Wichita eagle., 1888-01-08
STATE NEWS.


Only one marriage license was issued
in Cowley county New Years day.
Milt Reynolds paper. the Geuda
Springs Herald predicts plenty of peaches
the coming season.
Emporia is to have children's carni-
val. There is still a good deal of enter
prise among the kids of that town.
The Kansas Democrat enters upon the
year 1888 with clear conscience-so it
says-but with an exceedingly torpid
liver
A Topeka man who carries IA rabbit
foot for luck. has good deal of trouble
with the kids Of that ungodly town, who
shoot at him with Flobert guns.
The appearances at the Kansas capital
of the first liyeried servant marks a very
important epoch in the social history of
that town. The time will come when
Goldfish will be taken out of the kaw
river al. Topeka.
Atchison Globe: At dancing party
last night the ladies invited the gentle
men to dance. and the sweet old thing
of the male variety languidiy said this
morning: I'm awfully tired. l was
such q favorite last night.
Kansas has over three hundred ma
tional banks with a capital of over $780,
600, 600.
The Manhattan Republic announces
that i'll the coming campaign the people
of Riley will not be carried away with
political matters. but viii make more but
ter than ever before.
The Garnett canning factory has been
awarded the contract for supplying the
state charitable institutions with all the
canned goods to he used by them the
coming year.
William A. Walker, of AtchisOn. was
born on the Goth Of February, 1888. and
has never had but eleven birthdays
His next one occurs next month and will
be appropriately celebrated.
Several of our exchanges are asserting
that last summers drouth killed off all
the chinch bugs in Kansas, and that we
shall not be troubled with that pest this
season.
John P. st. John made the statement
in Topeka a few days ago that when he
left Lawrence the day before. WalruffS
Walrutf pulled out Of that place some
weeks ago, with all of his machinery, it
is evident that the Saint got his data
and the smell from the Lawrence paper
mill slightly mixed.
Troy Chief: Here is a newspaper coin
cidence: The first week in September.
1886. four newspapers were started in
Kansas, all for the same purpose, or APP
parently so, of fighting already estab
lished newspapers, in the interest of
factions, and every one by men whose
names commences with B. There was the
Greenwood County Republican, by
Burnham: the Burlington Nonpareil. by
Brown; the Hoiton Federal, by Baker.
and the Troy Times. by Beale. The
Greenwood paper was sold out. the
Holton paper was burned out, the Troy
paper was froze out, leaving the Burling-
ton paper to hold out. 1t was a bad
season Tor BIS.
An aged couple named Captain and
Mrs. Reed, living at Yates Center,
Kan, Were the recipients of some of
Uncle Sans bounty in the shape of a
back pension amounting to 81 600. and a
pension of $l2 per month. This was
particularly good fortune i'll their old
age.
The prisoners confined in the county
Jail at Atchison. made a bold and almost
d successful attempt TO escape Tuesday
night. BY some unaccountabie means
the doors Of the cell failed 10 close and
were not locked as supposed
4 dozen wild ducks frozen fast to the
ice on the Arkansas river by the late
blizzard. were the trophies Of Garden
City sportsman.
Garden City has gone into the expor-
tation of prairie dogs. One firm in that
place is filing an order for one thousand
of these animals to stock Eden park in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
licenses issued by the insurance depart
ment of this state during the fiscal year
which ends February 2S. 1888.
The endowment fund OF the state agri-
cultural college has reached the hand
some sum Of $500, goo. yielding annual
revenue for the maintenance of that
splendid institution of $50, 900.
ingalls, Union: 4 herd of sixty buffalo
that had been run out of the territory by
heavy prairie fires, were seen near Lakin
last week. and the most of them killed
Potteryitle correspondence of the
Osborne Farmer: Ely Curry has filed
on the last vacant forty acres of govern
ment lands we know of in this part OF
the country.
The river at Atchison has continued to
encroach upon the eastern bank, and the
property owners and bridge company
have concluded to ask for government
appropriation to protect their property.
A memorial window of rolled cathe-
dral glass showing the likeness of Abra-
ham Lincoln. has been presented By the
citizens of st. Louis to the Soldiers
Home at Leavcnworth, as souvenir Of
the last annual q. i. x. encanipment i'll
that city
Charles Likewine. a 9-year-old boy
living near III Dorado. was killed in
stautly few days ago while playing
about windmill 4 projection of the
windmill shaft caught ms clothing and
whirled him round and round the shaft |
horribly nutilating his body and tearing
it into small bits.
A curious case is before the court at
Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Sewnth-day |
have been arrested for work !
ing ION the Lords day in violation of /
the statute. The men arrested were de !
Tended by a representative of the Seventh /
day AdvenJists society of the United /
States. His plea in defense was that the /
divine Law was superior To human law
and formed the only basis for conscience /
and the only authority on the question /
of the observance of the Sabbath. AS
the seventh day was set apart by the .
fourth commandment for the Observance j
of man. it was argued that the Law max ]