The Kansas Newspaper Union from Topeka, Kansas • 4

Kansas Newspaper Union. Published Weekly. F. P. BAKER, Editor 81.00 Per kenr.

Katend icfcrAin; to Act of Oongreo. in the vootoAoo ad Topeka Secmd Class matter. just been made. Other animals were then examined which were said to be showing the first symptoms of the disease, all of which were easily diagnosed as some of the ordinary diseases of animals. The veterinarian says he has not seen enough of the so-called mysterious cases yet to be prepared to give a definite opinion, but he does not think there is anything contagious about it.

He says the symptoms said to be exhibited are common to several diseases, and it is impossible for a person not versed in the diseases of animals to distingnish one disease from another by the symptoms; hence, the animals may not all have died from the same cause. He thinks many of the deaths may be attributed to bad management, faulty feeding, coarse and indigestible food staffs, dry corn-stalks, worm-eaten corn, and in the excitement everything else was overlooked except the idea that it was a contagions disease. ii- KANSAS CHURCHES. over the system, are beiug pressed into the freight service. Despite the unprecedented rush of business, everything is working smoothly, and the officials and employes alike are well pleased with the good era of prosperity which has justly fallen to the lot of the old reliable K.

T. railroad. Topeka Capital: Judge J. D. Springer, assistant to the president of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, has been chosen third vice president of that company and assigned to duty with the president in Chicago.

In this new position his duties will be somewhat enlarged, and he will have more authority than heretofore. Judge Springer be-, gaa his railway career in a subordinate position on the Mieneapolis St. Louis road in Iowa, in 1879, and was appointed general solicitor in 1881. In the fall of 1885 he was also appointed general solicitor of the Minneapolis, Sanlte Ste. Maria and Atlantic, in which position he had charge of the manipulation of securities and general charge of the companys affairs.

He resigned in October, 1880, to accept the position of assistant to the president of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe. The danger of car stoves and heaters is generally believed to be acute only in cases of collision, and it was the large number of fatal fires occurring from this cause that led to the legislation in some states abolishing these primitive methods of heating cars and compelling the use of steam from the engine for this purpose. But a dispatch from Michigan gives an account of the explosion in a passenger car of a heater which is supposed to be one of the best in use. It filled the car with live coals and gas, and the coals fell over the passengers, badly burning several, and setting fire to the Beats and woodwork. This occurrence shows that no heater can be depended on, and that the only safe way of warming railway trains is by the use of steam supplied from the boiler of the engine.

6elf-interest should compel all the States to adopt this important modern improvement. N. Y. Tribune. last with a membership of barely a dozen.

It has since grown to upwards of 100. This school originated with the women of the relief corps and culminated in their procuring a charter under onr state laws. Its object is to give a collegiate education free to children and children's children of union soldiers and sailors of the late war, a living monament to those who gave all for the nations good. Arkansas City Dispatch: Many of the people of this city are wild with excitement over the report that the negotiations pending between the United States commissioners and those appointed by the Cherokees for the purchase of the strip had been concluded, and that President Harrison had issued a proclamation opening the lands to white settlement. Several wagons are loaded with tents and provisions ready to start for the coveted lands at a moments notice.

The fact that Lieutenant McCombs troops went back to Fort Reno has strengthened the opinion that the great opening day is near at hand. Kansas City, Globe: The report of the eviction of the Kingman connty (Kan.) farmers is still being published, enlarged, and colored to suit the fancy of the eastern press, which, with characteristic sympathy deplores the mortgaged condition of Kansas. The counter dispatch, which stated the falsity of the first, is never heeded. Considering the frequency of these various false reports, it is time that the different news associations establish the rule of discharging the reporter who sends in such sensational matter which has no truth or reason. This is the only way, it seems, to stop such work.

Meade correspondence: The recent visit of Judge Gregory, irrigation agent of the interior depaitment. and Prof. Hay, state geologist, was encouraging to onr people. Fully 100 wells pour out water in the valley north of this city, most of which is being used for irrigation, demonstrating what can be done with capital here. With potatoes $1.50 per bushel, cabbage 5 cents per pound, and other vegetables at similar prices; corn $1.25 per and other kinds of feed at high prices, a farmer with a good artesian, well that will irrigate about 30 acres of fine rich soil, has a bonanza.

Land in this artesian district can now be purchased for from $4 to $6 an acre. Meade county will yet come to the front. Argonia Clipper: Mrs. H. H.

Shull opened a can of blue damson plums, last week, that she put up sixteen years ago on the Shull homestead in Stark county, Ohio, where her husband was born and reared. They were put np in a glass jar and have been moved everywhere the family lived since then to Xenia, Ohio, where H. H. attended the Miami conservatory of music two years, then to Columbus, Indiana, where he was connected with the Central conservatory two years, then back to the old home again, and then to Kansas. Mrs.

Shull presented the editor and family with a sample of the fruit, and our decision is that we never ate more perfect fruit, if it was not really the best of the kind we ever t-asted. We are led to believe that canned fruit, like wine and whisky, improves with age. university, will give a full report of the results of his experiments for the extermination of chinch-bugs. Prof. Robert Hay, F.

G. S. and Judge J. W.1 Gregory, field agent artesian wells in-' vestigation.with others will fully and! thoroughly discuss the question, of irrigation in western Kansas. In addition to these, representative farmers from different portions of the state will appear on the program, and' topics of interest, covering the general1 field of agriculture, will be thoroughly discussed.

Reduced, probably half, rates will be secured over the railroads of Kansas. Programs will be distributed two weeks before the meeting. In connection with the annual meeting of the board the improved stock breeders of Kansas are called to meet on the same day. They will meet at 10 oclock a. m.

the morning of the 14th. The object of this meeting is to organize a Kansas Improved Stock Breeders association. A program will be issued. It is hoped that the meeting will also be well attended by those who are engaged in breeding fine stock. Secretary Mohler urges ail who can to avail themselves of this opportunity to add to their resources of knowledge and to receive a fresh supply of enthusiasm and of ambition to excel, which can come only through the intermingling together of those engaged in the same calling in life.

Hog Cholera. Secretary Mohler of the agricultural department has received reports which show that hog cholera is devastating the swine interests of the stale. According to information which he has from various sections of the state, a great many hogs are dying off; the malady is confined to no particular section; there are reports from Atchison, Republic, Jefferson, Cowley and several other counties, which show up very bad. There has always been hog cholera in this state, but it is undoubtedly doing more damage at the present time than ever before. In one county it is said more than a hundred head of hogs ara dying every week.

There seems to be no positive cure for the epidemic so far as can be learned. Secretary Mohler has beeu corresponding with Secretary Rusk of the national department of agriculture, on this subject. The government has been experimenting with a hog cholera cure, and Secretary Rusk says that so far the experiments have resulted quite satisfactorily, but the dejoartment is unable yet to say that they have a positive cure. Several gentlemen have written to Secretary that they have a sure cure for hog cholera, but he says that he can not indorse any of these hog cholera cures, but that anybody who has a sure cure for hog cholera can make a fortune out of it in a year. Holds Three Offices.

Journal. When a Kansas man gets -to going, it is difficult to tell just where he will stop. It has been known for some time that Hon. J. H.

Lawhead was superintendent of public instruction in Oklahoma. From a letter received by Labor Commissioner Betton, partly quoted below, it would appear that Mr. Lawheads duties and, presuma-; bly, honor and emoluments go far beyond that of public instruction. The letter says: The collection of labor statistics for this territory has beenl placed under my supervision. Willi you have the kindness to send me a copy of each of the blanks that you send out to the various counties for tha collection of said statistics.

Yeryl respectfully, J. H. Lawhead, Territorial superintendent public instruction and ex-officio auditor. One man for three offices. There is evidently room for another Kansas man.

The Modocs will be unable to sing at the opening meeting of the State Teachers association, as announced, on ac- count of prior engagements of nearly all of the tenors. The Kansas State Fair association, by its directors, will hold a meeting at the office of the secretary on the afternoon of January 17, the third day of the meeting of the state board of agriculture, for the purpose of electing officers for 1891. west, and the date about a year ago. The hawk ehowed signs of having been canght in a trap, one of its feet being cut, apparently by a trap. Charlie did not hurt it much, and will date the bell again and turn it loose if it gets able to travel.

Wellington Mail: The last tract of school land in Snmner connty has now been sold. Although a considerable portion of this school land was sold years ago, when government land was still plenty, the amount which these lands brought is $127,569, of which $102,808 has already been paid in, leaving due $24,761, which is drawing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. Topeka Capital: A federal union is being organized in Topeka by a committee appointed from the Trades assembly. It is to be composed of all trades not having a sufficient number of members in the city to hold a charter. Meetings are held every Sunday at 2:30 p.

in the west hall of the Trades assembly. Persons interested are invited to attend these meetings. The Freeport bank has made an assignment. The Anthony Eepnblican says: A large number of the farmers of the eastern part of the county had deposits in the bank, to whom the closing of the doors will be a severe blow. The directors say the liabilities will be made good in time, and it is to be hoped they will be able to pay np.

The liabilities are about $90,000, with assets considerably less. Wellington Mail: The Cherokee Strip Townsite company is growing very fast. Its stock books show that it has members all over the state, and some of them are very prominent individuals. The company proposes to build a town on the strip south of Sumner connty, and it calculates that by the time the strip is opened to settlement it will have members enough to build a town and make it move. From Olathe: At the farm of Charles Collins, about 6ix miles south of Gardner, Mr.

Collins asked for a rifle to kill so me game, at which request his sister-in-law, Miss Maud Frasier, responded with the firearm. In handing it to him the gun exploded, the bullet entering Mr. Collins forehead near his right eye, death resulting instantly. Collins was about twenty-six years of age, and leaves a young wife and child. The people of Lane county held a meeting at Dighton and called a convention to meet at Dighton on January 15, 1S91, to take steps to forward the interests of irrigation in western Kansas.

In the resolutions adopted it is suggested that like meetings be held in each judicial district throughout southwest Kansas, and that petitions be forwarded as soon as possible to our senators and members of congress. Junction City Union: The sale con ducted for the heirs of the Fred Asling estate was pronounced, for the goods put up, the most satisfactory that has been conducted for some years. One mare brought $93; the cows, without calves, brought as high as $33.60, and averaged $30; steer calves brought $13.50 and heifer calves $10.25. Farm machinery went at surprisingly high figures. Old corn sold for cash at 52J ceuts, and new corn brought 40 cents.

From Abilene: A disastrous chari vari party on a bride and groom took place southeast of Abilene. The visitors were armed with guns, and when the groom failed to receive them cordially, they opened fire, breaking every pane of glass in the house. Although frightened by their action and offering to compromise and pay for the damage, the groom has had a dozen or more of the party arrested, and will make them answer in the district court for the action. Arkansas City Dispatch: The way the contest cases are now being decided in Oklahoma shows that soonerism is getting the worst of it all around. For a long time the question whether or not the man who entered the territory before noon of the 22nd was in all cases a violator of law.

hung in the balance, but now it is being decided against him, and he is losing his claim. This ought to serve as a pointer to those persons who are getting in a rush to occupy the Cherokee strip. From Ness City: Friday morning, before breakfast, the little three-year-old daughter of Doc. Barker wandered away from home. They reside in town but at the time were visiting near Beeler, eighteen miles west of here.

The alarm was given, and notwithstanding the fact that the prairies weio covered with volunteer hunters, and not a tree or scarcely a dwelling to obstruct the view, the child was not found until Sunday morning, dead. It perished from cold and hunger. It had wandered a distance of ten miles. Leavenworth Standard: No veteran who receives a pension of more than $17 a month is admitted to the Soldiers Home. It is assumed by the government that a soldier who receives more than that amount is able to take care of himself.

Most all the inmates of the Home get pensions, which they are able to send to their families or expend for luxuries, as the government supplies them with everything they need at the Home, including tobacco, reading matter, and the best of beds, while the fare is as good always as the market affords. Letter from Oberlin: The Champion correspondent visited the G. A. R. Memorial college, located at Oberlin.

It is an enterprise well worthy the support of all who are interested in education, and is beyond donbt the foundation of a grand institution of learning. It is a surprise to visitors to note what is already obtained. The faculty is as follows: Prof. R. E.

Morriss, commercial department; J. A. Dyer, English literature and elocution; Miss S. R. Watrous, musical department; Miss M.

E. Byrnes, art; Miss Laura Wilson, preparatory; L. G. Parker, military tac-TUe school opened in January STATE NEWS. The average age of stndents at the Kansas Agricultural college is nearly 20 years.

The Parsons Journal says that mistletoe is plentiful anywhere along the Verdigris river. At Abilene B. F. Watson, one of Dickinson countys oldest residents, died, aged 71. He was wealthy, and had held many offices of trust in the county.

Osawatomie Signal: There are per haps now beiDg constructed not less than one hundred residences and fifteen or twenty fine business houses in Osawatomie. At Emporia: A flue in a furnace in George W. Newman's store burst and seriously wounded a cash boy, Nye Martin, who was in the cellar at the time of the accident. Girard Press: A large turkey flew through one of the large plate glass windows of the alliance store. It killed the turkey, but it will cost a good many dollars to replace the glass.

At Abilene the comptroller of the currency has made a requisition on the stockholders of the First National bank, which failed recently, for 65 per cent of their stock, par value, to pay the depositors. From Elgin: The city marshal attempted to arrest John Davis, a noted tough. Davis resisted arrest and attacked the officer, who drew his revolver and shot Paris through the head, killing him instantly. Osawatomie Signal: It Is now al most a settled fact that our city will soon have a paper manufactory. This industry will be followed by others of equal importance, which will cause a large influx of people.

At Ottawa: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cooper, aged respectively 77 and 75 years, died Christmas, the fifty-first anniversary of their marriage.

Their lives have been peculiarly happy and their departure was in peace. Special from Wellington: The Share Brothers, Dry Goods company, one of the largest firms of its kind in southwestern Kansas, with stores at Wellington and Harper, has closed its doors. Liabilities 830.000; assets, South Haven New Era: M. Carriger has concluded to abandon his oil well for the time being, under the advice of experts, who say that while the indications for oil are good, he will have to go several hundred feet deeper to reach it. Garden City Democrat: A large reservoir is being made near Sherlock for the purpose of obtaining ice.

The K. B. is back of the scheme, and is contemplating putting up enough ice to supply the road along the line in southwest Kansas. From Abilene: The waterworks im provements are approaching completion and a few weeks more will see pure mineral water all over the city. Drinking fountains are to be erected, and the head waters of the plant, the spring, made a beautiful picnic ground and summer resting place.

From Marysville; The Marshall county court house is burned. The building is a total loss. It is thought that the records in the vaults will be saved. The fire was discovered shortly after midnight, and was too far under way to save the building. The countys loss will probably Le insurance 'small.

Letter Iror.i Stockton: We had no rain here from the first of November till Christmas, yet the wheat as a whole is looking well and is mostly all up, affording a good pasture. There is no one suffering in this county for the want of the necessities of life Stock is looking well and in fact we have no complaints. Wellington Mail: Business is dis tressingly quiet in the police court. Judge Gilmore has not had a case this week, and for a week to go by without an offender of some kind appearing before him is something almost unprecedented. The justices' courts have also been very qivet.

a few civil cases being all that were heard. From Osage Mission: C. J. Kinney, a prominent lawyer at the Neosho county bar. and a resident of Osage Mission, was found dead near the depot at about six oclock in the morning.

He came down from Fort Scott on the ten oclock train, and is supposed to have fallen from the platform before the train stopped, and died from exposure. Independence Beporter: R. W. Crighton, secretary of the T. M.

C. was completely and agreeably surprised on Monday night, at the close of his mens Bible class, held in the Y. M. C. A.

parlor, by the presentation of a handsome suit of clothes, as a Christmas gift and token of appreciation by a number of the members of the class. Great Bend Begister: John Harris brought a large lot of fish to town which he had caught in the Walnut, some of them weighing fully eight pounds. The largest ones were German which were placed in the Walnut a few yearoago by the government, and have increased so rapidly that there is no danger now of their being taken out-faster than they increase. Argon la Clipper: Charlie Bashton shot a hawk that had a small bell around its neck. The bell had inscribed upon it the initials of some persons name, with place and date.

The place was about one hundred miles north Emporia Republican: Rev. John Jones tendered his resignation as pastor of the Welsh Presbyterian church to his congregation. It was not accepted by the church. The following is the result of the vote on Manhattan district, Rev. James Lawrence presiding elder, on the admission of women to the general conference: For, 597; against, 73; total, 670.

From Winfield: At the session of the southwest Kansas conference, the question of admitting women as delegates to the Methodist general conference was settled as follows: For, 670; against, 89. Great Bend Register: The revival at the M. E. church continues with increased interest. Up to Wednesday evening there had been more than one hundred conversions and nearly as many accessions to the church.

South Haven New Era: A subscrip tion paper has been circulated in South Haven and vicinity to assist in raising the debt from the M. E. church building at this place. The amount required is something over $800, and it has all been provided for but a small amount. Kansas City Gazette: The old church building of the First Presbyterian church, on Sixth street near Minnesota avenue, is being removed to the corner of Ninth and Washington, and will be occupied by the Metropolitan Baptist church congregation.

Arkansas-City Dispatch: The M. E. church have commenced building au addition to their church. It will be on the north side, sixteen feet wide, the full length of the church. The present north wall will be removed, and the structure supported by columns.

It will increase the seating capacity about one-third. Girard Press: The United Presby terian church society has purchased the Methodist church and lots at Pittsburg, and will occupy the same after the first of the vear. Rev. J. H.

Gibson, of Beulah, will have charge of the new organization and will remove to that city. He is an untiring worker and an able minister. The Methodists expect to erect a large church edifice at Pittsburg. At Great Bend the great revival at the Methodist church is sweeping things generally. Messrs.

Shawhan and Shaver, the evangelists, have been there a week, and over seventy converts, among them some of the leading merchants and lawyers, have resulted. There were fifty additions to the church Sunday. It was the greatest day in religious circles ever witnessed in Great Bend. One of the features was a mass meeting for men at 3 oclock, when the large Methodist church was packed to hear au address by Judge Day, a recent convert. At the evening service hundreds were turned away.

Westphalia Times: The day set for the dedication of the M. E. church was a bright, clear, beautiful day. At about 10:45 people began to pour in, and at 11 every seat was taken and many compelled to stand. At 11:20 the choir sang a beautiful anthem, which filled everyone with, seemingly, a new spirit.

After singing a song from the Gospel of Song, and prayer, Bev. Price, of Paola, delivered an able sermon that lasted about one hour. A collection was taken, and the large amount collected surprised everyone. The amount collected footed up a little over $500. The work and material used for the church is all paid for, and a surplus of over $200 which will be used in its seating, purchasing bell, curtains or blinds, besides many other things that are necessarily needed.

CAPITAL NOTES. Annual Convention of the State Board of Agriculture. Capital. The twentieth annual meeting of the Kansas state board of agriculture convenes in Topeka on Wednesday, January 14, at 4 oclock p. and will continue in session three days.

This annual gathering of the farmers of Kansas and of the representatives of our Agricultural college and of the State university, is attracting more attention each year. The high order and practical character of the papers read and discussed have awakened an interest among farmers, and taught them the importance of these meetings. An increased attendance is expected this year, with an increased interest in the work done. Dr. Paul Paquin, state vetenarian of Missouri, who ranks among the foremost in his profession, will be present and address the meeting on Black Leg.

Hog Cholera will also be discussed. President George T. Fairchild, Professors C. C. GeorgeBon and J.

D. Walters of the Agricultural college, will oe on the programme, and will be present throughout the meeting to participate in the exercises. Chancellor F. H. Snow of the State STOCK AND FARM.

Emporia Republican: A car-load of yearlings came into the Santa Fe yards this morning, and were taken out by L. R. Griffin to the old Duguid farm, north of Maplewood. Three car-loads are expected in to-night. From Abilene: Over $20,000 in cash has been paid out during the past year by the twelve creameries of Dickinson county to the farmers.

The creamery industry is growing daily, and many farms are being devoted almost entirely to dairy products. Independence Tribune: A trip into Fawn Creek township, even on a frosty morning, discloses the fact that the farmers have a far greater acreage of fall plowing than ever before this early in the season. A great many plows are running, and we noted one woman exercising equal rights with her gentlemen friends to labor in the field. Mounted on a sulky plow, with three horses in the lead, she was turning two acres per day, and doing as good work as any man. The wheat acreage is large and in splendid condition, and not a complaint did we hear.

Cedar Yale Star: Onr cotton gin has rolled out its last bale for this year, sixty-five in all, and will lay np for the next crop. Last year twenty-seven bales were ginned here, which shows a very good increase, and indications are that more will be planted next year than there was this. The crop has proved a success every year it has been tried in this county. It is a surer crop than corn or wheat, and take the average of a half dozen years will bring twice or three times the net income to the grower. This year over $8,000 have been brought into the county by the sale of cotton, while not a car of corn has been shipped out.

Washington Republican: Charlie Carlson has on his farm in Grant township a silo which he built last summer. It is entirely above ground, twenty-three feet in diameter and eighteen feet high, covered with slough grass. The sides are built of 2x6 lumber, and are bound every two feet with iron rods. This is done, of course, to prevent the sides from bursting, as the pressure is very great. A silo of these dimensions will hold 150 tons of green fodder.

Mr. Carlson put the fodder from sixty acres into his silo this year the average per acre being about two and a hair tons. He thinks that the crop of last year would have yielded eight or ten tons per acre. The time to put the fodder in the silo is in August, or early in September, after the grain has begun to harden a very little, and while the stalks are yet full of sap. That Fatal Horse Disease.

Kansas Farmer. Sensational reports have been sent out over the country about a new contagious disease among horses that is taking the form of an epidemic and very fatal, and especially prevalent in Jefferson and Shawnee counties. As is usual in such cases, there is an undue amount of scare and sensational conjectures that it will spread throughout the state. At present there is no reasonable foundation for such reports. Our veterinary editor, Dr.

Orr, says that he thinks that through excitement the fatality is greatly magnified. He says that he conversed with Dr. Going, the state veterinarian, immediately after his return from Meriden, and then accompanied him to Silver Lake, where they found an animal in the last agonies of death, said to be from the mvs- ter ions disease. When life was extinct, a post mortem examination was made which showed a case of chronic liver disease of long standing, a disordered digestive apparatus, and a serious abscess in the left hemisphere of the brain, said lesions being sufficient to cause death. Several parties claimed that the animals which had died had presented the same symptoms as the one upon which the examination had KANSAS RAILROADS.

The Kansas City, Journal has an article on freights which asserts that the shipment of corn during December, 1890, from Missouri river points, is 10.000 cars less than in December, 1889. The annual report of the K. T. railroad commissioners shows the gross earnings from operation for the year to have been $8,545,774, operating expenses $6,583,249. The net income was $1,693,654.

Belle Plaine News: It is reported that the Bock Island railroad company has commenced a survey from some point south of Wichita, following the Arkansas bottom south on the west bank of the river. Topeka Capital: Foreman Al Morris was presented with a handsome gold watch and chain by the employes of the car-building shops of the banta Fe, for a Christmas present, as a token of the appreciation of his fellow workmen. A corps of surveyors are surveying a railroad from Pueblo down the Arkansas river, through Rocky Ford, to connect with the Burlington Missouri at Oberlin, Kan. There are rumors that the surveying is being done under the direction of the Missouri Pacific. Parsons Journal: So pressed is the K.

T. company for help just now that it is almost impossible for any of the employes to secure a lay-off for more than a day or two. and many of them have been refused any time at all. With this season of the year comes an abundance of freight business. South Haven New Era: The number of section hands on the Santa Ee has been increased within the past week or two, and the gravel trains have been running regularly.

The road is being placed in excellent repair, and the general snrmise is that the company is getting ready for the opening of the strip. The statement that Colonel O. Brown is to succeed James W. Hamilton as live stock agent of the Santa Fe is erroneous. Mr.

Hamilton is to be succeeded by J. G. Taylor, of St. Louis, who has for -the past two years beeu live stock agent of the St. Louis San Francisco road.

Colonei Brown continues in the position which he has held for the past year that of assistant general freight agent of the Santa Fe, and as heretofore the live stock business will come under his supervision. Parsons Journal: Never in the his tory of the K. T. railroad has the motive power of the road been taxed to Buch an extent, and in order to supply the demand for engines to move the vast volume of business which is being handled by the company the passenger engines at this point, and in fact all Tlie Frisco Line. The most popular through car route between the Vet and the East Northeast and.

Southeast. Pullman sleepers and free reclining chair cars on all through trains. For particulars address, D. Wishabt, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo.

371-tf and Superb Dining Car Outfit. The Dining Cars just completed for the Gbeat Rock Island Route, not only embody all the latest improvements in general use, but especial and distinctive features of excellence, which render them unapproachably superior to ordinary Dining Cars. They will be placed on the Rock Island Route west of the Missouri river on and after March 23rd, 1890, and will impart the crowning grace of perfection to its Solid Vesti-, bulb Expbess Tbains, giving that road a continuous Through Dining Cab Sebvicb between Chicago and Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. The Rock Island is the only line that runs two Vestibule Express Trains every afternoon from Chicago to Denver. It is not only the Fast line, but ih is also the most completely equipped of alD the Colorado roads, with elegant Day Coaches, Pullman Sleepers, Fbee Reclining Chair Cars, and the finest Dining Cars in tha world.

JL Local Kansas Train. In recognition of the demands of the Kansas traveling public, the Union Pacific has; put in service an early morning train out of Kansas City, leaving Kansas City daily at'i 8:35 a. m. making all stops between Kansas; City, Salina and McPherson arriving at Satina at 8:30 p. m.

and at McPherson at 7:05 p. m. Returning, this train leaves McPherson1 at 9:50 a. Salina at 11:20 a. and arrives at Kansas City at 6:10 p.

m. This will enable people in the eastern park of the state to leave their homes, visit neighboring cities and return home the same It is to be hoped that the inaugeration of this service will accomodate a large numbeB of people who have heretofore been unable to do this. This tram passes Topeka going east at 10 a. m. This train passes Topeka going wesb at 3:50 H.

B. Hebbington, J. T. Gwin, City Ticket Agent. Depot Agent..