Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-10
prise expect to perfect all their arrange
ments this week.

40 tSAAADAl pONSAty StAtShCi
country. The county of Summer, will
thirty-six thousand inhabitants, has ont
, pauper in its poor house.
The price of milk at Garden City ha
advanced from to cents a quart. l
that is the effect irrigation has, G. c. hat
better close her big ditch.
The Central Kansas Sportsman
Shoot" will be held at Abilene, October
10, II and IL. Reduced rates on the
railroads and good purses to be shot for
Hutchinson raised 800, coo for the
packing establishment, and Wichita ha:
raised sheol.-KIngman Courier. Some
body will think so before the matter il
done with.
1t is reported that Capt. A. G. Pierce
of Junction City, has less than 81 900 in.
vested in two silos, an ensiliage cutter
and horse power, which pay for them.
selves every year.
Serling's two syrup mills are turning
out hundreds of gallons of excellent mo-
lasses day, and next year at least one
sugar mill will be in operation at that
point. So says the Bulletin.
Garden City Sentinel: "a man who
registered from 'Heayen' was at Digh-
ton hotel one day this week. He did not
state when he would return home, and is
evidently pleased with Kansas"
Barber is great stock county and this
year we are shipping lots of stock. From
this station alone, since January 1, 101
cars of stock have been shipped-eighty-
six of cattle, twelve of hogs and three of
horseS.-Cresset.
At recent wedding in Marion county
| the bride bore the expressive name of
Halterman. Undaunted by the name
| however, the groom walked like proud
martyr up to the alter and stuck his
| head In the ha-noose.
The National Farmers congress and
the National Grange will meet in Topeka
on November IA. The local Grange and
Secretary Mohler, of the state board of
agriculture, are making preparations for
entertaining the delegates.
The burning of the mills at Argonia
has reused the business men Of that place
to the necessity of providing some sort
fire protection. The Clipper says steps
will be taken to rebuild the mill and put
up water works plant forthwith,
The Graphic declares that no town in
vantages Immediately in her grasp and
such bright prospect of future success
as Fowler City, situated as she is In the
grandest part of western Kansas fair
prairie.
There isn't very much being said
about 1t, but the State Silk station is do
ing a good deal of work in reeling the
large crop of cocoons raised this year.
We were out there, the other day, and
found SIX young women at the reels
Peabody Gazette.
During the storm of last Thursday,
lightning struck the depot at Walton,
smashing the telegraph instrument, bat
terles, etc. Nobody was injured, though
one man had his boots torn off. Had
the operator been at his desk he IN
doubtedly would have been killed.
Work has been begun by the contract
ors on the last story of the main walls of
the capitol building. The contractors
are up with the contract time. The last
story is nineteen feet high, almost one
third higher than either of the two
stories Immediately 5elow.-State Jour
nal.
The tide of emigration is increasing
daily; today not less than twenty-five
teams were in town, some going to stop
in the county and some going farther
west. Not day passes but what we
hear of new families coming into differ !
ent parts of the county County |
Clipper.
Woo Lungon. the professor of laundry
tactics in Richfield, last week took out !
his first naturalization papers, proposing /
to become genuine American citizen.
Under rulings Of the courts Lungon will |
have to Woo a long time before he is &C
corded the privileges of American citi-
Charles Harris has disposed of his in
terest in and resigned editorial manage
mement of the Emporia Evening News.
Under his control the News has been a
success, to the extent that his successor
mot yet named) should have comparative
easy work in keeping it going, on the
same line of policy.
A mail agent named Graves, running
on the Edgerton branch of the Rock IS
land was formerly contributor to Puck.
X. c.. Star. Mr. Graves may begin to
get ready to Fucker again after next
March. The people don't like the idea of
udSlIS Tic Iudu Scl VIC HituS june Ol
as it has been in Kansas the past three
years.
One of the swell affairs of eastern
Scott county was the double wedding at
the Mitchell house, Griggsby, Kansas, on
October End, at s o'clock p. M, of LW.
w. Bebout and Mrs. Anna F. Sayer, and
Chas. G. Irwin and Miss Clara NJ. Slime,
he brides being sisters. The ceremony
was conducted by Rev. J. G. Moore, of
The Smoky Hill Baptist association,
which met at Ellsworth last week, seems
% have been captured by the adherents
IF Dr. Welsher. Several delegations with
rev, including the one from Manhattan,
md a new association will probably be
Observation-Disclosures Nationalist.
Brown County World Last spring
Charley Knabb read receipt for putting
ID hay before it was dry, by sprinkling
alt on it, etc. He put up some of his
Jay that way and, a few days ago,
when his men were working in a field
lear the hay, it took fire and about 1915
worth of il was DESTROYED. There was
10 one near the hay at the time.
kiowa proposes to hold two days
air at an early date, 10 be named. The
Journal very naturally thinks that since
Barber county is literally alive with fine
attic, hogs, sheep and poultry, while in
he way of horses it is becoming recog-
lied as home Of standard and thor
ughbreis," to say nothing Of the splen-
id field crops, vegetables and fruits,
here is no reason why they shouldn't
make public display of them. And it 1
5 right