Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-03

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1t is reported that there is twelve
inches of snow on the level in Ford
county.
A Kansas barber advertises that he
would greatly appreciate '1ess loa6ng
and more patronage"
Sumner county's sole contribution
to the suffering Cubans is, up to date,
just one five dollar bill
In all the large eastern factories it is
becoming generally known that south
ern Kansas and Oklahoma are the most
prosperous spots in the country.
Mrs. Thorpe, the police matron at
Topeka, has issued manifesto claim
ing that four-fifths of the fallen wom-
en- are the daughters of drunkards.
During the year 1897 the Canton
creamery received 10,972, $40 pounds Of
milk and turned out S59,7 53 pounds of
butter which was sold for S136, 1881.
A country correspondent Of the Eu.
dora News gives an idea of the condi-
ton of the roads there by saying that
they are navigable for gun boats draw
ing two feet of water.
A Montgomery county man furnishes
the Santa Fe railroad company with
all the brooms it uses, from Chicago to
California. The contract amounts to
about 1900 dozen year.
A Ford county young lady while
coasting this week ran into tree and
hurt herself. 1t is impossible to make
some eastern Kansans believe that
there are either trees or hills in west
ern Kansas.
The banks of Kansas which are car
rying an immense amount of cattle
paper, were warned some during the
recent snow-storm for fear the cattle
would be wiped out. The reports now
coming in show that the cattle did rot
suffer at all.
The solicitors who started out some
time ago for the purpose of raising
$50, 900 for Bethany College, at Linds-
borg, have the satisfaction of knowing
that the end of their work is in sight,
having secured something over S15, 900
up to date. They struck good year
for the undertaking, but are entitled
to great credit for their work; it is no
easy matter to raise such fund even
in the best of times.
Five school districts in Stafford couH-
ty have abandoned the maintenance of
schools and have arranged to have
their children sent to Maxwell, CEN
trail point, to be educated. Each dis
trict has entered into an agreement
with parents to gather up the children
in the morning and take them to the
school for less than 81 per day. To
maintain school would cost each dis
trict at least SO day Superintendent
Stryker has information that combina-
ton of similar kind are being made
in several parts of the state.
One of the incidents of orcharding on
a large scale is the constant warfare
which it is necessary to wage on the
rabbits that are so likely to work great
destruction to the young apple trees.
This is illustrated by the operations Of
Wellhouse & Son, who are recognized
as the apple kings. For their orchard in
Usage county they used carload Of
lumber in the construction of 1,7O0
rabbit traps; for their three orcha rds
Leavenworth county they have 1,6O0
traps, ard ina Mama county orchard,
400 traps. These traps consist of box
% inches long, made of ordinary six
inch lumber, one inch thick, closed at
one end, and with wire gate in the
other end, which is closed by contact
of the rabbit with trigger after he
has entered About four feet of lum-
Der and four feet of No. 10 galvanized
iron wire are consumed in the making
Of each trap, which costs from 19!S to
Is cents.
James W. Hughes OF Pittsburg, who
has for almost two years been closely
identified with the promotion of Port
Arthur, has severed his connection
from the company on account of the
treatment of him Mr..
Hughes is outspolsen with regard to
the cause which led him to take this
step. He gave up the rental and local
real estate business which he had ut
the time that he accepted the local
agency or rather the Crawford county
agency for the sale of Port Arthur
He claims that he was to be
the sole agent in Crawford county en-
ployed by the company, but he claims
that the company far from abiding by
that agreement have placed other
agents in the field which he believed
vas his, and his solely. Since Port
Arthur property has been handled by
other Pittsburg parties, he estimates
that he has lost in the neighborhood of