Wichita eagle., 1889-01-05
KANSAS KOLLARY.

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KANSAS KoLLARY
Atchisou had 81 fires during 1868, the
loss aggregating 100000
The knights of Pythias of Kingman
have a public installation and spread
on next Tuesday evening,
The building for the stucco works at
Gypsum City is nearly completed and
will be ready for business soon.
The Kansas State Medical society viii
meet 10 adjourned session at Lincoln
post hall, in Topeka, on the 18th instant.
Arkansas City is to have a Young
Woman's Christian Association, the first
terday, Friday, afternoon.
Heintzelman Bros. ship carload of
fat hogs to Wichita tomorrow. They
are as fine bunch as ever left this
market. Herald.
A real live count, countess and half a
dozen future high jinks of their chill
dren were among the guests at Sledle's
hotel, Atchison, Thursday evening. They
were Russians.
Our streets are daily crowded with
farmers bringing corn and hay to
market. Corn finds ready sale at
twenty and twenty-one cents.--Osage
City Free Press.
The Star SAYS the Conway Springs
creamery will be ready for business by
the 18th inst. and will have capacity
to handle $4,000 pound or over 3,100
gallons of milk per day.
The prisoners in the Atchison county
Jail held kangaroo court over wife
whipper, and sentenced him to one hun
dred lashes. The Patriot says they were
duly administered and well laid on.
The farmers of Pratt county will hold
convention in Pratt City on Tuesday,
January 16. to consider matters per-
tinent to TIER interests, especially that
of procuring supply of seed corn.
Mrs. Ewing, formerly of Kansas, has
been lecturng in Boston on cookery,
and in that bean-eating metropolis as
serts that family of from four to six
persons can live on $1.75 week.
The Abilene Reflector giggles over the
announcement that DR.. Philip Krohn, G.
w. C. Rohrer and G. Y. Benjamin is the
triumvirate that will preside over the
new Salina daily that is threatened for
January 8.
On the 2nd day of this month the Ar
kansas City bank and First National
bank of that place gave notice of their
The First National bank
is the name of the succeeding institution.
The Kingman Board of Trade has
footnrrr anH
to have it ready for the coming seasons
crop of cane. They seem to be in earnest
in the matter, and from the way they are
piling out salt of the best quality out
there they will no doubt make go of
the sugar scheme.
Argonia has taken steps for putting in
a cotton gin, the necessary amount of
cotton having been guaranteed by the
farmers of that vicinity. This prompts
the Caldwell News to ask why not start
such an enterprise at that town? We
think it would be proper caper; there
fore, let er start.
We notice the organization of the |
farmers of several counties into Farmers |
clubs since the farmers convention at |
Wichita. The Republican says Meade |
county has Farmers club that has been |
n existence over a year and half, and /
S prosperous body. There should be
me in every county of the state. The |
Farmers club of Meade county meets the
econd Saturday of each month.
Frank L. Smith, Chicago contractor,
las sued to recover 1925, 900 from Bour-
ION county Bonds to that amount |
we're voted in 1869 to the Fort Scott,
humboldt q Western railroad, and the
oadbed was constructed by Smith, in
of which he was to re-
GIVE from the company the bonds
roted. The county refused to Issue
hem.
With such magnificent weather as we
lave had in this latitude for week or
more past, it takes hardihood next to
to predict a blizzard but
hats the sort of person the Newton
Iansan IS. He bases his prediction on
General principles, as, it says, billiards.
Usually prevail about this time OF the
ear. Give him professorship.
David Bush, of CowIey county, raised
% bushels of peanuts last year. Rice
nd several other counties i'll the western
art of the state also produced more or
ess of that crop, enough to demonstrate
hat it can be successfully raised. With
convenient market the peanut would
DON become one of the most popular
rops we have. 1t is sure crop. Is in
Expensive, yields literally and with far
market convenient to the producers
would prove the most profitable.