Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

II you don't believe that the farmers
of Kansas are prospecting, ask the man
ayers of the lumber yards,
The crying need of the hour at En-
terprise is rock pile. Tramps are
flOcking north and are becoming alto
gether too numerous there
A farmer drove into Jewell City the
other day with fourteen loads of hogs
and drove home again with fourteen
loads of lumber for big new barn.
A close study of the situation at Atch-
ison leads the Globe there to announce
that the new woman, unlike the arti-
Gle of 81, does not urge her husband to
go to war.
Andy Richards of Wellington recent
ly exposed some fake stove peddlers in
his paper at Wellington, and was as
saulted by the peddlers. They were
arrested and fined.
The funniest thing of the whole
situation is the way the fellow who
doesn't want to go to war respects the
sentiments of the other fellow who
also doesn't want to go.
A Lincoln county jointist who has a
sub attending to his business while he
is serving out Jail sentence, and who
is fully able to pay his fine and costs,
although he shows now inclination to
do so, is trying to secure a pardon ON
the grounds of ill health. This looks
like an example of pure and unadulter
ated gall.
A thirty-day session in November,
with thirty-day recess, and then a
twenty-day session would, ex-senator
John X. Wright thinks, give members
of the Legislature better chance to
act intelligently on matters submitted
for their consideration. This would
give new members a much better
chance to do their duty.
A lot of bonds were voted by Pratt
county for the Wichita & Western, but
that road is now figuring on taking up
much of the track Pratt county peO-
pie naturally object and Attorney Cen
eral Boyle and County Attorney Craw-
ford will ask Judge Foster, of the Fed
eral court, to enjoin the receiver from
removing the equipment.
Frank Roberts, the new postmaster
at OskaloOsa, is in trouble. A few
weeks ago he received orders from the
department to leave the Office at its old
location. In violation of these orders
he moved it to another place. The
postoffice inspector was sent to inves-
tigate the matter and he has reported
the facts to the department.
Six car loads of fruit trees were de-
livered at Troy last week. They are
mostly apple trees Each car load rep
resents 10000 trees. Many orchards
are being planted in the vicinity Of
Troy. Many of the farmers are plant
ing 500 to 1000 trees. Doniphan is
keeping pace in being one of the fore
most fruit counties in Kansas.
Governor Leedy has pardoned Frank
Rice, sent to the penitentiary from
Smith county in 1897 for six years on
the charge of burglary and larceny.
The pardon was recommended by the
state board of pardons after a hearing
of the case. Rice was convicted of
breaking into hardware store and
stealing six razors and pocketknife
Farmers in western Kansas are com;
mencing to brag about their orchards,
and their fruit yields There was u
time when it was claimed that nothing
in this line could be raised in the
western portion of the state, and while
it probably never will come up with
the eastern portion in this line, still
fruit raising out there is getting to be
more of feature every year.
A Clay county man has fitted third
wheel to his bicycle in such Il shape
that he can run it on railroad track
after the manner of track bicycle
used by linemen and roadmasters fire.
quently. Several years ago Ed Staley
of the Missouri Pacific road made a
similar machine. Staley was operator
at Downs, and his wife ran the station
Mt Bloomington, about eighteen miles
up the road. The trains did not run
to suit Staley in making visits TO his
wife and be constructed the machine.
lie was a mechanical genius, and made
every part of the the machine himself
He made frequent trips on his spidery
looking wheel which worked well, and
there was a very long and heavy
grade to overcome going mp the Solo
mon divide, too.
One of the Pullman sleepers which
carried the soldiers away from Fort
Leavenworth was Dom Pedro. In all
likelihood A. p. A. sailors who enlist
will also be expected to fight on the
steamer st. Paul.