Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


ditch in northw estern Kansas.
Oats which were planted by a Leaven
worth county farmer March II, is twt
feet high and is fully headed.
Miss Minnie Woodell of Hutchinson
ate some lettuce on which paris greer
had been sprinkled and nearly lost hel
life.
The sheriff of Chautauqua county ha:
turned back large number OF Arkan
sas cattle that were being driven into
the state.
On his 5Sth birthday Winfield man
who is the parent Of five sons-all mar
ried-became the father Of an only
daughter.
The report is that it was Brewer who
recommended Horton for the Spanish
land court. Plumb wanted Almerir
Gillett, of Emporia.
Kansas will this year take rank
among the cotton growing states, not
because of its democracy, but because
of it's large crops of cotton.
The mud is so deep at Topeka that it
became necessary to detail an elephant
to lift one of the circus wagons out OF
the mire at that place the ether day.
A Topeka school boy has composed a
drama entitled down in Old Ken.
lucky" The public will be surprised
to learn that there is only one colonel
in the cast.
In short time Topeka will have a
tower 10 feet high. The local water
company has begun it's erection. twill
afford the Topeka papers something
new to boast OF.
A Pottawattonrie county farmer has
just sold his cattle at net profit OF vi,
300, and says he has found 1.-THE way
out" In his expenses he charged his
labor and sold his stubble for So per
acre.
Wyandotte Gazette: Congressman
Baker Of the Sixth district says he Will
move his family to Washington early
in the fall so as to avoid the sharks who
lie in wait for unsuspecting new mem
bers.
Dodge City is to be the headquarters
for the big irrigation canal company
which was recently organized with a
81, 100000 capital. The object OF the
company is to lay out townsites, build
canals, etc.
The merchants in Butler county keep
infected chinch bugs on hand and adj
vertise that every customer who pur-
chases so many dollars worth OF goods
will be presented with package OF In
fected chinch bugs.
Sumner county expects to turn out Z
million bushels of wheat this season.
If all the rest of the of the counties IN
the state would do even half that well
Kansas would break the record with
312 million bushels this year.
There are over twenty patients in the
private ASYLUM for the insane at Atchi-
son. It has been discovered by the
keeper that crazy women as a rule are
much smarter than the male patients
and will bear closer watching. That
prove. that dementia does not wholly
change the nature of its victims.
The Rev. w. G. Snodgrass of Jersey
City, who was pastor of the Methodist
church in Emporia in the early SOS, Is
to deliver the baccalaureate sermon a,
the Kansas state normal this year. lie
is one of the ablest preachers who ever
struck Kansas and it is sale to say thai
his effort at the normal will be full
worthy Of the occasion.
"Uncle Jonas Talks" is the title OF
bright little book by the editor OF the
Harper Sentinel. 1t is compilation o.
articles which appeared In the Sentine!
in the fall and winter OF 1o9O-9l, an0
which were received with so much Ia
: vor that the author wisely decided to
republish them in book form. The ut
tie vo,ume.is neatly printed and is crisp
and entertaining.
DR.. Thomas Bolton of San Francisco
finding himself the victim of consump
ton, came to Russell, KS, to die under