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

Jonathan Scott, blind and crippled
old soldier of Labette county, has
been granted pension of S79 a month.
John Carey of Noble county has been
convicted of the atrocious crime of at
lacking a blind man with corn cut
ter.
! NC. Ttrpin, for. a long time Rock
Island agent at Ilolton, has been pro
NOTED to the position of travelling pas.
senger agent.
Miss Mate Christopher of Minneap-
oils broke all previous records in bicy-
Gle riding, Monday, by easily covering
40 miles in two hours.
Miss Carol f. Reed has been admit
ted to the bar in Stafford county dis
trict court, after having passed very
creditable examination.
Charles Bateman, an old settler Of
Jackson county, died last week on the
arm which he pre-empted in 1857.
He was born in Ireland.
The Standard Oil company is sccui-
ing leases on all the supposed oil belt
territory in Bourbon county. When
the Standard gets an oil field it goes
very low for a couple of years and
then makes things ham.
Pleas Burton, an all round negro
criminal of Lyon county, whom the
board of pnrdons let ont of the peni-
Tertiary, where he was serving a life
sentence, IS in the hands of the law
again fo2 attempting to kill his wife.
John $. Long is prosperous Young
farmer living near Oskaloosu and has
a pretty, young wife. A few days
ago she went to town and wrote
check against Johns bank account for
5000 She insists that the money be-
longs to her but John is mad and has
had her arrested.
The Lanier boys of East Atchison
have returned to the old habit of
crossing over to the Kansas side and
whipping newspaper reporters. They
have been making these invasions
about every ten years since the time
of Tom Stivers, the first local. of
the old Atchison Champion.
Cotfeyville has taken the prelimin-
airy steps towards securing CONNER
cial club. A large number of citizens
met in the council rooms Saturday
night and were called to order by
Mayor Wilcox, A special committee
of three were appointed to assist the
present committee in securing the
McGraw mill.
Rev. DIR, T. w. Gunsaulas of Chicago
the well known preacher and lecturer
has accepted the invitation of Kansas
to deliver the annual com
mencement address in June. This
will take the place Of any orations by
students and is an innovation at the
school that the students have been
for for number of years.
Abilene has an inspired weather
prophet lie declares that he has re-
,eived assurances from ON High that |
here will be abundant crops this year,
hat June will be wet month and
he fruit crop bountiful one, lie !
lvers that the wheat crop will be
rood one though Hicks says not, but
lie agrees with Foster on the storm
Turing the first week in March.
There is danger OF blood shed in
Meade and Comanche counties between
,tockmen and citizens. Some stock
men fenced in grazing lands belonging
% nonresident owners and drove in
several hundred head of cattle recent
Y from Texas. Several nights later
he wire was cut in several places,
he herd stampeded and scattered
,ver the country and more than 100
ost.
Mr.. Fritz Behrner of Ottawa came
II on the morning train from tho
outh Monday, and jumped off when
he train stopped for the Missouri Pa
life crossing. As he did so he oh.
erved two men roll out from beneath
coach, where they had probably
leen stealing ride ON the trucks. As
lie started for home they fell in be,
lind him when he started to run, be,
ng unarmed. The tramps were un,
nctlmbered with baggage and over.
lauled the fleeing man, but he hap,
lily reached his gate before they could
,vertalie him. Robbery was undoubt,
'dly premeditated.
The south end of Dickinson county
continues much exercised over the al,
eyed robbers treasure said to be hid.
len i'm cave near Hope The story
.uns that many years ago when tho
county was Inhabited by Indians, and
few settlers who lived along tho
.reelis flowing into the Smoky Hill !
liver, that an immense amount of gold
vas deposited by leaders of band of
and about the same time
party who knew it was there, stop
,ed with a man near Galva, in Ne
'herSon county, and had sickened
md died, and that after his death
here was found among his papers a
liagram of the cave i'm which the
aeasure was deposited and the copy
# mark that was placed upon the