Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

There ought to be 100 county fairs In
Kansas this year.
diamond Dick carried $1,000 in
notes out of COncordia in exchange for
ais physic.
Society at Abilene is divided by two
lawn tennis clubs, both of which consid-
or themselves the people,"
By col, ision OF Missouri Pacific
passenger with M. z. & 7. freight at
Fort Scott, chair car was upset with
dts thirty passengers, many of whom
were considerably injured, but, none
fatally. ~.
Minneapolis has church fer every
LOCO people. The Star says Kansas
City has larger proportional churches
than any other city in the United States
but it is slow on base ball.-Ottawa Re-
publican.
Kansas has another new magazine,
the "Agora," quarterly. published at
Salina The first number makes an ex-
cellent showing with list of contribu-
tors that gives the very best promise
for the future OF the publication.
The friends Of Eddie Belden, the
United States prisoner who is condemned
to be hanged at Wichita July "a, are
depending for the communication of sent
ence to Imprisonment for life upon the
influence of Plumb with the president.
Kansas is the third state in the union
in the production OF zinc. How few
dreamed of such thing, yet the official
census sent out last week show just that
thing and also that Kansas is tn.
seventh state in the production of lead.
Some time within the next few days
there is going to be noise out in west
ern Kansas Uncle Sans rain-makers
are bound thither with a provision OF
explosives sufficient to stock fair-sized
volcano in active operation.
City Gazette.
Richard Lang committed suicide near
Burlington Monday morning, by hang.
ing himself in the barn. He was mem
Der of the 1 D. o. F., A. 0. U. w. end
Modern WoOdmen and carried life
insurance of $1,000. Dependency is
the only cause assigned for the deed.
The fungus which is used by Chan.
cellor Snow of the Kansas university
for exterminating chinch bugs is being
used by Professor Forbes of the Univer.
sity of Illinois for killing cabbage
worms. 1t is called spOrotrichum
gobuliferum, and its name helps to do
the business.
While crossing bridge over Hunt
ress creek last Monday evening, in
Clay Center, threshing machine
owned by w. A. Armstrong went
through and buried under the wreck
the fireman, S. s. Simpson. His body
was recovered, but life was gone. He.
fell about twenty feet. He leaves a
large family.
Captain Diehl's old ice house, near
the Fort Scott & Memphis railroad
track just southeast of the city limits,
was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
supposed to have resulted by a spark
from passing engine lodging in the
matched straw roof of the building.
The loss was estimated at 81, 900 with nc
insurance. -Olathe Mi rOr.
How little OF the true inwardness of
man is indicated by his outward con.
duct. Young men who are held up as
models in sunday school behavior at
home will sometimes go hundred
miles away and dive into the depths oil
drunkenness and debauchery for spell
and then come back to continue their
course of deception.
The Missouri river has cut perma-
nent channel through Doniphan Point,
on the Missouri side, just south of the
town of Doniphan, by which the chan
mel is made very nearly straight from
Geary City to Atchison. a distance OF
seven or eight miles. When the water
goes down, it will leave the old channel
a lake, something near seven miles in
length.
G. B. Horton of Omaha, assistant SUI
perintendent of the Western Union