Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-08-17

IneTe ~ uuhlnehs plOch III LuN-
renee thntis held at S95,0O0
The late pears will soon be on the
market The trees are loaded and the
quality fne,
Homegrown grapes are now ON tho
market and In another week they will
be very cheap
The farmer near Iiololt who has o
SO 900 barn and 5000 house must have
come from Lancaster county, Pa,
Lawrence, which is hunting gas has
n prospect hole down three hundred
feet and pretty good vein Of coal has
been pierced,
All the farmers are going to be
"plutcs' this full There will be n
great migration TO the Paris eSposi-
tion next summer
Nine Is the lucky number instead OF
eleven, In 1860, 1870, 1850 and 1900
there have been immense crops OF
both wheat and corn,
Plenty OF delicious grapes are now
on the Kansas markets Kansas has
seen some big grape years, but this
year beats them all.
Edward Glllctt, IN eighteen-yoar-old
boy, was found dead in Pratt county
pasture Inst week II Is supposed he
was kicked by n horse
No new political parties win be or
gnni2ed in Kansas this fall. The
farmers will be too busily engaged In
the corn fields to give ear to the agi
tators.
Fred Buchan passed the regular
army examination with the highest
grades ever attained by u candidate
for q commission at Fort Leavcn.
worth, His standing was ninety-eight
per cent,
Ed Learned, OF cowley county, sold
his farm for $1,000 and has taken the
hard, bright, tickle cash to Arizona
with him to prospect for gold. Some
body should chain him up and appoint
n guardian.
A tenant on farm in Franklin
county who was given permission TO
fell all the timber he wished, cut 600
walnut trees into props and sold them
at two cents apiece to the Usage coun'
ty coal miners
A Hawatha man has farm that he
has rented for sixteen years straight
at $3.50 year without falling to re-
celve every cent OF the rent, The
farm has more than paid for itself
with good interest.
The industrial commissioner Of the
Santa Fe railroad says that Kansas
today Is attracting more attention
than any other state in the union, In
this particular Kansas is the same yes
terday, today and forever.
1t is Kansas legend that annually
at this season Queen Victoria PAGES up
and down the ancestral halls of Wind
sor castle demanding angrily to know
II her regular supply OF Leavenworth,
Kansas, apples have arrived yet,
TOO many cattle and horses are kill
ed by lightning while standing near
wire fences Why not prevent all this
loss and really make the pasture safer
with tho wire than without? Connect
each wire at intervals to the ground
by wire reaching the moist soil,
The ground wire will conduct tho
electricity during thunder storm
from the fence to the ground A fence
wire well grounded is MS much proven
ton as a lightning rod is TO build
ing
Cheap Rates TO Pacific Coast Via Santa Flo.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at tho very
cheap rate OF $50. So
TO Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $3.50 For particulars call
on or address, l. Il, DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Some Of tho pSpers along the line Of
the Central Brarlh are clamoring for
n night passenger train, and the more
hopeful among them hint that 1t
would be the proper caper to include
a sleeper in the equipment
The general conditions of the wealth
err during the week have been warm,
with good rains across the state, ex-
tending from the southwestern
to the northeastern counties Dry
weather continues in the southern
counties cast Of Clark, and in some Of
the central counties
The summers practice in the dia-
mond is not altogether lost, SO much
training of the muscles ought to in.
crease the daily corn output in shucls-
ing time at least five bushels per day.
A 4. 4.