The southern argus., 1891-12-03

The Lawrence Record wants Webb
McNall made republican brevet sena-
tor.
In the past three months $l25. 900 has
been paid out at Sterling for broom
corn.
The Junction City Tribune still calls
it Davis county. But Geary it will al
ways be.
The independence Y. NJ. G. A. is so
prosperous that it can afford a paid
secretary.
Having Strengthened up Leaven-
worth. the Kelley institute proposes to
tackle Topeka
Christopher Columbus, a adescendent Of
the old man who discovered America,
lives in Wichita.
An electric shock killed press feed
err IN the Leavenworth Times Office
Sunday morning.
In SO counties in 81 months Kansas
farmers have reduced their indebted
ness by 81, 300, 900.
The Junction City Union wants to
know why Kansas should buy so many
Colorado potatoes.
that the prohibitory law has been sus'
pended pending rain.
More than 200 petitions are before
the Kansas board of pardons in behalf
OF penitenttary convicts.
Rev. D. c.. Miner, D. d., of Manhat.
tan, made the talk at the Soldiers
home Thanksgiving.
The Atchison Globe says the world Is
full of howling eight-hour men with
patient fOurteen-hOur wives.
The sugar mill at Topeka is loaded
with suits for damages for cane planted
and allowed to go to waste.
A Chetopa man broke off a marriage
engagement because his girl used the
Mae abomination for her front name.
The Hutchinson News says Kansas Is
getting rich faster than any other state.
Her people will soon be blasted pluto
Gratis.
The Santa Fe roads ''fixer" ought TO
go to Atchison and quiet renowned agt-
$3.50. 900 claim.
A Mrs. Welty of Oswego county has
| Just obtained verdict of SO, $50 DANA
ges against the Santa Fe road for kill
ing her husband.
Marsh Murdock is anewspaper candi
date for governor. He is not running,
but as he takes no steps to shut off his
boom, there is a suspicion that he hopes
te be dark horse.
A LeavenwOrth man who happened
in independence last week heard of the
| +hnt &c IN
and made great haste to find it. He sup
posed it was the name of joint.
A bear broke out of cage in bag.
gage car at Garnett one day last week
and drove all hands outside. The train
was laid out au hour and the animal
was only subdued by the use of chloro-
form.
A tracer has been sent out to look up
Ike Rigby, who is candidate for attor-
ney general 1t is one of the inalien-
able rights to run for Office. but it is
impolite to jump in without an intro
duction.
Charley Holiday Is still going on. 1t is
believed that Jones will become so fa-
nous on account of 1t that he will have
to take the democratic nomination for
governor.
Topeka is crying out for Keeley in
stitute. Topeka lays no claim to drunk
enness, but it is so used to having
everything that it wants to deprive
Leavenworth OF the one little glory 1t
| possesses.
A woman bought fifteen buttons IN a
| Girard dry goods store at a cent apiece
Next day she stopped in for some skirt
braid, costing four cents and for pay
ment presented three OF the buttons
and cent.
w. H. Abbey, Missouri Pacific mai
agent out of Atchison, is six feet eight
inches tall and still growing. After
awhile ne will have to have his car
rigged up after the fashion of cars
made TO carry giraffes-
S. M Strickler. formerly a famous
Kansas man, has permanently located
in the San Gabriel valley, Cal, twenty
FIVE miles east OF Los Angeles. For
the past ten or twelve years he has
been living in New Mexico.
V. L. Kellogg will soon leave Cornell
and 60 to Harvard, where he well stay
a short time only. From there he will
go to Washington to study bacteriolo-
| gy and will return TO the Kansas uni
versity about the 1st OF February.
CAPTAIN B. Rockwell OF Junction
CITY, who has been travelling abroad,
| found, of course. Kansas people wher-
ever he went At Rotterdam he found
that George r. Peck and W. Fl. Ross
ington had left the day before he ar
rived.
An Oxford editor has q number OF
grains of corn grown from seed taken
| from an earthen pot found in an Indian
mound in Missouri. A Kansas man se-
cured eight OF the precious grains and
planted them. Three sprouted and
| produced a crop. The Oxford editor
| il willing to make an affidavit that he be-
lieves the pot was buried by Indians Q
thnuaand YEARS ara