Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-31
KANSAS KOLLARY.
A butter and cheese factory will b
erected this summer at Mcpherson.

". EuTCSH,2Q ATcaQld ScEOOi teacher
has been arrested for brutally whippin:
one of his scholars.
Robert Watson was accidentally sho
and killed by his 16-year old brother nea
Seely. Cowley county.
The commencement exercises of tn,
Emporia college begin Sunday and con
tlnue through the coming week.
At Parsons member of the G. A. R
and an ex-confederate joined in deco
rating the monument to the unknown
dead
The merchants of Fort Scott are OBJ
jecting to the street fakirs, who are null
tiplying daily, claiming that the fakirs
work injury to legitimate business.
The Fulton Independent reports thai
old farmers say that ants are more mum
erouS than for years past and that they
are making havoc among the chinch
bugs.
tiOurishing town of $500 inhabitants
Now it has $50 and is rapidly becoming
smaller. The removal of the county
seat caused the decline.
The state superintendent of the young
peoples society of christian endeavor
IN Kansas has called a state convention
to be held in Topeka on Wednesday and
Thursday, May 80 and 81.
James Mcintyre, moulder at the
Great Western foundry at Leavenworth,
In attempting to board train Sunday
was thrown under the wheels, receiving
injuries from which he died.
| The county commissioners elected all
bids for repairs on the Harvey county
| jail as the expense would be far more
than anticipated, and the county prison
will remain as 1t is for awhile longer.
Two persons. Garrett and Garfield,
who escaped from the guards at the
state penltentiary, have been recaptured
and will begin anew their terms of
three years. which had nearly expired.
Topeka Lance remarks that if any of
the Methodist bishops were to run for
police judge in Kansas they would be
defeated by a beastly majority. The
| women voters are all against them to
man.
The 25th day of May, 1888, will be
handed down to posterity in the history
OF Kansas as the day upon which
there was no notary public's commission
issued from the office of the governor at
Topeka.
K. C. Star: Mayor Bill Hackney has
soliditied the Citizens band at Winfield
by giving them a room free of charge
fol practice. Bill has been in Kansas
long enough to know the value of brass
and wind.
The state university will this year
graduate out a class of twenty three.
fourteen seniors VINO have made their
own way through college-the largest
number of self-supporting graduates of
any class in the institution.
The citizens of Leavenworth are at
present again very much worked up
over prehistoric remains, pair of
Aztec mummies. The manager at the
suggestion of the publishers of Harpers'
magazine intends visiting Hutchinson.
Hiawatha World: Mrs. Adam Schil-
ling is said to have sown the first dande-
hon seed in Hiawatha. She is an ardent
admirer of the yellow flowers. The wind
scattered the seed about town until the
very yards seem like solid beds of gold.
Many farmers, says the Garden CITY
Sentinel, in this section are putting in all
the time that can be spared from their
crops, planting alfalfa. There will be
tremendous acreage of this crop in
southwest Kansas in a few months 1t
Is doubling every six months.
4 Bourbon county paper in recent
issue bewails the invincible spirit of adj
vertising in the Indian medicine
man, - who proffered the musical part of
his concern, a brass band, as a feature
of Decoration Day, that he might spread
abroad the fame of his panacea
The Star says it is understood that a
large number OF lawyers who had pre-
pared Fourth of July orations for this |
year have Cancelled their engagements /
since Professor GOss, the Kansas orni- /
biologist has rendered a decision that |
the American eagle does not exist.
According to the kansan, Newton has |
been victimized by some fellows who /
have been working the illustrated maya |
zine advertising scheme. By the wall |
from the klngman Courier, it seems that |
the parties mentioned have been taking
In kingman also. That paper says:
The Larned land office still remains
closed, and it is believed by the knowing
ones that 1t will not be opened until after
congress adjourns, which will be about |
July l. This will work great hardship |
to the settler who desires to make final
proof on his claim, remarks the Kingman
Courier.
A lack of the poetical was noted in the
Fort Scott Monitor of Tuesday morning,
which may be no doubt attributed TO the
of the following item from that
paper. 1T took an immense amount of
yelling and 'ye-hoing TO get that big
safe mp to Pearsolls d Combs office near
he Monitor block, yesterday"
Abilene Sunday Chronicle SAYS: The
gang of robbers which has just been I'M
.arthed IN this county is receiving the
iue attention of the district court. II is
exported that there is an organized gang
which reaches from Dakota on the north
o Texas on the south But from the
ooks of things one by one the roses fall.
The following item from the Kiowa
Journal may be of interest: .
Last week we made mention of the
kuu of a Cheyenne Indian, who was kill
d in the Adobe Wall fight in 1874. Mr..
5ennett sent up an Indian pipe that was
with the skull, and. although il
lad been buried fourteen years. it still
melled strongly of tobacco.
Reports from ninety-six counties indi-
ate that Kansas, all things taken in ac-
cunt, Is IN a more promising condition 1
than for several previous
-ears. The fall, the winter and spring
ave been altogether favorable. This il
he cause of the thrifty condition of the
eheat plant at the beginning of Nav. &
he area devoted to wheat is larger than
n 1887.