Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-16


Atchison.
2awnee county farmers are engag-
ing harvest hands already and paying
them dollar day TO wait till harvest
begins,
So far every town In Kansas that has
employed teachers for the coming year
has increased the salaries and added To
the number employed. ~
Just nineteen years ago John Royce
struck northwest Kansas, and he says
that country never had finer prospects
for good crops than right now. u
During the month of May, real estate
mortgages to the amount OF Sal,lss
were cancelled In Washington county;
9l4,ld9 In excess OF new mortgages
fled.
Fifteen Leavenworth prisoners have
been put on bread and water until
they disclose the information as To
where they got the tools TO dig out
with recently,
The Esltridgc Star remarks that just
at present the best known bottle on
earth Is the one at Santiago dc Cuba
and TINT no other one has nastier
mixture corked up in II,
II cost lady living in Hope just
SOL TO find out that the ordinance
prohibiting CHICKENS from running at
large in that town was no joke. She
Is now living in despair.
Speaking of thrift, IL is said that
there is young man in Kensington
who will ask u young lady to accom-
pany him for u ride and then allow
her TO pny the rent of the wheel she
uses.
Lebanon, one OF the rustling towns
OF Smith county, recently raised $500
for the purpose Of purchasing u base
ball ground and placing 1t in shape for
use. There must be lots OF money in
Smith county when small town like
Lebanon can raise sum like that for
such purpose.
An Atchison county farmer gives the
Record the following report
concerning the chinch bugs; They're
all right. The rain has not drowned
them out, nor the cold snap frozen
them to death. They will be found at
tending strictly TO business when the
proper time comes"
II has been figured out that last year
Sumner county raised more wheat than
all six Of the New England States,
Delaware, North and South Carolina
and Florida combined and that the
crop of the state was larger by mil
lion bushels than that of New England
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. As wheat producer Kansas Is
entitled to considerable respect.
Warden lands of the penitentiary
has filed notice with Governor Barnes,
Of Oklahoma, that prisoners from the
territory will not be kept at his insti-
tuition In the future unless higher
rate is paid far caring for them. The
present rate is 95 cents per day and
there are l4O Oklahoma prisoners,
For this compensation the convicts are
10 be fed, clothed and cared for. Mr.,
Lands. says that the state is losing
money on the deal. The increase de-
handed will probably be given.
The Kansas City Times says; "The
present war will be source of great
among the future historians
of Kansas, There will be men among
hem who will insist that the major Of
The Twenty.frst was a son of old John
Brown of 0snwatomic and will dig up
lhe sword presented to him by the
asylum employees of that town to prove
Il. II will be contended that Harvey
was named after the first lieu
5enant-governor in the state, who pre-
'erred being Il patriot to being an
that Little river was
named after the licutenant-colonel of
he Twentieth, and Graham county
was named after the Northumberland
Of the Twenty-second
The Irving Leader says; "Pecple
who usually patronize the peddiers
should remember that goods pcddled
by the average peddler are made to sell
and not for service and durability, but
cheap in quality and therefore expen.
sive at any figure" A great truth. The
peddlcr is after the profit he can get
out of the first and only sale he ever
expects to make to one customer. He
does not expect, as rule, to cover the
same ground twice. He can make more
money by changing his beat. The
home merchant sells goods with a view
of holding all the trade he can, and