The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-12-25
STATE NEWS AND NOTES.

STATE NEWS AND NOTES.
Chase county parties are buying
corn In Iowa.
The deputy postmistress at Cor
win weighs 500 pounds.
e. r. Rush has disposed Of the
Winfield Tribune to S. f. Burger.
A person to be In the swim now at
Atchison, must have a sore throat
Kansas produced loo bales Of
cotton this year, just as flyer"
Harper has Fat womeu's club"
They are fat, fair and there are
forty OF them.
A country woman bought four
teen dolls Of sn Atchison merchant
the other day.
The IL 8 woman living at Newton
who 10 4s years old and she has
never had q proposition of marriage
A man living at Hope has a pig
which grows fat without a drop Of
water for q month at a time.
Irrigste or emigrate was the
motto Of the irrigation convention
held at ObsrIin, Kans., on December
10.
II goes " ithout say that the only
man in this country who sold tiO,OOo
worth Of apples this year lives In
Kansas.
Standing Heifer honored Atchison
with brief visit the other day.
She was on her way from the Pine
Ridge agency to Topeka.
Kingman county Is talking of buy
ing o poor farm, or rather, II fsrm
for the poor. There are no poor
farms In Kingman county.
Cheyenne county, which il on the
Colorado line, l. better of than any
other Kansas frontier county. \
good deal Of corn was raised there.
The $4,000 bonds voted for
school builing In Wellington have
been sold at par by increasing the
rate Of interest from q 8, to per cent
The Mennrnites keep coming into
Newton with wheat, aud the RCpTb-
licdn says not one Of them knows y
sub-treasury scheme from sub-snil
pillow.
A Reno county man had pop |
corn patch this year on which he |
realized SIS an acre. At that rate
pop corn Is not a. profitable H.
peanuts.
A thirty-six inch vein Of solid coal
has been struck at IndI pendencs
and the people are warming up now
that their labor has not been H.
vain.
Antelope must he plenty in Hamii-
ton county. a hunter acknowledges
to having killed three at one shot.
aud they haven't very big liars out
there either.
A gambler al Abilene was arrest
ed while playing poker tue first Of
the week aud the court made him
ante $500 and told the marshal to
call him out Of the jail in sixty days.
The board Of education at Man
haitian concluded II would give the
town 9 bad name to abandon the
high school course and refused to
entertain such proposition.
Ben Glover never owned $4,000
stallion, but years ago he was sc-
to 90 around to auction
sales In Illinois with a qusrter-mile
poney which won considerable
money.
Sheriff Callahan Of Independence
the number Of inmates Of
the peniteniiary an even dozen the
frst Of the week. II is lucky for
somebody that the number wasn't
thirteen.
The farmers Of Kansas made an
average OF sT.3I per acre raising
wheat this year, and not q small pOr-
lion Of the land on which IL Was
grown could be bought for that
price.
To O member Of an Abilene church
Who complained Of smells from an
adjacent stable the pastor replied:
MY dear man, don't you know that
bur religion originated IN . stable 2"
Butts.
The United States pension agent
It Topeka dIsbursed l,I75, 9ss one
lay last week. That IL probably
more money than barney Kelly han
lied during the whole time that lie .
ras engaged In preaching.
One day this week the register Of
leeds In Cloud county played check I
m from morning until night. Not
single person entered his office !
Turing the day on business. That's I
he way mortgages are piIing up In !
Kansas.
An entsrPrising merchant bought .
u old church at Fort Scott and will
smoye Il and build q new business
ouse on the site. He thiBks he
Till Increase his trade by force Of
sbit from some citizens The odds
70 against him. 8
Five acres Of ground IL offered to (,
be man or company that will put 8
own and operate . shaft for min a
lg rock salt In Wellington. Here =
. chance for somebody who wants r.
, sink neutrality-suspicious.. Y