Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
KANSAS KOLLARY.

| Galloway's circular only lies So, 500. 900
| about the mortgage Indebtedness of Bour-
bon county.
| The Salina Journal announces the death
of Grant o Baldwin, formerly of the seth
Ohio regiment.
Willie Ingraham, aged 6 years, was
thrown from his pony and dragged to
death at Lawrence.
Major Tom Anderson, of Topeka, de-
cllnes the position of commisSary of the
Soldiers Home at LeavenWorth.
The initials U. L. stand for Union La
Dor, and, according to the fredonia Citi-
zen, they also stand for Unlimited Lip
The Kansas City News is pestered be-
cause George Weller still uses the word
brother in speaking of a fellow editor.
By the explosion of shotgun in his
hands while out hunting Ralph Ratekin,
16-year-old boy, was seriously injured
Saturday near Wellington.
The experimental work at the Ster-
ling Sugar Experimental Station is over.
DR.. c. A. Champion, the chemist. is on
his way to Louisiana
CITY Clerk Thomas OF the United States
court resigned his office Monday and
Deputy United States Marshal Sharritt
was appointed as his successor.-Topeka
Democrat.
Kansas society folk are inventive or
nothing. At TT. Scott chicken pie So
Gals are the local fad, while at Harper
they employ sweat meat as the load
stone.
Mrs, John Wilborn was so badly
burned by her clothing catching fire at
her home III Effingham last Saturday
that she died from the effects few
hours afterwards.
The spiritualists give dancing sociables
just as close to them when they waltz
as if they were Congregationalists or
Episcopalians.-*
The people of Kansas have come to the
conclusion that Mrs. Langtry is a good
deal like the Ben Davis apple. Anybody
who has ever tasted the fruit will appre-
clate the comparison.-*
George W. Cain, formerly the editor
of the Belle Plaine News, finding it ira-
possible to keep out of the newspaper
business, has purchased the Conway
Springs Star and takes charge this week.
John Does identity has been discov-
cred by the Garden City Sentinel. He
turned up in the court there a day or
two ago in the person of a colored man
named Tom Gray, charged with selling
liquor.
Following the boycott on Kansas City
meats Leavenworth parties erected
slaughter house at that place, but it
seems, from the local papers, that the
local dealers require bit OF coaxing to
get them to patronize the home butch
er5. Sounds kind o queer.
"Invincible. " the fast 4-year-old. low
cred his record yesterday at the Driving
Park. He brought it down from Dps to
2:23. 1t is believed that ''IDyincible"
will yet eclipse the worlds stallion rec
ord He is now the fastest horse Of his /
class between the Mississippi and the /
Rockies Abilene Gazette.
Governor Martin of Kansas. is in re-
ceipt of letter from g. F. Fernow, sec
retary of the American forestry congress.
stating that that body will meet at At 4
lanta, Ga. on November 10 at the spec (
ial invitation of the legislature Of Geor- I
gia. The writer of the letter desires that I
Kansas should be represented and sole +
its the action of Governor Martin In APP
pointing proper delegates. The object .
of the convention is to discuss and rec
ommend such measures q viii tend TO 4
promote more rational forest policy IN .
the country.
There are fifteen hundred people at the
Soldiers home IN Leayenworth, one
thousand at the Lansing penitentiary,
two thousand at the fort. another thous-
and or two at some outside schools, and
about three thousand employed IN rail-
road shops and factories outside the cor
poration, all Of whom are embraced IN
estimates of population OF the city. But
with the addition of the $500 thus
enumerated the population Of Leaven-
worth is only about 33 600. The agr7cui-
tural report makes II out the largest city
in the state, with WichIta's 70, 600 staring
the hoard in tbs face
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The Man Eating Fly.
Tbs French IN Cayecae a-s sad 70 hol1 u