Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-29
&ansas News Hotes.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

A Topeka clergyman recently quoted
ingalls, Opportunity" and credited il
to Plumb.
Mr.. Butcher now operates the meat
market at Solomon. He bought out Q
man named Steer.
A Lincoln miller celebrated st. Pat
rick's day by starting a car OF flour
to Belfast, Ireland.
Kansas has 200 free mail delivery
routes. Applications for 800 more are
under consideration.
Thomas county citizens gave a sod
house party and now Grandma Burd
GAS happy little home.
Boys of very tender age get fuller
than the moon" out in Grant county,
according to the Republican.
1t is said that the Rev. Charles M
Sheldon has $4,000 in sight for his
book on the hired girl question.
Grenola has the reputation of hav-
ing the best hotel on the Southern
Kansas division of the Santa Fe.
Following a visit of Mormon elders
an Agra man advertises that he wishes
to buy 60 acres of land and two wives.
An Osborne county man has volun-
tarily resigned paying Office and a
jury has been called to try his sanity.
Carnegie's gifts in Kansas have fall
en- to Kansas City, Emporia, Leaven-
worth, Lawrence, Fort Scott and At
Gibson.
1t cost travelling agent 500 to ped
die obscene pictures in Bourbon coun-
ty. But how about the fellow that
bought them?
Disguised with March vagaries Mr..
Robin, of Cloud county, will spread
his wings and sail for Antwerp, Bel.
GUM, this week.
Smith county citizens have leased
10000 acres of land to explore for coal,
which would indicate that pretty ex-
tensive shaft is contemplated.
Mr.. Good Housekeeper is billed to
rejuvenate the municipal sewer plant
of Concordia and if there is anything
in the name the job should be an ele-
CANT one.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the joint smash
er, says she will sue Bostick's ZOO OF
Indianapolis, Ind, for damages for
naming a baby elephant Carrie Ma
ton" without her consent.
DR.. A. ]. Clemmens, who died re-
Gently at St. Joe, willed $4,000 to
Miss Georgia Houston, a 17-year-old
girl at Wetmore, in Nemaha county.
DR.. Clemmens spent year in Wet
more and was treated in his old age
and feebleness with a great deal OF
kindness by the Houston family. and
for this he remembered the girl in
his will.
A colony of $50 Atchison county
farmers will go to the Upper Peace
valley, in Northern Alberta, Canada,
to take up homesteads. They have
been lured by eXtravagant pros
pectuses, claiming that 12O bushels of
oats can be raised to the acre. Those
of the colonists who escape the rigors
of the first winter will return to Atchi-
son county before the second.
Work on the new extension of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Mexico rail-
road from Liberal, Kan, to White
Oaks, N NJ, is progressing rapidly
and at the present rate it is expected
to complete the first hundred miles by
June 1. The track is laid several miles
below Buffalo, Okla, and trains are
running between Liberal and Buffalo,
thirty miles south of Liberal There
are over thousand men employed on
the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Thompson are a
well-to-do but childless couple of
Wichita. The other night they were
awakened by a loud knock on their
door. Going out, Mr.. Thompson found
on the porch "a 2-months-old baby and
to it's clothing was pinned this note:
Mr.. and Mrs. thompson:
take me in. You have no child and l
have no home.-ERMA." The Thomp-
sons decided to keep the child and
Erma has found a good home.
81 have done very well in the navy
writes w. A. Maddox, from the United
States ship Solace, to his mother. in
Kingman. 81 have had three promo
lions until now 1 am petty officer
with the rate Of @. M. c., which
means quartermaster, third class |
stand four hours and walk up and
down the decks or on the bridge, at
sea, with a spyglass in my hand, on
the lookout for signals from the flag
ship or any other ship of the navy.
I get $50 a month and my board and
lodging. Don't you think that is as
good as can do on the outsider
At Winfield Nellie Schmidt. owner
of the building in which the smashed
Joint was located, has filed suit for
damages in the sum of $515 and $3.50
for attorneys fees against Rev. S. W..
Stophlet. M. Hahn, doing business as
dealer in secondhand furniture, and
his wife, Mrs M. Hahn, M. e. Johnson,
Rev. d. R. Best, Baptist preacher, H.
L. Kunce, Rev. G. T. Smith, Joe Mon
Grief. Rev c. A. Henershot, w. r. Lor-
ton. Rev. c. Lowther, Joseph McMil-
len. Carrie McDaniels, F. B. Waldron,
Nancy E. Hahn, Mark Nation, Mrs.
NorI, Nation Bert LeaVitt and S. W..