Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-23

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The harvest season has opened In
southern Kansas,
Tho electric light plant at Usage
City Is now owned by the city,
The wheat area IN Osborne county
shows an increase Of 23,3e7 acres over
last year,
Jacob Livingood, IA years of age, son
OF George Livlngood, who lives four
miles north OF Independence, was kill.
cd while riding on cultivator blowing
corn. His team became frightened and
ran away, throwing the boy under the
cultivator, crushing his skull and
mangling his body terribly,
In Harper county the continuous
rains OF last week iinperiled the enorm-
Gus wheat crop IL has been ready for
the harvester several days past but the
machines inire In the soft fields, find
ing IL impossible to move. Winds and
the heavy weight of moisture on the
heads have broken down the wheat
generally.
When the appellate courts were es-
tablishcd in Shawnee county three
years ago the supreme court was years
behind with its business. II Ia now
stated that within one year II win have
caught up so that u case can be heard
soon after Il Is filed. II will certainly
be satisfactory TO litigants who have
had to wait for years for final decis-
ion.
Geo. I, Pricer, OF Brown county, Is
the pioneer Of movement that will be
popular with many Of the farmers.
He has put in telephone and al-
though he lives full two miles south of
town, can converse with his Hiuwatha
friends at pleasure. Those farmers
who wish to get thoroughly in touch
with Hiawatha win lose no time in
putting in telephones
Several years ago fellow by the
name Of Gordon worked gold brick
game on Jefferson county farmer
He was arrested and gave cash bond
OF $4,000 His attorneys got this cut
to 81, 500 and put up bond and with
drew the cash. Now the Shawnee
county district court holds that the
bond was void because II was approved
by the clerk Of the supreme court in
stead of the court itself.
James Parker, fine old gentlemen,
was run over by the ears and killed ut
Winfield the other day while picking
up coal along the railroad track, He
was one of the California Argonauts
and accumulated fortune which pass.
ed from him in his declining years.
Though having no children of his own,
he reared and educated no less than
fifteen orphan waits picked up in his
travels about the world.
The natural gus question Is no long
err an experiment ut Ottawa. The well
has been cased and tested with salts.
factory results, At the test, II showed
n gas pressure of 100 pounds per square
inch, with an increase of about
pound per minute, so that IL Is safe tc
say that the pressure of the gas will
reach about 200 pounds, which means
about one million cubic feet per day.
The company is very well pleased with
their results and have shut the we'll
up, taken down the derrick and moved
Il abou. 700 feet almost due north,
where another well will be drilled. II
The gas found there be of as much
pressure as has already been struck in
The present well it will also be cased
md finished up for use in connection
with the well already down. Another
will then be drilled down to the last
aver of sand to determine what are
5he prospects for getting a still greater
pressure. During the drilling of the
second well, the gas from the present
we'll will be used in making steam.
Kansas with 400 creameries, includ.
ng Swimming stations, is surely des-
lined to be the butter .Ictory of the
in the course of few years.
The recent big convention in Topeka
rave new impetus to this branch of
farm work and the rapid increase in
he number Of creameries this spring
S little less than marvellous. With
attractive prices and so far very
favorable season the output of Kansas
,reameries this season will be enorm-
,us Eastern buyers have invaded
Inc state just lately and are buying
Dig supplies at present, However,
,hesc buyers will return to the East as
he storage season ends and then many
of crcameries will be look
ng for an outlet, some place where
heir production can be proftably put
Turing the entire year, In this re-
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