Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-07

The Kansas farmers are busy plant
ing corn and the garden making is in
full blast.
It is said there will be at least six
candidates for every Pottawatamie
county office this fall.
6Attorney General Boyle has given an
opinion that ''divine healersn are not
liable to prosecution under the anti
quack law.
More trees have been set out this
spring than at any one season in the
history of the state. Much interest
has been taken in the matter.
Well-to-do citizens of Lawrence will
furnish the necessary funds to rebuild
the shops and electricity building at
the University, which was destroyed
by fire after being struck by light
ming.
A cooking school at Emporia is caus-
ing material increase in the produc-
ton of profanity. The women who
attend are trying all sorts of new dish
es and their husbands invariably take
dinner up town.
Oliver White of Gray county, left on
March 81 for Seattle, from which place
he expects to start about April IS for
Klondike He is to join company
from Illinois who are fitting out their
own ship for the voyage. He is the
first Gray county boy to leave for that
region.
The Atchison creamery will reopen
under the management of Biddick &c
Rogers, from the Kansas creamery at
Topeka, between April and 10. The
new management propose making
Atchison their butter station, and es-
tablishing as many skimming stations
as they can use to advantage.
The executive committee of the irri-
cation movement in connection with
the Arkansas river, met on March Goth
and vigorously urged the further pros
ecution of the move. Sedgwick coun-
ty will be canvassed for funds for the
fight as the Colorado ditch men are
aaid to be well supplied financially.
Cash Henderson, Sedgwick county
merchant, has signed his willingness
to contribute $500. The efforts to get
real water in the Arkansas river will
be continued and the Colorado ditch
men fought to a finish.
The inhabitants of Jewell county
are considerably worked up over the
rumor that the Santa Fe is thinking of
the advisability of extending the Bar
nard branch, which runs from Man
chester on the Superior branch, to Bar
nard, from there to Jewell county and
through Mitchell county. Last year
Jewell county raised more corn to its
acreage than any other county in Kan
sas, and branch through Mitchell
and Jewell county would surely be
good feeder for the main line traffic.
Nothing is positively known about che
proposed addition.
A bulletin compiled from reports of
correspondents in nearly every county
in the state, setting forth the present
condition of the growing winter wheat;
the percentage of failure, by counties,
if any, and its cause; acreage sown to
oats as compared with last year, and
present condition of the soil for work.
ing, was issued on March 3Oth by the
state board of agriculture. AS whole,
the condition of wheat is very favora-
BILE and in many counties exceptionally
promising, with but small percentage
of failure from all causes. The acre
age sown to oats appears to be slightly
increased. No damage by the cold
weather of March 1924 is reported. In
much of the state the soil is thorough
ly saturated, and in some of the east
ern counties entirely to wet for pres
ent working. In the main present
conditions are excellent indeed.
In Lincoln county a marriage license
was recently issued to couple, the
ages of the bride and groom being Is
and 10.
In Montgomery county man pub
lished a notice warning all persons not
to trust his wife on his account as she
had left him. To this his better half
got back in very good shape by an
nouncing in the same manner that had
she been able to find anybody of whom
she could have secured food for the
family on his account she would not
have left him.
In case of push order the new press
ed brick plant at Humboldt could turn
out over 100000 every twenty-four
hours.
One western Kansas man who start
ed for the Klondike to get barrel Of
money got as far as Seattle, and when
he got fairly mived mn in the rush and