Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-12
A Lebanon lad isIu jail for forging

The Kansas State MALTA is being
reorgqpizod.
Two young men OF Morrill, got ina
fight over the Collins verdict.
The women OF Wichita have organ.
lied n Twentieth Century club, y and
none Of them are more than half that
old. NF
A vast amount OF leo has been put
1'up In Kansas during the past winter.
Very few Ice houses will be empty
next spring. [
The wheat fields throughout Kansas
are looking fine and are growing every
day The numerous rains this winter
has filed tho ground with ample moiS-
ture, r,
Fred Delssroth, u Wilson boy, Is a
fireman In New York City, and twice
recently he received special mention In
the metropolitan dailies on account OF
his nervy acts 49,
This week r. A, Drenning will re-
tire from the Office OF probate judge OF
Doniphan county after ten years SER
vice. During that time he has issued
lila marriage licenses, and performed
the ceremony for ! % couples.
Gillett's failure brought Woodbine
into prominence. The dynamiting OF
the joint kept the notoriety OF tho
town alive. The next thing in the bid
for public attention will have TO be
something fierce and forceful II the
town expects to keep up its gait,
The receiver OF the defunct First
National bank at Humboldt sold tho
remaining assets OF the bank at auc.
tion. Seventy-Ave thousand dollars
worth of notes, judgments and over
drafts sold for little loss than n thou
sand dollars; but Notwithstanding this
tremendous shrinkage, the receiver OF
the bank will pay its depositors ninety
cents on the dollar
An illustrated anecdotal character
sketch OF the late General Garcia, the
Cuban patriot, Is contributed 10 the
January Review OF Reviews by George
Reno, who was closely associated with
General Garcia for two years. The
frontispiece OF the Review is n portrait
Of General Garcia from photograph
taken by Clinedinst, of Washington,
only few days before the generals
death.
From ton OF cotton seed can be
made 700 to 75O pounds of meal, ZOO to
$50 pounds of hulls, % to 40 gallons of
oil, and 25 to 30 pounds of short lint.
The meal is worth so cents per- hun
dred; oil 10 cents per gallon; and the
lint ~ cents per pound; total value,
Sl4.10, The meal and hulls are all
fed to cattle; the oil Is used in culin-
ary, preserving and other purposes and
the short lint is used in mattresses,
and to make into cotton batting.
No person who has an orchard ought
to be so greedy as to think that he can
successfully raise crop Of apples and
u crop OF hogs in the same field. Hogs
inay be good thing to keep down the
weeds in an orchard, but they will
also keep down the crop of apples as
well, No stock of any kind should be
kept in an orchard. The weeds should
be kept down by the use Of q mower
and the disc harrow and after the trees
come into bearing the ground should
be kept well seeded to clean red clover.
Stock Of any kind, hogs, sheep, cattle
or horses will tread the ground hard
and cause IL to dry out, and this will
rob the feeding rootlets of the trees OF
the necessary moisture and nourish-
ment and keep the trees from bearing
crops Of fruit
Notwithstanding the fact that the
past season has been poor apple year
many orchards over the state have
borne very profitable crops. Near
Florence, Marion county, the orchard
of A. N. Allison & Sons has made the
following record; Forty-eight trees
set in 1870 bore 970 bushels of market.
able apples besides those used by a
family of seven persons. The fruit
was sold at prices ranging near one
dollar per bushel. This represents a
profit that no one need complain of,
and 1t may will cause surprise on the
part of those who think there is no
profit in the fruit business in Kansas.
Two points in the case are to be es'
pecially noted. One is that the orchard
has been set twenty eight years, which
is longer than most Kansas orchards
are expected to live. The other is that
1t has good tilth, Neither cultivation
nor prouing has been neglected. There
can be no question but that to the
good tilth which the orchard has re-