Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-02

'Heavensr' exclaimed Butler coun-
ty belle, when out of hearing of her
partner, that man dances like news
paper man"
When Kentucky comes to southern
Kansas for its horses, it would seem
to be Kansas business to go into fine
horse business steep.
Tom Beckner, farmer in Sumner
county, subsoils with dynamite. A
chunk as big as ones thumb loosens a
dozen feet square.
Grandma Hedges of Monet, who is
76 years old, walked four miles on an
errand last Monday, rather than have
her team taken from the pillow.
A young woman of Stockton, who
occasionally takes a flyer after sun
down in male attire, writes pieces
for the paper on the evil of dancing.
G. ?. Dewy, large ranch owner of
Manhattan, has just finished buying
100000 bushels of corn to feed his cat
tie. Saturday he dined the farmers
from morning until night on an old
fashioned oyster dinner. He used the
opera house and thousands were fed.
A train of IS cars loaded with ice
from White Bear lake, Minnesota, has
just reached Concordia, consigned to
Dunning, Betournay, and John Stew
art. The train load contained over
200 tons of CONCEALED Minnesota eli
mate which will be doled out to the
people of the town at IS cents per cwt.
The ice is from Is to Is inches in thick
ness.
The Russian thistles, which grew all
over Rawlins county in great album
dance last year, are now being blown
across the prairies, scattering the seed
everywhere. Wire fences catch and
hold the pests until the fences in some
places are places are nearly hid from
sight. Unless some decided action is
taken by the farmers to rid themselves
of the obnoxious weeds the pests will
cover the whole county next year.
There is some wild animal at large
in the vicinity of Wamego that is car
rying off and killing young pigs One
of William Darnelrs boys was with
in forty feet of it. He beat hasty
retreat, and both he and his father,
who is an experienced hunter, went
in search of it, but without success.
Other hunters have gone after its
scalp, but have never seen the animal,
only its tracks being found. 1t is de-
scribed as having a long, nearly yell
low body, long tail, and large feet.
S. Stout, who lives at Axtell, has
been resident of Marshall county for
seventeen years. He has made farm
work more of a luxury than burden.
He has taken out no less than six
patents on different farm implements.
He claims to be the original inventor
of the first one-row riding corn culti-
vator erer patented, and this was in
1859. He is now working on a two
row cultivator, the models of which
are completed In 1895 he patented
q corn fodder loader, which will load
an entire shock at once, without tear
ing it to pieces, 1t will load shock
a minute.
In few days one of the most CEN
trail brick business blocks in Fort
Scott will be sold at public auction in
settlement of the estate of an old col
ored man named Samuel Hagan, who
recently died and was supposed to be
without means. Since his death it has
developed that he owned some resi-
dence property and city lots in Spring
field, H., some valuable stock in the
zinc mines at Galena, Kan, as well as
n half interest in the business block
in Fort Scott known as the McDer-
mott building, the other half interest
being owned by Judge f. L. McDer-
mott, prominent lawyer, who was
old Hagan's friend and adviser
Miss Anna Burroughs of Marysville
will take front rank with the best
known cornet soloists of Kansas. She
has played in public since she was 10
years old. In 1891 the band of which
she was the leader carried off tho first
prize in the bond tournament of the
Dalotas Miss Burroughs took part
in the concerts given by the Modoc
club in Topeka in 1895, which were
given to raise money to take them to
the national G. A. r. encampment at
Louisville. She also led the Oketo
band who played on Mckinley day at
the Beatrice, Neb, Caautauqua. She
has grown to womanhood in Marys-
vile and is popular and pretty.
The slayers of Charley Rodman, of
Haryer county, are in the coils OF the
law. They are Mrs. Charley Rodman,
VIM. Mattox, who was a highly re-
spected citizen of that county, and his
brother-in-law, named Clark. All
were arrested last week. Mrs. Rod
man confessed, and says NRttox on
different occasions offered to furnish
her poison with which to kill her hus-
band. She refused but afterwards
employed Clark to shoot him. She
paid him $50 for committing the muir
der. The money was paid by her to
Clark just before the arrests were