Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-14
KAN6AS NOTES.

Incre are 5U,OOO cOlOred people IN
Kansas.
Gotobed Fen is the name of farmer
living in Dickinson county.
Miss Rose Hawthorn of Lakin, sold
100 tons of alfalga last week at 81 per
ton.
Prof. Snow of the Kansas state uni
versity says that last March was the
coolest in fifteen years.
The Methodist preacher at st. John
has received back pension to the amount
OF $3.50 and $40 a month.
It is claimed that there is more
moisture in the ground in Kansas than
there has been for ID years.
Next Saturday the democratic edi-
torial fraternity" of Kansas will hold
its annual meeting in Topeka.
A bright little girl from North To-
''Eunice Goodrich" and earned $40.
During the recent snow storm in west
ern Kansas the snow drifted six and
eight feet high on the level prairie.
The wheat acreage OF Kansas is 81
per cent greater than last year, and the
prospects for a crop are unusually good.
Dopez the hot tomala man who kill
ed Joe Dodson at Wichita, has been
sentenced to the pen:tentiary for thirty
years.
T. M. Walker of Osborne county, will
plant upwards of | 800 acres of broom
corn in the vicinity of HoXie, Sheridan
county.
The license of the Capital Insurance
company OF Topeka has been revoked,
the company having been declared in
solvent.
The Rev. e. Lytken's wife deserted
him in Wellington. She left a letter
saving she was tired of the dullness OF
her life.
The Lance is publishing a collection
of Kansas poems. An introduction to
the volume is to be written by George
r.. Peck.
A North Atchison woman placed a
revolver to her drunken husbands
head the other night and made him
sign temperance pledge.
The Kansas City Star says that
Mayor Cofran is understood and red
headed but the women votes were all
for him regardless of his misfOrtunes.
Alliance men in Kansas are nightly
pleased with the intelligence that in a
single evening 1000 members were
added to the alliance in Pennsylvania.
A Douglas county farmer was COM
PEELED to use four horses the other day
to haul twenty bushels of corn to Law
renee. but he got 81 a bushel for it all
the same.
One farmer in Ellis county who owns
800 acres of wheat applied to the aid
commissioner for seed wheat He said
he. didn't need 1t, but if it was going he
wanted some.
Secretary Mohler of the Kansas
board of agriculture has received from
Paris the gold medal and diploma
awarded Kansas by the exposition for
the best agricultural report.
There is negro in Allen county who
is a fatalist. When sentenced to the
pen, for stealing, he was thoroughly
satisfied. He said that God had de-
creed it before he was born.
. A penniless young man who died last
week at Norton, is found to have been
Harry B. Acker of Washington. He
left Washington last December and his
friends lost all track of him until news
of his death was received.
Governor Humphrey signed the
Hayes vinegar act, despite the protests
of the vinegar manufacturers. The law
provides that apple and cider vinegar
shall not be counterfeited, or acid vine-
gar sold as the pure article.
About sixty farmers met at Salina
and agreed to make the trial of sugar
beet culture according to the direction
of DIR. Scheidwieler at Saturdays meet