Thomas County cat., 1890-07-24
KANSAS IN BRIEF.

KANSAS IN BRIEF.
The schools Of Great Bend received
over 200 visits from patrons last year.
An Atchison man was stung on the
ear by a bee and fell down in q dead
faint.
The corner stone of Wichita's new city
hall building was laid on the Fourth
with appropriate ceremonies.
Salinas Fourth was fraught with
pleasure, as the president had attached
his signature to the public building bill
Headstones furnished by the govern
ment for the deceased soldiers at Udall
will soon be placed Dy the Grand Army
post.
While playing with dynamite cart
ridge at Robinson, a youth of sixteen
years was blown almost to atoms.
Charles Lagrange pleaded guilty OF
bigamy at Hutchinson, Kansas, and
was sentenced to three years in tn.
penitentiary.
The second Presbyterian church al
Wichita was burned on the Fourth by
fire originating from fire works. Loss
$4,000; little insurance.
At Olathe an original package mar
has been met With rather warm recer
tion. The people are greatly excite
over his proposed establishment.
Mrs. Micheal Hoyne, wife ola farme
living west of Salina, Ksn., was burne.
to death Sunday. Sne saved her Chi
dren and home, but lost her own life.
Two boys made bon fire OF the ole
Delaware Mills st Lawrence on the 4ti
of July, and now the tramps % the U
p. road have to walk on to Bis
marck grove before they find a place t.
make their toilets.
Arthur Magill, young man Of Sa
betha, fell from train and wat
killed at Pawnee City, Neb., Sunday
night while returning from Beataice,
Ne0. He was not missed by his mother
and sister until they reached home.
More than $50 stean threshars are at
work in Summer county, and when all
of them sound their whistles at one time
for the moor hour there is more. music
in that county than even the big Six"
hand has ever been able to produce.
Chancellor F. H. Snow, of the stats
university has issued his rain chart for
the first week in July. He says it las
rained in seventy-fve out of LOG coun-
ties in the state. Above the Kaw the
rain has been very heavy, while in the
southern counties the rain has varied
considerably, only small amounts fall
ing in the four western counties. Doug
las county is the center of the dry dis
trict.
Secretary Mohler of the state board
of agriculture is having serious trouble
in compiling crop statistics. The Farm
ers' alliance in many sections Of the
state has instructed it's members to give
out NO report and the correspondents Of
the board are for the most part mem-
bers of that organization. In speaking
of the matter Secretary Moher said: ut
is certainly very short sighted move on
the part of the alliance. The Chicago
grain men, of whom the farmers COM
plain, have their correspondents in near
ly every county. They will thus be en-
abled to obtain the exclusive reports
and will be much better enabled to man
ipulate things than before. The propo-
sitlon is 90 apparent that should think
the farmers would see it at glance. A
great deal of the difficulty comes from
the fact that the alliance papers are ad-
vising their readers to take this STEP"
COLORADO.
The population of Buena Vista is put
at 1890.
The tributaries of the Grand river are
reported too high for good fishing.
On the q of last month the mercury
got up as high as 1O1 at Las Animas.
The assessed valuation of Huer ,ano
county this year will be about s., ,OO0, GOO.
Sheep shearing is in progress ir the
state and the yield Of wool is said to be
good.
The populati IN Of Ouray county, esti-
mated by partial census returns is 6,8C0.
The construction Of 100000 bushel
elevator has been completed at Ala
mosa.
The census enumerators give Trini-
dad population of 6,5OO. The people
of the ambitious town claim 6, 500.
The people of Rocky Ford in mass
convention assembled have decided to
have September 9 watermelon day this
year.
ThI Dak0t3s.
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