Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-08-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A pair of deaf mutes were married
the other day at Topeka One OF the
presents was an alarm clock.
There have been no mortgage fore
closures on farms in Brown county for
six months, and only thirteen in three
years.
Peaches are rotting on the ground in
large quantities all over Kansas.
What's the matter with drying them
for fuel.
George r. Peck and w. H. Rossing-
ton of Topeka, will start for Europe in
few weeks. They are not going on
business.
Sumner County Press: Speaking OF
poor farmers, Wichita has one VINO
could not plant his feet in the road and
not raise dust.
A spire fifty-two feet in heighth has
been built on the Congregations
church at Oswego. That town is evil
deutlY looking up.
The Mcpherson college offers a
years scholarship free to the teacher
making the higest general average In
the common branches.
Albert Griffin, who once thought he
was in a fair way to be president, has
accepted a 100 clerkship in one OF
the departments at Washington.
A man in Topeka who has loaned
lots of money at 2 per cent month
says if he had 100000 to invest he
would put in farm lands in Kansas.
The farmers of Kansas are finding
out this season that it doesn't pay to
raise peaches at ten cents bushel in 9
state where the manufacture Of brandy
is prohibited by law.
A s. greenback was received by the
state treasurer at Topeka the other day
which had Kansas City whisky lad
written on it back. 1t was voted an
outlaw on Kansas soil by Rory Moore
Jake Stotler: The checklist thing
on the road between here and Topeka
is seventy-five cents for dinner at
Florence. 1t is said Fred Harvey has
made over million dollars out OF his
Santa Fe eating house.
The first number OF the AgOra, which
is published at Salina by the Rev. Mr..
Chiltonden, is filled with excellent
reading matter and is model of typo.
graphical neatness. 1t is almost as
handsome as its editor.
Web Wilder will deliver the annual
address before the Western Insurance
association, which meets at Chicago in
August. If the insurance men care
anything about choice English they
have great treat in store.
There has been so much wet weather
all over the west that hot winds are
not at all probable. Travellers from
the west say that corn will make big
weld, even if there is not another rain
corn could not be better under any cir
,cumstances in any country.
Wallace county has just reason to re
ioice. A bountiful harvest is being
garnered, considering our population
The wheat acreage is very large and
the weld SURPRISES the most eXtrava
giant estimates and expectations, and
the quality is superb. This is practic
ally the first wheat crop that has been
tried in these extreme western coun.
ties and results are extremely crafty
ing indeed. County Elk
change.
The president of the Kansas loan and
trust company at Topeka says that
farm lands are worth 25 per cent more
now than they were last year and that
his company has sold more land in the
last ninety days than it has sold before
in three years. The following in.
stances of the growing activity in real
estate are cited: Three hundred and
twenty acres of land in Sumner county
have sold for $4,000, and this years
crop is reserved by the former owner
This piece of land has been held for two
years and last year would not sell al
any price. One hundred acres
of land in Ellsworth county have this
summer been sold for $40 per acre
m. $3.50 ,,,o,a M br,i1dipuS and