Wichita eagle., 1888-11-09
KANSAS KOLLARY.

| IlOulcalS N h2llSaS now being eutSu Dy
women.
Hon. Geo. Ellis, of Medicine Lodge
brother of District Judge Ellis, died sud
denly at his home last Wednesday.
Thomas McInerny, who formerly lived
at Leavenworth, was accidentally killed
a few days since at Fl. Mckinney, Tex
Judge Sam Cameron died at his home
in Lyons last Wednesday night. De-
ceased was an old soldier and an Odd
Fellow.
! Of the boys in the deaf and dumb asy-
lum IS are learning the topographic art.
% are carpentering, and 16 are at the
shoemaker's trade.
More wheat has been sown in the
southern part of Ness county than was
ever put in the ground IN single sea-
son before.-News.
At the normal-Professor: What is the
plural of child?
Pupil-Twins, sir.
The 14-year-old son of 4. G.. Kuntz,
of Stevens county, was knocked into a
well 115 feet deep, last Monday. He
was rescued with only few bruises.
| Boys at Sterling turned faucet at the
sugar works and let $500 gallons of
syrup run to waste. This specimen OF
vandalism cost the company over 81 900.
The junction City Union announces
that Capt. A. G. Pierce has discovered
that it pays better to feed grass to cattle
than to have it destroyed by prairie fires.
The Cherryvale Republican has
changed hands again. a. l.. Wilson
sold to the Republican Publishing COM
pany. c. P. Burlington is the new
| editor.
Miss Frederick Bruds, of Buffalo, n.
Y, was married at Garden City to Au-
gust Goelzel Miss Bruds took her we'd
ding tour alone, coming to meet her
lover.
Robert Gibson, of Sharon, Barber
county, claims to have grown sweet
potato this season that measured five feet
and a few inches in length and five
inches in diameter.
Kansas City, Kan, is described by the
New York Herald as town in which
you go down stairs to take the elevated
railway, and the high-headed Gazette
is proud of the distinction.
A Clay Center man came west eight
years ago, and now has a comfortable
home, no Indebtedness and $4,000 in
money But he was not a Union
Laborite, he worked with his hands.
Three boys were run over by Mis-
souri, Pacific switch engine at Chetopa.
Aleck Gatewood was instantly killed,
Jeff Jones had leg cut off and Jimmy
Lee was so badly injured that his recoy
cry is doubtful.
Sedgwick county won premiums on
cotton, corn, millet. apples, melons and
broom corn at the Cincinnati centennial
exposition. The display was regarded
as one of the most attractive at the ex-
position.
The next meeting of the Missouri
Valley Social Science club will be held
in Leavenworth next May. The session
just closed at Atchison appointed COM
mittee to lobby bill through the legis-
lature creating reform school for girls.
According to the last report of the
agricultural department at Washington,
Kansas is considerably above the aver
age on yield of wheat per acre, anly two
ritories showing an equal or greater
yield.
We have heard of queer election bet
but withal very sensible one. A prom
inent society belle has agreed to marry
gentleman friend if Harrison is elected
If Cleveland is elected the gentleman is
to marry her. How cute!-Pawnee
Leader.
G. j. Jones, currently known as
Buffalo JONES'" of Garden City, has
purchased the Manitoba herd. Jones will
soon have a corner on buffalo as there
are few wild ones now. The herd of $50
or more buffalos form grand attraction
for Garden City.
Last Wednesday night during the
Democratic rally in Horton two men got
into fight at the gambling room of Jud
Oliver and J. P. Beates over game of
cards and knitted and shot each other.
One of the men is not expected to live
and the other is badly hurt.
The Topeka Cap. Com. denies the
charge made by the Leavenworth Stand
ard that it is an anti-Ingalls organ, and
says that if there is a conspiracy against
the senator, it has no knowledge of it.
Or as Pooh Bah has it, il has nothing to
do with the case.
Merrill Hughes last week dug a well
for Mr.. Lambkin. six miles south of
town and when at depth of 1870 feet, a
blind hen fell into the well, frightening
him until his hair, which was a raven
black, turned suddenly red. Hughes !
thought the well had commenced cav
ing.-Hugo Herald.
The Moore salt well reached a depth !
of 915 feet TODAY, 400 feet being through |
salt. The we'll is now completed. and |
the machinery will arrive for evaporat |
ing the salt IN few days. The capacity |
of this plant is about 600 barrels per day. |
BY the 18th inst, the company hope TO !
have the plant running full capacity
kingman Courier.
Sunday the magnificent new church |
building belonging to the Methodist |
Episcopal denomination of Wellington. |
was formally dedicated by Rev. Or. w. Fl. !
Fl. Adams, president Of the Wesleyan /
of Bloomington, Ill. The /
building and grounds cost S24 600 1t /
covers a space of 80 By 20 feet outside t
asurement.-Standard.
Every farmer should write to Prof. Z.
N. Shelton, Manhattan, Kansas, and get
Bulletin No. 4, of the experiment sta
ion. This bulletin gives the expert
nents made at the agricultural college
and experiment station. The act which
treated these stations provided also that
.hese bulletins be gratuitously distrib-
lted. Bulletin No. giving fourteen
years experience with cultivated grasses
md clover, and No. 3. Observations on
Two Insect Pests" can also be supplied. |
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