The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-02-22

daily for the northern extsasion Of the
A, T. 1 8. r. road. Al soon - the
frost 10 out Of the ground, The company
will resume track-laying, which will
probably b about tho hrst of March,
and within six weeks thereafter the
work will be complete.
Gen. H. J. Stricken and Alfred Gray,
tho president and secretary Of the State
Agricultural Society, Col. C. B. Lines,
in behalf of the State Horticultural So.
ciety, and DR.. Denison, president of the
State Agricultural College, hsve lef'
Kansas to attend the National Agricul.
tural Convention 1t Washington, to be
held under the auspices Of the Commits
sioner Of Agriculture.
Junction City people want TO vote
S1O0, 900 in bonds to secure the location
Of the Junction City 4 Fort Keasney
Railroad at that place. They have moi
got the rr:lroad yet junction 10 lavish
Of her bonds.
Parsons is to have . National bank.
A dispatch from R. 8. Stevens in
forms Us that the Secretary Of the In
terror has decided the Os~gs land case
in favor of the n, K. 4 T. R W. com
pany, and the patents for the lands have
been issued to them.-CbsnoaUealh.
Jas. w. Wales md John T. Hickman
left Council Grove some two weeks
since, with freight for Pond Crock
On their return they INDUCED to excsss
in drink. Their course was marked
from rancho to rancho, where whisky
would be procured - one drunken orgie
until they left the Minnesota, coming
towards Wichita on their return ia
Council Grove. Finally, according to
Nickname story, Wales, in attempting
to draw . spencer carbine from under Z
blanket, discharged the piece and shot
himself through the head. It WA
deemed prudent, however; to hold Kick
mxn for examination.
Tho Lawrence Board of Trade wants
the Legislature to repeal our present ap-
praisement law.
Congress has passed law declaring
the Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas through
the Indian Territory, post road.
The band Of tho Fifth Infantry con.
sisting Of twenty-five persons, has been
rendered by Gen. Miles, cOmmandant at
Fort LeavcnwOrth, for the grand MILL
tary reunion at Topeka to-day
1t is again announced that Lieut.. Gov.
Green will, after the next session Of the
conference, return to the itinerancy.
1t has boon finally determined that
the title to the Usage coded lands is in
the railroad companies, and not the set
lers.
A man died among the PottswatOmies
recently, aged ninety-fve years. He
was u soldier in the war Of 1872, and
has been with the tribe sixty-five years.
The Wyandotte Gazette, in notice Of
the Kansas City Magisisc, says: "ln
catfish ArietOcracy wo have moro genu-
inc fun than we have seen in any other
magizenc article in year"
The valuation Of property in Bourbon
county is 4,5ll,997.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has q long
and very fiattering notice Of the Febru-
ary Kansas MaQi.iae, in which Mr.. Bur-
lingame's article ON journalism is spec
tally commended for its good sense and
pOintedness.
At the April term of the District
Court in johnson county, there will be
two newspapers libel suits, and an Indi-
vidual suit for damages. The aggregate
amount claimed by the three injured
narties amounts to eleven thousand dol.
lars.
The present winter has no parallel in
the history of Kansas, since its Oganixa-
ton as q territory. There has been
colder weather and more Of it, more
snow, more ice, and more disagreeablc
weather, than has ever been known
here since the passage of the Kansas
bill.
Davis county tallEs of building 80,
600 court house and Jail.
Lieut.. Quimby, Of Fort Harker, ono
day last week skated on the Smoky Hill,
q distance OF five and one half miles, in
sixteen minutes.
A Kansas exchangegivcs the following
leap year advice to young ladies: Look
before you leap"
The railroad comittee of the House
has reported that 10 Legislation rela.
tive to railroads in necessary-the su.
perintendents of the various roads in
the state having met at Topeka, and in.
formed them they did not need any leg
islation! The Legislature ought by al
means, to tender its thanks to tho su.
perintendents for their kindness.-CAief.
Kansas contributed to the memorial
fund of the Presbyterian church, last
year, $72,312,40.
d. B. Long, IN eminent "chcesist,
says that with the price Of cheese - in
Ohio he could make $40 more in Kan.
sas on forty cows than in the former
state. Ohio chsese-makers can take the
hint.
Much hay has been burned in Lyon
county by inccndiarism. The object Is
supposed to be to make the county un-
tenable for Texas cattle.
Thomasville il the name of . new
town in Cowley county, ten miles north
east of Arkansas City.
According TO the Wichita Vdctte, has
1t present IS houses built, q in course