Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

better sewer system.
Stalk cutting and oats sowing has
commenced in Jewell county.
Clmarron has woman for Mayor, a
woman for postmistress, and woman
Cor superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
If Kansan feels his sympathy for
the Cubans weakening, let him take
ups good history and read about Val
ley Forge.
The Fl. Riley troops which were sent
TO southern points took all their be-
longings and their families. The move
Is permanent.
The Kansans who expect TO play
poker on the coat tails of the Spanish
In the first battle, will be disappoint-
ed. The Spanish coat has no tail.
Atthe Cross cattle sale in Lyon coun-
ty last week, one animal sold for SO, 900.
This is said to have been the highest
price paid at public auction for a Here
ford.
Coffeyville will have a straw paper
factory. A. charter has already been
issued authorizing its incorporation,
1t speciality will be turning out egg
case filling.
A Parsons man poked a lighted
match along gas pipe to locate leak.
He found it all right but took prompt
action in shutting off the supply to
keep the house from burning.
This is going to be a tremendous
corn year in Kansas. The Kansas far
mer will not have to pick nubbins and
content himself with the sentiment;
''Man wants but little ear below"
A million dollar company has been
formed at Atchison under the name of
the Farmland Realization company.
Its object is to buy, sell, rent and cub
tivate land in north central Kansas.
In the case of a long war Uncle Sam
will find that while Kansas is not very
thirsty for war, Kansas will be one
state where he will not be under the
necessity of drafting his own nephews.
One Republic county farmer was
worked by the lightning rod swindlers
to the tune of sos and another for S105.
And yet the average of intelligence is
probably as high there as any place in
Kansas.
"We don't want to boast" remarks
the bashful editor of the Burr Oak
Herald, "but we would like to call at
tention to the fact that Jewell county
produces more corn, sells more hogs,
feeds more cattle and ships more eggs
and poultry to a greater value than
any other county in the great state of
Kansas" This is pretty strong claim,
but then it is will known fact that
Jewell county is a particularly swift
member Of the Kansas family, and it
may be true.
The Wellington youth has found out
what it means to suffer for love. His
girl, who had the measles, sent him
word that she was i'll and wanted to
see him without telling him what was
the matter. The young man went and
sit in the room with the girl, holding
her hand and expressing his sympathy
until he had absorbed about skillet
full of measles microbes, and now has
about the redhottest case ever seen in
that country. When that girl sends
message to him again she will have to
accompany it with genuine health
certificate.
A good house wife over at Holton is
suffering from an attack of nervous
prostration, brought about by the of
fer of tramp to saw wood for half an
hour for cake of soap. And it was
no bluff, either. He sawed.
Incidents and stories connected with
the big prairie FIRE continues to come
In, showing that it was the most Sc
we're and disastrous calamity which
has befallen the counties of Gray and
Hodgeman in years, and one which
twill take the citizens long to recover
from.
The Newton carriage factory has been
opened. 1t was shut down four years
ago and has not been opened since.
The Symns company of Moline, Kas.,
have taken hold of the institution and
will run it with large force of men.
The agricultural editor of the Man.
kato Monitor says that ton of alfalfa
Is worth more in the market that ton
of ear corn, and can be raised with
less expense, besides being sure crop
every year. This is treason to King
Corn, but he is reasonably sure of his
sway.
There is brakeman on the Central
Branch who should have his salary
raised. He calls the names of stations
70 plainly that even strangers on the