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


1.-THE militia.
] Letters from Klondike in the home
papers will begin to take back seat
now, and those from the field of battle
will have their inning.
A lot of Kansas soldiers when they
first level their guns are going to
SILVER with the sudden realization
that Spaniards are human beings.
The oldest inhabitant of Sabetha re-
members hearing Jim Lane make
speeches from cart ON the streets of
Atchison during border rnffian days.
1t isn't so much the amount of land
a man has as the manner in which it
is worked. Frank Lewis, an Osborne
county farmer, during the past year
marketed $42O worth of stock and pro-
duce off of 5O-acre farm. Next year
he will sell produce off of 100-acre
| farm.
]. A.. Hoefer, of Kay county, is in
Arkansas City for the purpose of Or
ganizing a troop of cavalry. Mr.. Hoefer
has permission from Governor Leedy
and the adjutant general of the state
of Kansas to organize troop of 100
cavalrymen which would be called out
in case of need.
Much damage has been done to the
plum industry in Kansas by the plum
curculio. There is scarcely a plum
orchard that has not received more or
less injury. The insect, becoming as
it has wide spread throughout the
state, is undoubtedly the worst enemy
of the plum grower
Conner Davis, whose Judgment in
such matters is very good, says: 1.-The
fellow who will blow himself for S12
in cash to get the prize at a voting
contest for his girl will also leave her
home at night after he has married
her while he blows in his money to
break slot machine"
The son of Warden Harry Landis of
the Kansas penitentiary is lieutenant
in the Asiatic squadron that is now
face to face with the Spanish squadron
near the Philippine islands. His moth
er does not look at his situation as
complacently as does his father, who
says that he wants him to take his
chances with the fortunes of war.
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
has modified its rules relative to the
inspection Of cattle. Two inspectors
will be located neat the Colorado line,
and all cattle coming from New Mexico,
Arizona and the Republic of Mexico
will be inspected there without charge
to the shippers unless the stock is so
located that an unusual expense is in
Cured in reaching them.
Kid Wilson, the hot sport of Council
Grove, goes to Chicago, where he will
go up against Solly Smith, the cham
pion featherweight of the world If
Kid wins he gets $4,000 and the cham
pionship; if it is draw he gets s., 500
and if the other fellow comes out on
top Kid will get 81 900 to bring him
back to Kansas. Lots of men who
can't fight at all would be willing to
be whipped for that sum.
A citizen of Chase Indignantly denies
the report sent from that town to the
effect that it has two joints, two or
three gambling dens and five or six
boot-leggers. He says that nine-tenths
of the citizens of that town are con-
sistent Christians and church mem
bers, and that while there may be
boot-legger or one joint in town the
deal is worked so slyly that it is inn
possible for anyone to get onto them.
The Kansas City Journal ridicules the
work of the Hutchinson Reformatory
and cites an alleged case where two
boys from Reno county were released,
having been reformed, and, after be-
ing expelled from their school, they
burned the building. The facts are
that no boys from Reno county were
in the reformatory at all and the only
possible foundation for the story is
that two Bourbon county boys have
gone to the institution because they
burned the school house in their neigh
borhood after being expelled from
school. Neither boy had been in a re-
formatory before.
1t is 80 easy to be at least half way
decent that the manner in which some
people deliberately set out to pattern
after the Old Nick is really surprising.
Last week young fellow was arrested
in Usage City for theft, and on search
ing him number of purloined articles
were found on his person, aside from
n sum of money. He will probably get
into the reform school, which will be
no new experience for him, as he has
been out but eight months, after serv-
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