Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-25

ne is no angel.
Professor Fahnestock, the Dunkard
preacher, who was on trial for heresy,
was acquitted. He was accused OF
thinking that women did not need to
wear ugly peke bonnets to be saved.
A Lawrence woman, Mrs. Lucy
Sheets, killed her little girl eighteen
months old, with an AK. because, she
told the county attorney, she thought
she could not bring it up as she ought.
Lyon county has bad case of the
gold fever. 1t is hidden treasure of
an old California miner. The amount
hidden was about 500, 900 and is known
as the Walker treasure. There is much
excitement.
About the brightest woman the suf-
fragists ever have brought to Kansas
is Charlotte Perkins Stetson of Boston.
She is good locker and good dres-
ser, and she thinks like chain light
ming.
Several days after the late storm in
| Marshall, Nemaha and Brown coun-
ties, farmer picked up ON his prem
ises, in Atchison county, Mo-, what
proved to be check for 81, 500, drawn
at Frankfort, Kansas, that had not
been paid.
II. b. Ware of Fort Scott has pat
ented machinery for the preparation
of flax fiber from the straw for the
manufacture of thread and cloth He
has interested Kansas City capital in
the scheme, and factory will be es-
tablished at that city.
Henry Crow, a farmer who lives
near Garden City caught fifteen bush
els of grasshoppers off seven acres of
alfalfa in two hours with a machine
he has for the purpose. He kept them
in sacks all night and fed them to a
neighbours hogs the next morning. 1t
was a great feast for the hogs.
F. NJ. Higgason of Belleville a few
days ago received letter from his son
Harry, at st. Louis, telling him of
what a narrow escape he, Harry, had
in the cyclone. He was engaged in
running an elevator in a six story
building, which was blown down in
the cyclone, killing seven persons, but
fortunately Harry escaped by crawl
ing into sewer. In conclusion he adj
vises the old man to steer clear of
brick buildings when he sees a cyclone
coming.
A number of times, of late, the Don
iphan county board has made orders
allowing persons to redeem certain
quarter section of land from sales for
taxes for years before the war, gener-
ally 1859, These little transactions
illustrate the advance in the price of
land since these years. The original
taxes on these quarter sections were
from So to 81. They are now the most
valuable lands in the county, selling
for $40, 900 to $4,000 per quarter. In
the years before the war, the lands in
the western part of the county were
not sought after, people not caring to
settle on the open prairie; and the as
sessed valuation was very low, as may |
be seen by the amount of taxes; and |
the owners even then, in many cases. |
did not take the trouble to paw the
taxes. These lands have recently |
been changing hands at high prices,
and, in perfecting the title, it is dis
covered that many of them were bid
in by the county so many years ago
for taxes, that even the records were
not searched until it became necessa-
", and then it was found that the
and had never been redeemed from
lhese sales If lands Spectators had
only known it, they could have made
/ good thing by acquiring the lands
by tax title. The original patents for
/ large proportion of the land in Don-
phan county have never been record
ID, but are still in the general land Of
ice at Washington waiting to be call
vi for nv those who entered the land
This illustrates the carelessness of
people in regard to titles to their prop
,rty.
1t was said of an Atchison man re-
emily that he had no vices. He should
ret some; every man should have
ice or two. Being a member of a
odge, and wearing plumes and
,adges, is better than perfection. No
nan should be perfect. They are sim
,ly uncomfortable.
Jesse Powell of Stockton, II years
I'D, has started out to get rich. Jay
iould began with mouse trap; young
lowell has ideas. The other day he
evied nickel loan on his friends.
\ccumulating twenty-five cents, he in
'ested it in six pop checks which
ingly sell for FIVE cents. Then he
,aid his obligations in checks, leaving
lin one over, which he sold to thirs-