The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-13
STATE NEWS
Lead is worth >4.O 1t Galcna.


we'll.
Wheat is looking well around rariin-
vile.
Wheat around Dodge City vas never
better.
Allen county is receiving large immi-
grafton
Grea. improvements are going on in
Prescott.
A religious revival is going on a. Le-
compton.
Short Creek mining operations arc gong
on rapidly.
Gen. Sam. Carey will lecture in Winfield
the 18th inst.
Pneumonia is playing sad havoc neal
Farlinville.
Winfield. Cowley county. has a popula-
ton Of $50.
A large amount Of coal Is being mined in
Swansea valley.
The population Of Neosho Falls Is in
creasing rapidly.
Wheat is looking remarkably well in
Wabaunsee county.
Scarlet fever has broken out among the
children Of Olathe.
| Humboldt. Allen county. Is circulating
a prohibition petition.
A fine mineral spring has been discov-
cred near Fort Scott.
| Great improvement in stock raising Is
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.
\ religious revival is gong on in the
NJ. T.. church at Lawrence.
| The NJ. T.. church edifice at Alma will
be dedicated February 9Th.
| Miss Phebe Couxens. Of st. LOUIS. Is
lecturine through the State.
4 religious revival is going on In the
Baptist church at Humboldt.
Infant Wonder 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-shree
and third cents on the dollar.
Coal has been discovered in Saline coun-
~. SIX miles northwest Of Salina.
Over one hundred town lots have been
sold in Caldwell since January lst.
The Burlington Hoxksye man will lee
ture IN Junction city the 18th inst.
Kansas fax seed is 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 riyer has rsen several feet.
and the ice is beginning to move In places.
Immigration has commenced. and prairie
| schooners are quite numerous around MIR
win.
The old settlers Of Scdgwick county
will hold a reunion in Wichita February
2lst.
A man in Usage county recently blew his
brains out by carelessly handling shot
gun.
Mr.. and Mrs. MeMasters. Of Mission
Creek. celebrated their china wedding"
last week.
A post-oifice has been established on
Crook Creek. twenty-four miles west OF
Dodge City.
The express Office a, Grad was burglar
lied few nights ago, but 10 what eIteft
is not known.
Mr.. Hamilton. Of Junction township.
Usage county. has two year-old colt that
weighs 1000.
Douglas county has petitioncd the lcgis-
lasure TO pass law 10 prevent the dcstruc.
ton Of quails.
Thiry-four car loads Of stock was ship
ped from Louisburg from the lst 10 the
10Th Of January.
Hon. e. b. Lewis. the founder Of Wa
baunsee. celebrated his golden wedding
last week at Alma.
y. Dnfruse wa arrested last week. IN
Topeka. by Sheriff keihl. Of Junction City.
for embezzlemens.
The Po,,awatomi. County Hcsob j. the
name Of new paper Published at Loui.
Vile. by :. Fowler.
A minister IN Saline county recently
received thirty cents ~ a fee for perform
ing a marriage ceremony.
There is an old woman living in Fots
Scott Charity Decker who Was born in
Tennessee. April ID. I75s.
One hundred stand Of arms and aooou-
,rcments have BEEN granted the negro M
litia company at Lawrence.
Bridge carpenters have been at ~orh
making repair. on the bridge- ON the Gull
road between Plea-anton and Prescott.
II l. estimated 10y emigrAnt agent. tina,
fully iO.0o people viii settle ia the Ar
kansas Valley tins srrlng and summer.
The financial condition Of Kansas -
good. The State dsbs IL less than = NH
hon and State taxation % annually de-
ercasing.
An eighieen-year boy 81 Mr.. Artbor.
Of Parsies. took a dosa ~ concentrated lys.