Hutchinson gazette., 1901-06-06

has averaged lower this spring than
any year since 1865,
An Indian girl, pupil at the Has
kell institute, Is running ahead In tho
most-beautiful-lady contest
SalIna Ia getting ready to buy med
ais for the boys of Company NJ.
Twentieth Kansas regiment
A Caldwell man who had two ribs
broken In a humiliating manner is
feeling very sore about II,
The new catalogue of the State Az
ricultural college shows an enrolment
OF 1921, an increase of 227,
The blackberry trees around Burr
Oak are being destroyed by creature
resembling the alfalfa worm,
Trouble over class colors In Win
field resulted in Ave black eyes and
two cases In the police court,
A little sod house up in Smith
county contains piano worth five
times as much as the residence,
Ness county comes TO the front with
a story of bunch Of rye thirty-eight
inches high with five inch heads,
One Of the wheat kings Of Western
Kansas Is j. A, Franz who has LOO
acres which promise full crop.
An ex-warden says there are 1000
convlcts in the Kansas pcnltentiary,
of whom about fifteen are guilty,
A man died In Leavenworth a few
days ago at the age Of 80 years, and
he used both tobacco and liquor,
The state agricultural college is
booming the Soy bean said to be val
liable food for all stock raised on the
farm.
While two men in Winfield we're
attending a meeting of the Anti-Horse
Thief association their bicycles were
stolen.
Peabody 10 working up sentiment in
favor of Fourth of July demonstra-
tion that will interest, elevate and
instruct"
Barton county Is already complain
ing Of a shortage Of harvest hands
and surplus Of hands that are snow
shovelers and ice cutters by profess
sion.
Pleasanton people are IN mourning
over the death of two Of its popular
boys Harry Norman and Todd Blakey,
who were drowned in the river east OF
town.
A 10 cent admission fee Is being
charged all visitors to the Lansing
penitentiary Considerable revenue
from this source is being made for
the state.
A Paola man has sold two black
wolves to the Geological garden in
New York for 500. The commission
ers of Miami county only offered 81
for the beasts.
Senator Wulfekuhler OF Leaven-
worth owns q G6,00O-acre ranch in
Wallace and Sherman counties, in
closed in seventy-nine miles Of fence.
There are over 5000 head of cattle on
the ranch.
Since It has been discovered in New
vi N Nhub ~ bNlullNlu pldll VIII hlu
when sprayed with alcohol, the bibul-
Gus men in Great Bend have resolved
to quit using alcohol as an external
application.
Lucy Leidlgh, Hutchinson high
school graduate, has been neither alb
sent nor tardy during her twelve
years course The young lady was
presented with a gold medal by the
school board.
This class yell comes from Kansas
And a beevo, and a bivo; and a
beevo bivo, bum. Bum kill rat trap
bigger than n cat trap, bum kill rat
trap bigger than a cat trap, cannibal,
cannibal, zip boom bum, Newton high
school, 1901"
A Kansas man who had been away
from home on spree for a week re-
turned the other day expecting to find
his wife in tears, but found her with
her skirts half mast, cleaning house
and softly singing to herself II Don't |
Care If He Never Comes Back"
A story is being told Of Wilson
county farmer who caught q chnch |
bug. He fed him poison. cracked |
him in the doors and frOze him In ice.
The bug always came UP smiling a
fiendish smile and looking at the man
with a sardonic eye Finally he car
ried the bug to foundry and dropped
it into n ladlo Of melted iron. Then
he went off Ghuokllng Fifteen years
afterwards his wife broke skillet
she had been using FOR some years
and that chinch bug hoped out and
asked the nearest road TO corn field.
Clay Center Is an odd town. Miss
Wedd was married May 20, Mr.. Nc
Knight is appointed night watchman
and the Rev. Mr.. Denise denies that
he has resigned
Charles Russell, a sophomore In the
Wichita high school, was hazed by
the juniors of that institution. They
accused him Of being a spy for the
seniors. Taking him to a barn they
pinioned him to the floor and left him
to spend the night. Jailor Dick Dodds
was out serving papers and when
passing the barn the yells Of the
youngster attracted his attention. Co
ing in he loosed the captive