Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTFNEsN


I'm unusual lot OF petty thiovery.
Secretary cobun thinks there will
be three-fourths OF wheat crop,
which isn't so bad,
Since the recent rains the wheat Ia
making a rapid growth and the farm
ers are we'll pleased with the present
outlook.
This late spring will compel the
farmers OF Kansas to crowd big lot
OF work within mighty small space
OF time,
Beloit will have n rock pile with the
usual ball and chain attachment for
the hoboes who strike town, or the
erring ones who transgress the law OF
the land.
Holton will make the strongest kind
OF pull to get the grand army en-
campment for next year, and the town
would no doubt take care OF II In o
creditable way.
Superintendent Church has admit
ted the Boston Fire Insurance com
pany 10 do business In the state OF
Kansas This company has capital
stock of $1,000, 900. This is It's first
application for Kansas license and
II has never done business in the state
before
Osborne county lost Si2O IS recently
by the death OF n jointist who had
fines standing against him uggregat-
ing that sum, He had been released
from Jail on his promise to pay ss5 q
month until the score was cleared up,
but before the first payment was due
he was on his death bed
A large acreage Of broomcorn will
be put out in a few days. much larger
than was raised last year. Broomcorn
has been very scarce article during
the past few months and has sold us
high us 800 ton, This encouraged
the farmers Throughout the state to in
crease the acreage OF this product.
Dickinson county is making q great
record for morality these days. On
April 20 Judge Moore rescinded the
order for a jury for the May term Of
the district court there not being n
single criminal case for trial. Two
cases were on the docket, but one
minor offender has jumped his bond
and the other will plead guilty. 1t is
the FIRST time in years that no criminal
eases have been tried
At Beloit recently the school board
offered prize of $40 to the person
who would present by the fast Of May
the best landscape plat for identifying
the grounds, There will probably be
numerous responses, but the people
who really know how to do such work
will show up after the completion Of
the plan and begin to criticise and
show how IL should have been proper
ly done, 1t Is so much easier to cyiti-
rise the work OF others than to exc
cute plan yourself
Warden Lands has returned from
his trip with the board Of penitentiary
directors from saltwater, Mimi, where
they had gone to investigate the Irvine
plant The trip the warden states,
was very hard one. Every moment
OF the visit at the Minnesota peniten-
tiary was occupied in securing iufor-
nation covering the Irvine manufac-
turing business, Advertisements for
bids will at once be prepared by the
board and published. 1t will be sew
eral weeks before the machinery Gun
be secured, and months before the
plant will be in operation,
On April 81 the quartermastor at
Fort Riley was notified that 1000
mules would be shipped to that place
TO be grazed this summer on the big
reservation there. The reservation
contains nearly 10000 acres.
Originally we crossed the prairies as
OF old, the pilgrims crossed the sea, TO
make the west as they the east the
homestead of the free. Now Kansas is
crossing another sea to make the east
Us they have the west the homestead
Of the free. We are nearly around the
world.
Eskridge is to have lady band. As
rule lady band looks lot better
than 1t plays.
"The ammunition train and reserves
of the Goth Kansas volunteers, Colonel
Frederick Funston, marching through
Caloocan at night after the battle of
February TO-" This is the line be-
p meath spirited, double-page illustra-
ton in the last issue of Harpers
Weekly. The whole world will be-
come familiar with the exploits Of
these boys of the prairie, and they
are worthy of the fame that is theirs
Woodson county will spend some