Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-06

| The 1vanhoe Times is authority for the
statement that during a heavy rain anS
hail storm there Saturday hundreds Of
small fish fell TO the earth and were
seen f1oundering in the mud and waite,
long after the storm had passed over.
FIVE thousand head of south Texas
cattle, destined for Montana, are quaran
| tined on the Cimarron. They have been
| inspected and prom ounced free from dis
ease and the owners are hopeful Of re-
ceiylng permission TO continue the drive
without being compelled to lay by the
legal ninety days.
The Harper hose team has about con,
Guided to go to Wichita via the Zoola
remarks the Sentinel The Missouri Pa
cific offers them one-fare rate, 81. 20,
| and agree to transport their hose cart
free. Jay Gould was fireman once
| himself and never gses beck on the boys
to this day.-Sentinel.
A woman at Arkansas City recently
destroyed a check, claiming that She
thought it an advertisement. There have
been some pretty suspicious stories go
ing the rounds Of late, but when ii
comes to innocently destroying checks
you ask us to overjump even imagina-
tion.-Arkansas City Traveller.
Winfield Courier: The oat crop in
Kansas, and especially in southern Kan
sas, is something phenomenal and nlasto-
donic this year. 1t will be in stack in
| about two weeks. Such crop was never
known ty the oldest settlers. There are
fields near this city 50 and 100 acres of
uniform wonderful head and height.
C. W. Jones, of Garden City, has re-
turned from his buffalo hunt down in
the panhandle of Texas. While away he
visited every valley and canyon in that
country that was liable to be feeding
grounds for these animals, and succeeded
III finding only twenty-five. Of this num-
Der he captured six-fve calves and one
cow-which viii be placed with his do
mestic herd of forty.
Night Waterman Currier informs us
that burglars broke into the ten-pin alley
tent Friday night, but We're scared away
before they got anything. The same
night some one broke into the basement
Of the Houghton block and stole ten
bottles of malt and several bottles of
club house stutf,-Arkansas City Trav-
eler.
That man must be an artist, indeed,
who will mistake ten-pins for ''malt."
H. Ammidsen, who has charge of the
boring of the Santa Fe gas Well returned
to the city last evening, reports the Gar
den City Sentinel The contract with
the Santa Fe company was completed
yesterday morning, the drill having
descended depth of 1,004 feet. There
is an abundance of water in the well,
which rises to within $50 feet of the sur
face. There is talk of forming another
company and pushing the work further.
Garden City Sentinel: The hail storm
which visited the northwest part of
Scott county last week was rather Sc
we're. A great deal of light hail fell and
III some sections stones as large as
mans fist fell. These large ones made
great holes in the ground where they
struck, and knocked shingles off the
roofs Of the houses. The large residence
of John Hess, on the west line of the
county, was demolished by the wind,
and a daughter Of his seriously injured.
Voice from Geuda: Realization in
rapidly developing country like Kansas
very frequently tramps close to the heels
VI lllSIDdtiOIl. w lIotNt anticipated,
prayed, cursed and begged for a bath
house, a great hotel and a lake. And now
we shall have them all by the hot days of
August. The lake is here to stay. 1t will
stick. 1t is a success-nothing like 1t in
Kansas. The big hotel Will be opened
the fourth of July. The contractors have
promised Col. Sam Gilbert the keys bv
that time. The same men build the bath
house. They are pushers.
A new plan of irrigation has Just been
on the Pawnee river, south
of Larned A large wheel is placed in
the edge Of the water, which resembles
of a double Windmill. The
wheel is so constructed and CONNECTED
that it is kept constantly turning by the
current. To the rim of the wheel is
eight large troughs, each hold
ing eight gallons of water. As the
wheel turns these troughs dip up water,
carry it to the highest point of the wheel
and there empty it into the irrigating
ditch. Through bitches and laterals ii
is then carried to the adjacent land. By
this means the river by its own force is
turning stream OF water TO
the surrounding country.
e. SLdIlSS lOilONdN teilS us Oh a ulScDV-
cry of clue which may lead to the IN
covering of a murder. John Holloway.
his father. is building a house north of |
the cemetery and Charles has been
working there. A week ago last night |
the man who lives on J. NJ. Groves farm |
that he had heard two quick |
pistol shots in the vicinity of the Gem |
etery. Mr.. Holloway did not think
much about the matter until Friday, |
when he was going to his fathers house, |
1T the forks of the road Just before |
the cemetery he noticed marks |
If scuffle in the sand and |
spots Of blood He looked arouud |
some bur made no further discovery
until yesterday, when he and !
John Williams were going to the house.
N searching around they found a spot
which looked as if something had been
buried there. They dug down and
ound it-a sheet. saturated with blood
III one corner, also a mans shirt. a
Dwell and silk handkerchief. All had
blood on them, and the shirt had the ap-
of having been torn in scuffie. /
they covered the clothing with sand
nd went on TO their work, intending to
et them when they came to the CITY at
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