Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


present.
Bethany college at Lindsborg owns
twenty pianos, has six rented, and Is
still short.
A Linn county man who paid 800
for seven spring calves says that he
got bargain.
Safe crackers are getting In their
work at great rate over the state
The crooks have read the papers and
learned that there Is money In Kansas
this year.
The 18th day Of September in Kan
sas this year was filled with fatalities
Three were killed in n railroad wreck
at Wichita, one ut Newton and three
at Quenemo.
A Marshall county man has twenty
acres planted to potatoes, the average
yield OF which he expects to exceed 200
bushels per acre; and potatoes are go
ing to bring good price this year,
too.
A number OF Indians from the reser
walton went TO Topeka to see Buffalo
Bills wild west show. Most Of them
got gloriously drunk, were landed ut
the police station and failed to see the
show.
L. w. Yaggy, five miles west OF
Hutchinson, has 100000 growing
catalpa trees. They cover 800 acres.
As they become large enough they are
being MAIDS into and sold for fence
posts
A man was drowned up In White
Rock the other day. 1t seems that he
went TO take bath after the long dry
spell, but the dry weather had so eff
fected him that the water rushed
through the pores Of his skin and
drowned him before his friends could
20 to his relief
Not long ago two Ellsworth county
men saved u passenger train from be-
ing wrecked by discovering n broken
rail. Last week they were notified
that hereafter any time they desire to
make trip to any point on the Union
Pacific system transportation will be
issued them on demand
Secretary Coburn says that western
Kansas can raise just as good melons
Ns Rocky Ford, Colorado, and should
do IL. We do. Train loads OF melons
were shipped this year from Reno and
other counties in the west, and were
sold in the eastern markets under the
name Of "Roclsy Fords."
A Kansas woman wears q carbon,
two Irish potatoes and four buckeyes
In her stockings and still has rheuma-
tism. This is not the least of her mis-
fortunes; she had occasion recently to
lift her skirt up in going over muddy
crossing, and. those who saw the
bumps have started story that she is
deformed,
J. b. Slower, we'll known young
farmer, residing near Fort Scott, has
disappeared from his home and it is
feared that he has been foully dealt
with or committed suicide. lie has
been acting queerly for several months
and his family think he has become
Insane and wandered away. He was
90 years of age,
Labor Commissioner Johnson Is pre-
pairing to secure statistics showing the
cost OF criminal trials both in cases OF
conviction and acquittal; the cost OF
keeping prisoners in JAIL and will as
certain whether the cost OF courts can
not be diminished. Mr., johnson hopes
that the result Of his work will be ben
eficial to the state.
Army fare is not very much varied
There is enough of II but it gets pretty
tiresom. The first meal at Leaven
worth compared favorably with tn,
average. II consisted of stcwed toma
toes, bacon, bareback and coffee. The
boys thought in the hurry attending
the opening of new camp an impor
tant matter had been overlooked. Tn
meat had a suspicion Of lean in it, an,
they confidently asserted that If it ha,
been noticed it would have been con
demned.
Wyandotte county furnished by ia
the most convicts for the penitentiar
of any county in the state during tn
two years ending June 30, according t
the biennial penltentiary report whic
has just been issued, Out of u total G
T53 prisoners on June 80, 1897, Wyar
dotte furnished seventy-ninc, and Of
total of 1872 on June 80, 1898, seventy
four were from the same county
Shawnee came second with ffty-or
and fifty-nine, while SedgwiclS VIZ
third with thirty-two and forty.sevci
Harry lands, warden, doubts
ANYTHING was ever done in the pen