Thomas County cat., 1890-03-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

into two states.
81. &. Gill has sold the good will OF
the Ulysses Register to G. w. Perry,
of the Tribune of that place.
From Clay Center the wires bring
the statement that a severe blizzard pre-
vailed there on the 25th The mercury
fell 80 degrees in few hours.
Leslie I. Purcell has started new
paper at Burton. called the Free Lance.
This is removal from Coolidge where
Mr. Purcell published the Times.
Arkansas City Dispatch: A gentle
man who came up from Willow Springs
a distance of eighteen miles, counted
147 boomer wagons travelling south.
They were loaded with household goods
and farming implements.
At Newton the second annual ball
and banquet was given by Newton di-
vision No. IL, order railroad conduc-
tors, at the opera house. Six hundred
ladies and gentlemen, many from neigh
boraing cities, were present.
Waterville Telegraph: P. G. Staley
informs us that there is, without doubt,
over 1000 cars of corn lying on the
ground in the territory tributary to
Watervile If so, it is evident more
elevators or more cars are needed in
Watervile.
Topeka Journal: A party named T.
r. Shirley. soliciting aid for Stevens
county. is denounced by S. n. Wood of
that county as fraud. He is said to
have collected car load of merchandise
at Wichita. which he appropriated to
his own beneft.
Mound City Clarion: A Coffey coun-
ty neighbor saws that in '61 he set out
an ash grove and in 'SS he cut one Of
the trees from the grove that made one
stick Of Eewed timber twenty feet long
and eight inches square at the top. The
tree WIS upwards of hundred feet
from stump to tip. A remarkable
growth in twenty-seven years.
Topeka Capital: Mrs. F. NJ. Con-
well and her two sons. residing at the
corner of Eleventh and Monroe streets
ate canned tomatoes for supper and
shortly afterwards were taken violently
ILL., The poisoning was occasioned by
the acid OF the tomatoes eating into the
can. The family were sick two or three
days, but they are now out of danger.
Arkansas City Traveller: Bert Nc
Cormick tells us that the presidents
order in regarding the strip will not
affect him so badly as Humes and Will
Jams. They have cattle on the way
from Texas for their pastures on the
strip. Humes has two pastures and
Williams one, and the tax is paid on
both. The order to not allow other
herds to be brought in, will affect Mr.
Mccormick consider ably
Holton Signal: Talk about too
many business rooms, Why. two firms
have been compelled to quit business
because they could not secure leases
on their business locations any longer
All the good rooms in town are now
occupied. A stranger coming in and
desiring room could not secure one
unless it should be the Odd Fellows
room, and that is leased after July 1st
There is an opportunity to rent some
new buildings IN Hoiton.
An Abilene special: Orrin Buchan-
an, son OF the late Abilene postmaster,
and delivery clerk in the Office. has been
arrested by a United States deputy
marshal, on the charge of robbing the
mails A detective has been looking
mp the records and it is claimed not on
" that he carried on quite an extensive
tampering with valuable parcels, but
that he was not alone implicated in the
matter. He was taken to junction
City for examination.
Osborne Farmer: The Ladies Guild
of st. Johns Episcopal church of this
city, have turned over the money in the
treasury TO the Ladies Library associ-
alton, the same to be used for the
benefit and maintenance OF the institu-
ton. The good ladies' of the library
ackr owledge the receipt of the money.
and show their appreciation of the
same by drafting appropriate resolu-
tions.
Arkansas City Traveller: Joe Hoyt
and DR.. Martin have just returned from
a mound hunting expedition in the
strip. About twenty miles south of
here they discovered number of
mounds and went through them. They
found the bones of horses and buffalo,
pieces of quartz. copper, brass, iron,
flint, crucibles. etc. They did not
find the skull of any animal or the
bones of human beings. These gen.
tlemen brought home several sam
pies of their discoveries. Joe Hoyt
tells us that east of the city there are
several mounds The fact that copper
and other quartz was found in the
mounds proves that there are minerals
some place in the strip.
Cedar Vale Star: Hon. Alfred Fair
fax is in Oklahoma and it is reported is
going TO move there and will take his
cotton gin and boom that staple in
the new territory. There has been
quite an exodus of colored people to
Oklahoma from that part of this coun-
ty: one gentleman. who is in position
to know. thinks fully eight-tenths OF