Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-15

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years old, by the way, it Is improving
with age
A forest fire Is raging in the western
part OF the state, Already fifteen sec.
tions Of land have been burned over
An Usage county steer which wa;
sold on the Kansas City market few
days ago only lacked forty poundi
OF Weighing an even ton,
Downs admits that Osborne leads II
somewhat In population, but says that
the latter town has the advantage In
having the jail there,
II there were another war within {
year the rough riders would keep Out
OF II. In common with every man whc
went to Cuba they have had enough,
The Catholics are erecting the larg
est convent college nt Concordia that
there 10 In the state. II Ia u four-story
brick structure and will cost about
100000.
An Atchlson county farmer, John
Stewart, Is pretty well stocked lie
has 10000 bushels OF corn in his crib,
80 head OF cattle and 3s head of horses
and mules
A Douglas county farmer whilo on
his way home from market was robbed
of $500, the proceeds OF this years
wheat crop. That is tougher luck than
to see ones field taken by hot winds,
The horse disease which Is now ex-
citing farmers in central Kansas
first attacks the equine's stomach and
the dirordered stomach in some way
effects the lungs II is not contagious,
but epidemic,
A tramp printer recently worked n
Fairbury newspaper for Sl5 for an ink
making receipt, He sold the same re-
ceipt at Smith Confer for u bottle Of
Budweiser, Some towns evidently
contain bigger suckers than others,
The two-year-old child OF couple
living in Jackson county died last week
as n result Of getting hold OF some car
bolic acid. A census OF the deaths
caused by the negligence of handling
poisons would give some startling fig
ures.
According to fashion journal one
of the very latest fads is might robe
which Is made by the wearer's own
hands" There are thousands and
thousands of good women in Kansas
who have been following that fad for
years.
A photographer bearing the name OF
Ickelheimer lIenthon is working
through northwest Kansas counties,
Four or five years ago the man Juggling
name like that into that section OF
state would have been thrown ont so
quickly that it would have made his
head swim.
A young lad in Atchison started to
run away the other day because his
parents obliged him to go to school.
When he gets older and has to start
out in the world to hump for what he
can get he will want to kick himself
ror not approaching the soft thing he
now has at home,
Glen Elder cyclists did not take kind
ly to the ordinance requiring all
wheels to have n bell, and on the day
when t. went into effect all the owners
Of wheels in town rode forth ringing
COW bells; and the bigger the bell and
the moro discordant the noise pro-
duced, the better it suited them.
This state has u bright future be.
fore 1t, The wheat crop has turned
out an excellent yield, and the corn is
above the average; the fruit, consisting
Of peaches plums and grapes, have
yielded well-especially the grapes;
most of the farmers are out of debt,
besides having their farms clear and
little money laid up for rainy day;
many improvements have been made
on the old homcsteads, in the way of
stocking up the farms, building out
building and sheds for protection Of
stock, grain and machinery and num-
erous little improvement not herein
mentioned.
A Splendid Attraction.
Wichita theatre goers are to be es-
pecially favored early this season in
the high-class amusement line for one
of the first attractions presented will
be that great hit of the past season, in
musical comedies The Gay Matinee
Girl" which is admitted to be the
brightest and funniest in its line.
Manager Edwin p. Hilton, who is we'll
known to our people as one who al.
ways handles fine attractions, informs
us that this season he has an eXtraor.
binary good company, headed by the
famous comedians, Monroe g. Hart,
and Amprirn's host Somhrnttn Malta