Wichita eagle., 1889-04-24
KANSAS KOLLARY.

be compelled to take her back altogether.
This was the case with the City of Rome.
KANSAS KOLLARY.
Last week over $40, 900 worth of stock
was shipped to market from Coffey
county.
An old couple from Iowa, aged re-
spectively So and 81. recently settled in
Osborne county.
Kingman is just getting through with
its spring engagement OF chicken poX,
scarlet fever, etc. No fatalities reported.
More improvements of residences and
lawns are going on throughout Abilene
this spring than ever before IN the hISto-
ry of the city.-Retlector.
Topeka is still clamoring FOX Missouri
river rates She is tired of paying 70
cents pint for whisky which sells at
Kansas City for 81 gallon
The Press Democrat paints glowing
picture Of the crop prospects for Meade
county. Wheat more than foot high
and everything else corresponding.
The probate judge OF Trego county
has called in and revoked all druggists
permits in his county. People have too
many diseases in one day up there he
says.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of Odd
| Fellowship in America will be appropri
ately observed by the lodges of that
order throughout the state Friday even
ing, April 26.
The trial of VIM. Housley for the
murder of J. A. Ferguson before circuit
court of Grant county, resulted in YER
dict of not guilty. About seven days
were consumed in trying the case.
With it's issue of Friday last the Ash
| land Journal ceased to exist--or, in its
own language, it threw up the sponge.
In his closing words Mr.. Stevenson at
tributes the death of the Journal to lack
of support.
| Lieutenant Governor Felt who has
recently been ali over the state. in
almost every county, Is of the opinion
that the ''hard times cry in Kansas is
due largely to imagination, as ne doesn't
believe that the facts warrant it.
Joseph Bice, highly respected citizen
of Kingman. died quite unexpectedly
| Monday, at his home in that city. He
had been sick but two days and
| was not thought to be seriously i'll even
up to within short time of his death.
The hail in Edwards and Stafford
counties cut off many fruit blossoms and
beat down the growing grains, which
will set them back some; the large stones
broke much glass in Stafford, cut
through some roofs and killed some
hogs.
Seward county is highly elated over
her two sugar plants, one to be built at
! Arkalon and another at Liberal. The
Arkalon News says that they will ''raise
cane" this year She wants oalook out
| and not get too badly mashed on her
prospects.
Rabbits have become such destructive
pests out in Stevens county that the
| county commissioners on Saturday
voted to paw a bounty of cents on rab-
bit scaIps.. The rabbit pest is the worst
that affiicts the farmer of Stevens coun-
ty.-Hugo Herald.
There is nothing small about the peo-
pie of Ness county. Without discussion
they donate $50, 600 for the development
of the sugar industry. Ness will get
there. You can't keep that sort of peo-
pie down: tsnouse to try.
The farmers Of Brown and Nemaha
counties complain of an over supply of
eggs, many of them having been COM
PEELED to sell that product below the cost
of production A few incubators would
have helped them out of the difficulty or
| into another.
The salesladies in ]. Goldbergs store,
| in Atchison, went out on strike Mon
day morning because he demanded that
| they sweep out the store, he having dis
charged the broom boy. You see you
can't make mop and yard stick out of
a Kansas girl at one and the same time.
The county commissioners of Co
manche county have concluded that it
would be cheaper to have a prison in
which to confine offenders against the
laws than it is to pay guard 81 a day
for each person SO accused, and have, &C
cordingly, taken steps to build Jail.
Emporia Republican: j. o. Stockwell,
manager of the telephone exchange at
burlington, Kansas, has invented con-
trivance to kill the buzzing noise which
so often interferes with clear transmits
! sion of the voice. II is considered very
valuable improvement.
Elias and Stanton Rich escaped from
the custody of the sheriff of Coffey
county last Friday night. They were
discovered by searching posse next
morning some distance in the country.
Both resisted arrest and in the melee
that eDsued Stanton Rich was shot and
instantly killed.
A magnificent sugar mill in prospec-
tive, the best grist mill in the western
part of the state, and fine creamery
already in operation, puts Ness City on
the right road toward prosperity, Ness
isn't satisfied with these, however. and
planning to nose down into the earth to
see what is down there that Is in reach.