Wichita eagle., 1888-09-01
ness men think it would be good insti-
tuition and say they viii take hold of it.


tuition and say they viii take hold of it.
a music teacher at salary of $500
per annum is employed IN the public
schools Of Winfield. Other Kansas
towns might proftably follow suit with
a little more money attached to the po-
sition.
The Abilene Reflector has brought
down the anathemas of young America
on its head for revealing the ignorance
of some writer in the youths Com
panion. The paper itself serves. alas,
about three fourths of the reading mat
ter to the young readers of this country.
Under the rules of q dancing club at
Atchison, boys who have INDUCED in
intoxicating liquors and girls who smoke
cigarettes are ostracised. That's about
as delicate as the lion in Kansas City
society who asked the Star if it was
etiquette to take your hat off when en-
tering an ice cream parlor with lady.
The latest Canadian tourist is Charles
w. Waldron, of Detroit, who was one of
the owners and managers of a bank at
Fredonia, and who took with him. over
the river between 5000 and $50, 1000 in
money and securities. The bank is doing
business and the depositors viii be paid
in full.
Scott Smith, well-to-do Topekan,
who about one year ago sold out his bus
mess in that city and went to California,
with nearly $50, 900 in cash which he in
vested in climate and sand, failing to re-
alize his expectations became despond-
ent, and on his way back to Kansas at
Lama junction, New Mexico, committed
suicide.
Atchison Globe: Ed Jackson, IS year
old son of II. N. Jackson. is promising
electrician. He has rugged up electric
batteries all over the house and barn, and
members of the family are continually
receiving shocks. He is now at work on
an electric motor, and is confident that
he can operate it successfully.
VIII White, the literary man of the
Lawrence Journal, thinks that Amehe
Rives has carried that bloody business in
Herod ana Marianne too far. But there
is some hope for Amelie yet. Wagner
once, after reading Macbeth, wrote a
tragedy in which 200 We're killed in the
first year, and Brander Matthews could
perhaps tell of some bloody plays of his
own composition.
Newton Republican,: Our old friend,
just returned from visit to his native
country, Ireland, and at the soldiers re-
union at Arkansas City, on Thursday, he
told now he went into bank in Dublin,
a total stranger, to have letter of credit
cashed. The cashier seeing bis G. \. r.
badge asked him who he was and what
it meant. Upon beng told the badge
was passed around among the employees
of the bank as a great curiosity. The
letter of credit was cashed without fur-
Their Identification.
Colby Tribune: A few days ago
Stephen Murphy, living In Smith town
ship, brought into County Clerk Sum-
mers box containing 125 gopher tails,
which he said his two sons, Master Ellis
and Randolph had amputated from the
bodies of that many gophers caught by
them. The boys are only nine and thir-
teen years old, and We're under the i'm
preston that there was bounty offered
by the commissioners for the little pests.
Mr.. Murphy says the boys managed to
gather this crop of gopher tails while
they were breaking elghty-five acres of
land.
Garden Oity Sentinel: From a gentle
man who arrived from Stevens county
on Sunday, it was learned that there is
no further excitement, but Hugoton and
WoOdsdale are watching each other
closely. Before the troops left the county
the captured arms were all turned over
to Sheriff Cam, who has returned them
to their owners. In Hugoton the men
are armed, as they always have been. In
Woodsdale it is said there is no display
of guns. but they are slowed away in
convenient place, where they can be
reached on the shortest notice. However,
everything is quiet in both camps at
present, although there is no telling how
long it will remain so. It was reported
in Woodsdale on Friday that man had
been held up that morning in the sand
hills, while on his way from Woodsdale
10 Voorhees,, by six Hugoton men, who,
it is claimed, were waiting for Sam
Wood, who, it was reported, would go
south that day.