Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-13
KANSAS KOLLARY.

1 -'C" tOli, WI oC AaiA OAeOOC4
Burglars entered the residence of Pc
lice Judge Baldwin at Atchison~ and Sc
cured a gold watch and chain and $50 il
cash.
The second anniversary celebration o.
Horizons birthday will occur on Septem
| Der 20. There will be an old fashioned
| barbecue.
The average yield for wheat in Kansa:
| for this year is twenty-one and one-hal1
bushels per acre, and of oats thirty-fivt
| bushels.
Miss Flo Hunt, of Parsons, announced
to her parents yesterday that she had
| been Mrs. A. u. Leonard of Kansas City
| for two years.
A man in Seward county while re-
Gently digging a well sturck vein OF
some kind of liquid that tastes precisely
like lemonade.
Manhattan is to have a stove foundry.
The Nationalist says work will begin on
the buildings in few days. That's the
way to do it.
Secretary Mohler. of the State Board
of Agriculture. believes that the use of
the lister has added 20 per cent to the
Kansas corn crop.
The Dispatch says B. F. Hanna would
make a good mayor; Spivey will elect a
mayor shortly, and that's what's the
matter with Hanna.
The Fowler City Graphic has changed
hands, Messrs. o. A. Hurd and |. A.
Strauss succeeding Charles D. Majors as
editors and proprietors.
The Mcpherson Republican says: ''The
people do not yet realize the prize they
have secured in having the Dunkard
college located in this city
The Kansas corn crop this year is
nearly double that of last year, and with
the single exception of that of 1884, is
the best ever made in the state.
A vine is said to be growing near
Lakin, Kearney county, that contains
nineteen pumpkins, no one of which
weighs less than seventy pounds.
The interior of Plymouth church in
Lawrence must present a Kaleidoscope
appearance. The Journal says it is fres-
coed with six hundred different tints,
shades and colors.
Probably the thickest skull in America
belongs to the man who works in the
hot sun to put up hay, and then lets it
burn up Tor the want OF fire guard
Newton Republican.
There are 1000 Germans in the CITY of
LeavenwOrth and about 5000 in the
county. That would be a good commun-
ity for To-hell-with-the-Ge rman-vote
Rohrer not to emigrate to.
Miss Jennie Mckenzie, aged II. living
near Blue Rapids, while attempting to
duplicate some Of the cOntortion feats
which she had seen performed in
circus, broke her left leg at the hip.
Emporia has forty-siX pound water
melou, a twenty-five pound beat, a
seventy-five pound pumpkin, and a
potato which it Is estimated would
make an entire meal Tor a normal stu
dent
The watermelons around Gueda
Springs weigh from forty-five to sixty
pounds. There appears to be no
longer any room to doubt the influence
of Milt Reynolds on horticulture in Kan
SaS.-"
The Indians at Wichita are raising
everything but scalps.-Ex. They didn't
raise the sum of $50 that they demanded
for street exhibition of war dance
Tuesday, consequently didn't raise a
whoop.
The Douglass sugar works were put
in operation Saturday. The first strike
for sugar was made yesterday tuesday.
The test SO far made by the government
chemist at the works are said to be en-
Mr.. j. Vinegar the inventor of the
hambeau and postmaster of Atchison
eight years, has been declared insane.
The first tiambeau ever exhibited was
under his direction in 1868, when he or
ganlzed club.
The Gridley Gazette passed in its |
checks last week, and from the very |
good and sufficient reason, so the editor |
says in his Jig Is up, that there was /
not support enough to keep a legitimate /
newspaper alive.
The Topeka city council has decided /
o pass an ordinance requiring all street /
Darades to pay license fee of $500. 1t
will except Sunday school professions,
ETC., but viii include political parades,
,ircuses and quack doctors displays.
The first native Kansas soldier to die
IN Kansas soil was Harry Smith of
Marion, of Company e, Second regi-
nent, K. n. c.. who died from malarial
ever contracted in Stevens county when |
lis company was summoned there re-
emily. He was buried in the G.. \. X
OF at Marion with the honors of war
<. G.. Star.
The Topeka Journal is disposed TO at
ooh a cIgrnItfpnUnn 10 tEc
act that the clock in the Methodist
hurch steeple at that place struck the
ther night for the first time in twelve
ears, without any visible cause. 1t is
elieved, however, that Attorney Gen
raj Bradford would be able to trace this
occurrence to purely human agencies
The Princess Caroline Christian Au-
-usta Emily Henrietta Elizabeth. of
chleswig Holstein Sonderburg Angus
inburg. has come TO visit America.
Ter whole title was brought over on one
hip. She Is expected to extend her
islt to the sunflower state before the
all fading OF that emblematic blossom.
Hon. John VI. Brown states that the
}razil negro colonization scheme is still
live. There is an inposter here work
NJ among local colored men, who Is do
lg his best to discourage 1t. Colonel
'rown states that he is probably in the
ay of southerners.-Topeka Common
Iealth.
Ex-Governor Crawford, agent for the
tate of Kansas at the national capital.
eturned Sunday night after having
taved to see the senate pass the bill
-hich is to give the agricultural college
he 1000 acres of indemnity lands due
ne institution by reason of the shortage