The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-09
STATE NEWS.
Gathered Prem the coIumss Of contsn-
pOF arlss.


There are l3l active camps Of Sons
Of Veterans In Kansas.
The cash system will be practicsd
more than ever In 1890.
ed up along the road like cord wood.
A Marion county farmer has the
finest Shetland pony farm In the
United States.
Atehison recently sold thirty-slx
car loads Of -four TO Glasgow, Scot
land, for $1,000.
Between thirty aud forty thousand
bushels Of corn are being fed daily
In Greenwood county.
Albert Griffin writes the Manhat-
tan Nationalist that he did not OPP
pose the confirmation OF Judge
Brewer.
Manhattan claims 10 pay the high
est price in the state for corn, IL and
- cents.
The seven Kansas congressman
are connected with fifteen commit
tees. This averages two places TO
each member.
The auditing departing Of the en-
tire Santa Fs system was moved
from Chicago TO Topeka.
Kansas has built only $40 miles
Of railroad In the state during the
year, increasing the total TO 5, sO6. 10
miles.
The Emporia Republican remarks
that the resubmission rally at TOpe-
ka was q good thiBg-fOr the express
companies.
Ia 1874 . girl was born In Dickin-
son county, Kansas, and 8 short
time since the court granted her o
divorce and gave her the custody Of
the child.
The average yearly rainfall In
eastern Kansas during the period
covered by the record Is between "a
and IS inches.
The Santa Fe road now requires q
permit from headquarters Ia order
for . station agent to purchase n box
OF matches.
Kansas has more miles Of rail-
way than any other state In the I'M
lon, save one, and with not one
fourth Of her lands under cultlva-
ton.
The board Of railway commission
ers have ordered the Missouri Pacific
to place on its road from Whitfield to
KIDgman adequate passenger ser
vice.
II IL figured out that there are
eighteen and nne-halG people to
the square mile la Kansas. The Alb
ilsne Reflector thinks the hall repre-
sents q resubmissiOnist.
Prof. Snow, Of the Kansas state
university, IL authority for the
statement that the past month was
the wArmest December In this part
Of the country for tweniy-One years.
Usage City has n man 81 inches
high, 20 years old and weighs 80
pounds. Cullison has another Al
inches high, weighing 81 pounds and
20 years old. They are not original
Kansas products.
Farmer Miller, living near Doni-
phan, recently lost over 100 hogs by
some strange disease. He had fed
IAN 800 bushels OF corn and 100
bels OF potatoes and had them
10y for market.
Kansas raised 1900. 600 bushels Of
NuNaN NulH II HluuG ltlNO
reckoning q bushel 90 NmuHaB,
q nOIr' 1T. i sSRs moi
&c B NefEofthe Kansas Press,
ID llss9y with the Kansas NewspA-
spsr Union, has fallen heir by the
death OF an uncle in Germany to
800, 600, but he IL the same jolly, all
around rustler ~ when he only had
"hfteen cents In his inside pocket"
Nellie and Hattie Cook, aged II
and 10 years respectively, daughters
Of Lyman Cook of Smith county,
husked 1000 bushels OF corn for
their father this fall, for which he
paid s25, having agreed 10 pay o.
cents q bushel for all they would
husk.
A speaker on the affirmative side
Of the question: Resolved that
farming pays In Kansas, had just
taken the floor at the meeting 81 q
debating society out la western
Kansas, when u fellow on the mega
tive side opened the stove door aud
shoveled Ia three or four pecks Of
corn.
Hon. A. r. Green, state railroad
commissioner, stated yesterday that
the great bulk Of the correspondence
Of his office at the present time WAS
OccAsiOned by the ear famine, the
like OF which WIS never known In
this country. The railroad cOmpan-
les are unable to supply more than q
small percentage of the cars required
aud freight ears of every description
Including coal, refrigerator aud fruit
cars are being employed TO haul the
surplus grain OF Kansas.