The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-03-27
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STATE NEWS.
The grand lodge K. p. will meet
In Topeka May I.
Natural gas has been discovered In
Montgomery county.
Hutchinson has Q woman who
talked herself into q swoon.
Absut Is 900 have petitioned for q
special session Of the legislature.
Western Kansas has found q new
lndustFy-the broom corn business.
The Santa Fe shops at Ottawa will
soon have . force Of 800 men al
work.
Al the Harper creamery 1850
pounds Of milk were turned into
butter last month.
A colony Of Illinois farmers have
purchased 1,T60 acres Of land In
Reno county and will immigrste.
The farmers Of Chautauqua and
Montgomery counties, who raised
cotton, made so an acre FROM the
crop.
A wealthy Californian has pre-
scented the First Baptist church OF
Topeka with an deliberately carved
pulpit.
As loug - Kansas can furnish
corn for bread, salt TO season Il and
sugar to sweeteB Il there 10 little
danger Of starvation.
The Kansas City Gazette thinks
that "the thlnnsst shaIlOw-pated
Ealoot that ever came 10 the surface
Il Senator Bentley Of Wichita"
wsllingtOn's street car line has
been sold under chAttel mortage for
81 900. IL consists Of two miles Of
track, i've cars, ~ many mules and
harness to match.
An English syndicate has bought
the LaRIIng farm, near Tonganoxie,
and will establish thereon O training
school for young Engllshmen who
desire to become American farmers.
Judge Blaln, living near Manhst-
tan, shipped nearly 100 bushels of
tame grass seed, Of his own raising.
TO Topeka. The judge reports that
st the price received it paid better
than raising corn.
The country IL being canvassei by
cattle dealers from abroad, and our
local dealers are beginning TO scouT
the hills aud valleys for stock, all Of
which IL an indication that the
market IL on the up grade.-OsJorHe
NetCs.
Now 10 the time for eastern men TO
buy western lands. They are at bed
rOck prices now, aud will never be
- low again. Those wanting wes-
tern lands will miss the golden OPP
POrtuRity by not investing this
spring.
The CoffsyVille Journal says: Ifa
reciprocity to trade was established
between Mexico and the United
States, Kansas could sell millions OF
dollars worth Of blooded horses and
cattle annually 10 the people Of that
country.
The average farm hand In Kansas
receives 80 bushels Of corn for
months work besides what he eats.
which adds at least another bushel
II the wife Of the farmer for whom
he works knows how to fry mush.-
X. C.. Star.
The EmpOriA RepUbiicdH OfTers
the consoling statement that
although Kansas will not bring the
saloon within her borders for one or
two newspapers, she will have no
objection to one or two newspapers
moving out after q saloon.
A Winfield paper states that there
are three dailies In that place the
receipts Of which would
not support one. The Winfield
editors must be working for glory
and fun. IL NAV be "A very healthful
exercise but IL does not pay.
Our farmers have caught on to
the poultry racket. IL doesn't cost
a. much 10 raise q pound Of poultry
Ne q pound Of hog, and the pound Of
poultry IL worth the most money,
aud you get the eggs besides. See
the pOint?-MdrysriiIs NeTs.
In Q case recently tried in the
district court Of Norton county in
which the railroads were interested, /
Alliance men were not permitted to
serve on the jury. II the railroads
were Q little faireF In their treat |
msnt Of the farmers, they would not !
have the same reason to fear them
hat they do now.
There are now /, $50 cases awaiting
attention on the Kansas supreme |
court docket. IL will be four years |
rom now before the last case on the |
present docket 10 reached. The /
,ourt In now moving along at the /
-ate Of about 400 cases q year. But |
here were received last year $50 new
,ases. Four years hence, when the /
,ases now pending are disposed of,
here will be over 1900 cases on the
docket. That IL what the situation
will be unless relief 10 afforded.
The biggest sugar manufacturing
project ever proposed I'm Kansas has
originated at Newton. The Kansas
central Sugar Company has been
organized there. II proposes to
,uild four sugar mills In Harvey
'ouaty each TO cost tIOO,OOo, the
citizens OF Harvey county to sub
cribe 100000 aud furnish $4,000
vOrth Of cane aud sugar beets, the
capitalists 10 put 10 900, 900 In cash
iaPital.
AtchisOn Champion: For one Of
he biggest advertisements n town
las ever received In Northwest
Kansas Jewell City takes the rib
ION. The mountains OF corn cribued
q that town, and In view Of passing
rains, ls Q sight that has never been
cen before Ia all that section.
here are over 10000 bushels in
ribs In the city limits, aud there
Ias been over half this amount
hlpped. or this %, 600 bushels In
rib nov Pat Foy has bought more
han half OF It, and when questioned
y the Champion reporter as to
that he was going 10 do with II,
aid: "Holdiug q for q rainy day"
is said that about rs per cent. Of
be corn raised tributary TO Jewell
Its has haan ms rkafa1 /