Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

money to build an opera house.
A man in Highland weighs .325
pounds, and his wife 2s5 pounds.
Peabody ships homemade galvanized
metal tanks all over the United States.
The country about Busrton brags on
the number and style of its windmills.
Lord Scully dug up s1,O69 for taxes
on his Butler county ranch the other
day.
Syracuse is about to buy the Alamo
ditch for the purpose of irrigating it's
trees.
Volume six of the Kansas geological
survey is in the hands of the state
printer.
The Republican fambeau club of
Topeka will attend McKinley's inau-
guration.
The Topeka city council has been
asked to appropriate $4,000 for park
purposes.
George Hewes was acquitted of the
charge of killing Robert Bomar at
Wichita.
1t is inferred that Mr.. Mainland, a
farmer in Barton county, is all that his
name implies.
Muriel Ingalls,, daughter of the late
John j. ingalls,, is president of the
Sunshine society of Atchison.
In Rush county there was a tie in
the votes received by Mr.. Mccormick
and Mr.. Anderson for the office of
county attorney. Before drawing
straws, as provided by law, the men
agreed that the winner should make
the loser his deputy and equally divide
the salary. Mr.. Mccormick, the Pop
ulist, won, and Mr.. Anderson will be
his deputy.
In Atchison county the other day a
father brought home nice young step
mother to his two grown daughters.
In week the two girls were married
on their own account and they conf
dentially informed friend that they
hurried to get away from home be-
cause that young thing wanted us to
call her Ma"
Hamilton county has won the ban
ner for polling the largest prohibition
vote of any county in the state com
pared to the voting population. There
were 393 votes cast at the recent cleo
ton. OF this number the Prohibition
state ticket received seventeen, a little
over per cent of the total vote. No
other county in the state cast per
cent of its vote for the Prohibition
ticket.
Seven members of trades unions
have been elected to the legislature.
They are: Joseph Butler, Democrat,
cooper, Kansas City; Joseph Landry,
Democrat, printer, Argentine; c. A.
Luling, Republican, printer, Wichita;
j. w. Tapp, Populist, butcher, Wichita;
John Halliday, Populist, coal miner,
Pittsburg; Tom WilSerson, Populist,
coal miner, Scammon; Grant Hume,
Populist, machinist, Parsons.
The Peabody News says Kansas has
been as tickle as a college girl in re-
gard to changing the spelling of her
name. Following are few of tho
ways the state has been known: kan :
zas, Canceas, Cansez, Kansez, Acansias,
Canzas, Canzis, Okanis, Kanseis, Can
ses, Canon, Ramon, Kans, Kanses,
Konza. Kases, Kanzan, Kanzans, Kan
saws, Kaws, Kaw, Canaan"
Colonel j. G.. Rowland, governor of
the Soldiers home at Leavenworth,
after conference with Colonel Sydney
Cook, has issued an order which for
bids all members to visit any place in.
the district between Lansing and the
city limits, under penalty of expulsion
from the home. This order is directed
at the famous Klondike, little collec'
ton of saloons and bawdy houses
which has been built up near the home.
The Hiawatha World notes that Max
Phillips, who was working for j. V.
Farwell, of Chicago, when the Spanish
war broke out, is still drawing his
salary from Mr.. Farwell, who pledged
that it should go on so long as Phillips
remained in the service of his country.
Phillips is in the Philippines.
Captain John Seaton of Atchison,
the venerable member of the house of
representatives, reelected again, is the
champion of an effort to ereform the
legislature by keeping women off the
pay roll as committee clerks and stem
ographers
Frank Montgomery will write piece
about Northwestern Kansas, Tom Nc
Neal about Southwestern Kansas and
R. w. Wright of Dodge City about
"Frontier Life" for the annual meet
ing of the State Historical society in
January.
As the result of an election wager,
Ed Huddlestone, of Cloverdale, sat at
O banquet table and ate the whole of a
big fried crow. All the other guests
were served with chicken. Huddle-
stone consumed the entire bird and de-
clared that the idea was good deal