Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-30

'AtSDurB,
Larned is overrun by tramps, who
refuse to work.
The soldiers have left Hiawatha and
the girls are broken hearted.
People in Newton are getting sick
because there Is water in their cellars.
A Fort Scott private says he will fol-
low his captain to hell to get to kill a
Spaniard.
The state Is now without militia
organization FOR the first time since
the war.
Kansas will have on exhibition at
the Omaha show three car loads OF
cancelled farm mortgages.
Tramps have formed league in
Sumner county and will not work in
The wheat fields for less than two dol
lars day.
The wheat is too far advanced in
southern Kansas for the black rust to
damage II, The season has not been
30 wet in the southern part.
The Arkansas City fire department
is putting on metropolitan airs since
the waterworks plant has been started.
They have ordered bran new caps and
badges.
Nothing has been introduced in the
trial of Collins at Topeka which will
convict him, The Kansas City and To
peka papers are trying him and al
ready have him convicted
According to the tax roll Of 1857
twenty-six slaves were listed for taxa
tion in Leavenworth county, their to-
tai value being placed at $4,000. They
were valued at from $3.50 to 81, 900 "a
head"
A northern Kansas historian remem-
bers that twenty years ago-in 1873
Kansas had one Of the biggest wheat
crops in her history, and 1t rained al
most continuously in May and June Of
that year.
From the grave OF Charles Winters
McCuna in Crawford county groans are
coming. The fact is telegraphed to
papers and OF course is fake. II IL
were true some one would take spade
md investigate.
There was a circus in Dodge City the
other day; not very big circus either,
yet people came for forty miles across
the country to take in the show. A
circus is one thing that man nearly
always has the money to attend, even
IL his shoes do need half-soling, but
this year everyone in Kansas has mon
vy, and the circuses which make this
state will fare well.
Within the past few days q black
rust has settled upon many of the
wheat fields in Douglas county and
completely ruined them. The report
has been sent in from many different
neighborhoods, and some OF the fields
that it was thought Q few days ago
would go thirty-five bushels to the
acre, now seem so badly ruined that it
will not pay to cut them,
Here is the way correspondent OF
the Alton Empire rubs 1t in on q wan
derer: 1--WE often think of w. II. Guion
who left Mt. Ayr township last fall
and went east to farm. lie paid cash
for the privilege of stopping around in
the mud when il he had but his place
here he would have made IL all right.
And there are others" Moral: 1t is
the slayer who wins out.
The Atchison Globe says; Some one
started q story that Kansas was short
~ school teachers, and Superintendent
Stryker has been bothered since by
fully thousand teachers in other
states who desire to come to Kansas.
There is nothing in the shortage, II
the corr and wheat crops were always
as large as the crop of school teachers,
Kansas would be all right.
Cheap Excursions via Santa Fe Route.
North American Turner's Union Con-
vention at San Francisco July 9Th 1898,
one fare for the round trip plus 80 cts.
Dates of sale June 9sth and 10Th. Final
return limit August 3lst, 1893
International Mining Congress at
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 9th to 9th,
1898, one fare plus $500 for the round
trip. Dates of sale July Ord, 1898.
Final return limit 20 days from date of
sale.
Tenth Triennial National Council of
Congregational Churches at Portland,
Oregon, July 9TH to 18th 1898, one fare
plus so cts for the round trip. Dates
of sale June 30th and July LIST, 1898.
Final return limit August 3lst, 1893.
Attorney General Boyle is leading
the fight against the railroads for
equitable coal rates to Kansas towns.
The case is now up in Topeka and II