Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-11-03


Tho ammunition dealer is smiling
like coal man.
Kansas Is having genuine autumn
weather again aimee the recent cold
wave.
The Kansas coal dealers report bust
ness on the standstill during the past
few daya
The man who takes 'straw vote"
In the smoking car Is now bobbing up
for attention.
The wheat fields throughout Kansas
are looking fine. Good rains are re-
ported all over the state.
Kansas stock were never In better
condition for the approaching winter,
There will be little suffering in Kan.
sas this winter.
All classes OF business men, except
doctors and undertalters, report bust
ness good in Kansas just aC the present
time, Everybody has money and they
are apparently putting in to mighty
good use.
The few heavy frosts that Kansas
has had during the month Of October
has been severe blow to the little
vegetation II found in mother earth
In fact coal dealers are about the only
benefactors Of cold wave.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has decided TO build tele-
phone line from Emporia to Council
Grove This company will also con-
struct n telephone line from Emporia
to Newton The poles for these two
lines have already been ordered.
These lines will take in all the inter
mediate points,
Secretary Coburn Is sending out
some very attractive reports regarding
the Kansas hog. 1t is shown in these
reports that the average Kansas pork
er is far ahead Of the porker raised in
many of the other states. This will no
doubt be encouraging news to many
of the extensive hog-raisers in the
Sunilower State. This industry Is in
creasing with the Kansas farmers
every year.
Edward Bissell, of sedgwics, was
terribly injured last week by the acct
dental explosion Of his shotgun. Mr..
Bissell was hunting in Mcpherson
county and was just going into shed
belonging to u friend to put away his
gun, when he dropped it and it ex-
ploded. The shot ranged upward.
Some lodged in the pit of his stomach,
some in the lower jaw, portion of his
nose was torn off, as was part Of his
eyebrows and left hand.
Cofreyville is to have pottery plant
which will give employment to forty
men, and in which natural gas will be
used for fuel. These natural gas towns
have great cinch on business. The
Atchison Globe is trying to arouse in.
terest In this matter over there. It Is
claimed that there are the best indica-
tons Of plentiful supply of gas in
that vicinity. If Atchison should strike
natural gas, coupled with its excellent
railroad facilities, the town would be
u cracker jack,
The dairy class at the agricultural
college has been testing Idulterated
milk. Each member was supplied
with five samples Of milk, without
any knowledge Of how they had been
treated, and asked to give diagnosis
of each sample, BY the use of the
Thermometer, lactometer and Babcock
test they found that one sample was
normal milk, one sample had been
watered, one sample skinned, one
both watered and SKINNED, and one
had cream added to it.
A Kansas man recently went to Ok
lahoma where he bought n big bunch
of cattle, intending to feed them. AS
soon as he had completed the deal the
farmers OF the neighborhood got to-
gether and raised the price of corn
several cents on the bushel. The Kan.
san remarked that he had learned sew.
ernl useful schemes in his youth, and
quietly took scoot to u point 15C
miles distant. Here he contracted for
all the corn he needed to feed his cat.
tic, at decent price, and then pro-
ceeded to drive the steers to the corn.
The real Kansas hustler is mighty
hard to catch
Outing Magazine for November
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Outing for November is an all alive
number wide in its scope and timely
in its subjects. The horse in the show
ring, the football player on the grid
iron, the Golfer in championships, the
tennis player at the nets, the Yacht
on the storm-tossed bosom of old
ocean, the trapper in the woods, the
athlete in his Chicago home, the Sal