Hutchinson gazette., 1899-04-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

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hood OF Irving, has i40 tons Of broom
corn-something very few men in this
country hold-which he will soon put
on the market
Major Metcalf OF the twentieth Kan
sas, has been wounded. Metcalf was
agood soldier In time Of paace, and II
seems he is keeping up his reputation
in time Of war;
There Is On apiary nt Syracuse from
which ten TO fifteen tons OF honey are
taken annually The bees who do
this work must get their supply from
alfalfa fields
A farmer in Barton county put out
some poisoned corn for the purpose OF
killing prairie dogs, A pigeon ate
some Of the doped stuff and died.
Then n performing dog belonging to u
show devoured the pigeon and the
show is short dog valued at one hun
dred dollars
The Atchison Globe says that nj.
legged fatal errors have been found in
the city court laws, which, IL Is said
will make them valid, The word
county" Is used where court Is in
tended, authorizing the governor to
nppoint Judge and clerk OF the
county instead OF the court
Archie Hogg, graduate Of the
Marysville high school, class Of 80,
afterwards a graduate of the state
university, and for some time private
secretary TO the chancellor Of the uni.
versity, has been appointed assistant
professor Of philosophy and will teach
psychology and logic at the state uni
versity.
Superintendent Church Of the insur.
ance department has admitted to do
business in this state the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance company which
was barred from Kansas by Webb Nc
Nall because the company refused to
settle its part of the IIillmon claims.
The company paid S355 fees and taxes
before being accorded license by the
department.
Many OF the Kansas lads in writing
from Manila speak with feelings of
mingled shame, sorrow and disgust Of
the California volunteer who deserted
and was killed on the field OF battle
with lot Of Filipino comrades of his
own choosing His conduct Is hard
for them to understand. There will
be no stain of this kind on the record
Of the boys of the Twentieth.
Aspecial from Newton, Kansas says:
A large amount Of cotton Is being
transferred In this city, 1t is shipped
here from southern Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, and is transferred here
into empty refrigerator cars and sent
to San Francisco, where 1t is loaded
on the steamers and shipped to Japan.
During the past winter months 4s9
cars Of cotton have been transferred
here.
A fine old pioneer woman died in
Sumner county the other day at the
age Of SO, after living with her hus-
band just sixty.one years. Her name
was Mary Peters Pennington, She
was the mother OF fifteen children, of
whom fourteen lived to maturity and
en- now survive her. She leaves in
Kansas thirty-one grandchildren and
sixteen great grandchildren. In the
war OF the rebellion her husband and
three sons carried Union muskcts, and
two OF the sons were left dead upon
the battlefield.
Seven hundred guests were expected
at the recent democratic banquet, and
eleven hundred attended. This seems
TO be genuine case of "seven come
eleven"
The state board of charities has
practically decided to make Mrs. Lew
is Hanback,, OF Argentine matron Of
the Topeka insane asylum, This place
pays $1,000 n year Mrs, Hanback, is
the widow of Lewis Hanback,, one of
the loyal Kansans identified with the
early settlement and development Of
the state
A Doniphan county farmer is called
Hobson because when his wagon got
stuck in the mud at narrow place in
the road he unhtched his mules and
allowed his craft to sink down to hard
pan.
The different kinds of grief on this
earth have never yet been enumerated,
but one of the most poignant is that
which steals over man who has
plowed up field Of wheat thought to
be winter-killed, and then sees his
neighbors' fields come out in good
shape.
Every town in Kansas has man
who claims tn have kent connt of the