Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-05

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Miss Carol E.~Reed has been admit
led to the bar in the Stafford county
district court, after having passed a
creditable examination.
A peddler of piano polish is travel
ing through Kans9sI lie is reported
as being very importin6nt to ladies
who refuse to buy his worthless stuff.
One of the largest dogs ever raised
in Kansas was shipped from Leaven-
worth to Chicago Monday. The dog
was q st. Bernard and weighed 1872
pounds.
Prof, Dyche OF Lawrence, says Nan
sen could not have discovered the
Pole because it is now dark up there.
! Anyhow, Nansen cannot hold candle
to DYche as an explorer.
The Globe is educating the people
of Atchison in the use of the word
don't" Reform comes slow in Atch
ison, but give the Globe time and it
will correct all bai habits.
Gold has been ru,d on Joy creek,
in Washington county. and Kansas
City and st. Joseph capitalists will bc
surprised to learn from the Atchison
Champion that they are rushing to
the scene of the discovery by the hun
dreds.' The Champion also says that
the whole country is aroused and
awaiting full developments with much
enthusiasm and excitement"
The 3-year-old son of Mrs. Maggie
Scott was burned to death Wednesday
evening at Fort Scott. Mrs. Scott
noticed that lamp was leaking, and
picked it up, intending to carry it
from the room, bat as she lifted it the
bottom fell out and the oil saturated
the child's clothing, which ignited
The frantic mother threw a blanket
over the child, but it was horribly
burned, and died few moments later.
The irrigated crops grown in Colo
RADIO last year amounted to more than
double the output of the gold and
silver mines, and the Western Kansas
newspapers think that if the farm
ers of Western and Central Kansas
will improve their opportunity, the
value of the irrigated crops Of Kansas
this year will be more than the value
of the gold or silver mines of any
state in the Union.
The little town of Picrceville, in |
Finney county, is without doubt one
of the most fortunate places in the
state. 1t has never been Incorporated,
has no street railways, electric light |
plants nor water works systems, but,
better than all these, it has no indebt- |
edness. 1t is entirely free from debt,
and while only a few people live there,
all of them have positions of some
kind and there is not an idle person
in the place.
II. \. Poingdester lost twcnty-one
head of horses, fourteen cows, twelve
hogs and all his corn and other pro-
ducts and also farming implements
and vehicles by the destruction of his
barn by fire Thursday night. Among
the horses were Altitude 2:a7, and
Director, both valuable animals. He
places his loss at $4,000, with small
insurance. Mr.. Poingdester lives on
The Whitaker farm, two miles south of
Leavenworth. The fire was undoubt-
IDLY the work of an incendiary.
An Ottawa music dealer had an or
gan standing just outside his business
house, probably as a. sign, A blind
singer came along and finding the or
gan unoccupied climbed upon the
stool and sang and played until he
had big crowd around him. The
music dealer was pleased. But inn
lginc his surprise when the blind
singer stood up and began auction
eering off lot of old watches. The
music dealer carefully totes that or
gan in doors every night, e
L. W. Hostetter, of Ottawa died
Tuesday from the effects of injuries
by maddencd boar about
week ago Blood poison set in from
which he was unable to recover. Mr.
Hostetter had served two terms in the
legislature and was one OF the larg-
est farmers and stock raisers in Frank
lin county. He owned 1000 acres of
land, 500 acres of which is in cultiva-
ton. On this he had over mile of
stone fence, about seven miles of
hedge fence, a magnificent residence,
besides number of tenant houses.
He also had fine orchard.
There are con fined in the Kansas
s73 convictS; White
males, G37; white females, 6; colored
males, 2l0; colored females, 10; Mex
can males, =; Indian males, :. The
oldest convict is % years old and the
Is. The whole number of
conyicts having served sentence in
the peniJentiary, together with the
number now confined there, is 1853.
Wyandotte county has the largest
number of convicts, SO. Several coun-
ties are not represented at all. The
number of convicts who have died
while serving sentence is 40, There
are now &c old soldiers doing time in
The prison.