Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-26

planting potatoes and making soft
soap.
A. p. Riddle has been appointed n
regent of the State Agricultural
School
A man has bobbed up at Clay Center
who claims to be able to stop hot
winds.
The oil prospect at Peru has eIcour.
aged Il dressmaker to establish herself
there,
Mrs. Philip Whettcn, an old soldiers
widow of Peru, has been granted a
pension
The attempt of those late billiards
to hurt the Kansas peach crop will DO
fruitless.
Bradstreet says that, excepting
Cripple Creek, Galena is the liveliest
city in the United States.
The postoftice at Turon, in Reno
county, has been robbed, the second
time in the last three months.
There is said to be $50 joints in
Crawford county. Is this part of the
Crawford county system of renown?
Wild Jim, travelling artist, is just
now extracting quarters from the peck
cts of Sumner county people without
pain.
j. D. Anderson of Harvey county,
recently died leaving life insurance
policy of $1,000 to be divided among
eight heirs.
2The postmaster at Lawrence has
been ordered to reorganize his force
and drop one man from the free de-
livery force,
Thayer's oil sand is loaded. Six new
wells have just been finished and
another large steel tank is in course
of construction.
When Kentucky comes to southern
Kansas for its horses, it would seem
to be Kansas business to go into fine
horse business steep.
Martin Mohler (may his tribe de-
creased is trying to break out of OBJ
livion by writing letters on alfalfa to
the Kansas newspapers.
Governor Morrill, has issued procla-
nation for Arbor Day, April Is, on
which day many people in Kansas will
celebrate by setting out trees.
John Cummings, one of the early
settlers in Wolf River township, Doni-
phan county, died on the 18th inst, of
cancer. His age was "a years.
A Stockton butcher named Wash
burn killed horse last Saturday and
distributed the meat free among his
customers. lie will kill horses regu-
larry hereafter and sell the meat.
The pupils of the Ottawa public
schools had an election last week and
voted that the names of the central
and of the ward buildings should here
after be Washington, Lincoln, Haw-
thone and Field respectively.
The principal business of the Tope-
ka land Office just now is to receive
applications for fragmentary parcels
of land formed by bends of streams.
A Riley county man picked up two
acres of land of this kind one day last
week.
Miss Lenburg, blind evangelist, is
working Ottawa An Uncle Toms
Cabin company broke into the town
last week, but she is trained vocal
list, and gave better show, and the
invaders left after one nights per-
Torrance.
The town of Topeka is talking of
constructing an auditorium in order to
catch the state conventions. 1t should
also replace its marble heart with
something that can feel the warmth
of hospitality. Then let them ask for
conventions.
l.. d. Roberts, well known land
agent of Fort Scott has been arrested
on an order of execution issued from
the office of the clerk of the district
court. Robert is accused of conceal
ing his property to defraud his cred
itorS.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte &
Northwestern never has paid any tax
es on rolling stock in the townships
between Seneca and Axtell, where it
uses the Rock Islands tracks This !
discovery was made by Auditor of
State Cole last week.
Prof. Dyche had better leave the
lecture field and open a museum if he
wants to retain his Arctic specime ms.
When he lccturcd at Alma, some one |
stole his cider duck robe and at Nor
ton the seal boots were stolen from
his ESquimaux maniiin.
DIR. Pendleton, powerful preacher,
and an old warehouse in Methodism, !
was, on Thursday, assigned to the |
Baldwin circuit, which pays $3.50 a
year. DIR. Pendleton has twelve chill |
dren; so many, indeed, that there is a
brass band in his family, all parts be-
ing taken by his children. The band |
plays at DIR. Pendicton's meetings.
Mrs. Walters living at Lane, a small !
town near Ottawa, committed suicide |
Friday night. Herself and husband |
retired as usual, and during the night |