Wichita eagle., 1888-08-17
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Fifty-six little Indians viii be added
| to the roll at the opening of the term al
Haskell institute in SEPTEMBER
The Douglass Sugar company imported
seed from Germany and are growing
beets for experiment in sugar making.
An old-timer in Harvey county saws
the corn crop of the county is double
that ever raised ore.-Republican.
The first brick smokestack ever bnilt
/ in Dickinson county has Just been COM
| pleted for the new pottery works OF
Abilene.
Atchison is cheered by the thought
that the new Union depot at that place
will be completed by the time Belva Lock
wood is elected.
The great struggle of every lawyer in
! Kansas is to be elected county attorney.
This point being gained, the future gen
orally takes care of Itself
Three people recently went insane at
Manhattan within less than week. II
| has not before been intimated that Man
| haitian had q colored band.-*
There seems to have been a sudden re-
ligious awakening among many OF the
young ladies of Lawrence. So says the
religious editor of the Journal.
The corn crop of the state increases at
| the rate of about 100000 bushels day.
1t is now set down at 1900, 900 bushels,
and growing weather continues
The Republican press of the Third
district is wasting a good deal of prin-
ter's ink upon a small-bore Union Labor
anitator by the name of Utley.-*
The mysterious disappearance is re-
ported of an innocuouS young man who
thoughtlessly appeared on the streets of
Caldwell with lawn tennis racquet.
Bent Murdoch got there in the race for
state senator down in the Butler county
district. 1t isn't very often that the
borrower beats the banker in Kansas. -
A Labettc county man has just sold
the wheat which he raised from eighty
acres for 81 500. That's the kind of a
plane Kansas is to move on.-Peru
Light.
Clay county is all right. 1t will raise
all the corn it needs this year and have
a few ears to throw to the hogs over in
Cloud and Washington counties. Capt.
tai idea.
Fred Collier of the Topeka Journal
thinks that Providence ''has it in in for
the church spires in Kansas this year,
judging by the number that have been
struck by ightning.-#
Arkansas City is going to have SOL
diers' reunion on the 2lst of August. next
Tuesday, and they promise to make it an
occasion of special interest to as many as
attend, and all are invited.
When day passes at Topeka without
an injunction suit Judge Guthrie OF the
district court feels SO lost that he is
compelled to employ a small boy to
show him the way home-*
The Midnight Yell, started recently at
Kiowa, is dead. 1t was discovered that
the Thomas Cat filed the demands for
that class of harrassing literature and
that an extra veil was supertluity.
Canning factories and creameres. are
steadily increasing all over Kansas. These
industries belong legitimately to an agri-
cultural state, and can be made to pay
handsomely. Let the good work go on.
The treasurer of Sumner county fur
nishes the weekly Quid Nunc, which
did not die with the daily, twenty-seven
columns of mighty interestin' readin
to the delinquent taxpayers of that
county.
Comanche county claims to have gold
in paying quantities. an election Will
be called soon to vote a subsidy of 81 600
to a Kansas City company to be devoted
to the erection of stamp mills and reduc-
ton works.
The Traveller says about all the water
OF the Arkansas river runs through the
canal at Arkansas City. and expects that
farmers will be raising oats next year in
the river bed between the canal and the
Walnut's mouth.
The number of English sparrows in the
CITY is appreciaDly less since the last Sc
we're storms. They were killed by thou
sands. That's some compensation for
broken shade trees and Frustrated corn. |
Patriot.
Atchison county is taking turn at
5quabbGng over the matter of public /
printing. The chairman of the board Of 4
refuses to let the contract /
for the county printing TO the highest /
bidder, and IS ceaslred by the interested .
for his obstina V.
poorest prospects for crops of any in the /
state, SO far reported. 4 Scottsville I
paper saws that quarter of a crop of 4
corn is all that can be expected in that /
vicinity. During the last week the /
rains have been light.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe is
to enter Nebraska, and bond
election for 800 900 recently carried at
1t was a hot contest, the
other roads using all their power to de-
feat the bonds, but the proposition pre-
vailed by two-thirds vote.-Globe.
Little Jeff Potts, the 7-year-old son Of
4 widow in Winfield, was drawn up over
.he curbing Of a well by bucket of
water he was trying TO draw up by hand
over the pulley, Wednesday. fell into the
we'll headforemost and was taken out
lead fifteen minutes afterwards. His
neck was broken by the fall.
1t is stated that a society has been
ormed in Centeryille, Linn county, for
he avowed purpose of suppres5lBg the
)ustle. Its no use: the hustle Is a stern
necessity to female embonpointment.
let the society tura its attention to the
threatened JennesS ChemIloon innova-
ion.
Dir. W. Fl. Skeed, the gentleman who
Will have charge Of the salt shaft, arrived
IN the W. & w last evening, bringing
With him several expert salt men. Opera
ions viii be commenced at once and the
work pushed to completion. In ninety
laws we viii be mining rock salt king
nan Courier.