Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

and paint mill in operation.
A Wellington man sold two prairie
dogs last week to u New York man for
$40.
An Emporia woman claims to have
pullet only four months old that lays
eggs.
Every pond, lake and buffalo wallow
on the prairie is filed with water out in
Stanton county.
The government has appropriated
So, 300 for the renovation of the public
building at Topeka.
One hundred car loads of agricultural
implements have been unloadcd at Har
per within the last three weeks.
The colored man who graduated this
year from the law department of the
Kansas university was born slave.
The st. Marys Star has dropped its
democracy and becomes the official ALI
ance paper of Pottawatomie county.
Garden City will celebrate the Fourth
in grand style. A big old fashioned
frontier dinner is the drawing card.
In the base ball game between the OF
tawa team and the Indian club from
Haskell institute, the latter was de-
feated.
The rain started q fire in Beloit by
falling on exposed lime, and then kind
ly put the fire out before mucl damage
was done
The Emporia Republican says: It
would be difficult to make a newcomer
to Kansas believe that this was ever q
drouthv state.
A quarter section of land in Kiowa
county was unaccountably overlooked.
Frank Leard found it, located upon it,
and sold his right 70; $500.
band OF begging ''gypsies" is work
ing the towns OF eastern Kansas, where
the city marshals compel them to move
on before they set up their tents.
The Winfield base ball club chal-
lenges any club within radius of sixty
miles to play upon any terms agreeable
to the club accepting the challenge.
Topeka Journal: Strange noises COM
ing from the Kansas orchards emanate
from the peaches and apples crowding
each other for room On the branches.
The agent of the Northwestern road
at TonganoXie beat his wife. The next
day the travelling auditor checked him
OUT and he is now looking for a job.
Southern Kansas will show a better
yield of wheat than was estimated byI
the most sanguine. Harvest has com
menced. although the ground is heavy
for the reapers
Chairman Dumbauld of the peoples
party in Kansas, has issuee call to all
the alliances in the state, recommend
ing that they hold alliance picnic5 ev-
erywhere on July 4th.
Topeka now has two companies that
will take you to the worlds fair, pay all
your expenses, and keep the bunco
steerers away, if the proper amount is
dropped into the,slot.
The State Bible school camp at Law
renee has been named Camp Helmicka
in honor of Charlie Helmick, who sac
rificed his bright young life by going to
Africa as missionary.
1t pays to put wheat in well, says the
Johnson City Journal The best crops
in the country are those which were
sown on ground which had been well
prepared before seeding.
Ground was broken last week for a
new ladies' hail on the campus of Mid
land college at Atchison. A large
number of students and friends were
present to celebrate the event.
The Topeka Democrat has offered to
do the city printing for less than it costs
to set the type. The editor of the Demo-
crat is one of the few men who is able
to run newspaper for the fun there is
in it.
A farmer, near Horizon, visited a
gambling den in that city one night
last week, leaving his wife and two