The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-11-28
NEWS OF THE STATE.

NEWS OF TEE STATE.
Picked up Here. Thsrs asd Everywhsrs.
Arkansas City wants . pork pack
ing house.
A big vein Of coal has been struck
Just east Of Winfield.
Parsons 70 claiming 10 be quite .
horse and mule market.
The big corn crop has created .
matrimonial boom In the state.
Only ffty miles Of railroad have
been built In the state this year.
A British syndicate IL negotiating
for the Touring mills and water
power nc Lawrence.
The farmers alliance wants the
penltsntiary to 60 into the manu-
facture Of binding twine.
BURGERS are making nightly calls
q the well appointed residences oil
the wealthy quarter Of Ottawa.
Charles w. Wood has been APP
pointed treasurer Of Riley county
vice J. n. FORMER, gone to Canada.
There IL Q ladies' band In Hum
boldt, aud all the young men In
town srs candidates for the place Of
drum major.
c. c. Clemens, the Topeka an
arehist, and whOOp Tomlinson have
the same mlssiOn-to Overturn the
law Of the land.
Contests In corn huskIng are GO
ing on sll over the state. There 10
plenty Of material In the state 10 de-
yeloP . champion.
The Winfield Gazette has on free
exhibition q monster sweet potato
weighing eleven pounds which was
raised In that vicinity.
senator Emery Of NemahG county
was accidenty shot the other day
while out hunting prairie chickens.
His wound II not serious.
Ed. Mann Of Cuba, Republic
county, accidentally shot himself
the other day while fOollng with .
Smith 4 Wssson revolver.
Corn enough for food and fuel
has been raised In Mcpherson and
the people express au indifference
about coal trains, whether blOckaded
or not.
A Topeka mill has crushed up
1900 bushels OF apples into cider
despite Judge Guthrie's decision
that cider and Its sale IL prohibited
by prohibition.
The state home for soldiers ai
Fort Dodge will be open for Oceu-
Pancy about January ist. A noble
New Years gift TO the old soldiers
Of the state.
The new wheat 10 looking splendid
In all parts Of the state, and enters
upon the winter with q growth that
cannot be winter killed, however
severe the season.
"Do hogs pay?" asks q Kansas
paper Of an agricultural turn, at
which another Kansas paper saws:
Very few. We know Of q dozen
who are ia California who left with
out saying beans"
The papers in the state are unani-
nous In Outlawing Wichita for voi-
Ing Tor resubmission. They take no
account Of Beayenworth since 10 has
become annexed TO Platte county,
Missouri by pOntOOn bridge.
IL the Michigan women do not
turn out 10 be Blenders, HarrIsou's
administration at any rate can be
credited with finding q Bender In
Kansas. He has just been APP
pointed postmaster at GAlena.
Manhattan wants elestric lights,
but the Agricultural college boys
insist that the light Of the moon T.
good enough for social purposes and
Its phases still tell the right time for
planting. sowing, harvesting, etc.
The darkies are leaving Tope-
kS at the rate Of 50 10 IS q day
for Oklahoma. While this 10 good
Democratic news, the Topeka Demo
crdt makes no mention OF it, Attrib-
utlng the cause TO the effects Of pro-
hibltion.
Beginning the 18th, q week Of
prayer has been ordered among the
evangelical churches Of the state
This 10 an appropriate cAper on the
part Of the MethodIsts since The
news Of the Republican defeat all
over the country.
The street car drivers In Wichita
are on q strike, aud the Wichita
people are consoling themselves for
the discomfort OF having to walk
over the muddy prsIrIes TO their
scattered homes by sxclaiming.
Wichita 10 the Chicago Of Kansas"
Justice 10 sometimes as speedy In
Kansas ~ IL IL said proverbIally TO
be In New Jersey. In one week
Larry Byrn Of Lsrned was arrested
for embeZzleing the funds Of the
First National bank, tried, con-
victed, sentenced TO one year In the
penitentlary aud taken there.
Here's n Harvey county editor /
who wants the earth and the
fullness thereof: 1.-The Pdntdgraph
Will receive corn, oats or hay on
back subscriptions. We do this in |
order To accommodate orr farmer
friends who are DESTROYS Of straight
ening up their account with US. We
Will also accept few shOats, weigh |
Ing from 80 TO 100 each"
Twenty-Five suits for divorce are
dOcketed for trial at the present |
term Of the district court al Law |
renee, an accumulation Of domestic /
infelieity Of few months only. To |
offset this, however, tifty-fOur mar /
fiage licenses have been taken out |
the same length Of time, which /
goes TO prove that marriage isn't /
wholly regarded rs = failure In /
Lawrence, especially when you get /
one OF the university girls.
The lot Of Kansas IL not entirely
rs happy as the Lawrence T'ribuH.
Gays: kansas has raised 2T6 QUO. 900 /
million bushels OF corn this year,
and rs an Oflset To that there are
twelve Uncle Toms Cabin trOupes
In the state. Eli Perkins Is billed
Hll over the country, aud Tomlinson
ls to make several speeches yet.
We must learn that unmixed bless
tuga do not come TO any people,
state ar nation.
GEHs PROM 30. NOW AHD's COLUMN.
Inyectlve IL not argument, nor
even evidence.