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| Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Whitewater Tribune
is out.
Barton county has 100000 bushels of
| wheat.
The Peoples Savings Bank of Atchison
has been chartered.
For once in his life the Kansas small boy
has his fill of cherries.
| Abilene will abstain from ''red lemo''
| and pyrotechnics on the 4th.
The twig blight is playing havoc with
apple and pear trees in Cloud county.
| The coal mines at Leavenworth will in
crease the number of employees on the first
of July.
| That was an undiplomatic movement of
| the Leavenworth officials to fine some citi-
| zens for bathing.
The creamery at Manhattan has gone to
the wall and is now in the hands of the
sheriff. Liabilities s, 900.
Since the ice cream and soda water
season has arrived any number of the
Emporia boys have fallen out with their
sweethedrts.
There are no trains running over the
spur road from Dodge City to Montezuma,
and use of the road is said to be practi-
CdiIy aDauuOueU.
A patent medicine outfit and the Salina
fire department are running in cahoots
The boys takes the medicine and receive a
benefit concert in turn.
A sack containing 500 letters was found
the other day in the Lawrence postoffice
under pile of rubbish, whence it has been
since the middle of April.
Ernest Hill, the man upon whom the
derrick fell at Means stone quarry Mon
day morning near Arkansas City, died
Thursday morning at o'clock.
Any number of Lawrence people who
pine for newspaper notoriety, are unusual
ly melancholy since they found that alma
macs didn't count In the 100 books.
The south main wall and the south half
of the front wall of the Windsor has been
torn down and foundations for the new
walls are being put in.-Topeka Journal.
One man said today that since the flood
at Augusta. men went about the streets
with pitchforks gathering up the fish that
lay around everywhere Repub-
hcan.
Upwards of 5000 pensioners remain I'M
paid at the Topeka agency and will be
forced to wait until July l. when the new
appropriation becomes available. Topeka
Democrat.
A man had stuffed garfisL at Arkansas
City for sign, and the other morning he
found it torn from its place and showing
marks of a hard struggle. Some one down
there had em again.
Burglars broke into the office of the An
await lumber company at Fort Scott
Thursday morning and succeeded in max
Ing away with gold ring, pistol, and a
small amount of cash.
There will be more grain raised in Dick
inson county this year than in any year of
its history. The cat crop will be greater
than the combined crops of ally three
years out of the past twelve.
Arkansas City Traveller says, in talking
of proposed soldiers reunion at Arkan-
sas City, that president Harrison and
Secretary Blaine and other noted men will
be here if they can be induced to come"
The late president of the Enterprise nor
NAL school abused the town, the people
and the school shamefully in his closing
address and the Independent refers to him
affectionately as, prof. C(hump) Swish
err
There are more notices, says the Sun,
that parties will apply to the probate
court for the privilege of selling intoxi-
eating liquors printed in the Topaka papers
than in any other papers published in the
state.
In Leayenworth, Wyandotte, Shawnee
and Sedgwick counties S24, 100000 invested
in manufactures which employ 5000
hands The amount paid out for material
is $24, 900. and the products are valued
at $50, 600, 900 annually.
Plans and specifications for the new
buildings to be put up at Fort Leaven
worth are on exhibition, and proposals will
be received at noon on the 2Sth of this
month. The approximate cost of the i'm
provements will be SCI, 009.
The Gaylord Herald in ridiculing the
Jail accommodations at Smith Cen
ter advises that 'If nothing more
substantial barbed wire fence
should be built around the Jail to keep
stray cows from going in and biting the
prisoners.
The w, &, w. and Rock Island at places
between Cullison and Greensburg run SO
close together that the distance between
the two fences is not over three feet. The
strip is so narrow that it would be impos-
sible to drive a goat DISQUALIFICATION
Tomahawk.
Sam Jones entertained the Chatauqua
people at Ottawa Friday, and Davidson,
Baine on "Our Country's Bill of Fare"
Edwards, Experience with the Mysteries
of nature" and Hayes, Attracts Strang-
ers'' are booked to address them in course
of the assembly.
Ever since the pope allowed Palestrina's
music in the Catholic services, music and
religion have gone hand in hand. but from
the following item in the Standard, it
looks like decided rupture was taking
place at Wellington: THE Big six
Band will attempt TO give the open air
concert advertised for last night, provided
the Salvation Army can be muzzled long
enough to permit"
An immense amount of building mate |
rial is now being distributed along the /
Missouri, Kansas & Texas for the i'm |
provement of the road. Immense trains |
of ties are being brought up from the |
south day and night. There are now
nearly one hundred carloads OF ties in this |
city and whole switches are covered with |
tie trains, awaiting distribution along the |
line.-Parsons Sun.
Fort Scott Monitor: a party appeared |
in a justice court in this city yesterday on |
the information of two well known ladies |
and plead guilty 10 charge of cruelty 20 |
animals, which consisted in beating a /
team over their heads. He was duly fined |
and will do so no more. This is salutary /
example, and should be kept IN mind. !