Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-30

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The number Of wholesale joints cannot
be guessed.
Young Collins should not be abused
too hard. Perhaps the college yell
corroded his mind,
During May and June, 1878, 1t rained
continually In Kansas and the crop OF
wheat was enormous.
The Southern Kansas Lyceum league
has secured about $4,000 worth OF plat
form talent for next year,
Harvest is progressing nicely in
some parts OF the stats, while In other
portions 1t is not yet began.
The colored troops from Kansas,
will, at the instance Of Governor
Lcedy, be Differed by colored men.
Topeka has started up It's old chest
nut-the auditorium-again. II will
never be built unless the legislature
appropriates the money.
The corn crop all over the state has
made rapid improvement during the
past week. Many Of the weeds have
been killed.
Medicine Lodge will have an ace
high Fourth OF July celebration this
year, and among other attractions is
advertised the blowing up Of the Span
ish battleship "Vizcaya."
For seventeen years W. f. Ramsey,
OF Mitchell county, has lived in the old
sod house and dug.out, but last week
the family moved into one OF the best
country residences in the county.
At olathe the other day fifteen or
twenty young folks just out Of school,
u number Of school teachers and sew
eral other people supposed to be well
informed had quite an argument over
the location Of Chickamauga, and there
was only one person in the crowd who
was real sure that he knew where it
was 1t is safe to say that there was
no old soldiers in the crowd. They
remember Chickamauga. off-hand,
now, can you give the location Of 1t
yourself?
A special from Newton dated June
20, says; "a third expedition OF men
has passed through here in charge OF a
Santa Fe train. Like the two former
expeditions, the men claimed they
were not tramps, but were sincere in
their efforts to secure work. Officers
and train men tried to dislodge them,
but it was a failure. When the train
reached Hutchinson, eighty Of the
men, who appeared to be nothing but
tramps, were unloaded and guarded
by city and railroad officials until the
train left, The men made the usual
plea about looking for work in the
harvest fields"
The Ladies Cemetery association OF
South Haven, has taken advantage of
the early rush Of harvest hands to that
section to have the cemetery fixed up.
The men have come in little too ear
~ for harvest and some Of them have
signihed willingness to work at very
reasonable wages until harvest begins
The grounds are being moved and
cleaned up and the old sunken graves
filed 1t would surprise the commun-
ity to know the number of graves that
have been discovered which had been
entirely lost sight of, and also the
number of sunlSen and neglected ones
that have been filed up and properly
cared for.
1t is now certain that Kansas will
be represented at the musical contest
which will take place at the Omaha
exposition in September. Prof. d. 0.
Jones, of Emporia, is organizing
chorus which will take part in this
contest. He has already secured the
names of forty persons in Emporia
who have pledged themselves to join
his chorus. However, the chorus will
be Kansas chorus. So Topeka, otta-
wa and Newton as we'll as Emporia
will be represented in it, Prof. Jones
already has twelve names pledged
from Topeka. Among these are Mr..
Shirer who Is the best tenor in the
state. A like number will be procured
from ottawa and Newton. The prize
for which the chorus will compete will
be 81, 1000.
Last week in Comanche county old
"rwo Toes was killed. "Two Toes"
may be somewhat unknown to fame,
but the people in the Strip and South
western Kansas know him plenty.
1.-TWO Toes" is a wolf. Four years ago
he was caught in trap and escaped,
leaving two Of his toes in the trap,
which gave the beast his name Since
then he has been chased for hundreds
of miles, but the willy. animal always
managed to escape. His hide is on ex-
hibition at bank in Kiowa and meas.