Wichita eagle., 1888-06-03
KANSAS KOLLARY.

! d Ht" paper at LAWRENCE. IL Is IN SIZE
six column folio.
I Harper county intends carrying of
the cotton laurel this year. One man
j. II. Creek, hes thirteen acres undo,
| cultivation.
The Missouri river at Leavenworth is
rising and according to the Times the
colored population are exerting them
| selves IN reScuing the driftwood.
A butter and cheese factory under
management of a stock company with 6
$1,000 building and machinery, and 45(
cows owned by stockholders, IS started
in Minneapolis.
A Winfield paper recently in a report
OF the concert OF the Philharmonic so
clety laments the sad state of the must
Cal tastes Of the people of that city.
Judging from the program there is
liability of siding with the public.
One Of the leading organizations in
which has existed for years. The Ken.
tuckians now have an organization and
now the natives of Ohio are about to
start club, says an exchange. And poo,
old Missoury?
A Topeka photographer mixed I'D the
photographs of fifteen different babies
and then asked the mothers to pick them
out. Only about four mothers hit if
right. The same thing has happened
with otter faces in regard to some pho
tographers' work.
Kansas has now 1J5 national banks
with paid in capital of $12 236 800. a
| surplus fund OF 81 $3.50, S5402. and total
individual deposits of SIG, 242, 1894 IS.
The total number of state banks and
banking firms in addition to the national
banks, Is AS, making grand total of
| 600
Mrs Ellen Ostling, of Usage county.
who Is charged with poisoning her hus-
band, and who had her preliminary ex-
| animation before Justice of the Peace C.
). Martin last week, was bound over to
the district court in the sum of $1,000
Not being able to secure bail, she was
| taken to the county jail.
Winfield Courier: The election for the
issuing OF bonds to the Denver Memphis
q Atlantic Railway company for the
purpose of erecting shops and round
house at this point, passed off quietly, a
very light vote being pOlled. The bonds
We're carried almost unanimously, and
Winfield will soon have shops in full
| operation.
A motion was made in the supreme
court in the case of A. NJ Hoffman VS..
c. c. Mills, sheriff of Hamilton, to grant
the answer of defendant. and. was
Overruled by the court. the case being
assigned for hearing June Z. The mat
ter IN controversy is the sheriff office.
Hoffman claims to have been elected to
the Office Mills holds.
A blaze which nearly resulted in burn
ing out a clothing house at Newton the
other night was caused by bug which
flew into an electric light and after being
enveloped in flames fell upon a piece of
paper on the counter below. This is
something new. although it is a we'll
known fact that men have seen stars
since these same bugs have become
emulators of the banana peel.
The Lawrence journal states that the
records of the probate court show that
in the cOnnubial alliances formed during
the past week, at least one-half of the
women of the ''high contracting parties"
have been several years older than the
men, and explains it by saying that the
bows seem to be choosing age before
beauty. Why don't somebody spring
the leap year racket? We thought of it.
Topeka Capital: A boarding house
kept by Mrs. Wells at 500 jackson street
was broken into early yesterday morn
ing. The thief cut the glass out of the
kitchen window and passed through the
kitchen into room where the servant
girl was sleeping. He tied rope to the
table i'll the dining room and to a door
through which hel pwould be most likely
to come, in a shape that any movement
of the door would upset the table. His
movements aroused the girl who gave
the alarm, but he was gone before help
could reach her.
Detective Welbosky. of the Pinkerton
agency in Chicago arrived in
Kansas City day before Yesterday
from Pittsburg. in charge of Benjamin
II. Jones, the absconding bookkeeper of
Stafford, Kan. Jones was located in
Pittsburg by Superintendent Epplesheim
er of the Chicago agency, where he was
posing as Burt Jones, alias Burt Bell,
and representing himself as a cattleman
from Colorado. The arrest was made by
Assistant Superintendent Of Police
O Nara of Pittsburg. When taken to
the police station in that city he broke
down completely and confessed his guilt.
Jones left Stafford April II and took
with him 500 in cash of the funds of
First National bank. The officers put an
expert at work on the books and discov-
cred that his specuiations began as early
as last September and that he had robbed
the bank of about Sl,100. While look
ing up the case the detectives discovered
that Jones had one time lived in Chicago
and that he had robbed his father-in-law
at various times and had obtained be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. On account
of his family his crimes We're overlooked
and he was allowed to so UNPUBLISHED
Clay Center Times: The suspicious
that the burning of the Swede church at
Morganville. which occurred Wednesday
night. May %. was the work of an incen-
diary, eliminated yesterday in the arrest
of S. H. johnson. of the Swede Mill CO.
The warrant was sworn out by Andrew
Johnson, engineer at the mill, and g.
Carlson. one of the trustees of the
church. and served by City Marshal Stew
art, who went to Clifton and found Mr..
Johnson there attending to his business,
namely, to furnish supplies from his
bakery which he has recently estab-
iished here. The preliminary examina-
ton is set for 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. Dawes, of Clay Center, was tele-
graphed for TO conduct the defense, but
being absent Senator Hardness was en-
gagged. 1t does not seem probable that
Mr.. Johnson could have been guilty of
setting the fire in view of the fact that
he contributed more money toward the
building of the church than all others
combined. The amount of his contribu-
tion vas about Sqg1 In a conversation