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

A western Kansas man is introduce
ling a new variety of navy beans,
which he has named after Commodore
Dewey.
In the Kansas school history rapid
reader can run across battle every
ten minutes. But they don't happen
that way in the present Spanish war.
The unparalleled greatness and bril-
liancy of Dewey's victory in Manila
bay is partially explained. There are
twenty-one Kansas men in his squad
ron.
Jimmy Hafer, printer well known
all over Kansas, died in the Marshall
county poor house not long since. He
was bright fellow, but whisky beat
him.
The girls at Topeka have a knack of
combining business with patriotism.
They worked the soldiers at Camp
Leedy for $500 in subscriptions to q
woman's paper.
A Marion county man last week sold
six hundred bushels of wheat for a
dollar bushel, and had he hung on
while longer he would have realized
more than that.
The Snodgrass murder case is now
going in Harvey county and for time
the good people of that county will
take no interest in the movements of
the flying squadron.
Kansas volunteers are now eligible
to membership in the Grand Army of
the Republic. 1t is seemingly funny
to see a nineteen year old boy a mem
Der of the Grand Army.
Thirty-seven years ago Kansas sent
volunteers out to free the negroes.
Night before last Kansas volunteers
turned out to hang negro Is this
step backward or forward.
Peabody has public library of over
5000 volumes. Very few towns of its
size in the world can boast of such a
library 1t was started by George Pea
body after whom the town was named.
This is great creamery weBther.
The pastures are getting to the front
in great shape and the beef steers sis
tos will now hump herself in great
shape to make record in the prodnc
ton of butter fat.
At recent sale in Cloud county
amounting to $4,000, notes to the
amount of but $500 were given. A
year or two ago there would have been
$500 paid in cash and the balance would
have in the form of notes.
A man at lola made a speech the
other night in which he said that at
Manila every time the Spanish gun
ners shot at Dewey's ship great phan-
tom arose upon the water and stopped
the ball. OF course it was the Maine.
Much kaffir corn has been planted in
the state again this year. This is
boss feed for all kinds of stock, MAX
ing the very best of food for the mich
cows. Nothing is better for the hens
than to give them excess to a pile of
kafir corn.
Marion Watson, chief musician for
the Kansas volunteers will muster in
the second regiment band of Hutchin-
son for the twentieth regiment. FL
mer May is the leader. The band boys
will have to enlist as privates at the
rate of two to a company.
That heavy cannonading that was
INDUCED in at Manila on May l didn't
hurt Kansas any. 1t brought about
five inches of rain to the state. If
Sampson holds off with his fire works
until about August l Kansas will have
the biggest corn crop in the history of
the state.
That brand of patriotism which
leads man to leave his wife and fam
lily in destitute circumstances that he
may enlist and go to the front is not
the pure quill. 1t has been done in a
few instances. Uncle Sam is not so hard
pushed for fighting material as all
that comes to.
The month of April, according to the
records of the register of deeds, shows
the people of Leavenworth county to
have released s4,217 more mortgaged
Indebtedness than was filed for record,
even including the building and loan
association mortgages in the total of
those fled The total number of mort
cages filed during the month was "a,
amounting to s37,759OO, of which 10
were building and loan mortgages and
amounted to sl1 900. Forty-two mort
cages were released, representing a
property value of SAL ,977, and so trans
fers of property represented 500, 81.
Up to date Admiral Dewey's cousins
in Kansas number eighty-seven and
the returns are not all in yet. If the