Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-25
KANSAS KOLLARY.

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head off the chlnch bug.
The boiler and engine of the Forest
City syrup works at Sterling are to be
utilized in making salt.
From present indications there will be
three more salt companies making salt
inside of three weeks.-Kingman Cour-
Ter.
The amount paid out by the local pen
sion department at Topeka last week was
enormously large, So, 1920 being dis
bursed.
Congressman Anderson drove eighty
miles and made four speeches Que day
last week. That's the kind of man
that the Democrats of the fifth district
are trying to beat
The editor of the Leoti Standard sug-
gests to the people who plake illicit visits
to his coal mouse the propriety of taking
an occasional bucket of slack instead of
picking out all the chunks.
Prof. Blake of the Lawrence uniyer-
sity thinks the next crop OF winter wheat
Will be worth S1.40 per bushel III Chica-
90 at threshing time, and predicts am
other big yield for Kansas.
Fort Scott shipped last year 1,400 car
loads of flag stone, 100, 600 barrels of &C.
ment. 100000 worth of window glass.
100000 pounds OF sugar, besides =
great quantity of lumber and machinery.
What with the Two Old Cronies and
the opening of the Night Blooming Ce-
reus flowers in the green house of one of
the citizens, to entertain them. Abilene's
society folk are reasonably well enter
tanned evenings.
There are not so many daily papers in
Kansas as there was a year ago. but
there is a large access of information
amoug that class of OptlmiSts who mag
inc that it doesn't take any money TO
pay printers and buy white paper.
There is such a suspicion of dynamite
now III the air at Winfield that the most
devoted husbands in the town compel
their wives to open the oysters and ev-
erything in the line of provisions that
come In cans.-Arkansas City Traveller.
School children in Shawnee county
will not 90 to the bad from failure Of
the teachers to observe Solomon's in
junction. Ii is said there were 259 cases
Of licking in the country schools of
that county last year. Two lady teach
ers ledthe record as wallpapers.
Governor Martin issued proclamation
offering a reward of 5000 for the arrest
and conviction Of Thomas J. Goodin.
late treasurer Of Rawlins county, who
is fugitive from justice. charged with
the embezzlement of from $4,000 to
So. 900 of the county funds some three
months ago.
Abilene IS all agog over the finding Of
a basket containing a handsome girl
baby, about SIX weeks old, daintily
wrapped up in elegant apparel and ac-
companied by large roll Of expensive
clothing, on the door step Of one Of the
prominent and wealthy, though childless
citizens Of that place Monday night
about o'clock.
The Southwest Kansas Millers' associ-
ton is IN session at Arkansas City.
About twenty-five members are present.
These meetings are held every two
months and the subjects discussed are Of
interest to millers only. There Is 10
forming Of pools or combines looking TO !
making uniform prices paid for wheat !
or in the sale of flour.
Governor Martin has issued a procla- |
nation offering a reward Of 500 for the /
arrest and conviction OF the party guilty I
Of placing package Of dynamite in
the hands OF the agent OF the Pacific Ex- 1
press company at Cofeyville, resulting 1
in the death Of Mrs Upham and her 4
daughter. The proclamation also offers /
a reward Of $500 for the arTes. OF each 1
and every person accessory 70 the crime
Arkansas City Is on scent for sensa-
ton. An old man named Alex Mellow
Ell left that place in company with &
man named Decker six weeks ago 70 be
gene into the territory for few days on
4 hunt. Decker returned but Mcdowell
IS stsl missing and nothing has been
seen or heard Of him. Foa! play 4 SIS
pected and Deaker Is supposed 10 know
something about the matter. No az
rests. /