Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-14

Il nc hbu5hS IdFIncES hAC DuSy PA1AV
ing corn and the garden making is in
full blast.
Lee johnson of Leavenworth county
will be an officer on the battleship
Massachusetts.
During the past week. thousands OF
acres of corn has been planted over
the state Of Kansas.
The Easter ad of a Kansas milliner
says 1.-THE lovely bloom of newness is
on everything in our stock"
Three Rush county farmers bought
pianos last week for their daughters.
Rush county is in the short grass coun-
try, too.
OF course it was Senator Harris that
passed the bill through the Senate Sc
curing an appropriation of $4,000 for
the state unsiversity.
Book beer has arrived at Topeka and
has met with warm welcome. 1t ar
rived month ahead of time, but there
is nothing too fast for Topeka.
The Lawrence Gazette is anxious for
war in order to ascertain whether Cen
eral Miles will make as good a record
facing cannons as he has done facing
the photographers cameras.
The economy of the Legislature has
put an end to the circulation of the
labor laws complied by Labor Commits
sioner johnson, and every person who
wants a copy between now and the
time the legislature meets must send
3 cents in stamps. The stamps appro-
priatiOn is exhausted.
Secretary Bush says that it is an out
rage to assert that the State officers
had anything to do with the circulation
at Bridgeport, Conn, of copies OF a
Topeka paper containing sensational
stories relative to the career of DIR. EN-
bree, the pastor of the First Methodist
church at Topeka. Embree has been
chosen as pastor of church at Bridge
port, but the circulation of these stories
led the church authorities to cancel
their agreement with him. Mr.. Bush
says that the sending of the papers
was an outrage but no less so than the
effort to connect the State officers with
the affair when they knew nothing of
it.
Superintendent H. i. Peairs, who
took charge of Haskell intitute as sup
erintendent the first of this month,
made talk to the Indian students re-
Gently, and asked them to give up the
use of tobacco. The movement was
started through the officers of the com
panies at the school, and the announce
ment of the plan was hailed with APP
plause. The company officers, Indian
students, told the boys what was want
ed, and there was large voluntary
Offering of sacks of tobacco, plugs,
pipes, cigars and cirgarettes, of which
bonfire was made, and the reform
started with much show of earnestness.
The student officers were glad to co.
operate in the movement, and it seems
probable that great reform will be
intituted at the school in a very short
time.
Kansas is admirably adapted to the
cattle industry? Can any one name its
superior? Yet for years to touch cat
tie was to taste the Apple of Sodom.
But, if the outlook has been judged
correctly, better day has come and to
stay until the lesson of the recent past
has been forgotten. In good judg-
ment, the time is fully here to take
heart and make the cattle industry
what it can only be in Kansas. Every
thing that costs more than it is worth,
or for which there is no real use should
be let severely alone Economies can
be practiced that had been unthought
heretofore. We must adapt ourselves
to the time, occasion and surroundings,
neither planting corn in the fall, nor
wheat in the spring. In this day, wa
ter is not turned into wine, and the
mere act of the outstretched hand will
not save the sinking boat.
Few of us comprehend the extent of
our prairies to-day. About 10000, 900
acres of Kansas land are covered with
prairie grasses exclusively. In all pro
liability the greater part of this vast
area never can be utilized for any 9TH
er purpose than grazing. In 1897 over
100000 cattle and horses gained their
sustenance in large part during six
months of the year from native grasses
At an average price of 81 per head for
the season these animals consumed
more than $4,000, 900 worth of pastur,
age. Secretary Coburn calculates the
average cost of grazing cattle both on
fenced pastures and on open ranges al
80 cents per month, which would be
81 90 for the season of six months
This is far below the gain which accru
pc IN a pattlaman who owns the StOpk