The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-12-11


A Topeka man has been arrested
for stealing from his own wife.
A CowIey county farmer owns q
calf for which he refused - cents
per pound.
An Ottawa doctor has sent bill to
awidow for ''dOctoring your husband
until he died"
One hired girl at Topeka has airea-
dy received six invitations TO the in
augural ball.-BU'ts.
Jerry Simpsons socks may not be
worn out but all Jokes about them
are Topeka journal.
A Manhattan teacher was arrested
the other day for whipping a boy.
The jury decided that the boy needed
it.
There IL q law In Kansas prohibit
ing the sale Of cigarettes to minors,
but very few minors anything about
Il.
Silk from the Peabody, Kansas,
silk station sells for seventy-fve
cents per pound more than from any
other place In America.
George J. Balster, Of Horton, died
the other day from the effects Of 8
scratch which he received while
playing with a pet kitten.
The KanOPolis salt mine is now
down something over COO feet and
the company expect to reach salt
before the first Of the year.
An Atchlson women woman re-
Gently arose in the night, lit the
kitchen fire and cooked breakfast,
and was sound asleep all the time she
did Il.
Up in Wallace county they have q
novel way Of dealing with chronic
borrowers. The request them to re-
turn borrowed property through the
medium Of the press.
Michael Gait died at the home of
his son near Howard, Elk county, at
the age Of lOl yeBrs. This circum-
stance rather tends to confirm the
the theory that q cat has nine lives.
Jake Stotler IL said to have recent
~ penned Senator Ingalls, this brief
interrogation: "what do you think,
john" The answer came back by
the next mail: what do you think,
Jake?"
There is nothing that makes the
editor of the Wichita EdgIo feel
quite so tough as to see his former |
friend Jay Gould and his loathesome
contemporary Ralph Easley getting |
thick.-BUtS.
A man who owns q pie stand near |
the state house at Topeka, has been
offered an advance Of 100 per cent on
his lease since the announcement OF
the Official returns on the Legislative |
ticket In Kansas.
Kansas 10 likely TO get back part Of
the population which she lost by the
opening Of Oklahoma The new
territory has no state prison and its
criminals are to be taken care Of al
the PeDitentiary at Leavenworth.-l
Kansas City Star.
Andrew Hinshaw, q Quaker citizen
Of Lyon county, raised sixty-seven
bushels Of potatoes last season on
sixty square rods OF ground. Con-
sidering the activity among the
farmers Of Kansas this year that was
. remarkable yield.
Senator Ingalls, dined at Topeka
hotel the other day, and after he left
the table Ben Simpson entered the
dining room and took the chair the
senator had occupied. Who can tell
what thoughts surged through Ben's
brain a. he dropped into that seat
BHtFs.
A well known AtehisOn woman
makes complaint that the wives Of
rich men make things for the wo-
mems Exchange, aud that poor and
needy women are thus crowded out.
She says that list Of those Of those
who make things would surprise
people.
A Dickinson county man has been
arrested upon the charge Of remov-
ing headstones from the graves Of
old soldiers In the various cemeteries
In the county and then collecting
from the county for putting up new
ones, In accordance with government
regulation.
A Newton woman received Q letter
the other day from Q relative In the
east anxIously ipquiring whether
the citizens Of Newton apprehended
any dagger from the Indians. OF
course, people in other Estates know
almost nothing about Kansas, or
they wouldn't be livlngOstside Of t.
The rainfall In Kansas for the last !,
month wac 2.56 inches, which IL eco
Inch above the November average.
Rain fell In measurable quantities on 7,
ave days. There were no thunder
showers. The entire rainfall for the
eleven months Of 1850 now completed
hes been $3.50 inches, which is l.ss
shove average for the same months
in the preceding twebty-two years.
and az Inch shove the avenge en- .
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