Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-24
KANSAS NOTES.

The A. o. U. w. OF Lawrence Is rich
enough to build hall.
The peoples party will support
Peter Carroll for mayor OF Leaven-
worth.
There is a rumor that an Emporia
lady is to marry real live German
baron"
A Stanton county farmer has 1900
bushels or more of wheat in the stack
which has not yet been threshed.
Every farm in Mitchell county that
was for rent has been taken up and In
quiries are daily being made for moro.
The Mcpherson county commissioners
have decided that $40 is enough for the
burial of paupers and that is all they
will pay
There are two counties in Kansas
each with less than 1000 population.
They are Garfield with 88l and Morton
with 724.
The Equal Suffrage society Of Salina
denies that it has put candidate for
mayor in the field and disclaims any In
tention of doing 80.
Colonel Goss left fortune estimated
at 100000, the bulk of which, 1t is
understood, will be inherited by his
nephew at Neosho Falls.
There are 700 witness in attendance
at the United States court at Wichita,
including Indians, negroes, half-breeds.
greasers, coyotes, cowboys, etc.
Says the Lawrence Journal: "The
Leavenworth Times is the most liberal
paper in Kansas. 1t offers the mayors
Office to some man every morning."
BY the passage of the bill providing
for the payment OF the French spOlia-
ton claims an Abilene photographer,
J. A. Hansborough, will receive about
$4,000
A load of straw which brings 81 at
the Lawrence paper mill, produces $40
worth of paper. The S36 is the amount
paid for labor and the profit to the man.
ufacturer.
The secretary of war has directed
the abandonment OF the ordnance depot
at Fort Leavenworth, and 30 transfer
of the ordnance stores anu enlisted men
now there to the Rock Island arsenal.
A Reno county man has received q
commission to purchase jack rabbits
and ship them to England for the pur-
pose of stock up the game preserves OF
some of the oldest estates in Great Bri-
tain.
The present enrolment at the Sol
dier's Home at Leavenworth Is 2,2Ol.
During February As were admitted, II
readmitted and one transferred from
another home. Eight soldiers died In
February.
There is a movement in Garfield
county to settle the county seat trouble
by starting town between Eminence
and Ravanna, and making it the county
seat Both parties are said to be in
favor of this compromise.
A German sugarmaker was looking
around over the state last week for a
location. He proposes to open with an
experiment this year of 5000 tons and
will enlarge as things take shape. The
factory will cost $3.50, 900.
President August Meyer of the
Argentine Smelling works has donated
a large number of books to the public
library OF Argentine, Kansas City,
Kansas, and has promised to donate 800
in cash every three months for the
same purpose.
Complaint has been filed in justices
courts at Fort Scott agains @. G. Comes,
pastor of the colored Baptist church Of
that place charging him with bastardy.
The alleged victim is Mary Hunter, a
17-year'o old colored girl. The minister's
friends deny the charge.
Recently a ranchman in Norton
county lost twenty-five head OF high
grade Hereford cattle in less than one
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