Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-17

ers have bought 100000 of Cowley
county refunding bonds.
A Stockton man purchased a span o.
mules for $3.50, which he will ship tC
his brother in Vermont.
Residents of Coffeyville think they
are getting mite too much yellow
mud along with their hydrant water
Kid Wilson, prominent youth Of
Council Grove, has gone east for the
purpose of going up against some Of
his ilk.
A band of gypsies with enough sto-
len goods in their possession to start a
dry goods store have been arrested at
Wathena.
At the Cross cattle sale in Lyon coun.
ty last week, one animal sold for SO, 900.
This is said to have been the highest
price paid at public auction for Here.
ford.
Coffeyville will have a straw paper
factory. A charter has already been
issued authorizing it's incorporation,
1t speciality will be turning out egg
case filling.
A million dollar company has been
formed at Atchison under the name Of
the Farmland Realization company,
Its object is to buy, sell, rent and cul'
tivate land in north central Kansas.
This is going to be a tremendous
corn year in Kansas. The Kansas far
mer will not have to pick nubbins and
content himself with the sentiment;
''Man wants but little ear below"
The captain of the Wichita militia
company is now studying out a scheme
whereby he can get that old brass can.
non which has injured four or five
Wichita boys for life, into the hands
of the Spaniards.
A majority of the people have never
heard that the making of maple sugar
is one of the Industries of Kansas.
Marion Smith, farmer living in Mia
mi county, has about 200 trees tapped
at his farm, and is making sugar and
syrup of very fine quality. Gas has
been found near Mr.. Smiths farm, and
next season he intends to boil his sap
with gas and tap over 800 trees.
State Treasurer Hefflebower still re-
fuses to register the Graham county
bonds which have been purchased by
the School Fund Commissioners. His
position is that the bonds are not worth
their face value. Attorny General Boyle
has begun a mandamus suit in the Su-
preme court to test the question of
whether the Treasurer has power to
block the purchase of bonds after the
School Fund Commissioners have
bought them.
The Wellington youth has found out
what it means to suffer for love. His
girl, who had the measles, sent him
word that she was i'll and wanted to
see him without telling him what was
the matter. The young man went and
bit in the room with the girl, holding
her hand and expressing mis- sympathy
until he had absorbed about a skillet
full of measles microbes, and now has
about the redhottest ease ever seen in
that country. When that girl sends
message to him again she will have to
accompany it with genuine health
certificate.
The prospects for an enormous crop
Of wheat in Dickinson county are ex-
cellent. The recent rains and warm
weather having brought it out in such
fine condition that the green fields
can be seen for miles in extent, there
having been an extra large acreage
planted last fall. Should the present
high price of grain continue until next
fall, as undoubtedly it will, the Kan
sas farmers will be placed in one of
the most prosperous conditions ever
known in the history of the state. The
oats seeding, which was in full blast
will be stopped for few days on ac-
count of the recent rain. The farmers
of Dickinson county are beginning to
realize their dream of true prosperity
once more. They will once more be
able to send their children to college,
and free the old farm of the detesti-
BILE mortgage.
The State does not pay for the trans
portation of persons to any of the State
institution except the penitentiary
Shawnee county pays nearly as much
tax as Atchison, Douglas and johnson
counties combined, and nearly as much
as Atchison and Leavenworth counties.
On personal property it pays as much
as Wyandotte, Douglas and johnson
counties combined. 1t is evident that
Shawnee county assessors value proper
ty too high or that the assessors in Che
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