Thomas County cat., 1890-07-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


tauqua assembly averaged $1,000 day
during the last five days it was in ses.
sion.
Lecompton Ledger: The Lawrence
canning factory is putting up mill.
ion cans of Strawberries, enough tc
make 2 million pies.
Edmond Times: The annual reunion
of the old soldiers of Norton county
will be held in Norton, September 18, 19,
20, with Joseph Greenwood as COM
mander.
Wellington Mail: Claude Whitfield
brought to the Mail Office the head of q
rabbit which he had killed and which
was covered by three long horns, each
one at least Il inches in length.
At Sedan the body of John s. Fra
zier, partner of w. 81. Gibson in the
cattle trade, was found in Deer creek.
The throat was cut and ten other
wounds were found on the body. Muir
derer unknown.
From Dighton: The normal school
which was in session here for nearly a
month with membership of sixty-two,
is pronounced by all to be a grand
success and will tend greatly to i'm
prove our schools.
Hiawatha World: Mrs. Elizabeth
Anderson was granted pension Of S12
per month with back pay for 1S years
at $18 and $12 month and So for
careing for minor children. She has
received draft for $2,5S7.
Coldwater Enterprise: It is getting
comfortably warm when the sun shin
ing upon dishpan VII create enough
heat to set on fire a piece of cotton
cloth inside the pan. Carl Tingler says
he witnessed just such an occurrence at
his home in Avilla township
Harper letter: One dealer in grain
here has purchased $4,000 bushels of
grain since the first of September, 1889;
OF this, wheat 10000, corn 11S,OOO,
and oats 64,970 bushels; first cost for
all, $135, 1886. This will give your read
ers some idea of the immensity of the
business, the above being simply the
business of one man.
At Leavenworth the United States
census enumerators have completed
their work and the result as compared
with the work of the local enumerators
of last spring is quite satisfactory.
Leavenworth will show population of
more than 10000, and fall only about
100 short of the census taken by the
county enumerators.
Stafford Republican: Chester Thom-
as and family have arrived in the city
from Topeka and will occupy the Jessie
Yickers property on north Main street,
which was recently purchased by Mr..
Thomas. Mr.. Thomas is one of the
Oldest settlers in the state and we feel
proud to number him among our citi-
zens.
At Lawrence preparations are being
made for an immense gathering of col
ored people at the Bismarck grove
celebration August 1. A committee of
prominent coiored people from Leav-
enworth, Topeka and Kansas City were
in town in consultation with the local
committee. They say that the greater
part of the colored people of those
three cities would attend.
Dighton correspondence: Our county
commissioners have declared war on the
gophers by offering cents each bounty
on all killed in Lane county, and mp
to present writing thousands haze
been k lied and the county clerk IS
kept busy making out vouchers for the
bounty. Whether it will make any
preceptible difference in their number
remains to he seen.
Atchison Champion: Some three
years ago man from Clinton, Ken
lucky, named Graham, moved with his
family to Kingman county. Kansas |
He did not dwell in Kansas satisfactory
ly because of an inOrdinate dread of |
cyclones on his wlfe's part, and her dis !
like for the state because of it's reputa- !
tion in that way. His eldest daughter,
besides, during her residence in the
state, was in continual apprehension of
being scalped by the Indians, for which
she had special dread. Mother and
daughter, by their dissatisfaction, final
ly prevailed on Graham to return to his
old home in Kentucky. This was about
a year ago. Six months ago the town
of Clinton was struck by cyclone,
the Graham house was completely de-
molished, and Mrs. Graham met her
death in the very way she bad left
Kansas to avoid. and the stranger part
was that flying timber struck the
daughter and severed her scalp The
daughter recovered but is disfgured.
Graham himself was hurt and is still
PROSTATE.
Arkansas City Traveller: Captain
W. b. Ward, the private secretary OF b
Governor st. John during his two terms {
was in the city and stated to reporter
that while on recent business trip to a |
city in the northern part OF tie state. he :
out to pile of clay whi b
had Just been taken from the bottom
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