Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-22

through prairie fire on board train
and has been Dragging about the SEN
sation ever since has now been made
to take back seat by his wife, who
has recently riGlen on street car
through half block of asphalt pave
patchers at work.
Spirits told Mrs. Pickering of Tope-
ka that her next door neighbor had
stolen some clothes from her line. She
believed them and swore ont war
rant. Accordingly the neighbours
house was searched, but the clothes
were not found. Mrs. Pickering is
now setting up with the spirits who
told her q lie.
The Postal telegraph Office main
tanned at Sabetha for the past years
under the efficient management of Mrs.
B. II. Funk has been discontinued.
The company has run its line four
miles south of Sabetha, and as the esti-
mated cost of the loop that would be
necessary toreach this place would be
about 500 per mile it was thought adj
visable to discontinue the same.
1t was in North Topeka that tramp
called at boarding house got supper
and lodging, and in the morning sur
prised the proprietor by voluntarily
paying for his keep. The second sur
prise came few days later when the
boarders at the house found that their
Sunday suits had been overhauled and
the pockets rlhed of all the loose
change. AS they now figure it out the
tramp got about s1G, including what
he paid for his night board and lodg-
ing.
Eudora has a ca that was
commenced in 1898, and now consists
of four large ponds, three spawning
and one fattening pond, divided into
six stalls in which to fatten the fish.
These ponds are so constructed that
they can be drained into each other or
all drained into one, the fish taken out
and put into the stalls to be fed before
marketing. The fattening pond or
stalls is place 100 feet long 16 wide
and nine feet deep, planked up and
divided into six rooms or stalls, con-
structed with slat bottoms that can be
raised to the surface and the fish taken
out at pleasure.
Ar electric belt fakir struck Tonga
noxie this week and reaped harvest,
but was in turn pelted with eggs. He
first performed some Straightforward
trick to draw the crowd, then sold
belts at 81 each. The fakir gave the
dollar back and in some cases added
another one. Then business began in
earnest, and belts sold like hot cakes
When the fellow had accumulated as
much silver as the crowd would. part
with asked them if it wasn't his money,
and skipped ont. Some of the parties
who had invested their dollars after
ward procured eggs and pelted the fell
low before he could get out Of town.
A few weeks ago the Kansas City pa
pers were full OF accounts of a grey
headed old Kansas man who appeared
there with 14-year-old girl for whom
he was the legal guardian and whom
he wished to marry After spending a
day in Jail and being harressed in div
ers ways by the Missouri officers the
old man succeeded in marrying the
girl. His name is ]. W. Osborn and his
home is near Hartford, Logan county.
Ever since he returned home with his
child bride, his grown-up children by
a former wife have been making life a
burden to him. The trouble culmin-
ated this week in two law suits against
the old man, one brought by his daugh-
ter and the other by his son. The
daughter asks for $1,000 damages for
defamation of character, while the son
sues for $4,000, alleging that the old
man beat him over the head with q
half bushel measure when he protested
against a 14-Year-old step-mother. But
the interesting portion of this latter
suit lies in the second allegation of the
complainant, which relates that, while
the father was well off, he refused tc
give his son any education whatever
and that the boy is, therefore com
PEELED to plug along at hard manue
labor with no hope of rising to a higher
station. This is probably the first
time such basis for damages has evel
been laid in law suit in Kansas anC
Its outcome will possess more than com
mon interest, Our sympathies are en-
tirely with the boy. The well-off Kan
san who neglects to educate his child
rem ought to be stripped of his ever,
dollar and we trust the Lyon count!
court will search diligently for som,
law by which the boy can win his suit
A portrait of the late Judge Rober
Crozier, who, for so many years wa
judge of the Leavenworth district, ha