Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-08-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

DR.. Philip Krohn is preaching ia one
Of Prof. Swings mission churchaJ IN
Chicago.
Salina proposes to have the Fourth
regiment of the National Guards as an
attraction for the Saline county fair.
A Salina addition, consisting OF 800
lots. sold last week for SIS, 900, not quite
800 q lot, to one of the gentlemen con-
nected with the Salina electric light
company.
The Kansas travelling mems cOnven'
ton meets at Hutchinson On November
2lst The people OF Hutchinson are ar
ranging to entertain the association in
good style.
The Winfield water company has
brought suit against the city in the sum
Of s., 44250 tor hydrant rental. The
average Winfield citizen does hate to
pay for water.
Mr.. Ingalls, bought stock OF town
lots at Atchison the other day which he
converted into pasture field. This
means that ingalls, is pretty rica or
that town lots in AtchisOn are mighty
cheap.
Arthur Capper, formerly of the To
peka Capital, is working on the New
York Tribune. There is an agreeable
rumor ahoat TO the effect that Arthur
is engaged to be married to Topeka
heireSS.
There is a marked reduction in the
acreage OF corn in Harper county this
year. There were 70, AL acres in 1889,
while this year, owing to the large
acreage of wheat, there are 4S, l26 acres
planted in corn.
1t hailed so hard in Cheyenne county
one afternoon last week that sixteen
men working at a threshing machine
were cut about the face and hands SO
badly that they were unfit for work the
rest of the day. Their clothes were
literally ridd)ed.
A. f. Dexter OF Clay Center, is rapid
ly rebuilding his dam, and is deserving
OF great credit for his energy. The city
has been in darkness since the dam
went out, it having been the motive pow
err by which the electric lights were
kept burning.
A minority of the stockholders OF the
Emporia street railway made an apph-
cation for the appointment of receiver
for that corporation. After making an
investigation into the condition OF the
company Judge Graves refused to grant
the receivership.
Miss Viola Price, formerly connected
with the faculty of the State Normal,
has accepted position in the South
west Kansas college, a Methodist insti-
tuition at Winfield. She declined a
flattering offer from the University OF
the Pacific in California to remain in
Kansas.
At Wichita two brothers who had
been separated twelve years. met IN the
county Jail. Both were going under as
sumed names, but one day while COM
pairing notes they found that they were
from the same town in Pennsylvanla.
One of them finally told his name, and
the other at once recognized him. as
brother.
Il. B. Brown, president of the Kansas
state federation of labor has resigned,
owing to business changes. Robert
Tompkins of Atchlson, KS, succeeds
him. The federation comprises car
penters, plasterers, fathers, plumber
painters, printers, pressmen, clerks,
tailors, BARRIERS, cigar-makers, cOopers,
miners, switchmen, car repairers, etc.
Mrs. E. P. S. Stiteler, county super
intendent OF public instruction OF Bour-
bon county, has submitted plan to the
school trustees OF the county to rid
themselves of the burdens of the school
book trust by having uniformity OF
county text books, and efsecting coun-
ty organization OF school trustees who
will purchase from no firm connected
with the trust.
A bunch of johnson grass from
Pawnee county has been received by