Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-27
The new postmaster at Stafford is
named Fort. He will hold it.


county, for stealing cattle, after first
having been shot by Lot Ravenscraft..
died there recently of heart trouble.
Some alleged good citizens" Of Kan.
sas can sleep more easily now.
A few years ago DaYis county wal
changed to Geary county by the legis-
lature because IL was named after the
arch-rebel. Now Geary county has
imported two blood hounds from the
south for the purpose of trailing hui
man game, The county name should
be changed back again.
Brick made in the vicinity of Topeka
are said to be the best brick in the
world. One brick plant has already
turned out 100000 brick this year
and the works are still running at full
blast. A shipment of $4,000 TO Wichita
has just been made to be used in pay
ing streets in that city.
s. G. Foster, VIM. Hardee and ]. $.
Rogers of Toledo, o., owners of the big
natural gas leases of lola, Kan, were
in Fort Scott May II comforting with
business men relative to piping the gas
to that place, a distance of 40 miles.
They are thinking of taking the gas to
Kansas City, which will be about l4O
miles distant
The case of John V. Cunningham of
Texas, charged with the murder of
Joseph B. McMahan, the circus man,
was called in the district court May 20
and went over to the September term
to enable the state to procure impor-
tant witnesses. Judge Dale reduced
Cunninghams bond from $4,000 to
$4,000.
A brass band Of fifty players has
been organized among the students
and teachers at st. Benedict's college
at Atchison. The college has long had
a band of from twenty-five to thirty
men, but the number of players is to
be increased to fifty. The additional
instruments necessary will be pur-
chased at once.
A Minneapolis boy was an applicant
for the West Point cadetship. At an
examination for the West point cadet
ship in the Sixth district about year
ago the candidate walked from his
home to the place where the examine
ton was held. The act of the young
man caused him to be made quite
hero and gave him considerable notri-
ETY.. The Minneapolis boy tried the
scheme of walking to Clay Center, but
somehow the combination did not
work for him and the other fellow
from Abilene got the prize.
Many apple orchards over the state
are being ruined by canker worms and
their owners wandering why they emit
stop their ravages. Judge Wellhouse
of Leavenworth, who has the largest
orchards in the state, says: "We have
Just completed the fight of our lives
against the canker worm. Have been
running five power sprayers, going
over an average of thirty acres of or
chard per day with each machine At
first we used the London purple mix
ture of the standard strength-one
pound to $50 gallons of water. 1t
didn't seem to effect the canker worms,
and they were just as lively as before
the spraying. We then increased the
strength to one pound to 100 gallons of
water, but this was not strong enough.
We finally made it one pound of Lon
don purple to fifty gallons, sdding
about as much lime as London purple,
and don't think worm escaped BY
using plenty of lime we avoided all
damage to the leaves, One pound OF
London purple and one pound of lime
in fifty gallons of water will cover
about 100 ordinary trees, thoroughly
cover all the leaves
Two farmers families in Dickinson
county are having an interesting chick
en-raising race which is watched by
the whole township. One, in order to
have the advantage, secretly sent for
an incubator early in the spring; the
other stuck to the old hen and natural
methods. Up to date the former has
about $50 chickens while the other has
oyer 500. The former has another in
cubator load ready to come off with
about 200 more, but over on the other
farm are 300 hens attending strictly to
business and ready to chick to some
thing like 300 about the same time.
Further than that the hen division
produced lot of early chicks that sold
for 19 cents pound; the other has sold
none yet. The incubator has full steam
up and is doing Its level best, cheered
on by half the township, but the hens
are VIGOROUSLY leading down the
home stretch, never ruffling feather
aud expect to come under the wire at
least 200 chicks ahead by the first Of
June and the neighbors are as proud. Of
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