Hutchinson gazette., 1899-07-06

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~ has heen dynamiting fish in the
Cottonwood,
The broom corn over the state is be-
ginning to look fine, with prospects Of
good yield.
A number OF cattle and horses have
been killed in Greenwood county by
being bitten by snakes.
Kansas papers are laughing at New
Yorv, which has been visited with the
worst drouth known In years
Bale Waggener, who lost money on
Klondike expedition, will more than
make it back out OF lead and zinc
mines.
In Harvey county there are 2s7 peo-
pie who are over seventy years Of
age. OF these 1859 are men and 1885
women.
OF course it isn't right, but II Is n
fact that the men who collect dog tax
and poll tax are regarded as public
enemies.
There are several hail insurance,
companies which have organized In
Kansas OF late. They are all doing
good business
II isn't much OF day when the boys
who work on the papers In the mining
district can. corral the story OF a.
shooting scrape.
The Kansas boys, after several
months hard fighting on the firing.
line OF the Philippines, have been sent
TO the rear When they retired they
had an effective force OF but $50 men
out OF an original strength Of 1900
good mon. Kansans are conceded to
be all right,
No war hero gets to 60 through Kan
sas without being called out on the
platform at every station, The rail-
road that brings Funston home should
add fiat car to the train and build a
pedestal on IL for the General. Peo-
pie along the line will expect con-
tinuous exhibition and will make
trouble II they don't get It.
II. Van Leeuwen has been appointed
instructor in the cheese department at
the Manhattan dairy school, and just
about the time he received this ap-
pointment he received notice that he
had been appointed instructor at the
dairy school at Madison, Wisconsin,
and ut the dairy school at Columbia,
Mo Here is man with more ap-
pointment on his hands than he knows
what to do with. Mr. Van Leeuwen'
is seriously considering which apI
pontment to accept, but has not yet
decided.
John Kelly, who lives on the old
Blue farm near ottumwa, is generally
one Of the most successful wheat
growers of Coil'ey county, but this year
he gives 1t up and admits that wheat
is failure SO far as he is concerned
He had about ninety.hve acres sown
and plowed up all but thirty, and now
says that If he gets all his seed back
his expectations will be fulfilled An.
other farmer has reported to the State
Board Of Agriculture that IS per cent
OF the wheat sown in Coffey county
will not be harvested, and that which
is harvested will yield only about 60
per cent OF full crop The unadorn-
cd fact is that the wheat crop is gem
orally failure in Coffey county this
year The early fall, unusually hard
winter and numerous chinch bugs in
the spring were the cause.
The house flies in Kansas are less
bothersome this summer than they
have been for years, The extreme
cold last winter killed off ssme Of the
old codgers who have been filing the
place of grand.dad for u good many
years.
After years Of experience 1t has been
decided at Wheeling, w. Va, that
brick pavements are the most satisfac-
tory that can be laid; and no state in
the Union, be 1t remembered, can pro-
ducc better paving brick than can be
made right here in Kansas
Billy Edwards is u genuine Kansas
boomer, and he will never get over it..
lie is now predicting that an unprcce-
dented number of immigrants will
come to Kansas this fall to settle.
1t costs something to get cannon
for ornamental purposes even il the
old guns are donated by the govern
ment The Leavenworth Standard
says that it is estimated that it will
cost 5000 to get u cannon from the
Mare Island navy yard to Leaven.
worth. The gun was presented by the
government to Custer Post No. 6.
The usual roar about the scarcity of
harvest hnnds is being henrd.