Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-15

the hatchet with dynamite.
Helen Gould will probably attend tn
Ottawa Chautauqua next summer.
A Chetopa egg dealer bought anc snip
ped $50 dozens eggs on a recent Sat"r
day.
Topeka will experiment with paten
voting machine at the election thu
spring.
If you catch fish in any other manne'
than with hook and line, you are haDi'
to fac.
A Coffeyvilc man served thirty-sever
DAYS in Jail for stealing fifty-cent pan
of overalls.
Gen. 7. K. Hudson is selling OIL his
property as fast as possible, and will
leave Topeka.
S;abetha will vote on proposition to
issue bonds for an elcctric-hght plant-to
be owned by the city.
Pittsburg celebrated the twenty fifth
anniversary.>of the discovery ct ~! III
that vicinity, Tuesday night.
An Elk county farmer owns COW p.
years old which has raised nine calves
four sets of twins and an "odd one"
Capt. Pat Coney, of Topeka, is nearly
blind, as the result of injuries received in
his zinc mines in southwestern Missouri
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who has been
sick for q year or mole, has returned
from Hot Springs, much improved in
he alth.
Atchison Democrats expect to have
two representatives in the next leglsla-
ture as the result of the Republican
gcrrymander.
Lawrence will have a new city library.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
sos, 900 if the city will properly main
tain the library.
Ewing Herbert wants the prohibitory
law enforced in Atchison, but confesses
he stands alone on the proposition.
Even the preachers are willing to let
the joints run.
The Globe says: IAN Atchison Girl,
who works herself to death for the
church, makes her mother, who does the
work, pay her ten cents every time she
washes the dishes.
4 story has been circulated to the effect
that Mrs. Nation would travel with
Walter L. Names circus. She says she
w ,uldn't travel with circus for mil.
Ii N dollars a minute.
Editor Conway, of the Norton Cham
pion, who owns farm, thinks it w ould
be a good plan to place renter under
bonds to leave the we'll when he gives up
posscssion of the farm he has been rent.
ing.
\ Topeka public school girl has sued
for $3.50 for being suspended from
school. If it had been boy, he would
have gone fishing, and felt like giving the
school board chrome for suspending
HIM.
Arkansas City offers standing re-
ward for the arrest and conviction OF
any boot-legger. jointist, druggist or
ther person who shall sell give away
any Intoxicating liquors contrary to
law.
The supreme court has handed down
q decision confirming the title of the Odd
Fellows to the orphans home given the
lodge by Valenton DeBossiere. Justices
Doster and Johnston dissented from the
opinion.
Mrs. Nation, the joint smasher, and
n ok Chilcs, the Negro ex.joint-keeper,
p .blsher and politician, have started a
p; per at Topeka, called The Smasher's
Mail According to reports, it is "a
warm member"
The remains of three men--John and
William Miller and A c. Mayfeld-which
have lain in single grave in Nebraska
for thirty-seven years, will be brought
b; ok to their old home, near Emporia.
Trey were hanged for horse-stealing.
Joseph Richards. of Topeka. took a
dose of morphine last Friday, with sui
cidal intent. A physician was called and
Richards life was saved, for the time
being Later, he stabbed himself several
times with a Mexican dagger The
reason for the deed was inability to Sc
cure employment.
A scheme row being worked on the I'M
wary is to induce men to sign orders for
gold watches, which are offered at such
rldiculouSly low prices that many suck
ers" bite. The orders soon turn up in
the shape Of promissory notes, in the
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