Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tan appearance but it publishes notice
not to lariat stock so that it can get on
the sidewalk. A first class paper is
sometimes published in a country viii
lage.
With an enrolment OF over 500 pu-
pills, there has been but one death in
the public schools of Harper during
the past four years. How does it come
that Harper has never set up as health
resort?
A heavy hail storm which destroyed
the wheat crop in one township in Sa-
line county, last Monday. won't require
but one visit from John Davis to insure
an alliance majority from chat township
next fall.
The superintendent of the public
schools at Anthony will receive 800
less than he did last year. But the
fruit crop is SO abundant this season
that he will save almost that much on
the single item of sugar.
The opera house at Marion, Kansas,
burned Monday night, with the stores
of w. r. Coburn, dentist; G. H. Streh
cigar manufacturer, and ]. & H Nc
Leod, druggists, in the same building.
Total loss, 1000; insurance small
The Atchison Champion thinks that
the modern diminutives which are ap-
piled to women are idiotic, and makes
an earnest plea for the old fashioned
names of half century ago. The
Champion is all right as long as it
fights shy of politics.
A company atjWinfeld has purchased
twenty acres OF land, ten of which will
be used as park, and ten as grave
yard. The park will liven up the GEM
etery and the cemetery will impose a
wholesome restraint upon the hahltues
of the park. The idea is purely origi-
nal, and would probably never have
suggested itself to anybody outside OF
Kansas.
man sentenced to be hung for the kill
ing OF Captain Couch, received a tele-
gram from Judge Shields, who is at
Washington in his behalf at noon to-
day stating that his bill of exceptions
had been allowed by the supreme court
and that all proceedings had been
stayed in his case. He is naturally
veny jubilant over the news.
Osborne County Farmer: This years
wool clip of J. Q. Foster of Hancock
township, amounted to about 10000
pounds We understand he received
19t cents for his wool in St. Louis,
which brings him in quite a sum of
money, and also proves that there is
money in the sheep industry. Mr.. Eos
ter left for st. Louis the first of the
week to look after the sale of his wool.
Arkansas City Dispatch w. K. Nc
COmas of Burden procured quantity
of inoculated chinch bugs of Professor
Snow and placed them in his wheat
field which was overrun with bugs.
The remedy did the work. The wheat
had been killed before the diseased
bugs were received. but the cholera eX-
terminated the live bugs. Had the eX-
pertinent been tried sooner Mr.. Nc
Comas would have saved a big crop OF
wheat.
Hiawatha World: There was a man
in this Office the other day who. three
years ago. owed $3.50. He doesn't owe
a dollar to-day, and in three years he
has put up buildings and bought bug
gy and other luxuries at cost of 81 800,
besides paying the mortgage. Counting
interest and all he has paid out not less
than SC, 200 in addition to his usual liv-
ing expenses during these three years.
And he has made every dollar of it out
ia Brown county farm.
.. man who was once a trader among
the Kickapoo Indians in Brown county
for five years, says they are the most
honest people on earth. They never
dispute an account and pay promptly
when they get their money from the
government. They never dicker for an
article, buying it if it suits them. They
know what the amount is, and they
never permit their debts to exceed it