Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-24

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March 20 is the day that the churches
have been requested to observe as tenn.
perance day.
Dates for campaign meetings have
commenced to appear in the state pa
pers.
An Atchison county man sold his
12s-acre farm two miles south Of Eff.
tingham last week for $1,000.
Many of the Kansas farmers have
their oats in the ground and are get.
ting the ground in condition to plant
corn.
The creamery men of the state are
organizing mutual fire insurance
company. This will afford much cheap
er insurance than is now obtainabl,
for this class of risks.
The Kansas Midland, running from
Ellsworth to Wichita, has been fore
closed on and will be sold by order Of
the Federal court. 1t is 1O4 miles long
and the claim is 81, 100000.
Secretary Gill Of the State Board OF
Health is actively pushing the fight
against unlicensed persons who prac-
tice medicine. He says that every
quack should be driven out of the
State.
If we are to have war the fellows
who are so loud in their efforts to be
heard as to their desire to fight will
not be ones who will be of the most
value. The fighters are those who are
saying little just now.
Superintendent Stryker has discov.
cred decision of the supreme court
which says that school district officers
have no right to purchase charts, maps,
globes and such things without vote
of the people. He has called the atten-
ton of the school officers to this deci-
sion.
The assessors of Reno and Sedgwick
counties are collecting statistics to be
used in the fight against the irrigators
at the headwaters Of the Arkansas riv-
er, who are using all of the water, and
are thereby damaging the farmers of
those counties by lessening the rain
fall. The figures are being compiled
by order of the county commissioners.
Secretary Coburn is making an effort
to get Kansas Congressman to agree
to vote for a measure giving $4,000
for corn display at the Paris EXPOSE
ton. Senators Baker and Harris and
Congressman Curtis, Simpson and
Ridgely have already agreed and the
others have not been heard from. A
suitable corn exhibit at Paris would
open the eyes of Europe to its value as
food product and benefit the corn
raisers thereby.
The County Commissioners of Reno
county have instructed the assessors
to ascertain whether the people favor
the contribution of money to fight the
Colorado irrigators who are taking all
of the water from the Arkansas river.
The Hutchinson city council has decid-
ed to let the matter rest, believing
that the development of the country
up the river is of more than enough
value to that city to compensate for
the loss by the shortage of water.
David Weavers the young man who
successfully stood off his family and
the neighbors with Winchester last
week, and who has been in jail in
Harvey county since, having been cap
tured by a sheriff's possee, was on
March 10 bound over to the district
court for trial on May term, his bond
fixed at 81 900, which not being able
to give, was confined in Jail again.
The idea that he is insane is secuted
by the family and also by the neigh
bors, who claim that he is nothing but
bad man, safer behind the bars than
anywhere else. Assault with intent to
kill is the charge upon which he will
be tried.
Charley Gable, the boss butter max.
er of the Jensen creamery at Osborne,
made an exceptionally good record on
butter exhibited at the recent butter
show in Topeka, and as result the
creamery is now in daily receipt OF
letters from eastern firms who wish to
handle its output.
The only safe way for woman to
kill a chicken is to wiring its neck. In
trying to decapitate chicken with
Ratchet Harvey county woman miss
ed the bird and cut off the thumb Of
her left hand
Solomon Smith, hale old gentleman
of Burr Oak, who served his time in
the Mexican and Civil wars, is ready tc
enlist to fight Spain, despite his n
years. All he asks is that the govern.
ment have the hard tack soaked so he