ganized gang of horsethieves and rob-
bers. Last week, in a town seven
miles east of Harper, thieves entered a
store, drilled into safe, and were pre-
pared to blow open the same, when
away, leaving a complete
set of crackmen's tools. A number of
horses and several sets of good harness
have been stolen in Harper county
lately. A committee will be organized
in few days to take decisive measures
to protect the people.
A new graft has turned up in Sedg-
wick county for which the farmers
should be on their guard. A soomth
tougued rascal comes along with seed
oats to sell. There is nothing common
about these oats. They are the big
gest, best, brightest, and heaviest oats
that ever grew out of the ground. He
sells half bushel for IS and to show
that he has confidence in them agrees
to take all the farmer will raise from
them at one dollar bushel. One far
mer who was won by his tnlk signed an