Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-28
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Jacob Perkins, an old citizen of For
Scott. fell down a stairway night befor,
last and was fatally injured.
The Garden City Herald rejoices ovel
a recent rain, because it will bring or
1.-The fourth crop of alfalfa.
They have learned to use their drive
wells at Hiawatha, and now the water
works furnish plenty Of water.
The people of Kansas have made two
or three futile attempts to laugh at the
Jokes about the street politician.
Since the initiatory performance of the
new drum corps at Manhattan, the walls
of the college are reported unsafe.
The announcement of Pygmalion and
Galatea by an amateur company at
Brookville, almost produced an exodus.
T. S, Huffaker, the oldest living resi-
dent of Morris county has been nominal
ed for probate judge by the Republicans.
1t is rumored at Topeka that the c., K.
& n. (Rook Island] will construct a line
of their own from Topeka to Kansas
City.
An old man at Larned cleaned out all
the photographers in town because they
declared they were ignorant of ''orga,l
photographs
Newton Republican,: The Missouri
river at Atchison is now used as base
ball park. 1t is the finest in the state
except the Arkansas river.
Tbav 1oro Jo<r ooH;,1 O,o~a C.s-
erected twenty-five years ago which has
just been fitted up and donated to the
Harrison and Morton club of that city.
Every man who has thus far engaged
In the laundry business at Garden City
has failed, and the Leavenworth Times
attributes this result to what it calls
Sam Woodism."
The Council Grove Republican says,
both in sorrow and in anger, 1--WE be-
lieve Council Grove has more old. med
dlesome maids and women gossips than
any other city, town or hamlet On the
globe"
Newton Republican: The Govern
ment will, at its grass station at Gar
den City, experiment with the sporobolus
cryptandrus, and the agropyrun glau-
cum. We are curious to know if COWS
will eat such.
Lawrence Tribune: A Louisville
whisky firm has deluged Kansas with
circulars headed ''You can sell whisky
in Kansas. About 1900 men who
have tried it have sent postal cards to
the house simply inscribed, You're
liar"
The 3-year-old son of Ben Garrison,
living at Parsons, is dead. The child
was affected with horrible disease. His
eyes were forced out of their sockets by
a cancerous growth and the eye balls
grew as large as hens eggs. protruding
upon his cheeks.
A swinging scaffold suspended from
the roof of the Newcomb building, at
Atchison, fell yesterday. John Nc
painter, fell 100 feet into the
cellar of the building and was fatally in
lured. Another painter who occupied
one end of the treacherous scaffold,
seized small rope and swung in midair
or five minutes until rescued.
Sterling Gazette: Samuel Whitfield,
who lives one mile west of town, reports
hat he has cane which will yield twenty
,ons per acre. This is contracted at $3.50
Der ton and the delivery begins this
week. 1t don't take much figuring to
make this out more profitable crop
han corn this year. How fortunate it
would be if every farmer has one hun
lred acres of cane, even though the
Iverage yield were only ten tons per
lcre.