Wichita eagle., 1888-06-02
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Kansas last year.
Winfield has scored the first sunstroke
in Kansas this season.
The State Journal has been made the
official paper at Topeka.
Westolia is the name of new town in
Morton county. 1t has a paper named
the Wave.
Ottawa repudiates the salvation army
and refuses It the privilege OF parading
on the streets.
They have scared up mad dog and a
fight over the county printing IN Topeka,
and thugs look blue.
The tenth annual session of the Ottawa
assembly will be held In Forest Park,
Ottawa Kan, June 10.
Thomas S. Jones, of Garden City, is
spoken of as the Democratic candidate
for congress against Judge Peters.
Kansas has candidate for vice-presi-
dent on the United Labor ticket IN the
person of w. H. 7. Wakefield, of Coun-
Gil Grove.
Miss Carrie Burton, formerly of Kan
sas, is to sing the Lady and the Tiger
in New York. 1t has not been stated
which
The book of University poems is al
most ready to be placed on sale. A sun
flower, with grasshopper rampant, VIII
adorn the cover.
The other day the probate judge of
Cowley county became 'riied' and en-
circled some w. c.. T. U. women with
varie-colored atmosphere.
at shorthand college in Winfield
they are reporting the trial of John III.
Surratt for completely in the assassina-
ton of Abraham Lincoln.
Sixty-six per cent of the convicts in
our penitentiary are under thirty years
of age. A disparagement to rascailty
compliment to our officers.
The Star laments that Eureka. which
has been making such encouraging pro-
gress this spring, is threatened with a
home talent production of "Ingomar."
The business boom at Horton seems to
be forging ahead with such mpetuosity
that it has become necessary to pass an
ordinance closing the stores at that place
on Sunday.
The students of the college of the
Sisters of Bethany at Topeka, gave their
annual concert Tuesday evening. The
program rendered was pleasantly long
and abounded in well chosen selections.
A very interesting program has been
prepared for the commencement exer-
cises of the state deaf and dumb asylum,
which is located at Olathe. The exer-
cises commence on the 9Th inst and close
on the 18th.
The average interest now received upon
the half million endowment fund of the
Kansas Agricultural college is six and
four tenths per cent. The college has
funds to buy few more six per cent
bonds at par.
1t is said that it is one of the eccen-
tricities of Kansas journalism that the
papers in this state which have the most
to say about burying electric wires under
ground are published in towns that are
lighted with gasoline.
The Marion Record announces that
with fifty or sixty of Marion's citizens in
Abilene as witnesses in the Morgan MUIR
der trial that city ought to present very
respectable and lively appearance. But
how was Marion at the same time?
Eugene Hagan, deputy United States
district attorney, informs the Topeka
Democrat that fifty murders have been
reported to his Office from No Mans
Land since the 1st of January. There
may be something in name after all.
State Journal: 'Among some Indian
relics presented to Baker University is
the scalp of white woman stretched
upon shield. This will serve to pre-
vent the students from growing sentl-
mental over the wrongs of the red man. )"
Clay Center Times: A bad job of
proof reading made the Newton Repub-
Iican say: kansas and her prospects
were never bright" The dropping of
two letters from the last word the editor
phemer.
Wyandotte Gazette: The London
Times denounces Mr.. Ingalls,, of Kansas,
as bad, bold, illiterate man, a sort of
border desperate, who attacks respect
able, free traders and Golden clubbers
from no higher motives than to satisfy
his horrid curiosity to see 'em squirm.
Lawrence Journal: Several Indians
left yesterday for their homes in the
nation. Among those were Walk-a-
chalk-line. daughter of Signing Pine;
Malcahey-Ragan which means in Eng
lish, the girl-with- the-hair- mattress bang:
and Watsittoyuh, the man-who-eats-pie-
with-a-spoon.
A couple of prospectors who have Just
returned from Clark county report see
ing five acres of rye Of a long growth,
ovoLoorro. fcf ha
the county. The real estate agents in
all the towns have large punches of it
hung around their offices to show pros
pectors: they have pulled it all up but
few straws.
B. F. Smith. the Lawrence. Kan,
nursery man, has this year sold 100000
strawberry plants to parties In Kansas,
Missouri, Texas. Nebraska and Arkansas
He expects TO pick and ship from his
strawberry patch $4,000 quarts of choice
berries He employs about 200 berry
pickers for the season,
A western Kansas paper is endeavor-
ing TO make it appear that the Indian
measter weed. which can be found any
where IN the state, is a specific for rattle
snake poison. Any effort, however, in
the direction OF revolutlonlzlng popular
sentiment In Kansas in relation to the
antidote for snake bites must necessarily
prove abortive.-Exchange.
Parties who desire to secure Bulletin
No. 2. issued by the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college, under the provisions of
the act of congress establishing agricul-
tural experiment stations In the differ
ent states, may do so by addressing Prof.
Z. ". Shelton. Manhattan. Kan. Bulle-
tin No. 2 is treatise upon cultivated
grasses in Kansas. These bulletins will