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innuential the most are world's They -PONCO. SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS. Seeds, Slips, Scions, Sprouts, Shoots and Slivers. Scarlet fever and diptheria arm-in-arm are making their yearly visit, A Latham farmer raised at the rate of 163 bushels of peanuts to the acre. Emporia Republican: Fort Scott is going into the manufacture of vitrified brick. Adam Bunner, of Doniphan, raised 100,000 pounds more grapes this year than last. Hill, the Colby bank defaulter, is still at large. Pinkerton detectives are on his trail. It is rumored that a syndicate of eastern capitalists are buying up coal lands in Kansas. The Osborne county flour mills are runing day and night to meet the demand of the trade. One thing may be said to the credit of the Newton soap factory, it does a clean business. Atchison and Fort Scott will now have two things to be jealous over-vitrified brick and Jay Gould. The Fort Scott Monitor is in favor of turning the Hutchinson reformatory into an insane asylum. A man doesn't feel half SO important when the cab he rides in has an election banner on the side. At Emporia they speak of a man who wears H shoe-string bout his hat as "from the paw-paw regions. Augusta has a hotel keeper who doesn't take a newspaper, and he is as unpopular as a girl with sore eyes. Perry, the blind musician who gives recitals and musical lectures, is doing the northern part of Kansas. Charles S. Gleed, of Topeka, was admitted to practice before the United States supreme court yesterday. The corner stone of the First Baptist church was laid at Phillipsburg, Tuesday with impressive ceremonies. From the way new papers are starting in Kansas the long felt want must still be empty, says the Abilene Reflector. A clever stroke of advertising on Mr. Gilmore's part is the mention six cannon in his musical programs for Kansas. Topeka Capital: "Five Kansas counties this year produced more than half as much corn as the whole state produced in 1887." Married, at Lawrence-Stewart Henry, of Denver, Col., and Miss Nellie Thacher, daughter of Judge S. O. Thacher, of Lawrence. The Railway Age says the general audiditor's office of the Santa Fe, now located in Boston, will be moved to Topeka December 1. Congressman Peters say it costs Senator Plumb $12,000 a year to live in Washington, and he is one of the "plainest livers" at the capital. The editor of the Mulvane Record is prancing around Pike's Peak at present. On Pike's Peak, this time of year, it is necessary to prance. A "portrait and biographical album of Sumner county" is being prepared, and anybody may become prominent with a reasonable amount of hard cash. Emporia Republican: Eli Perkins is lecturing in Kansas. The time Was when Eli would draw a big crowd in this state, but that was before Tomlinson developed. Keene plays at Emporia tonight. He will probably remark the absence of the whilsome peanuts, crackling in the audience. Emporia isn't the town it used to be at all. K. C. Star: Why doesn't some one give old Chief Mayes a couple of corner lots in Arkansas City? That would bring him around all right on the question of opening up the Cherokee strip. A burglar at Parsons tried to get away with a pan of milk, but somebody fired at him and made him drop it. The thief is now trying to console himself by deciding that it was chalked water. The Beattie Star says: Huskers have informed us that this fall it is not much more work and no harder to put eighty to 100 bushels in a wagon than it was to put sixty to seventy-five in last year. Several western journals printed editorials of welcome to the All-America delegates, in the Spanish tongue, and the New York Sun speaks of them as "misfit, missspelled, misprinted cigar-box Castilian." A Kansas editor objects to three meals per day and advocates one meal and "thus." he says, "do away with the eternal grind of eating." This unparallelled statement occurs in No. 8, vol. 1, of his paper. An action in equity was begun in the United States court at Topeka Tuesday against the Marion Belt & Chingawasa Springs railroad company for the appointment of a receiver. The road is eight miles long. Thorough investigation shows the liabilities of the broken Abilene bank to be $333,000. The assets consist mostly of depreciated real estate. A meeting of creditors to appoint an assignee has been called for November 27. Notarial commissions were issuedTuesday as follows: M. T. Clark, of Caldwell; M. (Bloch, of Wichita: Waldo Hancock, of Beverly: H. D. Holloway, of the Soldiers' home: John A. Moss, of St. Marys, and J. E. Baker, of Hutchison. Dr. Buck, who has charge of the silk station at Peabody, is in receipt of a letter from Belding Bros., of New York, stating that the Kansas silk which they had handied worked nicely, and that they were very much pleased with it. Thomas county, the next but one from the Colorado line, on the Rock Island's northwestern line, raised more corn than any of the entire thirty-one new counties in western Kansas. Thomas county was
