Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-02-02
KANSAS ITEMS or INTFREsE

Wichita is still having the gripi also
signs, KNOCKS and passwords. Topeka
has pass Keys,
Some OF the national banks OF Kan
tas have reduced their interest rate TO
eight per cent
II Is getting time TO look over the
plows and got the harness repaired.
Spring work Is not far of.
Iola's natural gas field broke into n
recent number OF the Scientific Amer
lean for three or four sticks.
IL Is said that farmers OF northwest
Kansas have not yet marketed more
than half OF their 1903 yield OF wheat.
The Ozark coal company, at Pitts.
burg, will sink two moro hhafts immc-
diately and erect 70 houses for the use
Of employees,
A Kansas justice OF the pence an
nounces his willingness 10 perform the
marriage ceremony free for every man
who will appear with girl and II.
ccnse.
The Gillott Cowboy band will nc
company tho Kansas buttermakcrs to
the national convention which meets
NJ Sioux Falls, South Dakota, within n
few daya
Kansas mustbc getting cleaner than
in the earlier days Steam laundries
Rrd sproutlng up all over the state.
There was time when they were as
rarc as Ice factories.
Seekers after amusement have work..
ed the calSe-wallf 80 hard In Kansas
this season that this form OF enter
talnment has probably been seriously
crippled for all time.
Seed catalogues are now on deck, =.
What n blessed old world this would
be were II possible TO raise garden
truck like the pictures Of that which
adorns the covers Of the different seed
catalogues
Should there ever happen TO be a
county seat contest between two rival
gas towns Kansas will treat the world
10 the warmcst exhibition OF civic
pyrotechnics that ever hurled through
tho atmosphere.
The old rattletrap which for years
has done service us court house In
Mitchell county has at last been aban-
doned, and the county officers are
scattered all over Beloit In offices
which have been rented for them.
Two young ladies of olathe, chums
and companions for years, died one
day recently within q few hours OF
each other A strange coincidence Of
their life was that whenever one be-
came i'll the other also was stricken.
There are people who will not be-
lievo that whenever there comes u
pleasant spell Of weather In winter
that the Kansas farmer racks out into |
the field and resumes the task OF sow.
ing wheat which was interrupted by |
the lost storm
The department OF Horticulture has
for several years been cooperating
with the division OF Forestry Of the
department Of agriculture to test the
hardness Of trees produced from seeds
sent from various sections Of tine coun.
try, north and south, east and west.
The seeds were planted in plats hav-
ing the same soil and exposure and
have been subjected to the same con-
dltions. On March 7, 1903, notes were
made on tho effects of the winter upon
the trees and some striking facts were
revealed, AS rule no injury was to
be noted from the winter on trees
grown from seed sent from states
either north or west from this point.
On the other hand trees from seed sent
An from points southeast Of this were
very generally injured from the cold
The injury varied with both the species
OF trees and the location. Black wal
nut showed the greatest injury OF any
species and was most affected when
the seed had come from the southeast
Cru coast region, Georgia and Ala
bama. This point, besides being of
scientific interest in showing the de-
cided effect of climate OF the constitu-
tionality Of plants, has also practical
value for the tree planter. 1t shows
that trees from seed grown at south
eastern points must suffer more or less
when subjected to this climate, and |
suggests that young trees transplant
ed from the same regions would be
even more seriously affected. Further
experiments along the same line are
In progress under direction OF the de-
oartmcnt.
BY the timc that fourteen-mile-lul,e |
in Barton county gets fled with water
Kansas will begin to grow sea serpent