Hutchinson gazette., 1899-04-06
KANSAS lrEws on lNTTRGsE

their candidacy for county oilices
A Falls City man has had time TO
whittle violin out OF a curly maple
board
At Arkansas City there are a,dso
people registered in alli ,47l men and
1000 women,
Some nice now steel cages have been
put up for the accommodation OF those
who go jailward at cawlscr
The real truth about the wheat In
southern Kansas Is that about fifty
per cent OF 1t ls a complete failure, 1t
IL said,
Wehs- Fargo Express company will
establish an oAicc at Salina and go Of
ter share OF the business which goes
10 the Pacific
Topeka is in great trouble again
Charlotte Cranes beauty did not cap
turc tho War department sufficiently
70 save hcf lover
Major Hood sends cattle TO Kansas
City which top the market There's
heap OF the genuine brand Of satisfac-
ton In that for man,
A Dickinson county woman last
summer preserved In cans corn ON the
cob She served the corn the other
day md II was excellent
There Is a $50 pattern hat on eShib'
ition in the window OF Fort Scott
millincr which will be some white
mans burden before many days.
The Twentieth Kansas was in the
thick OF the fight again, as brave
regiment as is on the ground, Then
Twentieth is the prido OF Kansas,
Just at the pocketbooks OF the plain
people arc recovering from the inroads
made by the sky.hlgh price OF eggs
potatoes have commenced to assume
the frills OF plutocracy.
Most merchants do their heaviest
advertising about holiday time, when
people are bound to purchase extern
sively anyhow; and milliners do their
bulk OF advertising just prior to Eas-
ter, II time Of year when It would not
be possible TO keep women out of their
storcs with club,
Tho county attorney OF Wichita
county prints the following notice in
the Leoti Standard; 1.-The farmers are
warned not to let out any more fires
while burning trash off Of their plow'
ed ground. The stoclSmen have been
complaining to me regarding their
loss Of feed and range, and will use the
law If any more occurs
This Is to be u good corn year, ac-
cording to the theory Of Gus Rose and
other distinguished prophets They
base their prediction on the fact that
the wind was in northern quarter on
March 81. Had the wind blown from
the south on that day, destruction Of
che corn crop Of 1900 by hot winds and
drouth would surely follow
The Lake View school house in
Douglas county was burned the other
night Gy a tramp who had built fire
TO keep warm, and let it get away
from him. Farmers living in the
neighborhood were aroused by the
fire, and Mt once started in pursuit of
the tramp He was caught Mt Fall |
Leaf and taken to Lawrence and
placed in juil lie plead guilty to the
charge of arson, and was bound over
Cor trial at the May term of the dis
trict court. lie gave his name of JAS
Morton.
The grass is getting green in south
ern Kansas
A Pittsburg firm reports that it has
sold more real estate in the three
months Of 1899 than in any eight
months Of any previous year; and it is
firm which has long been established
too.
The Embree incident has started
war against the slot machines at To.
peka
The biggest controversy on in Kan.
sas just now is whether or not the
wheat crop is ruined.
Kansas farmers have begun plowing
In the southern part of the state. 9th
ers will follow in few days. A big
corn crop will be planted this spring;
larger than usual.
William Freeman, the express mes.
senger, who was killed in the Rock
Island wreck at Volland, had worked
baggage and express for eighteen
years. and during that period he had
lost less than months time. He was
the second messenger to go over the
Rock Island lines west of the Missis-
sippi river
A person can read over Prophet
Hicks predictions for April and pick
out any kind of weather ever known.
Hicks aims to please them all.