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STATE NEWS. Leoti-The First National bank of Leoti has closed its doors by order of the comptroller of the currency. Walnut Comet: The ladies' band elected their officers at their last meeting, and adopted the third chapter of St. James for their constitution and bylaws. Coffeyville Journal: A gentleman with an excellent family removed from Chautauqua county to Coffeyville, recently, in order to educate his children. Good schools win homeseekers every time. Scammon Miner: Scammon shipped 1,300 car-loads of coal during the month of December, and this is from three mines only. We hardly think this can be beat. Let us hear from our sister towns. Many of the county superintendents in Kansas publish monthly journals, which afford means of communication between themselves and the teachers and directors, and act as a stimulus to teachers and pupils to excel. Kansas papers all sing this song: The streets were crowded with farmeas Saturday, and the town presented an old time appearance. Trade was good in all the different channels. You don't hear the howl of hard times abroad in the land, and everybody seems happy and contented. From Emporia: In the annual contest in oratory and essay at the state Normal school, Miss May Campbell, of Newton, carried off the first prize in the oration, which entitles her to represent her school at the state contest in Topepeka February 12. The first prize in essay was captured by Aaron J. Stout, of Emporia. Wichita.-W. W. Reynolds met with instant death this evening from an electric light wire. He was passing down a strange stairway, and seeing a loose wire caught hold of it. The shock threw him a considerable distance, and though the persons who saw the accident picked up the victim within a few seconds, he was dead, with the wire still grasped in his hand. ElDorado Republican: It is claimed in Washington that the legislation necessary to confirm the treaty with the Cherokee Indians for the Cherokee strip cannot be accomplished in time for settlers to occupy the new country and put in a crop this spring. It strikes people out west who are very much in earnest about opening the strip, that there is no necessity whatever for any delay. Richfield Monitor-Republican: There hasn't been a single arrest made by an officer of the law on a criminal charge during the past year except on a requisition from the governor of Colorado, and that charge was for stealing cattle, by a party who resided on the Colorado line, in the northwest portion of the county. The story that Judge Botkin has been warned not to hold court in this county is absolutely false in every particular. Pawnee Rock Leader: Little Alice, daughter of M. Sweeny, met with a severe accident last Friday. She and one of her schoolmates were racing after each other, and not noticing where she was going, she ran into a wirefence, the wire striking her in the mouth, cutting her face and almost cutting her tongue in two. Prompt attention was given her, however, SO that very important member will soon be in working order and just as good as it ever was. Topeka Journal: Geo. H. Rowland, of Emporia, is a sufferer by the Reed printing house fire to the extent of three or four hundred dollars. Mr. Rowland is the publisher of the State Normal Quarterly, a paper issued under the management of the institution, and has been having the paper printed at Reed's establishment. The forms were sent here a week ago, and a thousand of the last issue had been run off and sent to Emporia before the fire occurred. Atchison, 19th.-The Missouri river is frozen over and traffic has deserted the bridge. Armour Bros., who own a large ice house at Sugar lake, are having a hard time in getting men to work. They cannot stand the cold weather, and quit. Several had their hands and feet frozen. A man who drove from Atchison to Doniphan last night, a distance of six miles, was so badly frozen that he could not move upon his arrival there. He is thought to be in a dangerous condition. Plainville Times: A load of wheat was stolen some time last week, probably on Friday night, from the Pryor farta, north of town. The wheat, which belonged to F. B. Gardner, had been stored for some time in an old granary. On Saturday it was discovered that a hole had been made in the north side of the building, through which a quantity of wheat had run onto the ground.
