Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
KANSAS KOLLARY,

Anthony boasts OF the first load O
new corn offered for sale on that marke
Wednesday.
The tax levy for Atchison county. stat
and county for 1888 is fixed at $1.5
against $1.S5 last year.
The freaks of mad dog in Kingmal
caused a fresh crusade to be inauguratev
IN that place against the canine species
Anthony's school board have decided
to erect, forthwith another building OF
the site of the one burned a few day
ago.
The commissioners in Summer count,
this week fixed the tax levy for 1888 fol
all purposes at S1.60 on the 500 worth
Of property.
Mrs. Coombs, widow of the late Samue
Coombs, was found dead in bed tb
morning by her daughter, Dora, at tn,
family home in Newton.
The Clay Center band has disbanded
| The Times mournfully says: peace be
to its ashes. We are now plug village
no better than Abilene or Salina."
| At the present rate of demising, i
kept up for six months, there will not be
| dozen daily papers left in the state.
The Harper Sentinel joins the procession
| to the pOtterS field.
The Wellington Salt and Mining com.
pany has awarded the contract to MIR.
w. r. Spicknall for putting in the fur
mace for them. They will be making
salt here in forty days.
Since the COWS have been corraled in
Lawrence the Journal says the city has
to keep two men employed to prevent
the weeds and grass from obstructing
the streets and sidewalks.
The State Journal says: "There is
some talk about proceeding against GER
tain parties for being accessories, after
the fact, III the Moore Norton adul-
terry case" whatever that may mean
Predictions for next winters weather
are now in order. The corn crop is far
enough advanced for the husks to give
out the desired information. What does
the Undergraduates of Geuda say?
The amphitheater at the ball park and
the derrick at the salt well in kingman
were demolished by Tuesday nights
storm. The latter is being reconstructed
and operations will be resumed at once.
Patrick Fleming and his sons and
daughters own a farm of $500 acres in
RawiinS county. Their pasture covers
$50 acres and their timber lot contains
~, 600 young trees. One corn field has
$50 acres in it.
4 citizens meeting has been called to
be holden in Wellington to devise means
for the relief of the farmers who suf-
fered SO heavily by the cyclone in SUM-
ner county Tuesday. 4 number of farm
ers lost everything they had.
Salina is not the only town afflicted
with the weed nuisance. The Emporia
News inveighs against the overhanging
ooughs and stalwart weeds, between the
two OF which it says pedestrianism is Sc
'lously lmpeded in that place.
Superintendent Faulkner. of the Sol
Tiers Orphans Home, is of the opinion |
hat an appropriation of at least S15, 900 |
viii be required and secured from the |
legislature next winter, to complete the |
present building; and make the additions
by that growing institution. -
hampton.
A five-year-old daughter of Mrs. O. f.
oxen, living on East Third street, New
on, while playing about the house Tues
ay morning, was bitten on the left hand
Y snake, and the hand and arm swell
d up at once to double their size. Ante
otes Were promptly administered and
he child's life saved.
A singular occurrence is reported from
freeley county. \ farmer dug a we'll
n his place TO depth of - feet, not
nding any water he dug in another
lace to a depth of - feet with like Sue
ess. Two days after lie had stopped
igging he went to both wells and found
nat each of them contained about fif-
zen feet of water which had flowed in
uring that interval of time. The oc-
urrence occurred before the late rains.
} 1t can't be said. the water flowed in
ON the top.
Mr.. Mitchell Hovne, who it will be re-
rendered, happened to the sad accident
having his wife and daughter shot,
as been doubly afflicted His wife has
radually recovered and his little daugh-
r has fingered this far but will proba-
y never entirely recover from the 8
ound. During the storm last week
r. Hoynes had forty acres of wheat de- :
royed by fire, which would have yield s
an average of twenty-five bushels per
re, The wheat was set on fire by the !
-htning and all efforts 10 save it were !
1svailng. -Salina Herald
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