Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-25
KANSAS NOTES.

right from the Shell. lie is poultry
dealer.
The police Judge Mt Salina has fined
the jointists $50 each for keeping open
on Sunday.
The Santa Fe has continuous track
of its own from Chicago to San Fran
cisco, 2,526 miles.
During last month Labette county
put up SS724 for transportation for
| bows committed to the reform school.
]. w. Hullinger of Kansas City, Kan,
has been made principal Of the Dickin-
son CONT high school, at 81, 200 pei
gear.
The Lawrence Journal is in favor OF
ennexing WyandDtte county to Mis-
souri-some time when Missouri isn't
looking.
Two inches of rain last week made
that estimate of 100 5000 bushels or
the Kansas wheat yield this year loob
reasonable.
A Kansas literary society has decided
that man may safely marry on a sal.
airy Of Sl2 per week, but the safety OF
his bride was not debated.
The Arkansas Valley Sentinel gives
the new Presbyterian preacher OF SYRIA
cuse certificate warranting him to be
San all a.ound good fellow"
Hutchinson is to have another tele
phone system. A franchise has beeA
granted to company which puts up
forfeit that there will be 200 phones
in operatian within year.
The Topeka joinstists now secure beer
from the drug stores to supply custom
ers until the war on them is over. The
iointists regard this plan as much safer
than to keep the liquor on hand.
Right at the time when Eldorado is
arranging to get her hooks in divis-
ion on the Orient railway that story OF
the removal of the Missouri Pacific
chops from there to Wichita comes up
again.
A st. Louis merchant, looking for an
] opening for store in Kansas, has con-
cluded that Salina is trimmed up just
about to his taste, and he will locate
there if he can purchase the property
he wants.
1 Kansas is giving the new stamp books
g the same glad hand they are receiving
S in other sections of the union. The
}, papers print notices of the rapid sale OF
. the first consignments sent out and
orders sent in for more.
a James A. Walker, a pioneer merchant
8 at Merriam, who died recently, was at
8 Shawnee mission in 1858 running a
: store when Qrantrell's men ran him
q out of the county. Later he enlisted
e in the Missouri state militia and par
!, ticipated in the battle of Westport.
b A young lady died of smallpox at
a Clearwater 1t was the first case IN the
/. town. and the citizens, aided by the
S township board, raised fund with
s which to purchase the four-roomed
e house IN which the girl lived with her
II mother, and their effects, and every
It thing will be burned.
J. Cliff Scott and the other Kansas
c members of Roosevelt's Rough Riders
y who engaged themselves to Buffalo
/ Bills show are now in New York suf-
r ferinp the keencst sort of disappolnt'
: ments. Bill has decided not to take
his show to Paris, and the boys can
only tour this country.
A man recently entered newspaper
e Office for the purpose of having inserted
A a card thanking the lodge in which his
II wife carried 600 insurance for pay
A ing over the money promptly The
i, newspaper man figured up the number
C of lines and told the bereaved husband
n that the charges would be 20 cents
"A "All right" he replied, 81 told the
"A lodge folks l would have it put in, nc
:. matter what it cost" 1.-Two Thousand
~ dollars is quite tidy sum-" remarked
the newspaper man, as he made change
, Eyes" was the reply, lit will come II
IL pretty handy. OF course, l woulc
have liked to keep my wife, but still
- this money will put me in good shape.
A. Ten miles north Of Topeka lives
colored man by tho name OF Benjamin
n, Vance, who was born slave in Ken
n lucky SlNCy-lOuT yCnho e'SN' ~ $500
\, to Shawnee county seventeen years
q ago with a team of horses and so cents
To-day he owns 400 acres Of land with
n out a dollar Of mortgage upon it, sew
~ eral hundred head Of stock. a fine resi-
~ dence and the other property usually
~. ~, found on a we'll ordered farm. Re
: Gently he gave one Of his daughters
grand piano as birthday present, and
his house is luxuriously furnished
Every dollar no has he made on Kan
te sas farm, first as renter and then as
&c all owner.
ie An announcement in the Emporis
Ell Republican conveys the information
K that Governor Eskridge has been or
I'D dcrcd by his physician to cease worl
le altogether for time. lie has been IL
for two months or more, and no douo'
should have quit before this, but the
old keep at it" was too strong in hin
sc to permit it. That he may enjoy
"a speedy return to health will be the
- ,,nivercal wish