Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-05
KANSAS KOLLARY.
June 1, 1883.

Work on the Eureka Street railway
will begin tomorrow.
An extensive foundry is one of the en-
terprises now IN course of erection at
Great Bend.
Washburn college holds its com
mencement Wednesday morning in the
First Congregational church of Topeka.
Mr. w. F. Chalfant of the Lawrence
Tribune has associated with himself in
the business management of that paper
his son, w. F. Chalfant, Jr.
The June meeting of the Southwest
Circuit of trotting, pacing and running
horses will open III kinSley Wednesday
and continue for three days.
A company has been organized to
build rapid transit line from Arkansas
City to Geuda Springs, Sumner county,
which is becoming noted as health
resort.
Sterling will make sorghum syrup this
wear by the diffusion process, by which
twice as much can be made as by the old
method, and will make sorghum sugar
next year.
The international Typographical union
meets in Kansas City June II, when the
members will be enterIsined by grand
banquet and ball. Governor Martin mas
accepted an mutation to be present.
On Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
at the Grand opera house at Abilene
will be held the twenty-third annual con-
vention of the Kansas State Sabbath
School association. The convention will
be in session three days.
The map given by Professor Hay, in his
Harper's Magazine article, the contour
lines show the altitude every hundred
feet, and this, says the junction City
Union, has never been given IN any pre-
vious map of Kansas.
The Pottawatomie County Teachers
Institute will be held in Westmoreland,
commencing Monday, June so and end
ing Friday, August 26. The annual ex-
animation of teachers will be held on
Saturday, August %.
| The twelfth annual teachers institute
of Usage comfy, Kansas, will be held in
| Lyndon, apening June II, 1888, at 10 a.
M, continuing four weeks, and closing
with an examination of applicants.
Major Richard H. Whiting, of Peoria,
H., who died recently IN New York city,
owned a large body of land in Morris
county. besides several extensive stock
ranches in other sections of Kansas. He
at one time represented his district IN
| congress.
The enterprising capital of Wabaunsee
county. Alma. wants a new school
house. the old one being inefficient for
I II IL, &c, IL 'ynlloncrp
The city government, churches, hit
eraries etc.
Wellington Quid Nunc: Nine passen-
ger coaches were brought into the city
| from headquarters yesterday morning
| on their way to Woodward, Indian ter
ritory. to convey troops from that place
to Fort Winget. New Mexico.
| Messrs. Cash and Mentzer announce to
the public that they have sold the Mound
City Progress to stock company to be
known as the Progress publishing com
panv.l' The paper will advocate the
principles of the Republican party.
Newton Republican: A recent decis-
| ison in justices court IN Atkinson would
indicate that where a patient Is deyiied
I and tormented to death by a quack.
there is no legal punishment unless II
can be shown that the quack killed the
patient ION purpose.
And now society in the vicinity OF
Halstead lis all agog.' The young
| ladies OF Halstead have met and passed
resolutions of contempt in honor OF the
! Young gentleman who wrote an article
about them getting up socials and then
allowing their mothers TO do all OF the
work.
! Topeka Capital: The census Of Ottawa,
Kansas, just completed, shows that city
has lost something ike 200 population
during the past year. This loss IS &C
counted for on the grounds that the
| force in the railroad machine shops
there has been greatly reduced and man
other railroad employees have moved
away.
Atchison Globe: The river may now
be said 10 DO booming. His rise Is steady
and rapid, covering all the sandoa and
marshes ard running from hank 70
bank. Since yesterday evening the back
water assembled White Clay creek from
Fourth street as far as the Globe oiflce-
As the Globe Office is nearly mile b.
the meanderings of the stream from the
river, the size Of the June rise ul1y DC