Wichita eagle., 1888-09-18
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Ellsworth county claims to have a
silver mine.
Jimmy Roberts, aged II. is missing
from Parsons.
The Brighton coal mine has been
started at Leavenworth.
The Harper fair, which begins today.
promises to be the best ever held in Har-
per county.
An unfortunate girl was drugged on
the bridge across the Kaw at Topeka on
Thursday night.
The Douglas sugar works turned ont
three tons of sugar as the result of the
first days work.
The Halstead Independent is taking
subscriptions to be paid after Harrison 5
election at double its usual rates.
Roe Knight and his hired man, while
in the orchard Friday afternoon, were
struck by lightning near Eaton, Cowley
county.
A grain firm of this city has shipped
off this years crop, over 100.0 900 bushels
of wheat to Texas firm.-Wintield Te,.
egram.
Atchison Patriot: The Kansas City
Evening News says the forests are
pining away" They should spruce up;
look at Oklahoma.
You should pronounce it Herod and
Mar-i-ame-ne, with the accent on the
pepult This is authoritative. because the
Lawrence Journal says so.
The wheat that has been sown in Nor
ton county is looking splendid. The
rains of few days since have produced
this satisfactory result.-RichfieldL aader.
The Episcopal Military institute for
BOYS, erected by the city of Salina at
cost of $40, coo. will be completed and the
school opened September Goth.
Newton is already preparing to utilize
the natural gas recently developed at
that place. The carriage factory is going
to use it for fuel in its engines.
The trial of Edith Todd for the muir
der of A. 3. Taylor travelling sales
man. ended at GarnetS Saturday in a
verdict of not guilty. The jury was out
three hours.
The Missouri Pacific has been discrim-
mating against the Usage county mines,
SO the mine operators say, and the state
railroad commissioners have issued a
you-quit-it against the road.
Geneseo, the junction of the Missouri
Pacific and Santa Fe systems, is putting
up public school building that is to
cost $4,000. Harrington will invest 3d.
600 in a similar enterprise.
Charles Covell, living a few miles
southeast of the city, yeaterday threshed
the wheat from a field of fifteen and
quarter acres, and 1t turned out forty
five bushels to the acre. ellington
Standard.
The town of Wyandotte-Ar mourdale-
Observation-Disclosures Kansas City, Kan
sas. is doing very well. Taking all parts
of this numerously named tract and 400
buildings may be counted in course of
rection.-Prentis.
Ex-Gov. Charles Robinson, has re-
signed the position of superintendent of
the Haskell institute. the Indian school
at Lawrence. Gov. Robinson was the
first governor of Kansas, one Of her old
est residents. and one of her most honor
ed citizens.
VIM. Study has % acres of alfalfa
which was sowed this spring that has
been cut twice already and stands 10 or
L.
a ton and half to the acre the third
cutting, or. perhaps, a crop Of seed
Cedarvale Star.
There is a good deal OF quiet mirth
among the husbands of Emporia over
the fuss that the Kansas papers are max
ing because a Kansas City magistrate
has decided that women have the right
to wear trousers. Emporia always was
little breachy on the matter Of woulans
wearing apparel.
a German named Lewis Mautz climb
ed TO the top Of hay NOW on his farm
in Cowley county, enc day last week,
LAID down and remained there four DAYS
before his whereabouts was discovered.
When found be was more dead than
alive. his mind total wreck and his
body greatly depleted.
The Garden City Sentinel, having ex-
perienced both conditions, says: "a
good weekly paper, well CONDENSED. care
fully put together and on easy terms
with the world, beats a small daily that
must stint Itself 10 keep On speaking
terms with the breath Of ife" There i
not better weekly IN the state.
Atchison Globe: The soldiers or
phans home IN this city is practically
full. Girls have nos been received for
several months, owing 70 tbs institution
being crowded. Only four more boys