Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-05-26
KANSAS NEWS.

The city council OF Topeka is fighting
the local lotteries.
The Planters house at LeavenwOrtl
has been destroyed by fire.
A colored farmer living near Fredo
MIA is putting in 10 acres of cotton thi:
spring.
1t is reported that P. P. Elder ha:
not decided to attend the Cincinnati
convention.
There is man in the city council a
Atchison who can construct grammat
ical sentence.
Elihu Hurley, a coal miner, was
smothered in the Home mine at Leaven
worth Monday by falling roof
Senator Plumb is sticking close t.
the farm vernacular. He says the re
call of Baron Fava simply means one
less hand to feed.
1t is understood that Sherman county
will have the first stall at the right O
the entrance to the Kansas exhibit a.
the Worlds fair.
The music for the commencement al
the university in June will be furnished
by the orchestra at the Soldiers home
and that means that it will be first
class.
The Kansas State University base
ball team mopped the earth with tie
Washburn team. Whenever Lawrence
and Topeka try conclusions Topeka gets
whipped.
When the same young man and the
same young woman 60 boating at Law
renee for three nights in succession il
is looked upon as equivalent to an an
nouncemeut of their engagement.
Hon. G. G. Foster, judge of the Uni
ted States district court for Kansas
who has been in i'll health for long
time. will leave this week for the cele
brated Carlsbad Springs in Germany.
Emporia Republican: A man was
hanged in South Carolina the other day
for numbering his mother-in-law and
two children. Why a man should want
to kill his children is incomprehensi
BILE.
An Arkansas City photographer took
a group picture the other day in which
four generations were represented-a
child, its mother, the grandmother and
great grandmother. The latter was
only 70 years old.
Junction City is holding entertain
ments to raise money to procure pub
lie fountain. That is something that
every town in Kansas ought to have
with the exception of Wichita and
Leavenworth and Atchison.
The Topeka agent of the Kansas City
Sunday Sun has been arrested and
jailed. He is to be prosecuted under the
new law which fOrbids the circulation oil
the prosecution is successful, the news
dealers in other towns would do we'll to
shut down on the dirty sheet while
times are good.
The Southwestern Firemen's Assocla.
ton, to which many Kansas fire depart
ments belong, will hold its annual tour
nament at Joplin, Mo-, on June 8, 10, II
and II. The cash prizes to be given
away at the tournament will amonnt to
$1,000. The railroads have all made
half fare rates and a large attendance
and an interesting time is expected.
The widow of the late Milt Reynolds
is stopping at Hamburg, Mich. In a
letter to the Arkansas City Traveller
she expresses her deep affection for
Kansas, her continued interest in its
prosperity and her desire to return to a
state which she can not forget. She
says: 81 am proud every day to point
to Kansas for advanced ideas in legisla-
tion and to Kansas laws which Michi-
gan is just copying"
Emporia Republican: Rev. Updike
says he spent several weeks at Atchi-
son, Fort Scott and Mcpherson, and did
not see n drunken man nor hear an