Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

SAM'L GoMPERs is coming to Kansas City to
try to settle the Armour labor strike.
The state board of pardons refuses 10 pardon
two gamblers convicted of violating the Cub
bison law.
THE cotton operatives are uneasy. 1t is
probable that the textile strike will involve all
of New England.
THE Wabash & Burlington road refuses to
haul any passenger coaches not equipped with
safety appliances.
IT is stated that Mrs. Mary +. Lease has
been appointed agent for the New York Life
Insurance company at Wichita.
GOVERNOR P1NGREE, of Michigan, declares
in favor of an eight-hour day. He says the
concentration of wealth and business has made
it necessary
THE Democratic free-silver leaders have or
sanized "The American Drama Company
which will place dramatic company Oh the
road The fist play will be called "The Curse
of Gold.'
THE bank at Moran, Allen county, has closed
its doors. The deposits amounted to $4,000,
+ and there is no hope of paying out Josiah
Rumble the the president, borrowed several
thousand dollars of the deposits.
ED HocH, of the Marion Record, has rejected
the postmastership of his town because ne would
nave to work an hour OH Sunday. This is
great surprise to the pie-hunters. Ed is pretty
f u
"M1LL1NG," Liverpool trade paper has
this to say of Kansas: "Wltl her mild, dry
climate, abundant cheap grains and forage and
unequalled transportation facilities, Kansas is
one of the most appropriate and suitable rear
ing grounds for cattle in the world :"
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Or. INSPECTOR KELLEY has just made his re-
ptrt. He was inspector under Morrill,. Attorn-
ev.General Boyle has been after him. We
would like to see the attorney general go alter
Iucpector TAYLOR, who served under Lewelllng,
aud has never turned over dollar to the state
THE committee that is Investigating the
charges of bribery against Hanna will accom-
pl,sh nothing H. H. Boyce, the man who
handled the money, has been spirited away
II annals bar'l is not quite empty. lie has
enough left to buy the investigating COMMITTEE
Dr. Hansen will contribute all article to the
February number of McClure's Magazine giving
his ideas and hopes for the future OF North 70
lar exploration. AS no other man has yet got
so near the Pole by 1875 miles, as DR.. Nansen
himself, with his companion, Johansen, every
adv will be eager to read what he has to say
,n this subject. The article will be fully Illus
,rated with photographs and drawings from
life (most of them hitherto unpublished), by
Nausen, Greeley, Peary, the Acrtic artists,
William Bradford and Albert Operti, and others
Here now Just listen to old Horace Greeley
Was he lazy galoot !? Was he an anarchist
listen to him:
1--WE boast of having liberated 1900, 900 OF
slaves. True, we have stricken the shacKles
from the former bondsmen and brought all Ia
l,,rers to common level, but not SO much by
.4vatine the former slaves as by practically re-
icing the whole working population to state
serfdom. While Boosting of our noble deeds
,ve are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by
.,ur ;nioaitous monetary system we have nation
s.Azsd system of oppression more refined, bul
none the less cruel, than the old system OF chaF
tel slavery