Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-06

Many hogS are now oelng put on the
Kansas markets, Notwithstanding the
low price.
Kansas is no place for money
lender this year. We all have plenty,
thank you.
The Santa Fe's round house at Ar
konsas City will be enlarged from ten
stalls to twenty-five
All the reports are in and show that
this year in the whole state of Kansas
not more than three Santa Clauses got
burned.
A. Nortonvile man who is hunting
gold in Alaska writes home that it is
harder to get out of that country than
it is to get in.
James Fl. Pickering of Plevna has
taken out a license to marry Myrtle
Todd of the same town. Miss Todd is
but Is years of age.
A Kansas jointist has been arrested
for stealing coffee. Perhaps the poor
man wanted something to drink that
was not adulterated.
Kansas has just one bad habit left
the state is saying that we must have
good crops next year. Kansas will be
all right even with a failure.
The poultry shows throughout the
state are just now attracting the aver
age Kansans eye. They are begin
ming to take great interest in this
matter.
Now that the holidays are past the
Kansas farmer can give his stock much
needed attention and prepare to meet
the cold blast that is predicted for in
January.
Some Kansas papers are worrying
over the charge that Christmas is sim
ply descendant of the old Roman
Saturnalia. But no one need drink
egg-nogg on Christmas unless he wants
to-
Judge Foster says that Bryon Gill
bert, the Atchison infant lawyer,
should be in a kindergarten instead of
ut the bar. He thinks great injus
tice is being done the boy in making
him believe that he is lawyer
The people of Oklahoma and South
ern Kansas have been threatened with
coal famine ever since the cold wealth
er set in. In fact, some of the towns
have teen out for several days. If n
severe storm should occur closing us
our communication with mines there
would be suffering:
The Kansas wheat fields would have
looked great deal better if the season
would have had more billiards. and
snowstorms, or in other words more
wet, freezing spells. In the year 1896
Kansas people saw more and deeper
SHOWS than for many, many years.
And what was the result? More and
superior qualities of different wheat
than has ever before been grown in
the state.
Frank Weinshenk, chairman of the
Live Stock Sanitary commission, and
Taylor Riddle, of Marion, secretary,
are preparing their annual report.
They state that the board will claim
credit for the fact that there were only
two serious outbreaks of fever during
the year. This they say is due to their
stringest enforcement of the quaran-
tine regulations.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Arkansas Valley Farmer and Fruit
Growers association will be held in
Hutchinson on January 18th and 14th.
Many interesting topics are on the
program for discussion. The evening
sessions are to be treated to fine mu-
steal program. 1t is expected that the
sessions will be even more largely at
than heretofore.
Prof. Knerr, scientist of Midland
college, visited Doniphan lake, six
miles north of Atchison on the 2Sth of
December. and says there is no doubt
about the existence of natural gas
there. 1t is found in pockets under
the ice By tapping these pockets the
gas which shoots up, can be lighted,
and will burn for minute or two, or
until the deposit in the pocket is con-
sumed. AT other places the gas bub.
bes up so rapidly that it prevents ice
from forming. it has always been con-
sidered marsh, but Prof. Knerr says it
is true natural gas.
As Mrs Samuel Devore was visiting
a neighboring family her dress was ig-
nited from an old fashioned fireplaee,
and before help arrived she was 80
badly burned from head to foot that
tine doctors pronounce her case fatal
one. The front of her body and limbs
were burned almost to crisp The
Devore family have been unfortunate
A year ago their little boy died sud-
denly, supposed to have been bitten
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