Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-19

A Junction City firm will pat In the
waterworlts system for Wamego
Threc clifton crap shooters turned
$40 each Into the city treasury tho 9th
er day.
The superintendent Of the Morris
county poor farm draws a salary Of
$500 yenr.
The Ice harvest in Kansas this sen
son is ms satisfactory US the grain har'
vest OF the past year
The net reduction OF mortgage In
debtedness In Ellsworth county for the
year 1903 amounted to Slos,O0t.
( An ottawa man Is the owner OF pin
OF common size on the head OF which
every letter OF the alphabet 10 en-
graved.
For fifteen years Miss Jennie Mar
shall has taught the school In District
No, /, in Cloud county, school in
which she was once pupil.
The poor farm In Osborne county Is
n money maker for the county. The
humble hog is largely responsible for
the showing on the right side OF the
ledger
There Is considerable county print
ing trouble In the air just at present
II will lash away for few weeks and
then die down until the time rolls
around for the contracts to be let
again.
BARRIERS OF Ellsworth have refused
to work on Sunday. There Is really
no reason why q barber should be eX-
pected TO work on this day which Is to
the great majority of the people u day
OF rest
The same rain that will swell up q
tub will shrink n steer, A paper print
cd out in the cattle district is authori-
ty for the statement that big rain
will sometimes cause a steer to lose
100 pounds.
An exchange says Deaths are mem
TONED in Kansas papers with remark
able frequency OF late, In the first
seven papers picked up of the issue of
the present week there were seventeen
death notices
In compliance with request from
the members of the Anti Horse Thief
association the commissioners Of Sum-
ner county have raised the reward of
fered for the apprehension and convlc-
tion OF horse thieves from S25 to $50
Regent Dodge says that the big
Cross ranch in Mitchell county willnot
revert TO the State Normal, as the
back interest and taxes due have been
paid up. The Cross ranch is tho big
gest thing out doors in Mitchell coun-
ty.
There was timo, and IL wasn't very
long ago, either, when n Kansas town
with Il telephone system was consider
ed very hot thing, They are getting
to be so common now that they are
hardly considered worth Dragging
about.
A Kansas paper puts up dolorous
wall to the effect that many Kansas
are seriously considering
The advisability of remaining in busi-
ness another year, This is false
note in the harmony OF humping bust
ness, which is in evidence the state
md nation over
Council Grove is town that at the
asst enumeration was credited with
500 inhabitants At the close Of bus
ness on December 81, there was on
deposit in the two banks of the town
1866, ,3is.i@. OF this sum IL is said that
lbout four-ffths belongs to the farm
,rs of Morris county.
Ex-Register of Deeds Newbold, of
sumner county, has brought suit
against the county commissioners TO
recover something over $4,000 in fees
which he turned over in 1895 and 1896.
lie bases his suit on the alleged dis
,overy that the law reducing fees of
officers was not properly pass
ID.
orville Parker, one Of the boys Of the
Twentieth Kansas, writing from Ma
nila to his folks at Coffeyville, says
that he pays fve cents dozen for ban
lnas, gets six oranges for nickel, fif-
teen or twenty cigarettes for two
cents, while cigars are rated at u half
q cent, or a cent apiece; and the cigars
and cigarettes, he says, are made out
Of real tobacco.
One of the Kansas Creamery patrons
had two heifer calves in succession
from an old red cow, one by Hol-
stein and the other by Short-horn.
In u seven days test tn Holstein
heifer with her third calf produced o.