The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-08-28

SunfIower soeIals are the proper
Gamer at Usage city.
Secretary MOhler sends Us table
made up from the returns Of the
county clerks, which shows that
there IL now over 1000. 900 bushels
Of old corn In the state. He esti-
mates this years crop at 65,0oO, 600
bushels, which added TO the +0,ooo,-
600 bushels of last years crop, which
still remains in the state, makes q
total of lis, OOO, 600 bushels.
Thursday, August 81, was the
twenty-ssventb anniversary Of the
Lawrence raid. The town was de-
stroyed and $50 persons killed.
William c. Quantrell, the leader,
was horse thief aud gambler, aud
had previously been . resident Of
the town under the assumed name
Of Charley Hart.
A. II. -DTeyfus had 50 original
package agencies in Kansas, aud II
said to have lost ~, 90 In the
seraps.
Mr.. J. Ralph Burton is now Of the
opinion that ingalls, cannot he
beaten.
Col. Hsllowell has written q let
ter denying enphatieally that he is
a resubmissiOnist, and calling atten-
ton TO his record la the legislature
supporting our temperance lsgisla-
ton.
The q. y. X. sncunIpment will be
in Detroit next yesr, Topeka in iSs2
aud Chicago in 1919.
Attorney General kellogg says
express companies eau not bring
liquor into the state, e. q. ID. under
the laws.
Kansas will gain two represents
tives under the superintendent to
follow the census.
We like to pass around such items
rs the following: Mr.. Henry
Hawkey six miles north Of town
has invested 5000 In Kansas farm
land. He has just paid Of $500,
clearing up his last Indebtedness,
and gone home 10 buy another farm.
Another farmer was in to-day, who
has found this the best year OF the
twelve years he has been In Kansas.
His debts are all paid and he feels
that this Is Gods country. Pro-
baby these and others like them
can tell any farmer, who would like
TO know, and who wants to do 10,
Just how the thing Is done. Next
Merton Republican.
Lincoln CdH: Kansas il moving
in the freight reduction business In
q vigorous and telling way. Thirty
three per cent reduction on live
stock rates Is the opening wedge /
there.
Cedarvale Star! Cotton 4, open
ing aud gives every promise Of .
good crop. Most fields now average
three or four open balls 10 the plant
and the fiber is as usual, extra good.
Taloga Star: A bunch Of blue
stem higher than . mans head and
q fse sample Of sorghum have been
added to the Colorado department Of
our agricultural collection this week
by T. J. Pearson.
Sedan Times: Coffsyyille Is bor-
Ing . hole in the ground. They have
passed through q vein of coal, and
1t 400 feet below the surface struck
gas. The water flowing from the
hole IL about ons-fourth salt. Mere
richness is expected As the hole gees
Louisburg Herald: The Bank Of
has paid out over sc, 900
rithin the past thirty days for 1ax
'sed, and over $4,000 for hogs.
This IL anything but an indication
Il hard times. The corn crop in this
'ection promises 10 average twenty
I've bushels per acre, which, .; the
,riees now prevailing, IL also en-
Cedaryale Star: James Williams
4 Little Cana bottom had Loss
,ushels Of wheat from forty acres.
Thomas Ross, Q neighber had l,0il Z
,ushels from the same number Of q
eres. Twenty-Five and twenty .
even bushels to the acre 10 not . =,
I'D yield. @. w. Barnhardt, who 2
las been IhreshlBg In that part Of =
he country, tells us the general ?
vsrsge will not fall short Of elgh- 3.
cen 10 nineteen bushels. 4
Il IL said that an Alehls0n law :,
er loaned q man go less than . year {
90. The man has paid him go In Gu
crest, and he still owes him inter- 80
II and principal, so. r,
The Union Pacific pay roll st ~ 4.
unetIon City IL slI, 90 per month. b,
Geary county has already had b
We inches Of rainfall for The month re-
August. Is n,
Fort Riley, Il IL understood, will 81
4 $4,000, and 5000 from the ~ -.
,neral army bill. on
Garpett. we see, n figuring on ss s
stem Of water works. They had y.
'ster let them alo0s. There are cru
wns six and eight times the sine Of ~
,rnet that are psrspiring blood fsn
ring 30 pay for water works. as
rhs latest estimats from the cen- 81
. bureau brings the population Of a. ,
snsas mp 10 l.osaooO against s0s,-l q
!, In foan. q