The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-27


Harper County bank. and has opened
it's doors in the Harper County bank
building. The Anthony State bank has
a capital fully paid in of $4,000
ELLSWORTH-On Jan. 1, 1897, there
was in the general fund of the w. r. c.
No. T. $50 SO. In the relief fund $780,
During the past year ten members have
been added to this band of faithful
workers.
EFF1NGHAI-Th Methodists will
dedicate a new church at Effinsha on
the 18th of February and the Christians
will dedicate their new church on the
14th. This will make six church build
ings and pastors to be maintained by
a town of 800 people.
MINNEAPOLIS Nate Henry caught
a lynx in a trap in the woods two miles
south of Minneapolis this week. Mr.
Henry found he had caught a fighter
and had to go home and get gun be-
fore he could kill the animal. 1t was
three feet long and two feet high.
ATCHIsON-C. d. Lueck and D.
Stewart of Netawaka have been APP
pointed Indian agents at the Kickapoo
reserve, and are talking of having the
agency enlarged and moving it nearer
Netawaka Frank Ballard also of Net
awake is expecting an appointment in
the Indian service
LEBANON-W. w. MARBLES. who is
engaged in the creamery business for
the Dickinson county company, was in
town and had good meeting of inter
ested COW owners. A skimming station
and joint creamery company will be
established in this city within a few
days as a result of his efforts.
ATCHISON-A year ago last May the
pay of Atchison policemen was cut
from S55 to $50 a month. 1t is said that
the policemen are petitioning the board
to make up this extra 50 month, which
would require an expenditure of some
| thing like 81, 700. AS the city is very
! poor, the board would create tre-
mendous howl if this should be done.
LINDSBORG-C f. Pohlman of Ellis
| worth telephoned from Salina Tuesday
| afternoon in reference to an extension
| of the Salina toll line which operates
as far west as Brookville, Is miles, and
which an effort is now being made to
extend to Ellsworth. This can then be
! easily connected with Marquette, en-
| abling LindsbOrg and Mcpherson to
swing into the circle.
| OSCALOOSA-James P Batche1or
| left Monday evening for Kansas City
to buy horses to ship to Tampa, Fla,
and from there he will ship them to the
| Cuban insurgents. Mr.. Bachelor, who
| is agent for the Cuban Junta, made ar
| rangements to secure Levi Cats team
| of dray horses and will ship them to
| Mobile. Ala. and from there to Cuba to
| be used in the Cuban cavalry.
/ LEA EN- W OfG1f1-L M. ErD was
! fined $1G0 in the police court for refus-
! ing to pay the annual license of 500
! for the electric road. He gave as a rea-
son that the city owes him and he can
| ed him that if he had a grievance
| against the city he had his remedy in
| the civil courts. An appeal was taken
and an appeal bond of 5000 was given.
| HOLTON-It was shown in the pro-
bate. court here that Isaac Lane,
cousin of the late Senator Jim Lane,
| was SO years old, destitute and alone
with no fuel in the house and nothing
| to eat except a little meal, and the jury
| found him incapable of taking care of
ed who will try to dispose of the house
! at auction and see that the old man is
sent to his aged daughter in Illinois.
Atchison-Some of the Atchison trav-
| cling men have been called in out of
| Nebraska At Schuyler, Neb., corn is
selling at cents per bushel The low
est price in Kansas is cents. The diff
| ference is due to the fact that Kansas
| is nearer the southern market, which
| is now attracting the corn In 1895 corn
| sold at Schuyler at so cents a bushel
AS result the farmers sold all their
! live stock and have nothing now to feed
| their corn to-.
MINNEAPOLIS bank state
| ments published in this county show
that on the first of the year the people
Oh TINS county nau over a quarter Oh d
| million of dollars on deposit and that
the banks had over $150O0O of their
[ own money lying idle in teh banks.
This quarter of a million dollars is a
matter that does not figure very large
ly in the assessors returns and is not
usually counted in the wealth of the
county, yet it means over $22 per cap
tia to every man, woman and child in
the county.
ATCHIsoN--Th governments lien
on the Union Pacific road will not affect
more than 100 miles of the Central
branch road The government. in addi-
ton to land grant, gave $4,000 subsi-
dy for every mile of the road built be-
tween Atchison and Waterville. The
line further west was built by local
subscription, and consists of a number
of different lines known as the Water