Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-30
KANSAS KObLARY.

| laIfOn OF S.oo5s
There are forty-three Y. NJ. C. A. asso-
Citations In the state.
I Salina he's q lady advocate of Belva
Lockwoods principles.
The Y. N. C. a. at Fort Scott has free
bath rooms for the use of its members.
The number of marriage licenses at
Leavenworth exceed the real estate
transfers.
Alec Butts claims that a five-legged
steer is one of the attractions at the OF
tawa assembly.
Harper is soon to have spelling match,
and the fellow who can spell Webster
''clear through" takes the mug.
Ten ladies and twelve gentlemen are
taking lessons in military drill at the
Shawnee county normal institute.
The people along the Missouri river
bank in Kansas City, Kansas, are moving
out of their homes from fear OF the June
rise.
/ The Mcpherson Republican claims
protection for the salvation army until it
has been decided by the courts to be a
nuisance.
The Fort Scott. Tribune is informed
that the extensive galvanized cornice
works at Nevada are TO lie moved to
Fort Scott.
/ 1t is stated Mayor Metzker, of Topeka,
has engaged in newspaper controversy
with Jake Admire, of the Usage City
Free Press.
Wednesday evening the gods display
ed some brilliant cloud colorlng flor the
exclusive benefit of the Chautauqua as
sembly at Ottawa.
Between the organization of singing
class and a leap year party given by the
bellies of the city, the social part of Abb
lene is pretty well taken up.
Report says the ladies of Hope have
organized base bail club. The players
will wear maroon colored tights and flat
heeled cotton hose as the principal fea-
! ture of attraction.
The body of an unknown man was
found yesterday in the river at 81.
George. The body was horribly mutt
lated, which Leads to the conclusion that
/ it is another case of murder.
Kansas has the best array of newspa-
pers in the west, but the would-be funny
|
! tires the readers with facts, which per-
| haps interest him alone, in that they
/ affect him personally, should be exter-
minated.
| Leavenworth is going to do the Fourth
up in grand style. Thirty car loads of
| eXcusionistS are coming from Kansas
| City, fifteen from AtchisOn and the Cen
! trail Branch country ten from Lawrence,
twelve or fourteen from Topeka and
/ struggling contingents from other por
| tions of the state.
Vice-President and General Manager
! II. A. Parker and General Solicitor NJ.
A. Lowe, accompanied by their families,
| stopped awhile in Wellington today, en-
route in a special car TO the terminus of
the Rock Island, twenty-five miles south
of Caldwell, in the Indian territory, on
an inspection Wellington Stan
dard.
Milt Reynolds, in speaking of the ar
| tificial salt lake at Genda Springs says
| that its ''surf dashes over the fair form
of hundreds of bathers every day" The
study of Alphonso Daudet is evidently
increasing in Kansas, says the Star. o
yes, in Kansas ''Sappho' is having as
large a run as Mr.. Barnes, of New
York"
Kingman Courier: Samples of King
man S fire and potters clay, rock salt,
mineral paint and limestone will be on
exhibition at the Cincinnati exposition
The display of these vast natural resour-
ces of wealth are not due to the energy
or enterprise of Kingman. Wichita cap
italists, who recognize something more
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matter in hand and secured the samples.
This, to say the least of it, is a painful
criticism on the metropolis of the Mn
neScah.
From the following local, taken from
the Abilene Gazette, the ratification
meeting was evidently a rattler at that
place: During last evenings ratifica-
ton by the Republican party, in this
city, one of the small gas pipes being
used in place of cannon, on being fired,
passed into the Union Pacific freight
depot and utterly demolished fine piano
stored therein. OF course damages will
be claimed, and the question is, who is
responsible. the speakers who uttered the
malicious falsehoods and slung the mud
from the band stand or the innocent
helpers who were the direct cause of the
trouble:'
Emporia Republican: Ed Barton
showed US yesterday a white silk rib
bon badge used in 1870 when General
Harrison, grandfather of the Republican
nominee, was the Wing candidate for
president of the United States. AT the
top of the badge was printed the words
Let the people rule then picture of
the American eagle; next the American
flag with the names of Harrison and Tyler
printed in the folds. under which the
words ''Retrenchment and Reform
were printed. Then appeared the pic
ture of a log cabin at the corner of which
stood barrel of cider The words Rails
ed June 6, 1870, by the Campbell County
Tippecanoe Club" followed. This viii
be 40 campaign, minus the cider, log
cabin and the coon. Well have Ha ri |
son just the same.
Leavenworth Times: The metropoli- |
tan police succeeded few DAYS ago in /
getting a witness against two lointists |
who had violated the courts injunction. !
Later the witness was arrested on |
trumped up charge of embezzlement, /
sworn out by one of the jointist's friends, /
and after considerable fim-faming
around the justices court, he was fined /
and Jailed. Last Tuesday night the fine I
and costs were paid by some one I'M /
known to the officers at the Jail and the !
witness was released and spirited away |
When the cases against the vioiators Of /
the injunction were called in the district !
court yesterday morning, and the wit
ness was asked for by the METROPOLITAN 1
police. thew were informed. for the first I.