Wichita eagle., 1888-11-23
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Four men have been killed since the
construction of the state house in Topeka
was begun, the last one on Tuesday.
The membership of the Y. NJ. c. A. of
Lawrence has increased from fifteen to
ninety-two during the last seven months.
| The editor of the RossvIlle Times be
| lieves in evolution. He finds bangs on
an Indian pony and the buffalo chews a
cud.
Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, opened
the lecture season at Archison last night
under the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. \. Of
that place.
Hutchinson and Dodge City seem to be
about the only two towns in the Seventh
congressional district opposed TO the
opening of Oklahoma.
At Wichita's rally Monday evening
the firing of the big cannons was dis
tinctly heard by different parties in this
city.-Sedgwick Paragraph.
The library Of the Kansas state agri-
cultural college has over 5000 bound vol
umes and about $500 pamphlets. The
accessions of bound volumes during the
year ending June 80, 1888, were SS5.
A magnificent specimen of the Ameri-
can golden eagle, one of the finest ever
seen in Kansas. was recently shot near
Garden City. The noble bird measured
seven and half feet from tip to tip.
Topeka prospected industriously, not
to say laboriously and extensively, for
coal, but despite her efforts in that di-
rection she is left out in the cold and is
willing to to shut up, both the holes IN
the ground and the head.
Atchison is sgain moving in the mat
ter OF securing the location of the ma
chine shops of the Missouri Pacific rail
road for its northwestern system at that
place. The railroad wants 100000 in
bonds from the city as a consideration
precedent.
Prof. Stockmeyer. the Fort Scott
weather prOgnoSticator, announces with
the greatest assurance OF certainty that
terrible blizzard will occur on the great
lakes inside Of forty-eight hours. Ac-
cording to the telegraphic reports the
professor struck it pat.
The annual convention of county clerks
convened in the Keith building, Topeka,
Wednesday afternoon at / 80. there being
about seventy members present. Roland
Lakin, county clerk of Lyon county, is
president of the association and ID. n.
Burdge, of Shawnee, secretary.
The qualities of six of the Kansas
congressmen-elect are as follows: Nor
rill 6,342; Funston 9, 063: Perkins II $40;
Ryan obs; Anderson S,501. The COM
plete returns from the Seventh, Peters
district are not reported, although his
plurality will show an increase over that
of two years age.
The ladies of Arkansas City who are
the proud possessors of red hair have re-
solved upon giving red headed recep-
ton. None but red haired people will
be in attendance and white horses will
be used to bring the guests to the recep
ton. The date has not been decided
upon as yet
The following unique invitation, en-
blazoned upon the window of an Arkan-
cas- City restaurant should not be re-
garded in the light of reflection upon
the system of popular education in Kan
sas: Cum in an And git Squar mele
SIGH As vur muther used To Kuk For
twenty five Scents
Commander-in-chief William Warner
of the G.. A. r., has issued an order
naming his staff The members for
Kansas are Senator r. w. Blue, Pleasan-
ton; Captain A. NJ Fuller, Topeka; Hon.
A. K. Greene. Cedar Vale; Mark j.
Kelley. Doniphan; General Murray
Myers, Wichita: E. F. Sprague, @. W.
Camp and E. j. Littlewort.
Kansas editors in the main are gentle
men, and there is not one who would
not resent an insult to his wife and
mother. Yet there is one Kansas editor
who insuIts poor woman because she |
is old, decrepid and ignorant. That Is |
going too far. and there Is not an editor |
in Kansas who Will not resent tx. c. |
News. Who is he? Trot him out so we
can all get whack at him.
Can corn starch be successfully manu- |
featured in Kansas? And if it can, why |
in the name of common reason would It |
not be an immensely rich and profitable !
to establish an institution for |
the manufacture of that article In Louis !
vile: The corn supply IN this section Is |
simply enormous, and If such an enter |
prise could be successfully operated here |
every bushel would sell for % cents !
Louisville Indicator.
Several days since II. I. Keeton and |
L. C. keeton took row boat and went
down the Arkansas river on a hunt. !
They had arrived almost az kaw when !
VI. V. Keeton. seeing a squirrel, landed /
and went to shoot it. He had buckled !
around his shoulder, and hanging at hls
side, revolver, and when he raised his
shot gun TO his shoulder and discharged |
it, the kick Of the weapon discharged MS
revolver. The ball from that weapon
ranged downward passing through q
powder flask, exploding It's contents,
and then took effect in the calf Of his
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