Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsT

crews running out OF Emporia at this
time last year. Now II has nineteen.
Leavenworth has worry. Some
body in sheet and false face has
told Leavenworth that 1t may lose It's
military posi-
The total net reduction OF real o.
tate mortgage indebtedness In Elk
county for 1908 came very close to the
hundred thousand dollar mark.
Wichita Is having dream about OK
tending the st, Louis, Kansas & South
crn railroad into the Usage country
and making the osage country buy all
its supplies at Wichita.
Westmoreland expects work TO be
commenced within two weeks on the
railroad which will give 1t connection
with the outside world. The town
ship bond election carried four to one
in favor OF the road.
Speaking Of push and progress, n
Horton Chnaman will put in steam
laundry in the spring Even the
p'odding chinaman finds II impossible
to stay in the old rut after getting next
TO rustling Americanism.
A large force OF men are at work re-
pairing the Santa Fe depot platforms
along the Salina branch. They will
also repair and remodel the stock
yards OF the company Mt Salina, A
general order Of improvement has
been made all along the line.
Doubtless there are many people In
Kansas who do not know that there
is in the state paper which is the or
gan Of the Kansas State Grange, and
which is devoted principally to that
order. This is the function OF the
Kansas Patron, weekly paper print
ed at olathe.
A Woodson county man was hand
ling target rife the other day. when
It was discharged, the bullet entering
one Of the legs Of his wife. The wound
inflicted did not amount to much, An
Osborne county man was guilty Of n
similar piece Of foolishness couple of
years ago. The result was that his
wife's leg was amputated at the knee
ottawa's commercial club is pulling
on a string for the purpose Of getting
big hotel for the town so that 1t will
be in shape to make bids for convcn-
tions of respectable size, The Kansas
City scheme, with variations, is being
considered That Kansas City scheme
Is worse than the loco weed. One man
has already thrown hundred dollar
government bond into the pot
Lindsborg is in an industrious COM
munity, and the people there have no
use for drones, A lot Of hoboes ap-
peared there the other day, and the
Record says that "they were met by a
reception committee Of Marshal Wall
estedt and hickory club and given n
good start out OF town" This style OF
reception committee ought to be made
fashionable.
The editor OF the Jewell Republican
has lived in the banner corn county of
Kansas long enough to catch on to n
good many things regarding that pro-
duct He says: "The great lesson is
again being rubbed in on the Kansas
farmer that he is fool to ever sell
corn at less than 25 cents per bushel
If man takes care of his corn the
time always comes when 1t will bring
him good price This is hard to be-
lleve sometimes when corn Is drug at
10 and IS cents bushel, but it is al
ways true"
The fact that peach trees produce a
full crop only on occasional years has
caused such little planting of trees in
Kansas that good peaches are always
scarce, and some years not produced al
all in the state. Tho uncertainty OF
this crop is due to the changeableness
Of the climate Peach buds can stand
intense cold II it comes when they are
mature and dormant. We say, the
cold weather in February kills the
buds, when, in reality, the warm spell
in January was as much the cause. A
well-ripened bean will endure the
most extreme cold, but is quickly kill
ed II frozen before 1t ripens or after Il
has terminated. The ease Is the samt
with peach buds. The crop may b,
ruined in the fall before the buds havC
matured; warm weather may star
growth in mid-winter, and subsequent
cold kills the buds, or they may en-
dure the winter, start properly II
spring and be killed by late COLI
spells,
A Natoma man divides time between
barber work and watch repairing 4
number Of years ago the local harnes
maker acted as the village barber ii