Hutchinson gazette., 1901-08-15
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The lust 40 acres Of government land
in Jewell county was taken last week,
1t is stated that every sheriff OF Nor
ris county who has served during the
pOst 40 years IS still alive,
The crop of dwarf broom corn in the
vicinity of Sterling is reported by farm
ers 10 be damaged 80 per cent
John W, Corey, Of Montgomery coun',
w, has 40 acres of corn which he eX'
poets to yield so bushels to the acre,
David Nation has commenced suit
for divorce from his wife Carrie Ma
tion, in the district court at Medicine
Dodge,
!, During July the Santa Fe and Mis-
souri, Pacific each handled 200 cars
loaded with the products OF the cement
mill at lola,
Along the Neosho and verdigris
rivers there Nrc corn fields that will
yield 70 bushels to the acre, Few win
yield under 20 bushels
The Kansas Knights Templar viii go
in body TO the Louisville encampment
August II, Marshall's bnnd Of Topeka
has been selected to accompany them,
The Kansas & Texas Coal Company,
II Topeka concern, has placed an order
for ten inch drills for prospecting for
oil in the shalc district Of Western Kan
sas,
The new Santa Fc machine shop at
Topeka which is being stalSed out, is TO
be $50 feet long and 1874 feet wide
Preparations are being made to lay the
foundations,
Labor day, September ., will be OBJ
served in Pittsburg with jubilee in
celebrating industrial peace, Thirty
thousand miners and laborcrs OF every
craft will assemble.
John Domain, Of Edwards county
bought quarter section for $500, with
A. acres Of growing wheat, He has
thrcshcd 5000 worth Of wheat from the
A acres and has pastured the rest Of
the quarter.
The delay in clearing the title TO the
Fort Hays reservation causes years
delay in planting the branch normal
and agricultural and experiment station
there, No work win be done until the
title is perfected,
o, V, GringrOss, of Harvey county,
discharged farm hand. Later there
were five Of his fine steers missing 1t
was found that the farm hand had sold
them in Newton and Immediately taken
the fast mail train east
Reports OF fine rains come from the
southwest and grass was never better
at this time of year Many cattle have
been taken there to pasture during the
fall and winter. The stocltlnen seem
to pay little attention to the order re-
quiring the removal Of fences,
w. c. Edwards, cX.secretary Of stat
has wintered cattle in Western Kansas
many years, He says wheat straw is
worth Sc ton; that he builds Stacks
with alternate layers of straw and
lSahr corn, He says that the saccharinc
matter Is absorbed from the corn by
the straw and the cattle eat the straw
first.
Superintendent Nelson, of the Wichita
trolley lines is figuring on an electric
line from Wichita TO Geuda Springs
down the west side Of the Arkansas
river, striking Belle PlOine and Oxford
Mr., Nelson says that 1t would make u
sixty minute run and could be made
profitable at the rate of 80 cents for the
round trip.
A general conference of insurance
agents OF Kansas held Il two days scs-
sion ut Mcpherson.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa-
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons.
When the picnic dinner of the old
settlers reunion at IIalstead was over
and Il. W. lIoch was introduced as the
principal speaker, there were 5000 peo.
Pile in the park. Mr. Hoch's address
was noted by his cheerful turning of
the bright side Of everything to tho
front,
An Arkansas City carpenter claims to
have been offered $40 day to work at
Lawton.
&, n Tucker raised / ,9l4 bushels of
wheat on 81 acres of his Dickinson
county farm.
In the southeastern counties the most
of the wheat will be sown this year in
August and will begin to provide pas
tulage in September and keep doing
the same until January, Nearly every
farm has field of ka6r corn, of sor-
ghum and of millet; all of them good
crops.
Corn in Allen county is expected to
turn out from one-third to one-fourth