Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-08-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Newton will raise the taxes 10 Ply
on the city debta
A contagious disease is killing many
Of tho hogs In Butler county.
Council Grove citizens want the
weeds In that town cut down.
Wichita county claims to have two
carloads Of wheat for every voter.
The Haskell football team at Law
renee have already commenced prac-
tice.
Counterfeit money Is bobbing up In
the wake OF circus which is making
Kansas.
The Chickamauga boys have had
less trouble than any other body OF
Kansas troops,
Most OF the papers OF Kansas point
with pride TO the statement of the To-
cal bank in their last issue,
On voting $4,000 bonds to buy the
water works plant, @s7 people Mt Ar
kansas City voted against IT,
Since the colorcd volunteers OF To-
peha have been paid of they are the
SWEETEST coons in all Topeka,
A nice Jersey calf, belonging TO a
Butler county man, drank u half pint
of white paint. Naturally tho calf
died.
The Sunday schools around Sterling
nro in middle, All want to hold n
separate picnic in one park ct one
time.
Kansas was visited by another good
rain on August 18th. A good rain is
no uncommon occurrence In Kansas
this year.
A smallpox epidemic is reported at
MIanitou Springs, Colorado. Kansans
who contemplate going there should
be careful,
A policeman Mt Leavenworth has
discovered well forty feet deep, and
half full Of water, under sidewalk on
Main street.
There is scheme on foot to resur-
rect the old electric light plant at
Stockton which was in operation dur
ing the days Of the boom.
"Therc is more money being brought
in here than will be taken out" writes
I'm Osborne county young man who is
mp in the Klondike country,
The organization OF company of
Wichita capitalists to start boom in
Cuba Ia only another evidence that
the Pearl OF the Antilles Is not through
with trouble.
This Is the season when the corn
smell makes the country fragrant II
man Is true Kansan to his heels,
he regards this corn swell sweeter
than any dollar-an-ouncc perfume.
A spring Is said to have been found
in Kansas that spouts Intoxicating
water. The poets will cease to twang
their tuneful Tyres to old mother na-
ture II they find out that she has gone
into the lincolnshire" business,
The members OF the cowboy band
who recently passed through Kansas
certainly are thoroughbreds At OF
tawa they attached their cards to full
bottles Of beer, and pitched the bottles
out of car windows TO the crowd about
the depot
There is nothing in Kansas too good
for the rough riders. When Private
Grant Travis came back sick and
wounded the good people Of Anthony
too up a subscription Of one hundred
dollars and sent him to health resort
to recuperate.
A steam pillow pulled by an eighteen
horse power thrcshing engine is in
operation in Sumner county, The en-
CINE pulls four fourteen-inch plows,
cutting six inches deep, but can han
die six plows II necessary, 1t is being
used in field of sunnowers in which
it would be impossible for team to
work. The gentleman who is using it
is doing so for the purpose of deter
mining whether land can be plowed
as cheaply by team as by horse power.
Talking about sugar bects Kansas
enthusiast on this subject says; "When
the corn is dropping for the want OF
rain and whitening under the hot
winds, sugar beet is perfecting it's
juices, and calmly absorbing the ele.
ments OF sweetness from the orb OF
day and the Texas zephyr, while II
modestly sits in the fertile soil Of the
Arkansas Valley" Judging from this
then, it might be good plan for the
corn raiser Of the aforesaid valley to
"hedge" with field of sugar beets
In this manner he would be prepared
10 derive benefit from any brand Of
of climate on tap.
The Kansas bows have no penuin,