Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-06-22
SunflOWer Seeds.

Independence has new daily paper
the Evening Star.
Bourbon county refuses to pay TT.
SCOTS smallpox bills.
The TT. Scott city council decides
against an occupation tax.
Ex-Governor Leedy has been admitted
to the bar of Douglas county.
A Blue Rapids calf did not have hair
on it until it was two weeks old.
A rich oil we'll has been struck at Circle
vile. near Hoton. 1t is SAID to be pure
petroleum.
Senator Jones confidently claims Kan
sas for Bryan, and says his chances are
good in Ohio.
A Topeka lawyer milks dozen cows
and then walks two miles to his office
every morning.
Ladies of Garden City gave n coon
show and made 500 for the improvement
of the cemetery
Fiitv-fve convicts were received at
the Lansing penitentiary in May and AZ
were discharged.
When Fl. Scott policeman finds a
man who has Snakes i'll his boots, they
say he has hydrophobia.
Three fourths of the 4 900 Corporations
in Kansas ignore the law requiring re-
ports to the secretary of state.
A cooperative creamery company
with capital of So 900, has been char
tered to do business at Oswcgo.
So many cattle have disappeared in
Barber county that the county commas
sioners have offered rewards tor the
thieves.
Sixty-two young women and l6l
Young men graduated from the various
schools of the University of Kansas on
June 9th.
The Rural Kansan is new and very
neat agricultural paper started at Seneca,
Nemaha county. 1t is most excellent
publication.
Samuel Jackson, of Independence,
veteran of the civil war, has just received
S75 from Uncle Sam, due him when he
was discharged.
A Harper county hen laid an egg the
size of goose-egg, the other day, and,
when the shell was broken, another egg
was found inside.
Silas Dace, of Fontana, was knocked
off a Missouri Pacific freight tram at
Yates Center, one night last week, and
died of his injuries.
The Leavenworth school board con
dennis the coal combine of thatcity, ane
threatens to buy coal outside OF the CITY
unless prices are reduced.
Capt. Adna G. Clark, late of the Twent'
eth Kansas regiment, is seeking an ap
pointment to the regular army and ma
enlisted Senator Baker in his behalf
A Mitchell county farmer has SOW
that has raised ten pigs year Tor Tel
wears. and the farmer considers her WORT
more than n rrego county gold-inlne.
Santa Fe freight train backed into
loaded street-car at Hutchinson, ON tn
night of the 18th, killing three wome'
and iniuring several other passengers.
=. NJ. Rich, the young kansan VIII
was charged with being connected wit
the Cuban postal scandal, declares tina
he is in no way implicated in the scanda
Citizens of Eskridge hanged Negr
! nv the name of Moore, for being intimat
\ with his own daugter. After hangln
three minutes, he waslet down. He 500
y recovered, sprang to his feet and ava,
y ord he hasn't been heard of since.
3. Writing to the Clay Center Times, a
= officer at the Kansas penitentiary note
these interesting things: The younges
, convict is 5 and the Oldest "a. Twenty
= three counties have no convicts at al
Wvandotte county leads the list wit
s;xtv.four. Twenty-four old soldiers al
v employed as officers. Six hundred iou
A ,ound loayes of bread are baked ever
e dav There are 1882 cells and 100
prisoners. Of these 100 are white males
o44 colored males, white females, l
colored females, 8 Mexicans and Inc
;ons. The library contains 5,1o6 BOOK
and $40 bound magazines On an ave
age one convict leaves and one enter
each day. The number that have serve
sentences, including those now conhne'
is 1887.