Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
SUNFLOWER SEEDS.

bride.
Jerry Simpson has purchased n home
in Wichita.
big gas well has been struck at
Mound Valley.
There is society of colored girls at
Topeka called the "Rosebud Garden"
An electric line will be built connecting
Cherryvale, Coheyville and Independence.
l.. G. Porter, of Mound City, has been
appointed receiver Of the busted La
Cygne bank.
1t is reported that three-foot vein of
coal has been discovered at Blue Mound,
at depth of sixty feet.
Brigadicr- General Mctcalt, OF Kansas,
took n prominent part in the inaugural
parade Mt Washington, Monday.
Chanute finds that her gas plant is n
paying investment 1t cleared over
50, 900 on the debt during the past sea-
son.
The Capital says the Topeka joints are
again running at full blast, and the joint
lists defy the law Where is Governor
Stanley?
A 7,5OO-acrc rancho in in Ellis county,
known rs the Barnes rancho, changed
hands few days ago. 1t was purchased
by syndicate.
Chas. Foulks, AN cmploye of the Wells
Fargo Express Company at Wichita, is
charged by the company with the en-
bc2zlemcnt of $500.
Mrs Nation returned to Topeka from
Peoria, H.. and was again taken to Jail
to await her trail. She made no ohiec-
ton 10 returning t" Jail.
A. !. E,,ckland, prominent citizen ~
Great Bend, committed suicide, Saturday.
BY taking carbolic acid The cause ri
this deed was financial rcvcrseS.
c d. M.tcalf, miller in the Rhca Pat
tcrson mill at Coilcyvilc, was killrd-bv
his clothes catching in the machinery,
and he was literally whirlcd to death
W. y Jenkins, formerly editor of the
Smith County Pioneer, has become sud
denly rich through the POSSESSION of oil
lands in California, which cost him
mere trihc.
Linn county will elect county printer
her, after-just as all counties should 90.
1t woul1 do away with the annual fight
among the papers about who shall be
county printer
Some farmers of the state who have
gwen strangers written permission to
hunt on their farms now wish they
hadn't. The permits now turn up IN the
shape of promissory notes.
A colony of Kansans will go to Can
ada and take up claims. The colony
numbers $50, and each member will re.
ceievc 16O acres on payments OF $40 to
the Canadian government
Mrs. Nation gave man scolding Tor
smoking. at Kansas City, the other day.
She told him she once kissed a man who
smoked, and it made her sick, but she
didn't say what effect it had on the man.
A Co~ley county administrator of an
estate paid off all the debts and claims
against the estate, and then divided
among the heirs more money than the
estate inyoiced when he first took charge.
All done in three years, too.
Miss Caroline T. Stewart, who receiv-
ed the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from the University of Berlin on Febru-
airy 20, and who enjoys the distinction
of being the first American woman tore
ceive the Doctors degree from that Uni
versity, is a graduate of the University
of Kansas, class of '92,
The fourth annual debate between rep
resentatives of Kansas and Nebraska Uni
yersities will take place at Lawrence on
March g. The speakers who have been
chosen to represent Kansas are II. H.
Tangeman and J A. Delvin. OF Newton
and c. F. Rumold, OF Dillon. They will
have the affirmative side of the question:
Resolved, that the United States should
own, control. and fortify the Nicnraguan
Canal.
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