Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-15
sUNrIowER SEED.

The Clay Center creamery distributes
$4,000 a month among the farmers of that
vicinity.
Emporia Gazette: One Of Senator Mar
tins grandchildren Is wearing a Mckinley
button. The Santa Fe ought to return the
old mans pass on that show Of patriot-
Ism.
AS close. logical. careful thinker. Sem
ator Lucien Baker Is awarded position
well up toward the top of :he list of Kan
sas campaign speakers, by the Clay Center
Times.
Indications seem to be diseernible that
piutocracyis gaining foothold In Atchison.
Mayor Wagsener is being accused by the
local press Of a determination to spend
$500 In rebuilding his front porch.
During reunion of old soldiers in Will
son county last week, sixty persons, mem
oers OF sixteen different families. and all
related to each other, met unexpectedly
one day and sat down to dinner together
The vote cast by Ellsworth county Re-
publicans az their recent primary was Ss4
an increase Of 25s over the total pOlled by
them last year. This. the Reporter thinks
is a decidedly favorable straw for the fall
election.
Although there is an entire failure of the
pecan crop in that vicinity this year, Fre-
donia doesn't consider the situation an al
together hopeless one, in view Of the fact
that the papaw trees are more heavily
loaded than ever before.
New York Sun: Dreadful news comes
from Kansas. The state board OF agricult-
ure reports that the corn crop this year
will be 11.6 per cent larger than the crop
of 1895. A wall of woe goes up from every
Populist and free silver mouth. What is
the matter with the soil of Kansas? Has
1t gone into the accursed conspiracy of the
soldbugs and the money changers?
Cotton was one of the crops raised by
Wilson county farmers in 1874. according to
twenty-five year old item from the FIRE.
donia Citizen republished in that paper
last week. In the same historical compila-
ton is paragraph which suggests the
recollection that the late John r. Goodin,
then a Reform candidate for congress,
was raising large quantities of Mrs. Leases
favorite crop just about then. also. not only
in that immediate vicinity. but all over
what. at that time. constituted the Second
district.
Pleasanton Observer: One Of the pleas
antest gatherings held in Plea5anton in
many years took place at the home of Con-
gresham Blue Wednesday night, when
about forty Of his friends and neishbors
SdtHeEeU 10 EeHluu Oh me ldct Inal ne
was 81 years old on that day. aad to I'M
press the matter on his memory they gave
him a handsome gold headed cane bearing
the inscription: Hon. r. w. Eiue, From
His Oldtime Friends" The gift was pre-
sented by DR.. Henry Plumb in a very hap
py and appropriate little speech. and Mr..
Blue responded with eloquent ana touching
words.
A talker on the streets the other day,
says the Clay Center Times. asserted that
voting bonds to railroads was largely re-
sponsible for the present hard times. or at
least one of the causes Of our financial dis
tress. A representative OF the Times went
to the county clerks office, ard. with the
help of that officer. went through the books.
He found that the roads touching Clay
county paid last year 81 .9aoH in taxes,
while the county paid. as interest. on all
bonds. $l3.350 leaving a net profit OF
$s570.H. In private business this would be
considered a pretty good investment. espe-
ciaIly when remembering that without a
railroad in Clay county Dcperty would not
be worth half its present low valuation.
In a few years. when the bonds are all
paid, then the full 81 $50 will be all profit.