Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-12
3. y. COburn, Secretary Kansas State
Board OF Agriculture.

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many well-meaning citizens through
ignorance of the law and the ease with
which the disease is spread are unwit-
tingly aiding in the destruction Cd
thousand of swine which, with strong
prices, her present shortage and ire
mendous corn crop Kansas at this time
can lily afford to lose. 1t is conceded
that the contagion from "cholera" hogs
and their dead carcasses is carried
from place to place by dogs, wolves,
crows, buzzards, running water and
various other agencies, including the
clothing of those who come in contact
with them, and this fact emphasizes
the necessity of promptly isolating all
ing animals and deeply burying or
burning the dead, even though there
was no law making it mandatory.
Section 1, chapter 1877, session laws
of 1886, makes it the duty of every
person who owns or controls any hog
dead of any disease to burn or bury it
within "a hours after death and fail
ure to do so is misdemeanor, subject
to a fine not exceeding 500. A like
penalty applies to selling or bartering
any hog which has died of disease.
The same punishment is provided too
for persons depositing any dead hog
in any river, stream, creek or ravine.
Section l, of chapter 1853 is ignored
by or unknown to many, but is inn
portant. 1t says:
Section Amy person being the
owner of any domestic animal or ami
mails, or having the same in charge,
who shall turn out or suffer any such
domestic animal or animals having
any contagious or infectious disease,
knowing the same to be diseased. to
run at large upon any uninclosed land
common or highway, or shall let the
same approach within one hundred
feet of any highway, or shall sell or
dispose of any domestic animal or an
imals, knowing the same to be so dis
eased, without fully disclosing the
fact to the purchaser, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by a fine in any amount not
exceeding five hundred dollars; or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail not more
than six months.
The practices Of throwing dead ami
mails into ravines, creeks and rivers
from which freshets may carry them
long distances to spread poison and
pollution, is especially common and
cannot be too severely deprecated.
Burial at once not less than three feet
leep is the safest and most practicable
way to dispose of them.
Lyon county is having some expen-
live amusement with horsethieves.
Willard s. Allen, son of A. F. Allen
If Vinland, was killed Thursday by
alling off haystack.
A tracer sent out after the late A.
W. Smith month ago has just re-
,urned with the information that he
has a tremendous corn crop.
West Branch creek, strem that has
lad its own way back as far as the
memory of the oldest inhabitant runs,
las been causing the Rock Island troub-
e in Waubaunsee cohnty all summer,
md last week it washed out every
hing in thevalley.
A citizen of Lynn county, who by
he way, is Celestial, offers this ex-
'lanation of the eclipse of the moon:
Moon and sun, he court him. Lookee,
zee; moon, he hidee the sun. In Chi
Ia, when clips, they heap play brass
,and and eat, like moon and sun they
70 off ank get married. See2"
The $4,000 damage suit which Ber-
lard Murray of Colorado brought
gainst ex-Congressman w. A. Harris
# Linwood for alternating the affec-
ions of the formers wife has been
ettled by the payment to Mr.. Murray
f 81, 900 and the assumption by Harris
# all attorney fees. Mr.. Harris was
cry attentive to Mrs. Murray and
vhen hiswife died year ago, he mar
led Mrs. Murray, the latter having
ecured a divorce in the meantime.
Some weeks ago the agent of the
anta Fe at Barnard telegraphed to
livery Turner, the division superinten-
.ent, that it was raining hard and al
eady half dozen bridges had been
Washed out. He could not stop the
ain, but he thought he must tell his
,rief to somebody, and a great load
vas lifted off his mind when dispatch
anne from Mr.. Turner saying: "Let
t rain. Every drop means an ear Of
orn and the company will be well
BILE to restore the bridges"
Kansas with her fixed property is
alued at S16O, 1000. That is not
God showing as compared with other
nd much smaller states. New Jerseys
aluation is S7O2, 1913, 361. Wisconsin
hows list reaching / ,4O6, 300, 1856, and
indiana reaches 1927, s15, 131, while
illinois shows total valuation OF
7s6, 616, 394. This proves again, the
of the present system of
isting property in this state at one.
bird its value. Kansas is at a disad.
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