The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-13
STATE NEWS.
Gathered From the Columns Of Costsm-
p0rariss.

Montgomery county.
An alfalfa crop will produces
about so to the acre.
Seward Jones, Of the Tri-COunty
Ners, has fallen heir TO $4,000.
Kansas towns are enjoying the
songs Of the robins In their yard,
aud orchards.
Two hundred mortgages have
been released In Riley county within
the past six weeks.
A. w. Newman, Of Labstt,
county has received back pension e
the amount Of 81 ,2s9.
A forest Of native trees covering
100 acres IL one Of the beauties OI
the Fort Hays reservation.
On the 4th Of March, 1891. John J
Ingalls, will have served eighteen
years IN the United States senate.
A HiawAiha man who lost some
money found q mouse nest In one ol
the bureau drawers lined with finely
chswsd EreenbGcks.
Lacrosse seems 10 have q man who
started In business three years age
with q capital Of 10 cents aud now
has three stores Ia operation and
out Of debt.
IL IL estimated that there are over
30 ear leads Of corn waiting trans
PortatiOn on the North Solomon
branch, and over I2j ear loads Oh
the South branch.
The students Of washburn college,
Topeka, are on the war path because
the faculty has refused to let the
young ladies attend ths OratOrical
contest at Lawrence.
The planters Of Chautauque aud
Montgomery counties are ginning
their cotton. II IL said to be Of high
grade and has paid at 8 rate Of $40
an acre for production.
w. Il. Whitehead, OF Lawrence,
has entered suit agains the Rock
Island Railway for $4,000 damages
for Injuries sustained in q wreck on
that road . year ago.
A Wichita youth wanted his ex-
sweetheart arrested en- the charge Of
getting goods under false pretenses,
because she had accepted long list
Of presents from him and then re-
fused to keep her pledge to marry
him.
IL 10 stated that . ease was tried ct
Kinsley the other day before q
justice Of the peace IN which the
Murray LIxuOr law was involved,
In which the justice ruled that pre-
hlbltion was unconstitutional and
dismissed the case.
Cotton will be planted In many
fields In Kansas this season. Last
year Senator McTRggart. Of Mont
geometry county, had nine acres in
cotton that Melted him 81, which IL
about $40 better than corn would
bring at the present prices.
State Treasurer Hamilton has
taken steps TO comnsnes q suit for
libel in the United States court
against Wsterson, Of the Louisville
COHricr-JOUrRdi, unless the latter
rstrAets aud apologies for his state
msnts regarding the "defaulting
state treasurer"
The other morning the steam
boiler In the Touring mill At HALO
we'll exploded with great force,
m0rtslly WOunding Albert ESrls,
the proprietor, aud Mahury the
engineer, also badly injuring New
berry, the fireman, and nearly de-
molished the mill.
Kansas girls are not only Orna-
mental but very useful AZ we'll.
That there il nothing Of the drone
about them IL evidenced by the fact
that two Of them, Nellie an 4 Hattie
Cook, OF Smith county aged only II
aud 10 years respectively, husked
1000 bushels Of corn the past yeSr.
for which their father gavs them
s25.
Kansas can furnish everything in
the geological line. A vein Of genu-
ins marble Of excellent quality has
been found near lola. II 10 q beau
tIful stone aud has every appearance
Of possessing great durability II
also takes q beautiful polish. IL Is
said 10 equal the best grade Of
Italian or Vermont. The vein IL
nearly thirty feet thick.
In November Thomas Yarmouth
OF Wichita was arrested, charged
with arson, nj the instance Of the
Capital Insurance company, Topeka,
which had sI.OOO on . building that
was lost. He was sent to jail. Yes
tsrdAy the case was dismissed by the
prosecution aud was at once follow
ed by suit for SO, 800 for damages for
being deprived Of liberty.
Ashland Citizen: The salt indus
try Of Kansas 10 becoming an impOr-
tant one, aud one whose magnitude
10 little thought Of. IL beats the
sorghum sugar business all to
pisces. In the year IsS6, the year Of
Ia discovery, there were 1900 bar
rels produced. Last year Kansas
took her place among the largest
salt producing states. Salt was first
struck at Ellsworth at q depth Of 80
feet, then ct Hutchinson, Lyons,
Great Bend, NIckerson, Kingman
and Anthony. Hutchinson has
twelve salt plants In operation, each
turning out from 500 TO 800 barrels
per day. Anthony ranks next as
the most important center, her two
plsnts having q daily output Of 500
barrels. However, all the towns
have salt plants In opera
ton, aud Il is believed that In the
future. all salt used west Of the Mis-
sissIppl river will be supplied by
Kansas.