Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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CLAY Center Dispatch: Captain O.
NJ. Pugh undoubtedly has the hand
soonest flower garden in the city.
By wire from Great Bend: Copio1s
rains have fallen in this locality. The
rain was quite general, and has greatly
benefited the crops.
The Troy Chief enters upon the 34tk
wear. under the same management.
Remarkable in any country. Sol. Miller
opens the new volume of the Chief sans
plates.
st. Joseph Herald: New life has
come to Elwood. There Is every rea-
son why good and prosperous town
should build up on the Kansas side,
opposite st. Joseph.
An lola dispatch: Oscar Foust, a
prominent lawyer of this city, has de-
cided to make the race against Farm
err Funston for the republican nomina-
ton for congress from this the Second }
district.
Horton Headlight: At the meeting
of the republican congressional commit
tee at Holton, it was decided to call the
conventional to meet at Holton, Septem-
Der 10th. Horton wanted the conven-
ton and received three of seven votes.
Ness City Times: The little child of
T. J. Barteld was bitten by cat some
time ago and has been in very poor
health ever since. At one time they
thought the child would die, as it
swelled to an enormous size soon after
the accident.
Arkansas City Traveller: Wilkinson
Copper, an old soldier. has just received
notice that he has been granted pen
sion OF $4,000. Mr.. Copper has been
working seven years to get his pension,
and it is a God send to him now. He
resides in a tent in the First ward.
At Wichita, game of base ball,
Hutchinson against Wichita. arranged
for Sunday afternoon, was prematurely
nipped in the bud by the appearance on
the ground of some police officers, who
threatened arrest if the play was con-
tinued. The ministerial association
insists on the full observance OF Sun
day.
Great Bend Democrat: DR.. J. I.
Royce, the gentleman who did more
than anyone else to inaugurate Ameri-
can ooursing, was in the city last week
a few days. He says the meeting of the
American coursing club, at this place
the coming fall, will be the best ever
held The date for the 1890 meeting is
not yet fixed.
Special from Lindsborg: Since the
publication of the Lindsborg News
extra, Hon A. W. Smith has withdrawn
from the race for congress IN the Sew
enth district. This leaves Hon. G. A.
Swenson without opposition in McPher-
son county. Friends throughout the
district regard him as the strongest
man in the race.
Axtell Anchor: It looks very much
as though the growth of Axtell the
coming year will exceed that of last
year, and that 1891 will see us we'll up
toward the thousand mark. For the
past year there has not been day dur
ing which new business blocks or dwell
ings we're not in a course of erection,
and there is not vacant house in the
city.
At Salina syndicate of eastern CAPT
talists perfected arrangements for the
purchase of all street car lines. The
lines will be transformed into electric
motors. A strip of territory west OF
the city was also secured by the same
syndicate for manufacturing purposes.
Another syndicate selected site for
storage and transfer elevator of 1,OOO,-
600 bushels capacity for shipments to
Galveston.
Gresnsburg Times: James Farley,
who lived on the Sheppard farm across
the line, in Comanche county, while
hoeing in his garden on the Goth inst,
was struck dead by lightning, the cleo
tricity entering the side of the face,
passing through his body, and going
out at the feet and tearing off both
shoes. Deceased was thirty-five years
of age, and leaves wife and four chill
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