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

partment printed in the French Ian
guage.
Wichita sent fourteen tons of sup
plies to the starving poor of Cuba last
week.
ga Jewell county young man eighteen
years of age took his first steam train
ride last week.
The Quaker Dairy company is the
name Of a creamery company organ
lied at Edwardsville, in Wyandotte
county.
The Independence ice factory started
up last week working day and night.
Five men are employed and the capac-
ity is eleven tons a day.
A Phillipsburg merchant compro-
missed with thief who made off with
pair of shoes and hat by making
him pay double price for the goods.
There is terrible lot of wild-eyed
belligerency in some Kansas papers
which might be accounted for from the
fact that the state is so short on coast
line.
A White Cloud man is chewing a
dimes worth of tobacco day in order
to get hundred tin tobacco tags and
get an extra pound. Some people are
great schemers.
The body of an unknown man was
found in Bucyrus, Miami county March
10. The body was well dressed, No
thing definite is known as yet, but foul
play is suspected.
Prosperity has struck the Atchison
postofice. The receipts have increased
enough to insure the raise of one hun
dred dollars in the salary of the post
master next year,
The Grain Dealers association will
hold its next annual meeting at Salina
early in April. The meeting will
last one day and one night, and it is
estimated that $50 grain men will be
in attendance. Considerable impor-
tant business, in the form of new meas
ures to benefit the grain trade, will be
brought before the meeting.
Recently a Smith Center merchant
sent to a Kansas city wholesale house
his check for $50. 1t was presented at
one of the large banks there, went
though the clearing house, and was
returned to one of the national banks
of Smith Center, at the end of the
month, along with other checks. Yet
it was absolutely worthless, as it was
unsigned. 1t bore the merchants
card in one corner.
J. II. Glathart, one of the best
known business men of Lawrence, who
is widely known Throughout the county
as an auctioneer, was thrown from his
horse while out riding on March 10th,
and had six ribs broken and sustained
such other severe injuries that his con-
dition is quite serious Mr.. Glathart is
about so years of age, and tolerably
large man, so that it is impossible to
tell just how serious his injuries may
be.
The prospects for an enormous crop
Of wheat in Dickinson county are ex-
cellent. The recent rains and warm
having brought it out in such
q fine condition that the green fields
can be seen for miles in extent, there
having been an extra large acreage
planted last fall. Should the present
high price of grain continue until next |
fall, as undoubtedly it will, the Kan
sas farmers will be placed in one of
the most prosperous conditions ever
known in the history of the state. The
oats seeding, which was in full blast
will be stopped for few days on &C
count of the recent rain. The farmers
Of Dickinson county are beginning to
realize their dream of true prosperity
once more. They will once more be
able to send their children to college,
and free the old farm of the detesti-
BILE mortgage.
Saturday afternoon is "sale day" in
when everyone with any
thing to sell brings it to town, and a
man is employed to auction off the lot.
This has been a regular custom for the
past three years, and gives great salts
faction to buyer and seller who are en-
abled in this manner to easily get to-
gether.
Most of the newspaper men in Kan
sas are just now, with terrible effort,
suppressing an inclination to remark
about the United States marshal for
Kansas striking the ceiling.
The register of deeds of Montgomery
county reports that land sales for the
months of January and February
amounted to s139, 900, the average price
per acre paid being about s13.
A special from lola says; Allen coun-