Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-25

A man living near Lebanon will
have 200 bushels of Apricots this year
with long a.
The mercury is reported to have reg
istered Ill in the shade at Topeka
last Wednesday.
There is no truth in the report
that Cowley county corn has been
ruined by the hot winds.
DR.. Goblin was not at Baker univer-
sity very long but it was sufficient to
catch the marrying fever.
The Humboldt Union says that CHG
gers have become almost as much of a
pest as the Old Scratch himself.
The Leavenworth Standard thinks
a hen has the best claim to immortal
tality because her son never sets.
If Major Hudson finally loses the
state partnership he will be out sever
al dollars on two elegant new gilt signs.
The twenty-second annual meeting
of the Kansas Millers' association will
be- held at Hutchinson, Tuesday, July
93d.
D. Il. Robinson, professor of Latin
language and literature of the State
University died at Lawrence Sunday
morning,
"The pathway of the Kansas farmer
is not strewn with flowers" says a
New York paper. No but it is strewn
with corn.
Perhaps the most atrocious misquo-
tation in the history of Kansas was Mr..
dwellings, "buttermilk of human
kindness"
Elk. Gov. Humphrey says Kansas
suits me to dot" and will therefore
stay in the land of Sunfowers and big
ears of corn,
A severe electrical storm passed over
Ellsworth county about 2 o'clock on
the morning of the goth, doing consid-
cradle damage to property and killing
three men.
Ft. Leavenworth is very anxious to
secure the state encampment and uses
as its strongest argument that the sol
diers and officers would all have the
opportunity of seeing regular army life.
Sheriff Allen of Ft. Scott, returned to
that place from Monon, Ind, Monday
morning with Charles Courtney, a hard
ware merchant of that town, who is
charged with obtaining 5000 from John
sthan Davis, Jr,, ranchman near Ft.
Scott, by false pretenses. Courtney
bought alot of stock from Davis and is
accused of giving valueless collateral.
A Topeka man who says he knows
says there are fourteen miles of Santa
Fe freight cars in Kansas to be re-
paired before the fall crop can be
moved. Another Topeka man who
works for the Santa Fe says the burn
ing of the repair shops at Arkansas
City and Albuquerque this summer has
given the Topeka shops about fifty per
cent more work than would have been
brought here otherwise.
The famous cannon known as "Old
Kickapoo," which was brought to Kan
sas from Missouri to be used in sub
iecting and terrorizing the free-state
settlers of Kansas, but which fred the
first shot which drought freedom to
millions of slaves" at the saclking of
Lawrence, May 81, 1s56-virtually the
beginning of the rebellion-is now a
part Of the State Historical society's
collection in the Capitol building at
Topeka. Captain Wallinshaw, adju-
tant of Custer post, Leavenworth, will
publish history of the cannon, and
distribute copies to the old settlers Of
the State, accompanied by fac-simile
of the cannon in miniature, number
of which he has had made from a frag-
ment which was blown out when the
cannon was being used during the ex-
cavation of the first coal mine in LeaV-
enworth.
There is muddle in the Twenty
fifth judicial district of Kansas, caused
by an act of the legislature last winter
reducing the number of judicial dis
tricts. The Twenty-ffth judicial dis
trict is, or was, composed of the coun-
ties of Marion, Mcpherson and Chase,
presided over by Lucien Earl of Nc
Pherson. Marion was added to Judge
Humphreys district (Geary), McPher-
son to Judge Martins Hutchinson,
and Chase to Judge Randolphs Uyon).
This act is to take effect October 1,
1895, Judge Earl's term for which he
was elected running until the second
Monday in January, 1896, There is
grave question involved which is: Can
an officer be legislated out of Office be-
fore the expiration of his term? The
constitutionality of the act is being SER
iously questioned. 1t is said that
Judge Earl and his friends will test the
law by holding an election in the abol-
ished district this fall. In case the
Secretary of State refuses to file their
nomination papers, which he will
probably do, mandamus proceedings
will be brought to compel him to do
SO, which would carry the question di-
rectly into the supreme court.