Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-08-10

corn held In Trego county Will make
mere out OF II this year than the man
will make who has hundred-acre
gold field In the same county
There Is reason to believe that q
good many OF the fnanciers who have
invested In the gold lands In TregO
and Ellis counties have laughed at
little boys for trying to catch birds by
sprinkling salt on their tails
One OF the county commissioners OF
sedgwick county harvested this sea.
son 1900 bushels of oats from twenty
acres. This pleased him so much that
he has decided to drop out OF politics
and give all OF his attention to farm.
Ing.
A western Kansas farmer who be-
lieves that corn is going to be very
cheap sold his crop as 1t stands at lelG
cents bushcl The KAnsans who
make the good money out OF their
corn fields feed cattle and hogs and
sell their corn on the hoof,
Mayor Frazier has notified the citi-
acns Of coffeyvllle that unless the
weeds are cut, as the ordinances Of the
city direct, grief will be in store for
many Of them Weeds breed disease;
disease results In doctor bills and doc
tor bills breed trouble in the pocket
book. The cheaper plan is to kill the
weeds.
Il, Waynant, superintendent OF the
Missouri Pacific freight depot at
Leavenworth, has been doing II little
figuring. lie says that from all the
statistics he can gather about this
years corn crop in Kansas, 1t would
require the equipment OF any western
railrond two years to move it out OF
the state.
At Coifcyville the marshal and his
assistants have been ordered to visit
every place suspected OF being a joint
twice in the forenoon, twice in the
afternoon and twice in the evening.
The people in southern Kansas IRE
doing all they can to rid their towns OF
the joints, and they are determined to
succeed.
Some Twentieth Kansas boy, writ
ing home, says the army mule Is the
most effective weapon Unc'e Sam has
sent against tho Filipinos The only
thing of the mule kind the Filipinos
had ever seen before the advent OF the
American was the diminutive island
pony, and when they saw these inn
mense long.eared brutes, and saw
what heavy loads they pulled, they
were filed with fear and awe.
Probably no message that ever came
from the soldier boys OF the Twentieth
touched the mother hearts in Kansas
more quickly than that from George
Ferret, the Montgomery county boy
who, in letter to his folks, said that
he wanted his first meal on arriving
home to consist of big lot Of batter
cakes, good butter, and some ice cold
milk. 1t is simply fearful to think of
the course of feeding" the good
mothers will expect their soldier boys
to 60 through on their return home.
A Cowley county man has trouble
on his mind. lie is the owner of fine
patch Of tomatoes, and from some
cause or other, without any evidence
OF human agency, they are rapidly
disappearing, the vanishing act al.
ways being done at night The owner
Of the patch is of an investigating
turn OF mind, and he is now setting
up nights with his patch Of tomatoes
determined to run down tho pheno-
menon IL possible. He is also Of a
practical turn Of mind, and believes
that few dun dunn bullets planted
where they will do the most good
will remove the hoodoo.
II cost a travelling doctor named
Higgins $500 to practice his profession
in Jewell county without diploma.
The attractions that are counted on
to keep the trolley line between Kan
sus City and Leavenworth busy are the
Soldiers home, the post and the peni-
tertiary.
There have been other wet summers
in Kansas, other growing summers,
but this is the states first summer
where it hasn't got hot enough to
draw the nails up out of board side.
walk.
Eskridge is now talking of getting
up street futn The state Of Kansas
will be specified with street fairs this
fall.
The ehiuch bugs are having hard
time this year They failed to get in
their work on the wheat, and the
farmers are laying for them with
Chancellor Shows infected hurS,