The southern argus., 1891-11-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest in the Sun
flower State.
A Record of Happenings for the Past
week Gathered from Our Exchan-
ges and Boiled Down for
our Readers.

The snow birds have arrived in Jewell
county and the farmers are not done
gathering corn.
II ID proposed to vote bonds to Ewing
Herbert in Hiawatha If he will cut the
leaves Of his paper.
The Baker Beacon thinks Lydia
Pinkham has never looked better than
the is looking this year.
Lawrence paper spells diphtheria
without one Of the his. This in uni
versity town is scandalous.
Gossip is the name of Riley county
school marin. What an interesting
voung woman she must be!
The Parsons papers speak respect
fully Of Congressman Clover. He has
promised to get government building
for that town.
Swift & Company sent 5000 head of
sheep to FL Dorado to winter and full
feed. They will add several thousand
more to their pens there.
Eugene Wares pretty poem, the
'Geese and the Cranes" written
twenty years ago. has just started the
rounds of the newspapers.
One day last week the thermometer
registered 1l5 on the south side Of a
Maryville drug store. That's pretty
hot, even for q drug store.
Since October 5, 1891, Colonel Neff
Of Arkansas City, has paid out S1l, ,2l6
for hogs which have been shipped. He
is one Of the several hog buyers there.
Independence has O club Of young
ladies called the Sympathetic
society" Young gentlemen are occa-
sonally invited to attend the sessions.
A single buyer last Friday bought
1000 bushels Of corn at Republic Citv,
naying thirty cents o bushel. Repub-
icCisy is 200 miles from the Missouri
river.
Kansas has a railroad, the Dodge
Citv. Montezuma & Trinidad, which
last wear earned 81, 300 and spent $4,000
for operating expenses and $4,000 for
taxes.
Blue Rapids has elected a man named
Death to attend an Episcopal cOnven-
tion at Atchison. Of course he will
make the Journey overland and ride q
white horse.
The profits Of the Nortonville cheese
factory for the month of September
were over $1,000. The proceeds from
eacn 100 pounds Of milk are about sew
enty-two cents.
Going is the name Of Nooks county
man but he is slayer just the same.
He has stuck to the county t rough
drouth and food and bobs up this yea
full of prosperity.
B. Rodgers s. Bro. recently shipped
forty head Of grade Galloway calves
and thirty head OF yearlings to Missouri
to be wintercd on blue grass, says the
Junction City Sentinel.
The smoke Of the battle has not en-
tirely cleared away at Lebanon. but
has lifted sufficiently to allow the edito
OF the Journal to see ruin for the pape
unless the subscribers pay up.
Two deformed men being examined
at Manhattan, it was discovered Tha
the humps on their backs were stuffe
with bottles OF whisky. They we're al
solutely bowed down BY drink.
Ten years ago there was mailed a
Savannah. Nc. to Miss Mary +. Meeke
OF Eddyville, Ia, wedding present (
six silver spoons and one day this wee
they reached the lady at Wichita.
Finney county, another irrigated r.
gion, offset Cheyenne by electing tn
republican ticket. Irrigation is prob;
bly, managed by different system ther'
or possibly water is more partisan.
The Emporia Republican is sti
scOlding Galloway on account OF hi
mortgage circular in 1888, forgetful (
the fact that it was afterwards cor
firmed by the United States census.
Young Bert Bates Of Parsons, wh
has had both arms and legs broke
4: hc ipI
OF q boys ambition in being ncarl
killed by the bursting Of shot gun.
Bishop Fink saws he does not kno
whv he is transferred from Leaver
worth to Kansas City, Kansas. H
simply obeys the direction of the SOY
ereign pontiif at Rome. He has live
in Leavenworth twenty years.
Half OF Leavenworth will 60 to Kar
sas City, Kansas, next Monday to in
stall Bishop Fink in his new house.
is like pulling teeth for Leavenwerth
lose the bishop, but the Holy Father 8
Rome has decreed it, and that settle
it,
Frank Lynch thinks Andrew Carn'
gie's Gift to President Harrison (
eighteen gallons OF fine Scotch whisk
comes lust in the nick OF time. liz
safe to predict that the next annu;
message to congress will be q splrlte
paper
The people of Atchison county d.
feated the new court house proposltloI
The temple Of justice they have drltte
upon its present site at the time
Noah's food, and the people, veneratin
ancient landmarks, do not like TO tei
it down.
a dining out club has been organize
in Atchison by somebody who seems
possess the genius Of Ward McAlllste
For the present. until others prove el
gible, it will be limited to five Marie
couples. One feed will be given wee
By first one couple and then anothe
and when all have had their turn u, \,
series will begin over again If
guests are expected .at and must q
pear in evening dress.
W. E. Brown of Newton has taken \
his residence in Chicago, where ne w
open a law office in the RookerE pun
ing. Brown was in the Kansas hou
Of representatives last winter as
stalwart republican. He was chlen
distinguished for lungs and frame. n