Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

teers, it is thought, will get to go to
the Philippines.
The Kansas papers now announce
that editors eat -four and that wheat
is plenty high enough.
Hot weather is coming and the edict
has gone forth in Osborne that all hogs
shall be removed from the city. A
good scheme.
The rain-makers in Kansas became
disheartened and discouraged last year,
aud this year kind, but obstinate ma
ture is letting it rain.
The bright skies of western Kansas
are not wholly without their dark
spots. Five dry goods peddlers are
canvassing in Sheridan county.
The public school system at lola is
forty years old-older by one more
year than the town, for log cabin
school preceded the location of the
city.
Just imagine how much the value of
the wheat row being held in Kansas
has been enhanced by the recent rise.
If the amount were put in figures it
would probably make one dizzy.
In recent teachers examination in
Kansas just fifty-two out of the one
hundred participating passed. Nothing
tickles school children more than to
see teachers fail in an examination.
Oswego furnished thirteen recuits
for the war. Here's hoping that the
hoodoo in the number will work
against the Spaniards they go up
against instead of the boys themselves.
The first Kansas regiment in the war
with Spain has been made up and eX-
cept for a few companies not yetsmust-
cred into the service formally, it is on
ly waiting for orders to move to the
front.
The tears of pretty girl kept
young man from Muscotah from going
to the front. He was all ready to leave,
but just before the train came in the
tears commenced to flow so he changed
his mind.
There is more etiquette on the bench
in Kansas than anywhere else. None
of the judges in Kansas smoke while
on the bench and very few of them
permit smoking in the court room dur
ing sessions.
Kansas oats, while yet very back
ward, have shown fair growth dur
ing the week, but the cool, cloudy
has thus far prevented it from
even a normal growth. This
crop is reported fair to good only in
the southern section.
They are a happy lot at Lindsborg.
The mortgage on Bethany college has
been lifted, the $50, 900 being paid off
this week. Professor Swenson and
his assistants deserve a whole lot of
credit for the hustling they have done
to accomplish this, as do the public
spirited parties who contributed to the
The wheat over Kansas continues to
improve and if looking well. Many
fields are jointing, and from every sec
ton the stand is reported generally
good. The late rains have kept the
crops growing nicely, the cloudy days
and cool nights, too, have been favora-
BILE, and the prospect for large yield
is excellent.
Corn, generally, shows good stand,
it being cultivated the second time in
the southern part of the state,
and for the first time elsewhere. The
cool, cloudy, windy weather has not
been favorable to the corn, and it has
an unhealthy and stunted appearance.
More sunshine and warmth are requir-
ed for this crop.
Insurance companies, it is said, will
not place more than $1,000 worth of
hail insurance on one section, and in
some cases farmers are unable to get
insurance on their fields because that
amount of risk is already being carried
on the same section. This sounds fun
ny, when companies will insure
every one of a block of building.
The little town of Cunningham, in
the western part of Kingman county,
is greatly excited over a case of horse
that occurred there. The
principals in the affair are both wom-
en-, the victim being the postmistress
of the town, Miss Effie A. Smith, while
the woman who administered the
horsewhipping is the wife of the towns
only doctor and druggist, G. D. LETTERS.
The ill feeling existing between the
two ladies for some time has been
greatly intensified lately by stories of
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