Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-13
KANSAS NOTES.

Eldorado banks have half million
dollars on deposit.
In Kansas this year the potato crop
Is 'some potatoes.
A telephone man is looking over
the field at Fredonia
A Magnetic Institute" is the latest
thing at Lawrence.
The Prohibition party has nomin-
| ated ticket in Osborne county.
Frank James was recently sent 10
the penitentiary from Smith county.
Thousands of head OF cattle will DO
shipped from Garden City this month.
Nine hundred incandescent lights
| illuminate the dome of the Kansas
| state house.
Emporia nude SO much OF success
of its street fair that 1t has designs on
grand opera.
Abilene has fast horse that Ia
named Syndicate, and his owners
name is Mark.
Sixty steam whistles ripped the
atmosphere when Newton's street fair
was formally opened.
Major Anderson has received his
commission as government statistician
for the state OF Kansas
Miami county has raised $3.50 up to
date for a soldiers memorial Ia blet to
be placed in the court house.
Ben Sunderland. a compositor on
the Globe, is the Democratic NOMINEES
for clerk of Atchison county.
At Lawrence q woman was fined
$500 and given sixty days in Jail for
violating the prohibitory law.
A man who lives at Burlingame fell
heir to several thousand dollars In
England-and got the money.
Salinas sympathies have been trans
ferred to Dom Paul since the mill there
sent two carloads Of -four to the
Transvaal.
A Lawrence paper, which Is hardly
an authority on anatomy. tells OF q
boy who shot himself In the abssnce
of his family.
Galena is to have q new beer depot,
20x30 feet, with 20-inch concrete
has "come to stay"
A big receiving elevator will DO
built at Wellington, and tho pro-
moters expect to cut hole In Kansas
City's grain receipts from Southern
Kansas.
Leavenworth pretends to have
better society than any other town in
Kansas, but that will be no consola.
ton to Captain Carter.
There wasn't the rush to the Kan.
sas City show this fall that was for.
merly noticeable in Kansas; too many
good shows at home this season.
Lew Headley tells Of u man near
Gaylord who offered his farm for sale
for $500 three years ago, and he has
recently refused an offer Of S., 900 for
it.
A Kansas editor makes this appeal
to delinquent subscribers: Fish down
into your pocket and dig up dust; the
editor is hungry and the paper bout
to bust We've trusted you for several
months, and did it with smile, so
just return the compliment aud trust
US for awhile. Our wife she needs
some stockings and baby needs
Dress Jimmy needs some breeches,
and so do Kat, and Bess. Pud is on
the hog train and Peggy sick with
grief, and, good-gosh almighty, cant
you give man relief? Shell out those
nickels and turn loose the dimes, turn
'em loose and whistle and we'll have
better times; there will be fower
patches on the bosom Of our pants,
and we'd make the paper better If we
had half chance. Don't give us that
old story, long gone to seed, bout
taking moro family papers than the
family want to read; but help to feed
the printer and he'll help our town to
grow, and thus escape the sulphur in
the regions down below.
The old county fairs are out of date
since the street fairs have proved sue
cessful. Next year street fairs will
be so thick that the entire state will
be one big fair.
The last statements Of the banks at
Conway Springs, town Of about 70O
people, in Sumner county, show indi-
vidual deposits to the amount of
Sl0s, 61l 80. This is per capita Of
about S45 for the county.
Kansas soldier writing home from
the Preside says that after drilling
in the hot sun an hour or two,
rest is allowed that the
men may gaze at the snow capped
and SILVER. Then the drill
begins with moro vigor to warm the
soldiers blood.
Captain Carter will enjoy tho rare
Of being the first officer
among the 5000 soldiers who have
been given employment at the federal
Competition was so strong at the
fair that the man who took
The prize for apples was forced to pub
lish an affidavit that the fruit was
raised in his own orchards.
In any sort OF contest for prize,
Kansas Is almost sure to be we'll rep