The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-30
STATE NEWS
e in Topeka.

wolves are Killing sheep IN Lynn county.
Pneumonia is prevailing In Arkansas
City.
Liquor license in Junction City costs
$4OO.
The Hawkeye man is going to lecture in
Junction City.
Reno county pays into the State treasury
A good many new houses are going up
at Glen Elder.
Pneumonia is prevailing throughout the
State, and Is very fatal.
The young ladies of Fort Scott have or
CANNED cooking club.
An Independence blacksmith has fallen
heir TO fortune of $4,000.
There fare twenty-four manageable
widows in Americus township.
A car load Of hogs were shipped from
Netawa last week, average AL pounds
Judge Campbell. of Wichita. adjourned
court to attend the senatorial election.
Two hundred and one business houses
were erected in Winfield during last year.
The ladies Of Beloit are making arrange
ments to improve the cemetery at that
place.
There have been more logs hauled to
mills in Americus this winter han ever
before.
| Ellsworth county coal mines turn out
twenty tons per day which sells at 1926
per ton.
General Sam Carey. the great Grcenback
advocate. Is to lecture in Kansas this
winter.
Hutchinson has sent in a long remon-
STRANGE for the reduction of freight rates on
railroads.
The next session of South Kansas NJ. +.
conference will be held at Hutchinson
March 5th.
| Mcpherson county is irving 10 get a
branch of the H. T. road from Salina to
Lindsburg.
The A. a. n railroad company will at
once erect a stone round-house on the site
Of the old one.
| The best winter wheat Is worth &c cents
in Beloit. best spring wheat SIC. Rye
pc per bushel.
Last week James Corn, OF Caldwell.
while carelessly handling gun. shot him
self in the arm.
| The Mitchell county farmers want the
Kansas Pacific TO extend Its line from Min
neapolis to Beloit.
| Scarlet fever in Brown county. Matt
Gilmore has nine children down with this
much dreaded disease.
The son Of Mr. TAYLOR, a farmer in
| Mitchell county. in tit fell into the FIRE
and was burned into a crisp.
There are one hundred and nine patients
in the Kansas deaf and dumb asylum-hf-
ty-one males and fiity-eight females.
A large number Of new houses are be-
ing built in Grove township. Reno county;
the prospects Of wheat is fine in the coun-
try.
There are sixty-nine fire and life insur-
ance companies doing business IN Kan
sas, represented by eighteen hundred
| agents.
A call is made for meeting Of all those
interested in horticulture in Cowley county.
| to be held in Winfield on the LIST day Of
February.
| claims TO have shipped $500 hogs during
the last year, and it wasn't good year for
hogs either.
A baby in Fort Scott measures thirteen
inches long, and weighs pound and ten
ounces. Ii will have 10 be spanked with a
cigar lighter.
Messrs Muse. Spring Il Co. and ]. u.
Dicky have concluded Their arrangements
for the erection Of two fine two-story BRICK
stores in Newton.
A vein Of camel coal, two and one-half
feet thick. has been discovered a, depth
of three feet, IN Ness county, the same
VEN running into Rusk county.
Glen Elder wants hardware store,
lumber yard, feed stable. and worst Of all a
hotel There are no; accommodations for
half those stopping at tina. place.
A small newsboy, while sliding down
one Of the hills in Atchison. few days
SINCE. ran into a team that was crossing
the street. The little boy was very badly
injured.
Two villains named Bovker and Martin
dale, of Plum Creek. Mitchell county. are
being tried for enticing away from home
and running nice young lady under prom
ise Of marriage.
The residence OF W. II. Spencer, Esq, an
old and highly respected citizen Of Bour-
bon county. about one mile from Fort
Scott. was destroyed by fire few days
ago. Loss about 1900.
Judge Adams added TO the collection a
old and interesting papers in the STATE
Historical Society. few day. ago. the re-
cords Of the first district court held IN Mar
shall county. June 3. 1876.
The Missouri Pacific railroad company
having purchased the road from Holden.
Mo-. 20 Paola. will extend II from the lat |
ter place 10 Ottawa, and from there a
branch will be built 10 Topeka.
Two neighboring farmers in Woodson
oousty. Il. y. Flannery and Nathaniel
Blake. had serious ARRAY few days ago. |
Flannery struck Blake on the head with a
spade, infic;Ing serious II no, fatal In
Jury. The court fixed Flannery's bail a,
sfty dollar Human life i getting pretty |
low.
Usage City FIRE. PRISE: The trial a the |
parties who robbed the post and express
Offices. has concluded. and resulted in the |
discharge 81 all parties eIoep, Jack Hon
nicker and Phil Lynch. who were bound |
over until the next term a The d3ss<1ct .
court Hunnieker was an; 10 Emporia /
jail for safety. and Lynch ~as 10 have
been senf 10 Topeka. bot Constable W. A.
Hughes allowed HIM 10 90 up stars after |
upper for a hook. and he has not SINCE
been heard from Detectives are On the
;raal. and II Is hoped theIr esorts wlll
prove snecessfnl.
The potolepe oll bring introdooed
throughout the country by agents a the
Potolene Gas company. has bern found b
be ~ explosive ~ s-anro~dsr. A fns re-
idenoc IA Ksnsas City narrowly eseaped
destruction By q little experiment Nth 4 .
few dzy. ago. Tbe psrsrns making the
eIpenIaen. we're very badly bsrnsd.
Geo. Gnp.on -es,ied IN sua;h esssnsy az
year. ago. Win b. zTrssesi here had
nothing bat rnezsre ~ Il blaekunIth
tools. and .so dollars IN cash To-day b.
has 10 ARE. az ehosce LAID. Nth 10 aeres
under eulivxison. q god team a males.
" hesA u CO.. snd nrse hanAred BAD Il