The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| Wlnneld, with an assessed valuation
sl million dollars, has areal valuation
d 5 millions.
man stole the aisle carpet out of
the Methodist church at Caldwell, al
Enough 1t was tackled down.
Atchison Champions: If Kansas goes
republican next year things will have
TO change radically and p. d. q.
No young man can ever hope to be-
come social favorite at Sabetha who
ts not connected with a railroad.
An eighty-acre peach orchard near
oevery Melted the proprietor about
| 80, OOO-or at the rate of S75 an acre.
Bert Dawson. aged II, and Emma
Andrews, aged ID, we're married yes
terday at Atchison, Kansas, by the con-
sent of their parents.
There is an attorney in Arkansas City
who is very successful in securing
Indians for shows. He stands in with
the interior department.
Bailey Waggener began his career in
Atchlson by saving wood. Now he
gets 81 900 year out of Jay Gould and
is worth one-fourth million.
The Parsons Eclipse signalizes the
removal OF the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas offices to that town from Sedalia
by blooming out in new head.
The Atchison papers state that John
]. Ingalls, is connected with an irriga-
ton scheme in Texas, out of which he
expects to make barrel of money.
| The city marshal of Manhattan is
paying his respects to the dogs of the
third ward, and the people of the sec
ond ward wanted him to salivate the
cats.
A paper at Anthony makes the cheer
iul announcement that the association
has the new cemetery plated and
fenced and that everything is now
ready for business.
1t requires three days for a paper to
travel by mail from Kansas City to HI
awatha, and John Wanamaker is mott
fled by the Hiawatha World that that
kind of service won't do.
Father Eskridge of the Emporia Re-
publican takes the pains to announce in
special paragraph that he is still the
lighting editor OF that paper. Just as
If anybody would doubt it.
A new paper has been started in
Dickinson county for the sole purpose
ever allowed to interfere with the free
dom of the press in Kansas.
An acre of corn in Saline county is
reported to have produced 764 bushels
this year. That may be straight goods
but the story that Seneca man raised
l33 bushels to the acre is clearly bald
headed lie.
Another inmate Of the soldiers home
near Leavenworth was killed by the
dummy line the othey day. Not less
than twelve veterans lose their lives
every year on the different railroads
running into Leavenworth.
John Gilmore declares that the grass
has not been dried up in Wilson county
so badly since 1874 as it is this fall.
But no one will kick very hard if the
drouth in Kansas will continue to come
in September instead OF June.
A man who owns a quarter section of
land near Anthony received as his
share of the wheat crop raised on the
land this season 900 bushels, leaving a
like amount for the man who put it
out. That is how the old adage, Live
and let live, works in Kansas
The story that A. T. Riddle sank
81, 900 in the Pittsburg Star is incor-
rect. He made no financial sacrifice,
but merely lost his time. He belives
that the paper can be made paying
property by any good newspaper man
who would be willing to give it his per-
sonal attention.
A Kansas girl Miss Lottie Short of
Blue Rapids. Marshall county, was
awarded the prize by Boston agricul-
tural paper for the best menu for din
ner, the recipes to be given for all the
dishes mentioned, Miss Short is
graduate of the State Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan.
Over 100 acres have been sown in
wheat on the government farm near
Leavenworth. but the clods were SO
hard that the hair and in
some places the skin was
worn from the hooks of the horses
Uncle Jerry Rusk ought to give this
matter his attention.
Bent Murdoch announces in the last
issue of the Ell Dorado Republican that
hereafter he will be on deck in his own
proper person, to look after his paper
and shake hands with the subscribers
when they come in. He has been TAX
ing a rest for the last two years-that
is, if fishing can he called resting.
Wichita Eagle: There is an old man
who for many years. has had habit of
borrowing exchanges from the Eagle.
He always asked that certain papers be
kept out for him. Three years ago he
liked the Globe-Democrat and Sol Mil
ler's chief. Last year he dropped these
two and asked every week for the Non
Conformist and the Kansas Farmer.
Last January he took a great liking to
the Kansas City Times and any other
democratic exchange to be had. Since
last March the office has not seen him
until yesterday. He had been over to
Coffey county on a visit, he said, and
had heard Plumb at Burlington last
week He fumbled over the exchanges
a long time and went out without say
ing anything. But later. when we
looked for our Globe-Democrat and Sol
Miller's Chief, they were gone.
In addition to the vast amount of
public and private business which Sem
ator Plumb dispatches, he carries a
load OF care and anxiety as a family
man which would tell seriously upon a
person not as well fitted as he is to
carry heavy burdens. Owing TO the ILL
ness of his wife, who has been an Invalid
for some years. the family of Senator
Plumb is widely scattered, Mrs. Plumb
is at q sanitarium in Saratoga. Ruth,
the second daughter is with her moth