Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
KANSAS KoLLARY.

| Custer post G. A. R., of Leavenworth
has purchased lot and will erect hand
some hall thereon.
Kingman, Harper and Kiowa are al
| talking of . duplicating the CONWAY
| Springs sugar works.
| The Smith Center Bulletin comes t,
| hand printed with red ink in celebratio,
of HarriSOn's election.
The Larned Daily Chronoscope ha:
| joined the cemetry procession. The
weekly will be continued.
Joseph Ralston, of Coleman township
Washington county is one hundred ana
two years old. He is native of Ireland
The national grange and farmers con-
gress will convene at Topeka November
IA, tomorrow. The attendance will bt
large.
The supreme court completed its work
for the term on Saturday and adjourned
after announcing long list Of decis
ions.
Graham county, Kansas, elected two
bright and well educated colored men tc
the positions of district clerk and county
commissioner.
Lawrence is so proud of its new town
clock that several people living at that
place have stayed up as late as o'clock
to see its illuminated dial.
Mr.. o. Edwards, superintendent of
public instruction for Doniphan county,
died on the Sth, at Troy, two days after
his reelection to that office.
The bank robber at Solomon City last
Saturday only got away with about $500.
A reward of 800 is offered by the sheriff
for the apprehension of the robber.
Labette county, which was the strog-
hold of the Union Labories, gave the
largest Republican majority in years,
electlng every man on the ticket.
Saturday Santa Fe special train car
ried 107 young women to California.
They come from New England and go
to Los Angeles TO work in a large hotel
just started there.
The celebrated Hamilton county seat
fight was summarily and finally disposed
of Friday in the supreme court, the court
holding that Syracuse is the permanent
county seat of the county.
Argentine Republic: Is marriage a
failure? Not in Wyandotte county,
Kansas. The preachers get good fees for
splicing, and the lawyers and judges
make big money getting divorces.
Away out in Sheridan county, man
raised 10000 stalks of celery on one acre
of land, 1000 heads of cabDags to an
acre and 800 bushels of onions to an acre.
What is the matter with that desert.
Charles Kennedy, gentleman well
known in Kansas, has lately been APP
pointed general agent for the passenger
department of the Rock Island route,
with headquarters at Portland, Oregon.
Willard Marsh, residing six miles
northwest of this city, killed an eagle
last Saturday that measured eight feet
from tip to tip of wings and weighed
just nine and a half pounds.-Florence
Herald.
Shawnee county wins the 800 silk flag
offered by Governor Osborn to the county
showing the largest increase in the Re
publican majority over the vote on gov
arnor in 1886. 1t claims over $500 in.
crease.
Reports from the Firth district give
Anderson about 600 plur
Atty. His plurality two years ago was
about 5000. In Clay county the Labor
Union fellows managed to throw their
7otes solid against him.
1t is rumored that little girl in the
in family at Neodesha was
10 badly beaten and otherwise maltreated
hat she died one day last week. 1t is
llso said that the woman who did the
beating has fled the country.
A movement is on foot among the
Dads of the southwest from Kansas
Jity and st. Louis to form a combina-
ion to restore the rates of year ago in
outhern Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
Texas and the Indian Territory.
Active operations at the various salt |
wells III Kansas will be resumed after
his week. The wells were closed Tues !
lay night of last week to keep the Dem
crats from rushing pell nell into them. |
The stampede is about over now.
The supreme court has affirmed the /
ase of the First National bank of Peo- |
reditors of Day Brothers, of Peoria, in |
diving the title to about 20, 030 acres of |
and in Cowley and other counties.
Thirty six negroes were baptised yes
erday afternoon at White Clay creek. |
forth of the brewery. White Clay |
reek may be the sfilthiest stream on
arth, but it has whitened more colored |
Ouls than any other stream in the state |
Patriot.
A Missouri Democrat attended an
Itchison church Sunday where, it had
cen announced, there would be quar-
cite choir. On the way home he re-
marked to friend that he did not believe
1 auartette choirs uless there were more
han four members of it.
A two year-old child of Joe Wakefield,
wing about three and one-half miles
-est and north of this city, last Monday
fternoon, fell into an uncovered vat of
me that had Just been Stacked for NOR
ar, and was so badly burned or scalded
5 to die before the next morning .-Neo-
esha Register.
Nettie May Eaton. sister Of the editor
the Kingman Democrat. died at the
ONE of her parents near Valley Center,
.st Friday morning. The deep sorrow
1T by the stricken family is much
ghtened by the knowledge that their
we'd one died in the full faith of the
hristian in the promises Of the Lord.
A young man by the name of Jos.
evils. aged %, whose father was form
III resident of Newark township, was
lied on the 22nd inst. while working
coal mine near Plaln6eld school
ouse by a huge boulder weighing at
asst 500 pounds falling on him as he
as leaving the mine. -Neodesha Reg
ter.
Whether there be prophecies they shall
al: whether there De tongues they shall