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


sas corn crop is very much better than
the jokes IL has suggested.
In the early days there were cattle
men In the west who contended that
cows could not be taught to drink out
OF a trough.
Twcnty.nine Indians from the Chip
pewa reservation in North Dakota
have arrived at the Haskell institute
Mt Lawrence where the will attend
school.
One thing that makes II so terrible
for woman TO grow old in Kansas Is
the habit which many OF the newspa'
pers Of the state have OF speaking OF
every woman past 90 MS grandma
Lumber men are hustling this year
TO keep up with the demands made on
the yards and II is stated that every
brick plant in the state is behind Its
orders This Ia u great building year
for Kansas.
A officer Ii at Fort Scott this week
after recruits for the Tfirty-third
regiment, which Is being licked into
shape at Fort Sam Houston, San An
tonic, Texas, This regiment will go
to the Philippines
A farmer near the Agricultural col
lege has filed charges against the new
regents. Governor Stanley says he
will pay no attention to them as they
were filed to get the author OF them
newspaper uotriety
AS result OF Governor Stanley's
plan of shutting oH the granting Of
pardons, there are fewer applications
for pardons on file than there have
been for fifteen years The convlcts
have quit filing them.
There has been considerable news.
paper comment concerning the Kansas
girl who sacrificed $50, 900 in order to
marry one Of Funston's men. viii
some one please give the name and
postofiicc address of said girl?
Old soldiers at the Leavenworth
Home complain that night providers
steal fish from the lines that are set
over night There Is certain gang
in and around Lcnvonworth, the mem.
bers of which feel that they have n
right to anything they are smooth
enough to steal,
In the western division OF Kansas
the ground generally is in fine condi-
tion. Early corn is hardening and
tho late corn Is coming into roasting
cars, The corn Is fine, though in the
northern counties grasshoppers are in
juring it and forage crops, Hay, for
age crops and range grass are making
a fine growth. Hayng hps begun.
Dampness delays threshing; what lit
tie has been done discloscs n very poor
yield. The Russian thistle is ripcning
in Trego county.
A reaction from the excessive heat
Of the last few days came August 9th
when rain came to the relief OF swell
tcring people and scorched vegetation.
The rains were largely local and they
ranged from light showers to three
hour downpours All southern Kan
sas came in for share OF the rain. AS
result OF the rain, conservative grain
men say, that a corn yield far above
the average is reasonably certain in
nearly all that district embracing be.
tween Rice county on the north, the
state line on the south, Cowley county
on the east and Pratt county in the
west
There were only 5000 head OF cattle
in Barbour county when it was called
the cattlcmen's paradise Now there
are $4,000.
Canadian immigration agents are
trying to induce Kansas farmers to
move to John Bulls territory. The
devil might just as we'll try to entice
the angels of tine heavenly choir into
his dominions.
The announcement for cattlemen IS
picnic in Kingman county bears the
hearty invitation to Come and sec
our smoke!"
Hutchinson is feeling good 1t is
confidently believed that at least -four
big wholesale houses will soon estab.
fish branches there.
Secretary of Agriculture Coburu
may visit Wichita without fear Of be-
ing lynched, since he has corrected
the figures in his report which showed
that that town had lost in population
last year.
Will somebody explain what omer
is involved in the circumstance s thai
most of the sunnowers in Kansas are
double this year.
1t would be a waste of time for The
preachers to talk of heaven to thu
Kansas man who has held Office con
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