Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-07-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Osborne county wheat Is threshing
out from twelve TO fifteen bushels to
the acre
More building is going on In Saline
county this year than there has been
for the Inst five years
Oklahoma Is now shipping apples
and peaches to Kansas, Colorado and
other nearby states,
The main shaft OF the penitentinry
coal mine has been closed. II has
been unsafe for months,
Distributing $500 census jobs In
Kansas is q good deal like serving the
first mess OF new strawberries in q big
boarding house,
The experience OF Mr. Happy, who
tried to break out Of the federal pris'
on at Leavenworth, and was captured,
proves that there is nothing In name
regiment OF army worms Is com
ing northward into Kansas, having al
ready struck the southern portion OF
the state. They prefer sorghum to
work in.
The county treasurer Of Rice county
was caught by surprise party OF 100
friends the other night, with his shoes
Off and with his bare feet in the re-
frigerator
A Barton county farmer put n big
mortgage on wheat he had already sold
and then lit out His wife and sons
believed to be implicated In the mat
ter, are undcr arrest
The tallest corn stalk raised In the
United States this year will be exhib-
tied at Paris II will probably come
from Kansas II ought to, anyhow,
and will, II only the pains are taken
to look II up,
Much fruit is being put up in Kan.
sas this season. The early peaches
are very fine for canning purposes and
many are putting up a good supply
for winter use, Many berries have
also been putup
ottawa's police judge has been treat
Ing crap shooters rather leniently but
ina card addressed to the fraternity
he announces that hereafter Offenders
who are brought before him will be
stuck good and plenty.
At Paola chicken thief mortgaged
his scraggly old team for 50, so in order
to get the money with which to square
himself when his thievery was discov-
cred This is an aggravated case of
chickens coming home to roost,
A Topeka woman says that she does
not see how there can be any possible
risk run in raising hogs She got her
experience in hog culture out in west
ern Kansas Her father would give
her the young pigs; she fattened them
on feed belonging to the old gentle
man, and says that her hog ventures
were always profitable
A jefferson county man who chewed
20 cents worth of tobacco week con-
cluded TO try tobacco cure, In two
weeks he ate up Sl.5O worth of cure,
and for tie next two weeks he used 10
cents worth OF candy cents worth OF
peanuts and 8 cents worth of cough
drops per day, During these two
weeks he also consumed two large rub
Der eraseNh, ate the tips from fourteen
lead pencils, chewed up dozen pen
holders and browscd off his mustache
as high as he could reach, He now
chews tobucco in the interest of econ
omy.
Some OF the banks of Kansas are so
proud of the statements they can pro-
duce that they run them in the local
papers as displayed advertisements,
These bank statements put up good
talk for Kansas.
The offices of the officials of Mitchell
county are scattered about town in
seven different buildings. The court
house is such an old trap that long
ago the presiding Judge refused to
hold court in it, and it ought to be
given over entirely to the bats and
owls.
There is good deal of roar in the
southwest on account OF the deprcda
tions Of cattle thieves The cattlemer
are beginning to feel woolly about it
and the offender who is caught at this
work is going to find himself in a mes
of trouble Of the worst kind.
There is no truth in the old saying
that somnambulsts never suffer in
jury while prowling about at night
A Dickinson county woman, walking
about the house in her sleep fell dow
fight of stairs and was all bruised
up, although no bones were broken.
1t is said that forty-fve counties II
Kansas noarlv half have no moor