Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

is the father OF a family OF n1teen.
The price of new wheat is generally
quoted in all southern Kansas in the
neighborhoOd of 70 cents.
G. G. Arnold was the first white set
tier Of Sedgwick county. He located
where Wichita now is in 1857.
The City Bank at Usage Mission has
closed its doors. The. assets ana liza
bilities of the bank are unknown.
Medicine Lodge, the home of Jerry
Simpson, besides producing statesmen,
raises gOoseberries that are two inches
in circumference.
Sheriff Weir of Morton county denies
the statement that James Brennan was
deputy sheriff, or that he permitted
Brennan to have unusual privileges
while In his charge.
John A. Hazeltine OF Mitchell county,
has farm which is eight miles round
and he expects to have $4,000 bushels
of wheat this year. He is about the
poorest politician in his neighborhood.
The board of county commissioners
of Leavenworth, has appropriated $2O4.-
assessed against LeavenwOrth county,
as it's share of the 500, 900 worlds fair
fund.
A geodetic station has been estab-
lished ON the Heath farm in Ellsworth
county, where the roaring pillows Of
the Mulberry and the raging waters of
Elm creek divide and flow into diver
gent channels to the sea.
The present sheriff of Leavenworth
boasts that only one prisoner has been
taken to the penitentiary since he went
into office. That prisoner was Green,
the colored fellow who killed an old
soldier on Christmas night, 1889.
G. G.. Scrafford was at one time we'll
known in Kansas, but has been away
seeking health has returned to his
former home at Seneca to die. His
trouble is a complication of diseases
which affect the action of his heart.
Peter McGrath, an insane veteran at
the soldiers home, jumped out of a
three-story window in Company KS bar
racks last night, to the stone pavement
beneath, and instant death was the re-
suit. McGrath was permitted to 60
from his cell into the bath room, where
the windows are not barred. He opened
one of them and jumped. -Leavenworth
Standard, July Sd.
Through chair car service has been
placed on the NJ, K. & T. from Hanni
bal, Mo-, to points in Texas. The chair
cars will take the place of first class
coaches now in use on the main line
and will be run free. This commend
able addition cannot fail to meet the
approval of the general public and
places the old reliable NJ, K. g. II. in
the front rank of all western roads in
point of passenger equipment.
The midsummer meeting of the south
Kansas conference will be held at Kin
caid August Al, 1891. There will be
three lectures delivered during the
meeting, as follows: Tuesday, August
4th, at o'clock p. m, Future Punish
ment," by Hugh Mckinney. Wednes-
day, August 9Th, observations in Pal
estine by an Eye Witness" S. S. Mar
tin. Thursday, August 9th. San Hour
in Other Worlds" by J. w. Wright
d. D.
Tell Walton of the Lincoln Republic
an, planted eighty acres of wheat last
fall for the purpose of ascertaining the
exact cost per acre of cultivating the
cereal in Kansas. He rented the land
and hired all of the work done. and ex-
poets to come out ahead. When the
crop is harvested and threshed Mr..
Walton will make statement in his
paper as to the result of his expert
ment and it will be awaited with con-.
siderable interest.
Warden Case OF the state penitentia-
ry, has made his regular monthly set
Element with the state auditor. 1t
shows that the expenses of the institu-
tions for the month were S9,72l.56,
while the receipts were S7,349.S3. The
coal sales for the month were 7.734