The Saline County journal., 1890-02-27
srArx sEws.
Gathered Fresn the csssssas Of caa,sm-
nararfs.


PsrsrBs..
Cssl has been struck at Horton
fifty feet below the surface.
Douglas county still offers % for
each wolf scalp captured.
A county seat fight Is emmineul
In Riley county between Manhattan
and Riley.
Farmers claim that they can eleal
Is cents q bushel on eO-eeut corn by
feeding it tn cattle.
The Winfield gas company has Of
fered gas for cooking purposes for
$l.5O a thousand, which Is almost as
: cheap - corn.
: Noble l.. Prentis has been ap-
pointed special agent for the eoller-
: tion OF statistics of recorded indebt-
edness in Kansas.
I Hutchin-ou .Nsrs: The New York
paper which referred To MarSli MUIR
. dosk, n q typical Grontiersman, pro-
bably saw him in the front tier Of
seats at the ballet.
Young Billy Morgan thinks u
would be worth = hundred dollars q
month to Strong City IL the Louis
lana lottery was with Mctiinty
dressed ia its best suit Of clothes.
Castor beans, which grow quite
luxuriantly Ia Kansas. bring 81 q
bushei aud yield - bushels to the
acre. Aud the strange part Of u 10
that the old makers say there il dan
ger Of overstalkinE the market.
The Kiowa Immigration society
has secured rooms and will arrange
In artistic display their big pump
kins, tall corn aud sorghum for the
benefit 0f strangers coming Ia.
Lawrence journal: A large por-
trait Of Ed. Howe, editor Of the At
Gibson GiObc, has been received at
the state Historical soeiety's rooms,
The CnDifui saws that Howe lis the
handsOmest editor Ia Kansas"
Which will have a tendency to ere |
ate strained relations between the |
Capital and I. BeuIen MuTdock Of |
the FL Dorado RCpUiiicdn.
Topeka JoHrndi: There is appar-
ently no money In the burglary bus
insss In Topeka. Thieves occasion
ally break in aud steal but they don't |
get awsy with the pluuder. Ragan
has had io give up the money aud
diamonds he took, and IL 10 certain
that Uliphsut took nothing with him
when he left Topeka.
4 Wichita man recently had a talk
with President Marvel, Of the santa
Fe, on the state immigration u oye-
meut insugurstsd at Wichita. Mr..
Marvel said he would give ID all the
assistance he could in the way Cf
lower passage rates. He said that it
was absolutely necessary for a new
state tn spend q certain amount Of |
money in judicious advertising The
Santa Fe system, he said, had Q
practical illustration Of the power Of
u few yeats ago. II spent
money in advertising
Kansas, aud the next year cut down
the Advertising expenses Oue-haIf.
IL was very noticeable that Il decrease
In advertising resulted IN = decrease
Of the traffic Of the company.
William Weiss, q farm IabOrer 90
years old, working in Lost Creek
valley near seneca took = happy
tumble the other day. He was out
in n hog lot walking along when his
foot caught In wire when he fell.
Examination proved that l. was the
bail of an old kettle that Is supposed
10 have been buried by the Spauiards
aud contained $40, 30 In gold.
Einporia R,pULIicdn small
farms will soon be In demand. The
Farmers Alliance will control poll
lies in Kansas. aud there will he q
stampede Of politicians to get little
and in order 10 get into the alli-
suce."
Over 5000 dozen Of eggs were col
eeted and shipped last Saturday by
he Abilene merehants.-Rcf'c cfOT.
State journal: Put your corn
nto hogs and 1t will pay you 30 cents
bushel, says n Sedgwick county
armer. Perhaps this would he bet
er even than putting IL into eleva-
ors.
Hutchinson N'Ws: II costs only
ixty cents to be cremaIed In Paris.
3ut why incur the expense Of going :
ng abroad for what you can get In
ny American fire-proof building for
little or nothing?
Wichita Journal: Rush county u
q free burial to all
rho may he lucky enough to die In ]
Is confines, an inducement that n
ught tO act as great inducsment 3
D enigrants seeking homes-be- n
ond. 4
Emporia REPUBLICAN: There IL =
Dms discussion as to what policy !!
he Democrats will pursue toward :
he minority, when they get a ma y
,rity in congress. II 10 idle specul- a
ton. Let's talk about things Of
ne present century.
Parsons Sun: The district court
COwley county has just admitted n
} practices law q Mrs. Dalton, wife
Winfield attorney, who will as
ct her husband in his legal work.
he enjoys the distinction Of being
ie first one Of the Rentlsr sex adj
lifted to the bar Of COwley county. -