White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-04-14
Qbinaampiigs.

| ty, in the fall of 1868 eOWed " busheie CT
wheat. aad last fall tbrssAed tie peodses Of
that sowing. It amosnted 70 over sse ixs3sed
and speaiy ,6se ssslels. This b What Northsa
Kansas can do in the way Of wheat growing. Z
q Kansas has ceased to be '.on the border. %
Her fertile Reids are within three days travel
Of the Atlantic coast. and the Journy Is 50 easy,
brief. and cheap. that men think less OF taking
il than a wagon 'rile Of hundred miles. \
u An Elkhart. Indiana, paper says that
one hundred persons were to start on last Wed
nesdsy f,r Kansas, and we're Only the advance
ssArd. Thy proPues fp ;foqn ! eaie6J Ind
settle together.
| F God made The trees to beautify the earth
and cheer mans careful mood snd he Is hap.
Piest who hath power to gather wisdom from
flower. and wake his heart in every hour to
Pieasan. gratitude. o. r-'as r 'af 80
IT When the war ended, Kansas had no
railroads at all. Nov she has more than a
thousands miles of railway within her own
limits. and an abundance Of railway connec
tons with every part Of the country.
u, At west Point the other day, the sons of
Gea's. Grant and Gilmore had q set 20, 10
which the face Of Cadet Grant was dis6gured
az Keene: New Hampshire, has elected to
the State Legislature General James Wilcox,
whom it elected to the same Office forty five
years ago.
IL The Republican: party of Maryland, in
view CT the Fifteenth Amendment, Is very &C.
tive in organizing and preparing for the next
political contest. The colored people, of whom
there are forty thousand voters in the State,
are likewise moving in solid phalanx. Not
less than twenty thousand white people will
likely join the Republicans, believing it the
strongest side. who hitherto voted with the
Democrats.
%, "A letter reached Washington Saturday,
dated august I. 1897 having been twenty
one years on its, pas age from Germany. The
sender will be informed Of its safe arrival.
U- The. Cedar Falls tIowa) Gazette tells
ofa wedding anniversary. "Mr. I. Schenck
and wife. Of this city, celebrated the fortieth
anniversary Of their welded life on the 2lst of
January, by quietly taking tea at the same ta
be they did on the day after they their mar
riase, using the same teaspoons as they did on
that occasion, sitting on chairs that were made
year earlier, and could see their plain faces n
the same looking glass that they used at the
same time. Mr.. Schenck has pail. which his
family is now using, made by him in 1895.
He has also two belsteajs now in use that we're
made eight: five years ago. A tabse-cloth wo-
ven by Mrs. Schenck in 1923, and bed spread
woven in 1928, are now in use by her."
G. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has adopted ffty-eight pounds as the proper
weight to constitute bushel of corn.
i T As an advertisement, last seasons crops
in Northen Kansas were worth millions of dol.
lars to her. 4fI 81. si,irr.-
T"THE WHIRLIGTo or TME-Less than
ten years ago, Methodist clergyman on visit
to Washington, was repulsed from the Senate
gallery by door keeper, who rudely told him
that "niggers we're allowed there The min
ister Is nov q member of tho Senate.
T The new constitution Of Tennessee pro
hibits from holding Office all who "deny the be
ing of God, or future state of rewards and
punishments." --t .-,.. ..a
( T A good little boy in Boston was supper.
/ ting his widowed mother by picking pockets.
but they have STOPPED it, and she mcst now
starve. -.-... r.r..., -...-,
| G There are no Indians except the rem
nants of few halfciviized tribes, in the State
Of Kansas. Many people at the East think we
have wild tribes near us, forgetting that they
ago from States east ofthe Mississippi. These
are being rapidly removed. r.f'v-
| T Kansas has been pronounced by the Ma.
tional Congress Of Fruit Growers to be the beet
fruit raising State in the Uunion. And the
same may be said in regard to raising stock,
grain, vegetables, and hundreds Of. products
which the bleak and sterile lands of the North
will not raise at all. ~"
TA Vermouter who would smoke in The
barn is going to try ashes as q fertilizer this
spring, and build a new one. SD --.-,.isf
u A man near Natchezs has dug up some
jewelry buried by De Soto. 4
DThe Dakota Indian, .repor. that more snow
has fallen in the mountains than for many
years.
r Robert, the only son OF Davy Crockett,
lives in Hood County. Texas. 4
T 0letusbejoyfui rs the name of the Indian
editor Of the Port Hope British Canadian.
| D The Chimes Of . fashionable church in
Philadelphia played "Shoo Fly," mot for
Joe." and "I'm the Girl that's Gay and Hap
py," at a recent wedding.
p People who lisp should practice SAYING
Miss Myth Smith.
u George Francis Train owns up to being
the smartest man in the United States.
| %. The Alabama Legislature has passed an
act making habitul drunk enness legal ground
for divorce ,~..s5... .,.r. j. \
p Whittemore writes his name "B Frank
whittemore." That accounts for all.
p' Confederate notes are qaoted in Macon
ct g. 500 for dollar. .a- s go. i
u Two PennsyIvanians have obtained q
patent for manufacturing writing and printing |
paper from the leaves Of cornstsIks. and have
already manufactured samples of an excellent |
quality. er1s s.' r t1a" aes.-@T gH
p Mark Smith. the actor, has named his |
baby Myth; 60 she will be known in society -
Miss Myth Smith, sH .sgr. So; .sl.ef
u A Portland chap is in jail for indising
note to "his darling Sarah" in which he asked
her to secure her fathers pocket book for him.,