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KANSAS STATE NEWS. The Concordia Times says prairie schooners are already passing through that town, going west. Norton county's treasurer has received upwards of $56,000 since October last for taxes and interest on school lands in Norton county. Hon. John A. Anderson, lately appointed consul to Egypt, is at his home in Manhattan, to remain for a few days before starting for the field of his future labors. The Southeastern Kansas Teachers' association will hold their grand semiannual meeting in Fatterson's opera house, Fort Scott, Kansas, March 19, 20, and 21, 1891. Atchison Champion: Mrs. Ludwig, who died at her home in Bendena, recently, was one of the oldest settlers in Doniphan county, having resided here continuously for forty years. There are 50,000 colored people in Kansas, according to the completed census returns. Of these, 10,000 are voters. This IS a much smaller number than the colored politicians have claimed. The women of Fort Scott nominated a full city ticket. There is only one man on the school board. The days of a man superintendent for city schools at Fort Scott seem to be numbered. Atchison Champion: Rev. H. D. Fisher will soon get out his autobiography. Dr. Fisher has had a stirring experience, and the scenes through which he has passed will make a fascinating book. Fort Leavenworth.-Company G, of the Twelfth United States infantry has arrived here. The company was transferred from Ft. Yates, N. D.,and it came in on a special train over the "Maple Leaf" railroad. Rev. C. G. Gaines. pastor of a colored church at Fort Scott, and member of the school board of that city, is under arrest, charged with a felony which will give him a long term in the penitentiary if proven. A Manhattan correspondect writes: The sportsmen of this vicinity have been having great shooting at the multitudes of wild geese and ducks that have been in the neighborhood for the past few weeks. A Concordia correspondent says: The Ames State bank, of Ames, has made an assignment to Capt. N. B. Nutt, jr., cashier of the First National bank of Clyde. The creditors are all in the east, and the failure will have but little effect locally. Major Calvin Hood of Emporia, who had been selected by the directors of the American National bank at Kansas City, Mo., as president of the bank, when the stock-holders met and tendered him the position, positively refused to accept. The secretary of the Alpha chapter (Kansas) of the Phi Beta Kappa society would be glad to receive the names and addresses of all Phi Beta Kappa men now resident in this state. Please address Arthur G. Caufield, state university, Lawrence. The recent snow storm is reported as general over the state, failing to the depth of five to seven inches and generally remaining level upon the ground until melted, which was a slow process, melting from the bottom. There was searcely any frost in the ground, but the atmosphere was cold after the snow. fall. Scottsville News: Through the kindness of our station agent, Will Wallace, we have procured the following list, showing the amount of produce, etc., shipped from this point during the past seven months: 18 cars of oats, 17 cars of corn, 19 cars of wheat, 38 cars of hogs, 10 cars of cattle, 2 cars of junk, 4 cars of horses. Abilene.-The crowded condition of the state insane asylums has caused the commissioners of the county to take up the project of building an asylum for Dickinson county. The poor house will probably be enlarged for the purpose. As it is, the county jail is used, and the patients are frequently compelled to remain there for weeks at a time. The rolling mill at Rosedale, which has been idle for several years, seems likely to be put in motion again, for the manufacture of horse-shoe iron. George Westerman, of Lockport, N. Y., who practically supplies the trade of the entire country with horse-shoe iron, has made propositions to use this mill to supply the trade west of the Mississippi Washington Republican: Miss Belle Boyington has returned from her first year at the medical college at Keokuk, Iowa. She will remain here and study with Dr. Runkle until autumn, when she will return to Keokuk for another year's instruction. The women of to day are pushing to the front in every profession. Miss Boyington has the ability to get as near the head of the column as any of them. Coffevville Journal: A young man named Barner, who lives with his fam ily on the second floor of the building adjoining the Journal office on the east, met with an adventure on Tuesday morning that came very near being at tended with fatal results. He was en gaged in cleaning a shot-gun in the room where his wife and his baby were, when the weapon went off, the load passing so near to his wife's person that the apron which she had on was torn into pieces. It was a narrow es. cape, and ought to be taken as a warning against handling firearms in the midst of a family. Kansas City Gazette: A peculiar accident was reported by Conductor Fiske, of the Santa Fe railway when his train had pulled into Argentine. They had on a load of cattle and were in the neighborhood of Melbourne, Kansas, when the train broke in two. The first