Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-04-04

Some enthusiastic Osborne county
wheat raiser has already ordered q
reaper aud binder for his wheat CROP
this gear.
Ex-Stste Superintendent H. N.
Gaines will conduct the Kingmau
county normal institute during the
month Of August
4Ksnsas had only regiment at Chica-
maugua, but she has appropriated FOR
a monument in each of its three fight.
ing positions.
Mayor Nathaniel Barnes, Of Kansas
City, Kan, president OF the Barnes
Tea, Coffee & Spice Co, made an as
signment on the Goth. Poor collec-
tions is the cause OF the failure.
G. @ King. Fl. H. Bagley and S. R.
Washer, leading business men Of
Atchison, are working with the gov
ernOr for R. F. Antle of Atchison for
State grain inspector Of Kansas.
Prof. Geo. W. Winans, ex.State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction,
will deliver an address before the
Harper County Tea lhers' association,
which meets in Anthony, April 10.
Miss Fannie Nesbitt, night operator
at North Topeka, has been presented
with god medal by her fellow oper-
ators for her bravery at Bonner
Springs last fall when she drove away
o robber.
President William R. Harper, of Chi
csRO University, has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver the annual COM
mencement address at Kansas Univer.
sity In June.
Miss Grace King was appointed reg
lster Of deeds to I'll out the unexpired
Term of her father, the late DR.. w. N
King, of Dickinson county. She has
been an assistant in the Office and is
capable Of filling the place well.
To discover the value of testimony
Editor Scott, of the lola Register, ask
ed 1903 persons which leg Of we'll
known citizen, who only had one, was
gone. Fifty-two said the right leg,
and 81 the left, and yet they see HIM
every day.
The president has granted pardon
to John r Miller. alas Dick Miller.
sentenced in Arkansas to three years
imprisonment and 5000 fine for illicit
distilling and unlicensed liquor sell
ing, and An.o Gabo, sentenced Ia
Kansas to two years Imprisonment for
perjury.
Yates Center has entered into an
agreement with the Werner Book
company whereby that company will
take up all the arithmetics, geogra-
phits and physiologies now used in
the city schools and provide new
books free Of cost.
Assistant State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Guy P. Benton has
gone to Abilene. where he will repre-
tent superintendent Stanley at the
committee meeting held to arrange
the program for the state meeting of
county uperintendents to be held in
May.
Charles Carson, of Nickerson, who
had been on trial for five days last
week, was acquitted Monday morning
Of the charge of having murdered his
wife last Christmas eve at the Colo
RADIO hotel in Nickerson. The court
room was crowded and when the clerk
announced that the verdict was mot
guilty" cheers and great applause
went up.
w. X. Musselman, prominent farm
err OF Pawnee county, was accidentally
shot Saturday noon. He was riding in
doc cart when a double barreled
shotgun he was carrying slipped from
his grasp, striking he hammers on a
Stat in the cart Both barrels were
discharged in Musselman's side, from
which he died in few hours.
At Sedgwick Sunday night burglars
entered the postnf'ice and blew open
the safe, but fail d to get the cash box
open. After taking everything of
value they could lind, the thieves stole
u horse and buggy and escaped.
Last Friday there was much excite
ment around the Karsas penitentiary
over a murderous assault on James j.
Howard, cell house guard, made by
Finnian Wolf, a full. boOued Indian
who IS under a life sentence for muir
der. While the convicts were all out
to dinner but the Indian and one.
armed prisoner. Howard was in the
cell mouse alone with them. He lean
ed over the desk in drowsy manner,
when the Indian picked up the hatch
ct that was on the desk and struck
him on the head with 1t. fracturing
his skull. He was about to repeat the
blow when the one.armed prisoner
grappled with him and managed to
wrench the blade from the handle.
The Indian then cut Howard half a
dozen times on the head and shoulders
with the blade of the Ratchet, then
made a rope of his clothing and at
tempted to scale the prison wall. The
alarm was given, and his escape pre-.
vented by shooting him and turning
the hose on him. The guard is not
expected to live.
The thirty-two ex-Pullman work.