Wichita eagle., 1888-11-03
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Ed Dudlet committed suicide at Wa
mego by taking poison.
Over 1900 acres of Meade county:
fertile lands are now green with fal
wheat.
George W. Ellis, prominent either
of Medicine Lodge, died at his home last
Tuesday night, aged II years.
The Spivey Dispatch says Spivey has
been incorporated fifteen months, and
the police judge has never condemned q
man yet Model town
Judge Perkins says the Kansas dele
| cation is credited with introducing over
One-eleventh of ali the bills. resolutions
and messages which have passed the
| session just closed.
The Cherryvale Bulletin outfit which
lately came under the control of II. NJ.
Stewart, has been moved by him to COT
feyville, where new paper is being is
sued called The Eagle.
An EmporIa policeman had twenty
five teeth pulled the other day. 1t ism t
often that anything occurs at that place
to keep a ''cop" awake that long at a
time.-Aleck ought to know; he ulster
live at Empory.
Mrs. Baird, wife of E. E. Baird, a
prominent citizen of Conway Springs,
died at the family home Wednesday
night, after an illness of eight days. The
remains were carried to the old home in
Ohio for interment
The immense foundation of the new
high school building is completed and is
undoubtedly one of the best and most ar
tlstic jobs of hand cut stone and mason
ry work in the west. The building will
not be excelled, as public school struc-
ture, by any city in Kansas, of whatever
claims or pretentions.-An Jour
nal.
One Kansas politician says his cam
paign has only cost him five cents. This
reminds us of a good old sister who stood
up in class meeting and thanked God for
a free gospel and boosted that she had
belonged to the Methodist church for
forty years aud it had never cost her a
cent.
John Hudson, the professional horse
thief and Jail breaker, was last Saturday
sentenced to nine years imprisonment in
the Kansas penitentiary-seven years for
horse stealing and two years for Jail
breaking. He was taken to the peniten-
tiary Saturday afternoon by Sheriff Ste
Index.
Dug Riggs and Bob Sharpe quarreled
over game of cards in Caldwell last
Sunday night; the quarrel eliminated in
a fight, and the fight ended after Riggs
had stabbed Sharpe eleven times, from
the effects of which he died in a few
hours. The amount of money in dis
pute was twenty-five cents. The muir
derer is in Jail.
Mrs. Eliza Hawthorne, a lady past
middle age, was jerked into well fifty |
feet deep in Beaver township, Cowley |
last Friday, by mule she had |
led to the well to water. BY the fall the |
bones in both her legs Were broken, in |
one Of them twice. She died in short /
time after being taken out of the well, |
SO says the Arkansas City Democrat.
Last Sunday while monkeying with a
loaded shot gun. James Andrews shot
and killed Goats Hedges, son of J. w.
Hedges, living about a mile east of this
city. As We understand It the boys had
a loaded shot gun that would pull off
half cooked but would not snap shell
They tried it twice without its going off,
when Andrews put the muzzle Of the
gun against Hedges breast and asked If
be should snap it again, Hedges said az
don't care" The gun went off this time
and in twenty minutes he was corpse.
Ell Dorado Republican.
Bulletin No 4, issued by the state
agriculture college experiment station,
says: The result of our experience
with something oyer a huR'red sorts of
winter wheat have abundantly satisfied
ne that the Kansas farmer can rely only
upon the fine, early ripening red sorts
,ften of southern origIn-of which Early
Nay ana Zimmerman are TYPES. These
ire usually reckoned light yielding sorts,
1ut IN Kansas soils, during faTorably
seasons, they often yield enormously.
The caurse growing. late maturing sorts,
Ike CIawson, Lancaster and Egyptian.
sometimes DO remarkably well, but
much otfener they fail nliserably.