The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-05-22
STATE news.

haustIble.
Northwest Kansas will plant q
large acreage Of broom corn this
year.
The Kansas State Board Of Health
has issued its fifth annual report.
Over 1000 pounds Of milk was re-
ceIved at the Stockton creamery one
day last week.
Those Kansas farmers who did
not cell their corn ninety days ago
are smiling audibly now.
The Downs Chief says there will be
5000 people there on the 18th and
g7th Of July next.
The value Of Kansas farms IL
stated by the RdHsIs Farmer to he
$50, 1000, OOO.
The railroads Of Kansas employ
1857 persons at an aggregate wage
cost Of 81, 21s, ISL.
The Catholics At BellsviIle, Re
public county, are building . college
which IL 10 cost tT5, 0o.
The Pioneer says more corn IL be-
ing listed in Smith county this year
than for many years past.
To Atchison belongs the credit Of
having started and populariZsd the
vitrified brick industry In Kansas.
The Kansas Republican League
has decided to organize Republican
clubs ia every township In the
State.
The hogs are so large and fat In
Harper county that they die from
the effects of the heat while being
taken 10 market.
The people Of Kansas would hall q
freight war with greater warmth
than many Of them do the existing
passenger rate war.
Farmers Alliance numbering CO..
members, aud the total vote VI the
county doesn't exceed ,HD.
With s7,JOO,OO worth Of wheat,
aud t3O,VOO,OOO worth Of corn ON
hand, Kansas farmers are at quite a
safe distance from mendicancy.
Kansas City, Kansas, claims to
have built more school houses dur
ing the past three years than any
other city In the country.
One million and one hundred
thousand acres of wheat In splendid
condition, 10 one Of the many things
Kansas has TO boast Of just now.
The Douglas, Butler county, sor-
ghum sugar mills were sold ri
sherIfi7s sale TO Kansas City firm
for sIO,UOO. The works cost 81. OOn.
A request has been received nj the
Kansas labor bureau for copies Of
the labor bureau reports for 1886 TO
ls9O inclusive, for q Russian library.
A Kansas man figures In Mr..
HOWelIs' latest story, 1.-The shadow
Of q Dream" Wherever there IL
either substance or shadow, there is
the Kansas man.
Ness county has 81, 40 sores Of
wheat, Pawnee IL. 80, barton l4n,OU
and Lane $500, Rush county has
about ~, mo aeI es.-E,d Crosse chief
tain.
The Santa Fe March statement for
the entire system shows: Gross
earnings, t2,625, l42; Increase, $780,
2is; net earnings, tSTl,Ti increase,
t5l5,257.
The expenses for the State Peni-
Tertiary for April were SIC, 2gJ, aud
the receipts sg,JOI.jI. The total
eOsl output for the month was I0I,-
~ bushels.
The noble and patriotic ladies Of
Phlllipsburg have organized
woman's Relief Corps. The Dis
patch hopes TO see the order grow
aRd become a. large rs their q. A.
u. post.
There are ,OOO, 600 children in
the public schools Of this country,
the largest proportion Of which, ac-
cOrdluR TO the population, being
furnished by the state Of Kansas.
The business OF the Haven. Reno
county creamery, last year amount
ed 60 nearly $4,000. II made over
5000 pounds Of butter, and handled
nearly l,4OO,OO pounds Of milk
HdreH Independent.
Kansas Is slowly but surely
emerging from the burden of iIs
5000, 600 farm mortgage indebted
ness. BY the close Of 1880, unless
unforeseen calamitles visit the state,
it will have paid of fully 80 per
cent Of this Indebtedness.
IL would be almost impossible for
wheat to look more favorable for an
enormous yield than 10 does at the
present time. A few days since We
saw samples OF wheat that measured
nearly four feet i'm height, and the
heads were well formed. There are
hundreds Of fields In this vicinity
that are equally A. far advanced
RioTd Journal.
The Department of Agriculture
defines the sugar belt of Kansas Rs
being between Medicine Lodge and
Wichita, and says that mills should
not be built further south and west
than Medicine Lodge. nor further
north than Wichita. II warns COM
munitles not 10 vote bonds for aid
under any circumstances.
The salt field Of Kansas is now
occupied by 81 pans-SS Of which
are built for the direct heat aud -
the former, only about half are
operating or In q position tO operate
and only one third Of the latter.
There are - salt companies owning
plants In the state, many Of them
being crippled In output from lack
Of operating capital, In proportion
as above indicated.
Capt. J. r. Greer, Of hut Hand.
came In last week from hanses City,
where he has been marketing loo
head Of fat steers Of his own feeding,
and the hogs which had been fed
with them-and his check called for
several thousand dollars. Not many
years ago, the Captain came 10 our
country, practically q bankrupt, but
by farming, trading, feeding, etc,
he has earned other dollars, and now
owns .sOO acres of land, with good
home, flne barn, aud lots Of stock,
and brought home from the proceeds
Of last years crops, sold In fatted
stock, enough TO pay Off every
dollar Of his Indebtedness. Kansas
farming has paid, IL paying, and will
pay. In no other latitude can crops
be grown cheaper, or high-bTed
cattle, horses, aud hogs produced nj
% low q cost. Kansas lands are
eheap-never will be ~ cheap again
and now il the time for home
seekers to come and invest.-IHf'-
peRdence Tribune.