Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-09-19
Topeka is having row over the
change in school books.

young lady, was nred upon TOUR tlmei
from ambush. No one was hurt but
the villain who did the shooting should
be severely dealt with.
So many Americans went to Europe
this summer that the steamship com
panics were not able to bring then
back on time. 1t must be a terrible
feeling for Kansas man to be away
from home and can't get back when he
wants to.
Some of the Lawrence girls who
have printer beaux are becoming
alarmed at the increase in type-setting
machines. They need not fear, there
will never be a machine capable Of do
ing the setting up act while the parlor
lamp is turned down.
An Indian Territory paper makes
the plea for that crime-ridden domain
that the crimes are committed by a
very few people. But those people
are very industrious in their way.
There is a rumor that the wooden
mill is to be bought by a company
which has been quietly organized in
Topeka, and who will put in machin-
cry and operate it as q wooden mill.
The mill building is advertised to be
sold next Monday, and it is said that
the company will buy it if possible.
State Senator Milt Brown of Finney
county says the average age of the
convicts in the Kansas penitentiary
is Sc years, and that three-fourths of
the convicts are under 25 years, and
therefore under the law must be sent
to the state reformatory in Reno
county. This would knock big hole
in the output of the prison coal mine.
The Kickapoo Indians of the reser-
walton in Brown county were called
into council by the government in
spector last week to consider prop
osition to sell their unalloted lands or
to allot them to the children. The
vote was against both propositions,
and the lands will be held as common
domain.
George Alger says that a farmernear
Olathe found stock of corn with four
perfect ears on it, and marked it with
his walking stick. He told his family
about it, and they all went out to in
spect this evidence of the fertility of
Johnson county soil. They easily
found the place and to their great as
constituent saw that in the meantime
an ear Of corn had grown on the walk
ing stick.
Judging from the story told by
"Hank" Crane of Wamego, his corn
field must be strange looking sight.
He says the ears have become so heavy
that they chopped" over and stand on
end. In this position they have con-
tinued to grow and have lifted the
stalks out of the ground. The roots
stand about five feet from the ground
and beautiful shady park is thus
formed.
There was wedding in high life at
the State Capitol last week. The To-
peka Mail and the Kansas Breeze were
united, and hereafter will gallop along
together. A better newspaper pair
never plighted troth in Kansas. Chang
ing the figure, it will be three big
shows under one tent, hereafter. Ar
thur Capper, Tom McNeal and Frank
Montgomery constitute combination
hard to beat on this mundane sphere.
Mrs. Jennie S. Parr of Pittsburg
with the aid of the police found in
Chicago her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude
Mason, who had eloped with a full
blooded Kickapoo Indian known as DR..
Ben Loveland. DR., Loveland is well
known throughout the west, where
with troupe of actors he adYertises a
patent medicine. While In Pittsburg
he captivated Mrs. Mason, a pretty
Divorce 81 years old. The Indians
wife and girls mother found Mrs.
Mason in Chicago deserted by the DR..
Six or eight years ago, Governor
Morril's son who Is now In HARVARD,
went to creek near Hiawatha, and
caught dozen or more small fish.
They were too small to eat, so he pre-
served them alive and threw them
into pasture pond on the home place.
Little attention was paid to them, uh-
til few weeks ago the governor had
the pond seined and found several
hundred fish. Some were large enough
to eat. He put them back into the
water and the pond has been regular
source of supply for the table ever
since.
The hospltable people of Atchison
have invited the country roundabout
to attend corn carnival September
90. It is Ed Howes inspiration, but
the other papers have joined him in
booming it, and the town committee
of safety has taken hold of it. The
people talk of little else, and are max
ing great preparations to entertain
their visiting friends. An interesting
feature of the FESTIVITIES will be a re-
union of the passenger agents who
hustled for business in the early days
back in 1872, 70, IA and rs, when the
town was greater center of travel