Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-02

SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

Only three bachelors have been muir
dered at Atchison in year. Marriage
couldn't have been worse failure to
them.
Barber county is now in the midst of
the grandest wheat harvest ever known
in the history of the county seat.-Kiowa
Journal.
Miss Minnie Waller, daughter of To-
peka's famous colored orator, John Wal
Ter, graduated last week with high hon
ors from the Hobson institute of Parsons.
A number of our farmers have cut
and stacked their first crop of alfalfa for
this season. Some of them expect to Sc
cure two more crops this summer.-kl-
owa Journal.
Parties in Sterling are in correspond
ence with eastern capitalists IN regard to
the matter Of operating paper mills in
connection with the sorghum and sugar
plants at that place.
The Larned Artesian Mineral Well
company have erected bath house with
all the modern conveniences for giving
baths. 1t was formally opened to the
public Saturday, June l.
N6OTPO u. hti yOD. VI &iUiitlt,
master of the Grand Lodge of Kansas,
A. F. and A. NJ, has received an appli-
cation from Oklahoma for dlspensation
to organize lodge Of Masons.
The farmers must work their corn
better this year than they have done in
the past, or the weeds don't grow SO
well. We never saw corn fields so uni
versally clear of weeds.-Muivane
Record.
The Cleopatra tissue paper exposition
at Salina, which came off Thursday
night, the Republican says was an en-
thusiastic success. We knew it would
be if the Salina men were even average
mortals.
The Standard claims that Wellington
is about as well supplied with brass
bands now as any city of like size in the
strife, having three COON ones. That Is
three more than Wichita can boast Of
just now.
This thing of Kansas wealth building
brown stone fronts in Kansas City has
gone far enough. We have cities of our
own. The time has come when Kansas
will take care of herself, and not pour
her wealth into the Golfers Of Missouri
-Salina Republican.
If you haven't solved the puzzle that
consists in making 81 by using any SIX
of the following figures: 1 l 1 3 3 )
5577 Z 8 8 8, you needn't try any
longer. It's mathematical Impossible
ty to produce an odd number by adding
six odd ones together.
Governor Humphrey refused to issue
e., .al IS IA IL
legged J. w. Hillman, from Tombstone,
Arizona, to Topeka until the identity Of
the man was made clear. The governor
is too sensible to give official sanction to
such disreputable schemes as this IN
doubtedly is.
It's a trite old saw that misfortunes
never come singly. Almost every neigh
borhood in which there has been fatal
stroke this spring-and there
are several such in the state-reports an
influx of lightning rod agents almost
equal to the visitation of Egyptian locusts
in Pharaoh's time.
Newton is all agog over mysterious
The Republican says
James Craggs, an intelliaent young col
ored man and a prominent worker il
the Second Baptist church, has mysteri-
ously disappeared since last evening. He
has been married but year, and it is
said his domestic relations were not Of
the most pleasant nature.
Mrs. Z. r. Drake left "Wednesday
morning for Saratoga, n. y, where, on
June 5, she will preside over the seventh
annual meeting of the "Woman's De
partment." held in connection with the
anniversary of the American
home missionary society. This is ma
tional affair and Eureka is deseryedIy
proud of the honor Of furnishing the
presiding officer