Thomas County cat., 1890-05-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

bought the material of the Emporia
Herald, for the purpose OF starting a
new paper at Beloit.
L. I. Purcell, OF the Burton Free
Lance, has bought out his partner, G..
W. Branine, and is now sole proprietor
of that first class local paper.
Oswego Independent: DR.. ]. B.
Lamb, formerly editor of the Parsons
Eclipse. has been granted pension of
S72.0O yer month, with back pay for
two years.
Arkansas City Traveller: The re-
ceipts for the Arkansas City postoffice
for the year ending March 81, we're
S13, ,396.20, or about $4,000 more than
for the preceding year.
Lindsborg News: B. F. Cress, for
merly OF the Herington Tribune, has
purchased the Marquette Tribune We
congratulate our neighbors in securing
such an excellent newspaper man.
An Emporia special: I. J. Fleming's
livery barn was destroyed by fire, and
several valuable breeding stations were
burned to death in it, among them Ma
jor Ed:ol. Loss on stable and horses,
about ten thousand dollars.
Wichita Eagle: Postmaster Frank
Smith has been advised that boxes for
the new post office have been shipped.
There are one thousand and fifteen box
es costing over $4,000 made in Connect
icut and are expected to arrive in ten
DAYS.
Holton Recorder: The Northeast
Kansas Editorial association will meet
in this city Friday, May 9. Northeast
ern Kansas takes in all the First and
Fifth and the north half of the Second
and Fourth congressional distri-ts.
An Enterprise special: Plans for the
new Harrison Normal college, which
will be built in this city at once, have
been drawn. The building will cost
about $4,000 and will be of stone,
quarried here. The subscriptions have
been almost entirely local and the
school is expected to be maintained by
the people of this vicinity.
Liberal Leader: The railroad park
is being enclosed with wire fence, to
prevent stray horses and cattle from in
juring the trees. The grass is growing
nicely, the trees which were planted
last year are in good condition and
coming out in full dress of green,
and we now feel confident that in few
years we will have beautiful park.
Blue Mound Sun: Professional
creamery builders have about played
out-the class that go about establish
ing creameries at comparatively small
cost and loading them onto stock COM
pany at handsome profit. The
creamery business, however, has only
just attained an infantile existence, and
is destined to aid materially in bring
ing better profits to the Kansas farmer.
Salina Sun: A recent musicale at the
Wesleyan college, was attended so
largely that all could not obtain
conveyance by street. cars and hacks
and were compelled to walk. Be-
tween four and five hundred per-
sons were present. The excellent
programme was well rendered. The
noted violinist, Prof X Dome Geza, of
Bethany College. Lindsborg, executed
some fine music to the qualification of
the audience.
Edna Independent: One of the old
est and most interesting relics of the
early days of Fort Scott is the big desk
in the county treasurer's Office. The
desk had position in the old Office of
the post quartermaster, when Fort
Scott was first made a frontier fort, and
was used for the sane purpose all
through the war 1t would take big
figures to calculate the amount of
money that had been counted over its
top, or the valuation of property fig
ured on its walnut boards.
Wellington Monitor: All the indi-
cations point to another good and
fruitful season. The winter was not
severe enough to hurt the wheat to any
extent, and it is making a fine growth
thanks to rich soil, bright sunshine
and abundant rains. Early planted
oats and corn are coming up nicely, and
there will literally be no end to the
PSSh0S' oPpi0S, ShOiiioS 'iiio Stiie'i
fruits. The reasonable certainty of
better prices for their grain and live
stock, besides the improved market for
what they have on hand, is also bright
ening the outlook for the farmer. the
business man and the mechanic, and in
fact all whose prosperity is bound up
with that of the tillers of the soil.
Oswego Independent: Mrs. McCann,
the detective, has been in the city,
looking over the evidence on which the
supposed Bender women were released
from custody. She is much disappoint-
ed in the outcome of the case as she
was confident she had spotted the right
parties. For five years Mrs. McCann
has been working to bring to justice,
as she thought. the real Bender MUIR
derers. If che has wronged these wom-
en- in her accusations, Mrs. McCapn
says there is no one in the world more
anxious to find it out than herself.
When shown the dispatch where the
alleged Kate Bender had had her ar
ested and incarcerated in prison. Mrs.
McCann's face lighted up with smile,
and she remarked that it would be bet