Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-05
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Halstead begins prospecting for gas
this week.
The citizens of Oxford are now work
ing on creamery scheme.
Fort Scott has Jack the Ripper of lis
own who goes about the city nights pry-
ing open peoples houses with spade.
The Monitor demurs.
The annual meeting OF the State En-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic will be held in Emporia about
the middle of February.
Scott county has about 5000 inhabi-
tants, the stories of depopulation as told
by eastern papers to the contrary not
wIthstandlng.-Hera
Many of the farmers of this county
have enough sugar cane to make 1900
gallons of molasses. Wichita county is
sweet one.-Leoti Transcript
The Methodist church at Jetmore, was
destroyed by fire Sunday, and is a total
loss, as the insurance policy had expired.
The cause of the fire was bad fiue.
At Chanute they substituted coon for
crow as the conventional dish for defeated
Democrats. There's nothing bad about
that; many men are fond of coon meat.
The Leoti Transcript endorses the
farmers convention to be holden in
Wichita on the 18th inst, and urges
that delegations from Wichita county
attend.
Last Monday horse ridden by Frank
Ravenscroft, of Eureka, fell on him,
forcing him on barbed wire. The I'M
70 13aI four Ian,.,
later.
Greensburg is after a sugar plant.
They have organized and are going about
1t methodically, the way to make 1t a
success. Glad of it; there's millions in
sugar for Kansas.
About o'clock Sunday morning fire
destroyed the opera house and three of
the best business buildings of Yates
Center. Loss above 10000; insurance
about half that amount.
1t just took the court fifteen minutes
at Ellsworth to hear all the evidence and
grant divorce to Hollywood man who
married last May and was deserted by
his better half In less than fifteen days.
A broom factory will soon be in oper-
alton in Leoti. The machinery for this
much needed industry is already on the
ground; and the farmers have been
hauling in their broom corn for several
days.-Transcript.
The biennial report of the Kansas pen
itentiary, issued for the two years ending
June 30, 1888, represents that institution
as being more than self-suStaining, and
the number of inmates as having per-
ceptibly decreased.
A fresh complication has arisen in
AtchisOn's union depot enterprise. 4
lot of ground adjoining that has been
assessed for taxation at valuation of
$50, 600 to 500, 900 was valued under con-
domination at $4,000, and the owner
kicks.
Many farmers in this vicinity are los
ing horses from some strange malady,
The cause of which is unknown. The
animal seems crazed with fear, and is
somewhat viciously inclined, living about
forty eight hours after the disease first
shows self.-Burden Eagle.
Persons who served i'll the Confederate |
army during the war, and are conse-
Juently deprived of the right to vote, !
should send their names to j. W. For |
ney. at Belle Plaine, who will introduce |!
L bill this winter for the removal of their !
political disabilities. PLANE News. |
Wyandotte has offered $4,000 in cold |
cash for the location of the Missouri Pa |
,ific railroad shops and it has nearly |
brown Atchison into buck ague At |
,hison thought it had virtually secured |
he prize at a put-up of 100000. 1t |
seems to be a question of pole and PEI
,immOn.
The new Morton county court house is
o be constructed as far as possible of |
IRE TO furnish the stone, and the citizens |
If the county are to have a chance to
perform as much of the labor of con-
tructing the building as they can and
lesire. 4 wise decision all around.
Kingman just pushes right ahead in
he matter of developing her salt inter
new wells, putting in addi-
ional evapdrators, etc.-just as if the
country at large depended upon its out
,ut for a supply of that necessary COM
modify. With an article 1888 per cent
hemically pure it ought to have no diff
ulty in finding ready market for it.
The crazy social craze prevails alarm
ngly at Fowler City. 1t is understood
o be the outgrowth of the state of mind
n which the editor Of the Graphic is
leld fast, the result of the Oklahoma
in Wichita. 1t is hoped the
ocial feature mentioned will serve a. a
afety valve to the over-charged condi-
ion of the Graphic mans mental organ
SIN.