Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-09-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A woman died the other day at Nor
tonville who weighed 800 pounds
The wedding suit of Wellington
man was stolen the other night, but for
tunately after he was married.
The Kansas university is good deal
set up because Harvard graduate is
sending his son to Lawrence this year.
There are 1892 lots in Hiawatha and
out of that number only eighty-six that
allowed the taxes to become delinquent.
The recent marriage Of its editor,
Mr.. Davis, is pleasing proof OF the
prosperity OF the Junction City Tri-
bune.
John Hutchings, citizen of Law
renee whom that town and the state OF
Kansas could i'll afford to lose, is very
critically i'll.
A Wichita bank clerk, who tried to
put on more style than the president OF
the institution in which he is employed
is in trouble.
The trial of Brennan, the slayer OF
Sam Wood. has been post poned until
November on account Of the sickness
of Mrs. Wood.
Wichita has resident who was once
an oyster pirate. He sold his yacht,
came west, and is now a respected and
wealthy citizen.
The city of Horton has l., 467 lots upon
which the taxes are delinquent. 1t
costs the county $l47.7O to pay the ad-
vertising bill on them.
Oats will average about forty bushels
to the acre in Riley county. The horses
at Fort Riley always create good
home market for that cereal.
The presentation of 81, 900 check to
All Emporia bride by her father estab-
fishes the social supremacy OF that
town over Topeka and Wichita.
Cottonwood trees which sprouted
from slips" in the Missouri bottoms
near Atchison in 1881 now measure
fifty-two inches in circumference.
Atchison Champion: Jupiter will
continue to be the evening star during
September, provided always that the
Holton Recorder does not object.
The Great Bend mills sometimes sell
I million pounds of bran day. The
cows and hogs in the vicinity OF that
town must live on the fat of the land
Seventeen thousand seven hundred
pieces of property were sold for taxes
this fall in certain Kansas town sltu-
ated between Newton and Wellington.
The freshman classes at the Kansas
university are al so large this year
that it has become necessary TO divide
them. Lock, Clark, Jayhawk, K. S.
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At Gueda they say there is wonder
full baby. His father is an Irish gen.
tleman: his mother is an English lady.
The child was born in America and in
Kansas.
A Japanese student has entered the
university. His name is Heizo Jasano.
His home is Toxic. The university Is
quite abreast of the times.-Lawrence
Journal.
Two companies of the regular army
from Fort Riley are making the yearly
thirty days march prescribed by the
government. They are marching
through the state.
One hardware firm in Hiawatha has
sold fruit cans enough to supply one
can for each man, woman and child IN
the county, besides three or four extras
for Ewing Herbert.
Ralph M. Easley, for twelve years
the able editor of the Hutchinson News,
has severed his connection with that
journal to accept an editorial position
on the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Lane university at Lecompton opened
this year with big attendance. which
will make the old faculty which
thought they had killed that institution
by resigning feel kind of cheap.
The demand for farm help at good
wages this summer and fall is unpre-