Wichita eagle., 1888-07-17
STATE NEWS.

on the Fourth.
Sedgwick has Republican club near
ly 200 strong.
The Masons of Topeka are preparing
to build a 100000 temple.
| 1t is difficult to find Kansas paper
without 1T is great year.
| The railroad company have just COM
pleted large tank at Liberal.
The Rock Island road is building a 25,-
900 bushel elevator at Wellington.
Under the new apportionment in 1890,
Kansas will have five new congress-
men.
Osborne county has paid 500 bounty
on wolf scalps captured the past three
months.
According to the Clifton Review, that
| place has fiambeau club with hun
| dred members.
The Y. NJ. C. A. at Manhattan will
take bath in celebration of le arrival
of a new bath tub.
Gueda Springs has voted bonds in IA
vor OF rapid transit line between that
place and Arkansas City.
The jointists at Arkansas City are be-
coming so pressed that they are dispens-
ing the ardent by means Of wheel bar
rows.
The Arkansas City Cattle company
will commence cutting hay in few
days. This company intends to put up
about 5000 TONS this year.
Washington has almost decided to do
away with her electric lights. Electric
lights are not conducive to privacy, and
they are SO cruel with the bugs.
After the splendid rain Friday night,
Alilt Reynolds felt SO good that he is
reported to have taken bath in the salt
lake and partaken of all the seven
springs.
Balls and social hops are looked down
upon by cultured Manhattan, but it may
take great many agricultural colleges
TO cleanse the country of that old Greek
maiden: Terpsichore.
Mr.. Fred w. Read claims to be the
Oldest dry goods merchant in point of
continuous service in Kansas. He has
been using the yard stick in Lawrence
for thirty-two years.
The Garden CITY Sentinel says: ''Not-
outstanding the hard times from whic Il
10 locality is exempt, railroad earnings
have increased the past two months over
those OF last year"
Newton Republicans: One of the I'M
popular characters III Kansas at present
Is the township trustee who makes up
his population roll from memory and
leaves Off two or three hundred people.
An Atchison attorney, Thursday. re-
ceived handful Of twenty-dollars gold
pieces of the coinage OF 1888. The CO.
incidence is quite singular. The strang
est part of the transaction is the attor-
ney.
The rash Bolton, of the Greensburg
Signal fiauntS this red bandana in the
face of Newton: "We have more and
prettier babies to the square foot in this
town than any other in the state, New
ton not excepted"
Atchison Globe: Atchison grain men
say the wheat yield of Kansas will be
very much larger than theoretical agri-
cultural bureaus estimate it. Well
posted men predict that the crop will be
worth 500, 600, 900.
Kansas City Star: The farmers out in
Kansas have hit upon a labor-saving
plan for making post holes. They just
put a radish seed into the ground and
when the vegetable is full grown hitch
a horse TO it and pail it out.
j. S. Converse succeeds T. l.. Tarpley
as editor and manager of the Conway
Springs Star. Mr. Converse is an old
man and has been, until the
change mentioned, editor and publisher
of the Oxford Register. Mr.. Tarpley re-
tires from the business.
Gypsum township in this county has
II 900 acres planted to corn. Farmers
say the crop is good for fifty bushels per
acre. This will make more than half
million bushels Of corn for one township,
some eastern states, but nothing re-
for Southern Kansas.
John N. Croweil, of Atchison, tells of
a farmer at Plainville, ia Rocks county,
who cut 400 acres of wheat last month
that VIII yield forty bushels to the acre,
Or 900 bushels This at 80 cents a
bushef amounts to $1,000, or $50 an acre
for the farm. The market value of inn |
proved land in Rocks county is about $12 |
an acre.
Perhaps fifty persons passed through |
town this week on their way to the valley !
Of the Medicine river. They were going |
there to gather wild plums, and judging |
from the number of tubfulls that have |
been brought to town within the last few |
lays, we conclude that their are but few
Dlums left on the bushes by this time
Crisfield Courier.
Horton Headlight: Last night the
electric light plant was turned on for |
he first time shortly after snndown. 1t |
was simply for trial trip and the en-
CINE was shut down about 10 O'Clock.
worked smoothly and the
general verdict is that the lights are dali
,ies. There are something over two hum
lred incandescent lamps on the circuit.
nearly every house being supplied with
his light rather than with the arc.
a Wellington implement man made
wager with Sumner county farmer
If ii. 0oo threshng machine and en-
rine that there was not all acre OF wheat
n Summer county that would turn out "
fifty bushels to the acre. The farmer
selected two acres of wheat on his own
arm. which he had surveyed, and when
t was cut and threshed it turned out 112
bushels. or fifty-six bushels TO the acre.
Monitor: Up in Franklin county sew
raj years ago, well qualified caudi-
late for county office was beaten IN
he election solely on the ground that he
vas shiftless and allowed his farm TO be
'vergrown with ccckle burrs Ii Fort
,cott had that kind of q community we
ear that there would be lots OF men
Who could never be elected TO office.
The grass and weeds along Their side