The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-06
STATE NEWS.
Lead is worth $3.50 at Galena.

l well.
Wheat is looking well around Farlin.
vile.
Wheat around Dodge City was neve,
better.
Allen county i, receiving large immi
grafton.
Great improvements are going on II
Prescott.
A religious revival is going on at lie
compton.
Short Creek mining operations are going
on rapidly.
Gen. Sam. Carey will lecture in Win6ela
the 18th inst.
Pneumonia is playing sad havoc nes,
Farlinville.
Winfield. Cowley county, has Q popula-
ton Of $500.
A large amount of coal u being mined IL
Swansea valley.
The population of Neosho Falls is In
creasing rapidly.
Wheat is looking remarkably well IL
Wabaunsee county.
Scarlet fever has broken out among tn,
children of Olathe.
Humboldt, Allen county, is circulating
prohibition petition.
A fine mineral spring has been discov.
cred near Fort Scott.
Great improvement in stock raising il
noted In Usage county.
The Anderson county Horticultural So
ciety meets February Is.
Scarlet fever in its most malignant form
is raging In Jewel county.
A religious revival is going on in the
NJ. f. church at Lawrence.
The NJ E. church edi6ce at Alma will
be dedicated February 9Th.
Miss Phoebe Couzens, of st. Louis, is
lecturing through the State.
A religious revival is going on IN the
Baptist church at Humboldt.
Infant " onder is the name of little
daily published at Parsons.
Francis Murphy, the great temperance
lecturer. is coming to kansas.
Harper county scrip is worth thirty-three
and third cents on the dollar.
Coal has been discovered in Saline coun-
ty. six miles northwest Of Salina
Over one hundred town lots have been
The Burlington HdEkeye man will lee
ture In Junction city the 18th inst.
Kansas fax seed ia much richer in oil
than that grown in either Ohio or Iowa.
Salina has an artist who is exhibiting in
his studio large number Of fine pictures.
Oskaloosa can't find house room for the
great influx Of people that are moving in.
The Kansas river has nsen several feet.
and the ice is beginning to move in places
Immigration has commenced. and prairie
schooners are quite numerous around kir'
win.
The old settlers of Sedgwick county
will hold reunion in Wichita February
2lst.
A man in Usage county recently blew his
brains out by carelessly handling a sho,
gun.
Mr.. and Mrs. McNasters. Of Mission
Creek, celebrated their china wedding
last week.
A post-office has been established on
Crook Creek, twenty-four miles west OF
Dodge City.
The express office at Giraid was burglar.
lied few nights ago, but to what extent
Is not known.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Junction township.
Usage county, has two-year-old colt that
weighs 600.
Douglas county has petitioned the Iegis-
lature TO pass law TO prevent the destruc-
ton of quails.
Thirty-four car loads Of stock was ship
ped from Loulsburg from the lst to the
10Th Of January.
Hon. G. b. Lewis, the founder Of Wa
bannsee. celebrated his golden wedding
last week at Alma.
y. Drifruse was arrested last week. In
Topeka. by Sheriff Keihl, Of Junction City,
for embezzlement.
The Pottawatomie County Herald is the
name of a new paper published at Louis
vile, by s. Fowler.
A minister in Saline county recently
received thirty cents as a fee for perform
ing a marriage ceremony.
There is an old woman living in Fort
Scot Charity Decker who was born in
Tennessee. April Sd. lis.
One hundred stand Of arms and accou-
irements have been granted the negro MI
litia company at Lawrence.
Bridge carpenters have been al work
making repairs on the bridges on the Gulf
road between Pleasanton and Prescott.
1t Is estimated by emIgrant agents that
fully 1000 people will settle in the Ar
kansas Valley this spring and summer.
The financial condition Of Kansas is
good The State debt is less than mil
lion and State taxation Is annually de
creasing.
An eighteen-year-old boy Of Mr.. Arthor.
Of Pardee. took dose Of concentrated ly..
for camphor. few days ago. He Is IN d
critical condition.
The farmers in Cottage Grove township.
Allen county. are going 70 employ the
telephone for protection against trainps,
horse thieves and fires.
A drunken negro. last week. in Topeka.
cut Mr.. LOUIS Quicker IN the face with a
razor. The assault was made In the street,
and was entirely unprovoked.
The A.. T. & s. +. railroad shipped east
this week a car load Of bullion. II was in
sacks and loaded In a cattle car There
were 5000 pounds, worth f240.OO.
Beloit com plains tha, they do not get
tneir Kansas City papers until day or
two after they are printed. The fsult
doe not lie NTH the Kansas City paper.
NV. Weaver was knocked senseless a,
his savmill IN La Cygne last week by hay-
ing III hundred feet Of green lumber fall
on him He was able TO attend 10 buane-.
the nert day.
A little three-year old boy Of Mr.. Fnnk
Kennedy'.. IN Sedg~ick county. gave his
baby brother. nine months old. morphine
pills. -ho. IN spite Of all the efforts Il tie
physicians. died
Col. T. z. Hunt. Of LeAsenvorth. last
week fell and broke his am Col. Hun. .
the olde-. ofScer in scsre seTvsoe II the
United Sta.es srmv. He entered the ser-
VIC. July I, lsS.
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