Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
KANSAS, STATE NEWS.

The Oxford Mocking Bird of April
IL gives credit for donation of a mess
Of new potatoes. -
Junction City has a new national
bank with s. w. Pierce, president, and
C. H. Trott, cashier.
Atchison Champion: W. H. Tucker
has shipped car load of potatoes from
Nortonville to George J. Martin at
Guthrie. This makes the third car
shipped from Nortonville.
At Lawrence. the corner stone of the
new high school building has been laid.
Over 1000 pupils took part in the ex-
ercises. The afternoon was made a
holiday for all the schools in the city.
At Abilene the anniversary at Lees
surrender was celebrated by q great
camp fire, participated in by people
from all parts of the county. Address
es were delivered by J. P. Campbell and
others.
Holton Signal: Holton's band is
still enjoying healthy existence and is
the pride of the town. 1t has been Sc
lected to head the Kansas division of
the G. A. r. on its grand excursion to
The encampment at Boston.
The Eifingham Times has an item
about the number of boy loafers there;
and another lem about frequent pilfer-
ings in that neighborhood. The con-
nection between the items, though in
different columns, is quite apparent.
Dighton Journal: The Sons of
Veterans have been talking of organ
izing band. Several members of the
camp are very good musicians and it
would take but little practice until
they could make a creditable appear
ance on any occasion.
Wichita Eagle: Vol. No. I of the
Cowley County Censor, the first paper
published in Winfield, in 1870 announ-
ces that 1.-TWO or three buffalo hunting
parties are out from this neighborhood
to the range, fifty miles west of u.s."
Who would believe thst to see Cowlev
county now!
At Arkansas City the city street car
stables, together with twenty three heal
of horses, four cars and lot of feed,
were destroyed by fire entailing loss to
the company of about $4,000, on
which there was an insurance OF SIS, 600.
It is thought to have been the work of
an incendiary.
Longton Signal: The Signal lately
published an item to the effect that fifty
| new volumes had been added to the
Grenola school library, and now comes
Prof Sands and informs lis that seven
ty-fve new volumes have recently been
added to the Longton school library,
which is probably the best in the
county.
Beloit Gazette: The council, at a
called meeting, accepted the new bridge
across the Solomon, retaining $500 of
the amount still due on the same until
an alteration is made on the supports
for the sidewalks on the south end.
We now have as good a steel bridge as
there is in the st tAte, with an eighteen
foot roadway and two sidewalks.
At Holton, the following resolution
was adopted by the jackson County
Farmers alliance: Resolved, That We
denounce as partisan and out of order
the resolution of the county presidents
of the Farmers alliance in Topeka, on
March 25, 1890, condemning John J.
Ingalls,, our senior senator: We also
con ndemn the resolution recommending
2. B. Maxon for railroad commissioner.
An Emporia special A prairie fire
ragged near here which swept across the
divide between the Cottonwood and
Neosho rivers and devastated the farms
of d. B. Wise, Rudolph Wirts and
Henri Blumberger, all of whom lost
their houses and some of their cattle.
Mrs. Wise was so badly burned that
she is now in precarious condition.
She attempted to rescue one of her
husbands horses and stayed too long.
At Lawrence about $50 Of the stu
dents of the university gathered and
after organizing, marched to the resi-
dence of Prof Snow, the new chancel-
lor. where they were cordially received.
The professors OF the faculty and re-
gents made addresses. and after a de-
lightful interchange of friendly courte-
sies, and the utterance of good will to
Chancellor Snow and the university,
the procession reformed, returned to
the center of the city, and dispersed.
Arkansas City Democrat: Arkansas
City citizens can now sleep on Arkan-
sas City made mattresses, ride in Arkan,
sas City made carriages, sit in Arkansas
City made chairs, smoke Arkansas City
made cigars, wear Arkansas City made
overalls, sweep her floors with Arkan-
sas City made brooms, run her machin-
cry with Arkansas City made engines
and windmills, build fronts of her bus
mess blocks with Arkansas City made
iron columns and plates, and this is
but the beginning.
At Emporia, county officials are much
agitated on discovery that fraudulent
census reports have been made and filed
for the past two years in Lyon county,
whereby the population has been in