Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


TIE receipts at the land .ofice at We
Keeney for the month Of September
amounted to $32 1914. During the month
over $50 entries and filings were made.
This is the largest amount OF business done
during any one month since the establish.
ment Of that land district.
The Union Pacific Railroad land sold In
Kansas during the month of September
amounted to Il, 900 acres. The largest sale
in any one county was in Graham, where
e,s36 acres were sold. In Russell County
1886 acres were sold; in Barton, 794; in
Cove, 7S5; in Ellsworth, $40, and Rush, $40.
NEARLY all the lands in Sheridan, Ora.
ham, Cove and Trego Counties have been
J bought. Large tracts of land in these
counties have been secured recently by
syndicates of capitalists. One late pur-
chase amounted to S2jO,c0O.
! PosT-oFFIcEs lately established in Kan.
sas: Bureau, st. John County, John s.
Adams, postmaster; Calvert, Norton
County, James W. Stottis: Coalburg,
Linn County, William H. Weatherman;
Spring Lake, Meade County, Oliver Nor.
man.
! The wife Of q Junction City man re.
Gently eloped with another fellow, aud the
husband put out for Kansas City to hunt
them up, under the impression that that
place is a city of refuge for runaway wives
! and husbands.
! GOVERNOR RUSK, of Wisconsin, recently
telegraphed Governor Martin, asking if
Kansas intended to repeat her exhibit at
FL
reply was sent that there being no appro-
priation made for that purpose there
would be no exhibit from Kansas as .
State. In compliance with the request of
the exposition managers, G. Y. johnson
and &. W. Ashley were appointed Com.
! missioners from Kansas, but they were
notified that the State would not as.
sumo any financial obligations incurred by
them. They would have 20 confine them
selves to the 5000 granted each State by
the exposition managers. Governor Mar.
tin was also requested by the New Orleans
people to appoint lady Commissioner for
Kansas, but he has not yet done SO, nor
have there been any appli ,ations for the
place.
Two letters were recently received from
Fred P. Brown, who disappeared from To-
peka several weeks age with $500 in his
possession, part of which belonged to
Rogers, a cattleman of Kansas City. One
was addressed to Browns father and the
other to P. l. Bonebrake, President of the
Central National Bank, from whom he had
obtained 500. Brown said he was in dam
ger of losing heavily in a cattle company
which he had entered without his fathers
knowledge and that he went away to try
and save himself, and that it.was the mis-
take of his life. He promises to pay every
body in time and says that the story which
was started that he wanted to be released
from an engagement to marry young
lady of Shawnee County is entirely false.
FROM tables prepared for the September
report of the Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture it is learned that the proba.
BILE product of winter wheat for 1885 il
9,SS2,17l; of spring wheat, 1920; total
winter and spring for 1885, 0,S59,41 bush.
els. This is short of tue average for five
years of about 81 DOC, 600 bushels, and very
little, if any, in excess of the demands %
the State for seed and bread during the
year. OF corn the probable product for
IL
of the crop of 1884, and an increase over a
five years. average in round numbers Of
81 900, 900 bushels. The rye product for
1885 is 9, IA, 105 bushels; short of last years
product about $500, coo bushels. or barley
for 1885 the probable product is $500
bushels, which is an increase over the pro-
duct of 1884 of 292 344 bushels. The yield
Of oats for 1885 is 30,14S,06D bushels. For
1884 this crop fell short of the above pro-
duct about 1,UO6,G00 bushels. Buckwheat,
for 1885, will aggregate 2l,4I2 bushels, an
increase over the product for 1884 of S,492
bushels. OF sweet potatoes the product for
his year is aGG?6o bushels. This falls
short about $500 bushels of last years
yield. The movable product of Irish pota-
toes this year is 7,l3l,5}5 bushels, being
short of the product of 1884 about 42G, 500
bushels.
The Governor has appointed William
Martindale, of Greenwood County, and
John Teter, of Butler County, delegates
for the State at large to the National Con-
vention of Stockmeu, to be held at Chicago, /
H., November Itch and 18th, with John X.
Wright, of Davis County. and D. E. Bal /
THE President on the 18th appointed the
following Kansas Postmasters: Othniel /
Belson at Caldwell, vice S. Donaldson,
commission expired; Charles Hardcastls |
at Marion, vice Francis Bower, commits. /
sion expired; Hattie P. Blair at Great |
Bend, vice E. l.. Chapman, commission |
expired.
THE whisky injunction cases fled in
Atchison by Attorney General Bradford !
recently came on for hearing before Judge /
David Martin in chambers, when Mr.. Wag-
goner, one of the attorneys for the saloon
keepers. made motion for removal to the
United States Courts. This point was
briefly argued, and the court took the mat
ter under advisament until November
AT the late election in Stafford County
upon the proposition to subscribe for 1920
shares of stock in the Anthony, Ration &
Western Railroad, proposed branch of
5hs Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road. the vote was in favor of it by 345
ma jority.
TIE trial of Policeman Barley at EN-
poria upon the charge OF robbiDS John
Fowler resulted in his aculittal,