Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-10-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A Mcpherson county man who tool
Hshotgun TO town with him n few days
ago is one leg shy now, He handled
the gun carelessly.
A Phillips county man has peach
orchard in which, II he uses proper
care, he can gather peaches that graw
three to The pound,
Residents OF the northern part OF
Kansas, from the Missouri river clear
out TO the state line are doing the
right thing by the Omaha exposition.
Emil Arner, u former Saline county
man, is now general manager OF a
cracker company down In the City OF
Mexico, the property Of Maine capt.
talists.
This storm Ia little previous, and
Is doing business in rather an italic
sort of fashion, but n storm in Kansas
this winter won't bring the grief that
accompanied those that came a couple
of winters ago.
There IL almost as much Joy In q
country print shop over IN item stat
ing that farmers living within short
distance OF rival place are coming TO
town with wheat, as over n local which
brings five cents line
Kansas will at last get some good
out Of her road overseers this fall. A
ten cent stamp will be placed on all
nomination papers filed and Of course
this hits the nomination for road over
seers MS well as the rest Of the push.
Right now Ellsworth county has
more money in the hands of the treas
urer than ut any time since II was or
ganized. A good many Kansas farm
ers just now have on hand more mon
ey than at any time since locating in
the state.
Many of the farmers have finished
gathering their corn and the yield Is
said to be even beyond their expecta-
tons The average yield is better this
season than since the opening Of Okla
homa TO settlement. The season has
been good one and the nubbins are
scarce this year.
With the last weeks issue the Gay
lord Herald entered upon its Goth year.
This may not seem such great nge,
but it's whole lot for u paper pub
lished in u small town in western Kan
sas and the Herald never has had
more news, more ads or better stuff to
set them WITH than right now.
Two men, one aged, the other young
and claiming to be his son, have just
cleaned up $500 from u Council Grove
loan agent, They presented abstracts
and deeds showing themselves to be
owners of farm near that place and
secured the loan to make improve
ments, An investigation shows that
the title is missing. The men have
Jeff the country. The papers were all
forged.
The new Mennonite church in Tur-
key Creek township, Mcpherson coun-
ty, is nearly completed, 1t cost about
$4,000 all Of which Is paid except
about 81, 900 which will be raised in u
few days. 1t is expected that the
church will be dedicated on the 30th.
The services will last all day, lunch
being served on the grounds. There
will be English services from to
o'clock p. IN,
Henry Stout had strange eXper-
fence in well-boring recently, In dig
ging well on his place near Beverly
it was found necessary to go to depth
of over eighty feet to get below the de-
posts of shale and rock which inter
vened between good water, and when
the last ledge was pierced artesinn
flows followed with great force, The
stream is nearly six inches thick and
was thrown out OF the mouth of the
we'll TO height of over thirty feet.
The water is very clear, cold and pure
and the flow seems inexhaustible.
The Kansas Experiment Station at
Manhattan has made some valuable
experiments in fattening pigs on Katiir
corn. When fed in connection with
alfalfa, soy beans or skim-mills it is a
valuable food for fattening hogs, but
when fed alone it Is not equal to corn
In the western part Of the state Kafiir
corn is more valuable to raise for hogs
than corn because it is much more
certain crop than corn in that locality.
The soy bean is found TO be one OF the
best crops for resisting the drouth and
the soy bean and Kaftir corn, when fed
together, make most excellent ration
for growing and fatttening hogs. A
great amount of both are raised in the
state,
Hereafter the banks of Holton will
close at four o'clock, except on Satur-
days. when they will remain open an