Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — KANSAS LETTERS. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS LETTERS.

Ed.'Sentinel : Thinking something from Kansas might interest many of your readers, I pen the following items: Old ground cor: planting is over. Wheat is suffering some fur want of rain. A town is being started in the southwestern part of Kingman county by the name of ,I’ri stpn. A hm- antelope was killed one day lasi week by George Hurl. Cliailey 31 Curtain is teaching school at the Prairie Plain school house. Oge 1, Oman is the happiest man in Kansas. Another young .jayhawkc r. Tiie railroad urvey is to be completed from Wichita to Kingman before t he Ist of May. A beautiful rainbow was seen on the night of the ‘!stb, at 101 o’clock. YL'.nkee John. Tile above items came to hand too late for publication last week . Kingman,Kansas, April 20, 1880. The weather is cool and dry. Jerome Boroughs and Ed Rhoades started for Sun City this morning.—• From there they arc going out uii the range. Jack Barkley stiys if lie could get close enough to an antelope he wo’d kill one. Bachelors are getting more numerous in Kansas than grasshoppers. William E. Moore and family started for Indiana this morning. Levi Clouse ha': built a house on his claim. Itatliesimkes are crawling over the prairo seeking whom they may devour. Several of Newt. McCurtain’s family have the measles. Yankee John. “Prairie Dog” writes, on the 28th, from the same place :

Ice last night. Meash s are raging. Rain needed badly. Real (‘state has been high--in the air—this especially in sandy districts. * The wheat is badly injured by the dry weather, but with rain soon wiil make a fair crop. The St. Louis, Wichita and Southwestern Railroad is now graded to Wici ita, and contracts are let still farther w. st. Kingman county can now boast of three towns Kingman, Cleveland and Preston. Kingman is situated on the Ninneseah River, and about, six miles north of the. center of the county; Cleaveland is in the center and contains the finest storein the county; Preston is in the southwest part. Prospects of the county are flatterin<r * * * *