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1 -'I-'" -S P. D. Co burn, Secretary Kansas State Topeka is having a row over the THE1IFELINE. M. LA BLANEY, PUB.

change in school books. Dr. McLallin. who has been known go home to dinner bareheaded, says Sol Miller is absent-minded. A car loaded with 50,000 chickens, valued at $1,400 was shipped from Clay Center to San Francisco recently.

The Morrill News savs the estimate of the Kansas corn crop is 4 million bushels, but admits that estimates are sometimes a little "flighty." The Rev. T. P. Jolly is the most aus tere clergyman in Reno county. It is said that he would not know a joke if he were to meet it in the big road.

Judge G. W. DeCamp of Lyons coun ty has a cattle ranch of 7,000 acres and has 1,500 acres of it in corn that will yield this year 90,000 bushels. The Judge is 73 years old and began life as a lawyer. The Missouri Pacific on Wednesday hauled out of the Central Branch country for one firm forty-eight cars of corn, or 1,920,000 pounds.

The firm was three days loading it. It was corn the farmers had held in store from the crops of 1893 and 1894. The Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company and the Western Electrical Company of Chicago on Monday instituted proceedings against the Anthony Telephone Company of Cincinnatti, O. and the People's Telephone Company of Leavenworth to recover heavy dam ages for infringement on four separate patents. Don't talk about your apple trees blooming twice in a season any more this season.

A Sumner county man says that he has an apple tree in his yard which is now in bloom for the sixth time this season. He also says the tree has yielded one full crop of this year and the prospects seem to be good for another. Ed Hoch says he hopes eastern people will not be deterred from coming to Kansas by the report that it isn't safe to travel along the common highways out here, least an ear of corn fall on you and crush you. If people are. careful they need not have much fear from this cause.

We don't believe one death in ten out here is the result of such accidents. Judge Foster allowed a writ of errui- in the case of Josey Wallace, sentenced to be hung in Fort Scott September 27 for the murder of his father-in-law, Alexander Sears, in the Nation, and ordered the hanging deferred until the case can be heard in the United States supreme court. It is thought this will give Wallace a lease of life of one year. He is in the Federal prison at Leavenworth. Marysville had a fearful rainstorm Saturday.

The floods tore up the streets, sidewalks and railway tracks and flooded nearly every basement in the city. The citizens were very much alarmed lest many of the largest and best buildings would tumble down. An excursion to Fort Riley next morn ing had to be declared off on account of the numerous washouts in the neighborhood. The Manhattan Nationalist says: We have read a great many disparaging remarks about Mrs. Barnum's marri age to a Greek lord.

Nearly every paper in Kansas has had some kick to make. So far as we are concerned we desire to assure Mrs. Barnum that we don't care a ragged edged nickel whether she marries a Greek god or a dago oreran grinder. It's all the same to us and it wont make so very much differ' ence to her. J.

H. Carney and son, with their outfit, pulled in Saturday from Baxter Springs with 369 head of 2, 3, and 4 year-old steers now grazing in the pas ture. H. O. Lyster's cattle were ship ped home two weeks ago, to be put on feed, to be marketed on or before the holidays.

Two hundred of them are 1,200 pound cattle now, the other 199 weighing 1,030 natives of course. Mr, Carney has a big steam power feed cutter, with a gasoline engine for power and will soon have an apparatus at work that will be worth the while of the people to see in operation. Board of Affrlculture. There are reports of more or less, "hog cholera" in various parts of the State and it is not improbable that! many well-meaning citizens through ignorance of the law and the ease ith which the disease is spread are unwit tingly aiding in the destruction of thousand of swine which, with strong prices, her present shortage and tremendous corn crop Kansas at this time can illy afford to lose. It is conceded that the contagion from "cholera" hogs and their dead carcasses is carried from place to place by dogs, wolves, crows, buzzards, running water and various other agencies, including the clothing of those who come in contact with them, and this fact emphasizes the necessity of promptly isola ting ailing animals and deeply burying or burning the dead, even though there was no law making it mandatory.

Section 1, chapter 157, session laws of 1886, makes it the duty of every person who owns or controls any hog dead of any disease to burn or bury it within 24 hours after death and fail ure to do so is a misdemeanor, subject to a fine not exceeding $100. A like penalty applies to selling or bartering any hog which has died of disease. The same punishment is provided too for persons depositing any dead hog in any river, stream, creek or ravine. Section 1, of chapter 158 is ignored by or unkuown to many, but is im portant. It says: Section 1 Any person being the owner of any domestic animal or animals, or having the same in charge, who shall turn out or suffer any such domestic animal or animals having any contagious or infectious disease, knowing the same to be diseased, to run at large upon any uninclosed land common or highway, or shall let the same approach within one hundred feet of any highway, or shall sell or dispose of any domestic animal or an imals, knowing the same to be so dis eased, without fully disclosing the fact to the purchaser, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine in any amount not exceeding five hundred dollars; or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months.

The practics of throwing dead animals into ravines, creaks and rivers from which freshets may carry them long distances to spread poison and pollution, is especially common and cannot be too severely deprecated. Burial at once not less than three feet deep is the safest and most practicable way to dispose of them. Willard S. Allen, son of A. F.

Allen of "Vinland, was killed Thursday by falling off a haystack. A town in Osborne county has been named after Joe Bristow and its leading citizen is Mr. Fifer, who fifes all about and keeps the people stirred up. West Branch creek, a strem that has had its own way back as far as the memory of the oldest inhabitant runs, has been causing the Rock Island trouble in Waubaunsee county all summer, and last week it washed out everything in thevalley. The $30,000 damage suit which Bernard Murray of Colorado brought against ex-Congressman W.

A. Harris of Linwood for alienating the affections of the formers wife has been settled by the payment to Mr. Murray of $1,000 and the assumption by Harris of all attorney fees. Mr. Harris was very attentive to Mrs.

Murray and when hiswife died a year ago, he married Mrs. Murray, the latter having secured a divorce in the meantime. Some weeks ago the agent of the Santa Fe at Barnard telegraphed to Avery Turner, the division superintendent, that it was raining hard and already a half dozen bridges had been washed out. He could not stop the rain, but he thought he must tell his grief to somebody, and a great load was lifted off his mind when a dispatch came from Mr. Turner saying: "Let it rain.

Every drop means an ear of corn and the company will be well able to restore the bridges." ARKANSAS CITY. KANSAS. KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. It was a Kansas man who caught Fraker. Topeka had a duck race, labor day for the entertainment of the small boy.

A jointist at Weir City was fined $1,600 and sentenced to 480 days in jail. Abilene will soon want another grand jury; the last one only cost her 1,000. A Butler county contractor will ship 14,000 feet of Walnut timber to Russia. As usual, Kansasleads. The largest apple orchard 1,537 acres, is located at Fairmount.

Atchison claims a girl who wears a No. 23 shoe. That is a pretty fair understanding. Rains are reported to have fallen all over Kansas. In some places it was needed very badly.

The "Carbondale branch" is lost in the weeds and farmers are cultivating the right-of-way. Lawrence has a citizen named Hen ry Clay but he doesn't claim to be to be a Kentuckian, Fine seedling peaches sell in for twenty cents a bushel. There are no middle men in Chanute. Every health resort has some drawback or other. Mountain fever occasionally takes hold in Garden City.

The Short Creek mines last week yielded 1,110 tons of zinc ore and 810,000 pounds of lead ore. Total value, $38,000. S. N. Shinn pf Osburne county went to school to lieorge Taylor, the Mis souri murderer, and lived to tell the A colored man driving a young bull hitched to a road cart, attracted more attention than anybody in Topeka, labor day.

Colonel Ed Brown is interested in a new telephone company, which will connect all the towns of Eastern Kan sas with Kansas City. Boston robbed the Kansas Sir Knights of $2,000 for rooms for head' quarter for four days. That was the way Boston took to make them astute. Mr. Lawrence of Galena, is prospect ing for lead and zinc in Chautauqua couty.

He has a shaft down thirty -five feet and claims to have found "shines." As he says he is an "old Granby miner" and carries matches in his hat band, it is probable that he knows what he is talking about. During the severe thunderstorm Wednesday night, lightning struck badly damaged the new school house at Cherokee. A big hole was torn in the roof and the structure is otherwise damaged The building was built to replace one burned last winter This is the fifth time the ill-fated building has caught fire. There has been plenty of rain all over Kansas and for the first time in years stock water is plenty. Threshing and plowing is delayed by wet weather.

It has been a fine growing week in the middle division and nearly all the counties report good progress, those which have been suf ering from dry weather, while plow' ing for wheat is being vigorously pushed. There is no use trying to outdo Kan sas. An article recounting how. a man who was divorced in Dakota Was re married in just eight hours, brought out the facts about a man securing a divorce at Fort Scott, before Judge French, at 11 o'clock in the morning and was remarried bofore two that af-jternoon. Dakota will have to do without the belt, as well as others in iwhich Kansas may take any interest.

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