Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

removed to Tennessee. EldOrado is a
town where the people give great deal
OF attention to politics.
Speaker pro tenn Matchett of Osborne
county, who was in Oregon when
elected representative, has decided not
to remove from Kansas as he originally
intended.
The Methodists began business in
Lawrence IN 1855 with seven members
IN sod meeting house, Last Sunday
they dedicated church costing $40,
600 with membership OF $50.
1t is foregone conclusion that Judge
BOtkin will be acquitted. 1t isn't bit
easier to impeach republican in Kan
sas for drunkenness than it is to convict
a democrat in Missouri for embezzle-
ment.
The Patriot SAYS: An Atchison man
has sent S. bill to England in an
envelope every week for the past twenty
years, and has never lost dollar. This
fact came out in recent trial In the
probate court.
A live tarantula is on exhibition in
Wellington drug store. A great many
people who drop in to see it march
LIZ W UuO DdCh IIoiO VI oiiS
store, though the tarantula is in the
front window.
The Paola town boys are organizing
aball club to play clubs from the sur
rounding towns. They seem to be work
ing very energetically and there is no
doubt plenty of good material there for
good club if they will bring it out.
L. L. Hoaglen, prominent hardware
merchant of Scranton, Kansas, was
overcome by damp while attempting to
repair pump on the 10th inst, and fell
100 feet to the bottom of the we'll.
Death resulted from fractured SKULL
An Emporia dog persisted in running
in front OF a team belonging to the fire
department whenever the engine was
called out, and though he was frequent
ly reproved for doing go he stubbornly
adhered to the practice until q police
man shot him dead.
Emporia which is just now in the
throes of great religious awakening,
has 7-year-old girl who can play "high
five" considerably better than the aver
age person three times her age. She
never bids more than her hand is worth
and always makes the correct lead.
Arthur Capper, city editor of the To
peka Capital, has made an arrangement
to put in year or more on different
metropolitan journals in the east for the
experience which the change will give
him. The papers which get the job of
teaching" him will be in great luck.
Linton Usher of Leavenworth, has
secured a verdict of $500 damages in a
hn ho in
which he asked for $4,000. Certain
charges made by Floretta Russell, a sis
ter-in-law of former partner of Ush-
er's, and published in the Bee, were
the cause of the suit Since the ver-
dict the county attorney says that he
believes the woman is insane.
The 5-year-old sons of Messrs. Wells
and Rollison, residents of Washington,
KS, wandered from home Sunday morn
ing, the 18th instant, to play on the
bank of the creek, about 100 yards dis
tant. 1t was just after rain. They
were missed, and after short search
were found buried in sand bank, where
they had sought protection from the
rain. When dug out it was found i'm
possible to restore life, as both bodies
were cold and stiff.
The Rev DIR. Cordley OF Lawrence,
who is known as the nugget preacher"
in Kansas, will sail for England July 1st
as delegate to the international confer
ence of the Congregational churches.
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Cord
ley. They will be absent about three
months and while in England will visit
the doctors birthplace in Lincolnshire,
where the old house in which he was
born is still standing. DIR. Cordley has
earned this outing by years Of faithful
and earnest toll for Christ and for Kan
SaS.