Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-08-11


Ellis county has ordered ballots
printed for It's soldiers
Atchison Anti-lIorse thief associG-
tion is doing good work.
The Pottawatomie Indians are laid
up M arcsult OF the green corn dance
nj Holton.
A tramp who begged for bread was
fined $40 at lliawatha recently. He
paid the fine,
John Slower, OF Lecomptom, was
drowned recently while swimming In
the Kansas river.
There are now $50 prisoners In the
state penitentiary; an increase OF for.
ty-four over 1890,
The Minneapolis creamery burned
on the night Of August Q. The loss is
estimated at $1,000.
Prices OF gas has been reduced In
Lawrence, and girls with stingy papas
and many sweethearts are rejoicing.
There are no hot winds In Kansas
this year. They had about petercd
out last year, There is something In
the cycle of seven years.
The Twenty.sccond Kansas regiment
at Washington, Camp Alger, has more
educated men in II than any regiment
that ever went TO war, in any country.
An Anthony youngstcr who Is UNI
doubtedly bright beyond his years,
mixes patriotism with religion. The
other night he shocked his mother by
delivering the following invocation;
snow | lay me down TO sleep, j pray
the lord my soul TO keep II Uncle Sam
don't lick Spain I'll never say my pray
crs again, Amen, -Ifcmember the
Maine"
Cherokee Is without zinc plant.
The cherolSec-Lanyon Shelter Com
pany's zinc plant shut down there on
The first OF the month. This plant
was built about four years ago by an
eastern syndicate. II was partially
destroyed by fire two years ago, but
The Chcrokee-Lanyon Smelter Com
pany rebuilt It, and have operated IL
ever since,
Mrs. p, A. Ray, an Independence
lady was exhibiting four specimens of
nome grown tomatoes on the streets Of
hat town the other day which deserve
! position at the top Of the column.
rhe combined weight Of them was
iiX pounds, and one measured eighteen
inches In circumference A system OF
'ub-irrigation assists her plants in thus
themselves.
And now the whisky CRATER Some
weeks ago fellow who had heard
hat the wheat raising farmers OF
summer county had more money than
'ome people had hay, concluded to so
Town among EN- and do little harry
sitting on his own hook. He represent
ID himself as an agent for whole
iale whisky house of st Louis, and
rad little difficulty in taking orders
% the amount of between $3.50 and
300. His house, he told his customers,
'equired cash in advance, and after
gathering in the coin, he departed to
get the whisky, The good people are
till waiting for their whisky,
Lee Bland, Nemaha county man
Who is Mt Dawson City recently wrote
} letter home which shows that he is
n very disguised frame of mind,
after quoting some of the exorbitant |
PRICES prevailing there, such as apples
Il fifty cents apiece, rubber boots at |
i95 pair, etc, he says; "Peolpe on
he outside have q great idea OF this
oun.ry, They seem to think that u
nan can come in here and pick up
ortune in few days l have never
cen such disappointed people as the
majority of those coming in now.
,ome few last year did make u fortune
N very short time; but they should |
that they only hear of those
Who make something, while they do
lot hear of those who make nothing;
md where one man made money q
lozen or more made nothing"
Chinch bugs are Fostering the millet |
lelds of osage county. No one ever
las good word to say for the chinch
Jug, and yet ut the same time he pos
esses some qualities that are worthy
II emulation. lie is q tireless cuss,
md no one ever yet said that he was
rot perseverance, personiied. And
hen he is no kicker, either, The
,hinch bug is disposed to take life
Ind everything else that comes his way
just as he finds it, without chewing
he rag in any degree. II he can't get
INTO a field Of wheat or corn, he will
AXE millet or almost any old thing
hat comes along and always manages
20 get good meal and still keep his