Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

at Emporia at the age of l0l years.
The old derrick of the Abeline gas
we'll was sold the other day for SLIGO.
The Little Arkansas at Wichita is
said to be full of German carp, a prop
agated fish,"
At Anthony the Mayor was elected
by II majority, at Emporia by 8 and at
Wellington by4.
The metropolitan police commission
Of Atchison has set It's foot down on
gambling in that city.
There is pig at Junction City which
weighs 1882 pounds. 1t it is believed
to be the largest pig in the world.
Mr.. l.. J. Worden, for many years
post master at Lawrence, has been
placed in the insane asylum at Topeka.
Lawrence greyhounds captured the
prizes at the Chicago bench show.
When it comes to dogs, Kansas cannot
be beaten.
While lecturing at Fort Scott, Joseph
Cooke became so i'll that he was COM
PEELED to quit. His physician enjoins
complete rest.
A man bought farm out in western
Kansas last December for So, 800, and he
expects to pay for it this year with the
wheat he gets from it.
Mrs. DR.. Paxson was elected mayor
of KiOwa last week, and in fOrty-eig
hours after the polls closed not glass
of beer could be had in the town.
A wreck was prevented by Charley
Harris, an Atchison boy, by tagging
freight train on the central branch OF
the U. PR. r., before reaching bad
slide in the bank.
The Kansas State nomal will gradute
sixty four pupils next June. That will
make little more room, but not nearly
enough to accommodate the new students
who will be coming in next fall.
Topeka Journal The state house
top of it looks like an old fashioned
hOop-skirt-such one as Liberty en-
ligtening the world" might wear.
An Atchison woman dreamed the
other night that she was in heaven, but
she thought she couldn't find her hus-
band, though she walked up and down
the golden streets for four or five hours
hunting him.
The ladies of the G.. A. r. was first
organized in Kansas four years ago and
there are now thirty-one sub-circles III
the state with membership OF over
400. Only the wives, mothers, daugh-
tiers and sisters of soldiers of the union
army are eligible to membership.
Newton Republican: Reports concern
ing the prosperity of Harvey county
farmers continue to come. A Newton
grain firm has purchased $4,000 worth
of oats from one enterprising farmer
and if negotiating for $4,000 bushels o.
corn and 10000 bushels of wheat raised
by the same man.
1t is claimed by the Troy Chief thai
the act of the late legislature prohibit
ing the alien ownership of land s,uncon
stitutional, the following section of the
bill of rights squarely interdicting such
law: mo distinction shall ever be
made between citizens and aliens in
reference to the purchase, enjoyment OF
descent of property"
The Wheat fruit farm in Leaven
worth county yielded nearly $1,000
bushels of apples from 227 trees anc
$1,000 net profit last year. The expe.
rience with this orchard has been that
the Missouri Pippin is the best apple
for this section, the Ben Davis second
and the Jonathan third.
John j. ingalls, has been offered Sl5,-
600 and expenses to deliver thirty lee.
lures during the present year. This is
authe ntic, and the offer will probably
be accepted. The ex-senator has also
been invited to deliver memorial ad.
dress on the late General Sherman be-
fore the New York legislature.