Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-22
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The soldiers home at Leavenworth. has
| membership Of 1876.
Will Stotier is assisting his father in ed
iting the Wellington Press.
To call Stafford man an individual -
| is sure precursor to fight.
| Harvesting doesn't seem to interfere
with marrying in Kansas at all.
1t was so hot down at Arkansas City
| Thursday that the stand-pipe perspired.
Great Bend mas a rock pile and is re-
| joicing in a scarcity of tramps consequent
| ly.
There has not been over 200 liquor Ii
censes issued to Kansas City, Kan, this
year.
Edwards county farmers are busy har-
vesting the best wheat crop ever raised in
| that county.
| The Salvation army have decided that
Coffeyville was nut they couldn't crack
| and departed.
This is the time of year when man is
persuaded that he never could put up
screens, any how"
There are Is presidential postoffices in
| Kansas OF that number 133 are held by
OemOcratlc pOStmaSterS.
| A golden wedding has been celebrated
in Chase county. 1t was the first that ever
| took place in the county.
| Some of the hail that fell in the south
ern part of Lane county las Sunday night
| were three inches in diameter.
| The fellow in Fort Scott boating circles
who can use spoon oars is regarded with a
faeliDo, 'tyyiYt faar and ieal0uSv
| The climax was reached in the colored
society of Burlingame when the Lion"
was discovered to be ''sockless."
Kansas City News: A Jewell county
farmer sold 100000 worth of gems last
year. They consisted of cattle and hogs.
Talking about fate. the circus procession
is the greatest factor in designating what
are the principal streets in Kansas towns.
| Leavenworth thinks it is going to have
better lights for its streets than ever be-
fore, and at the same time save nearly
| 81, 500 year.
Alex Butts is the authority for "It is in
| timated that the Topeka people knew that
| Oliphant was an Indiana man before they
| lynched him.
| 1t is said that the irrigating ditch that
runs through Ford, Finney and Edwards
counties, has been sold to an English syn
dictate for 81 100000.
1t is reported that Mrs. A. T. Rogers,
the Topeka lady who was shot by Burglar
| Oliphant about two weeks ago, is able tc
attend to her household duties.
| 1t has been discovered that the long
poles used by Wellington fishing parties
are hollow and that the reel is nothing
more than an ingeniously devised faucet.
The jointists of Leavenworth have
| banded together and agreed not to sell
| liquor in violation Of law and to report to
the authorities all the violations they see.
| When museum of anatomy" strikes
| Winfield the city physicians always leave
town to escape their unprofessional friends
telling them what they don't know about
the human body.
The graduates of the Salina high school
were refused diplomas simply because of a
quarrel between members OF the school
board. Slips of paper on which the grades
were marked were given to the pupils.
A Leavenworth barber who doesn't want
to work on Sunday, is trying to persuade
the city council to pass an ordinance com
pelling all of the other tonsOrial artists in
the city to close their shops on that day.
While other parts of the country have
been afflicted with flood, frosts, hailstorms
and cyclones, Ness county has been blessed
with rain at just the right time for all
kinds of crops, without hail or destructive
winds.-Ness County Sentinel.
They are economical people out in Dick
inson county. After the recent hail storm
they gathered great quantities of hail
stones and packed them away. They are
now having series of ice cream festivals
at which the cream is frozen with hail
gathered more than week ago.
Pension Agent Click issued a voucher
Wednesday for pension to the amount Of
&C. 025.27 in favor of Mrs. Ferdinandine
Brimmer. This is the largest pension
ever allowed a widow. A voucher was
also issued to Mrs. Margaret Diebold, OF
Woollam, No., for s., 33S
If burglar comes into your house at
night and your hear him in your room,
turn over and yawn and give him chance
to escape before you awaken and shoot
him. We do not value silver cup given
to one of the children as birthday pres
ent above our life.-Atchison Globe.
Leavenworth Times: The Rapid Transit
threatens to tear up its track on account
of a multiplicity of damage suits insti-
tuted by some of our citizens and now
pending in the district court. This would
be an exceedingly unfortunate contin-
gency, and would deprive the Fort and
Home of thousands of visitors.
In Salina county, Kansas, according to
the Cawker City journal, within an area
of fourteen square miles, there are five
butter factories which pay out in the az =
gregate So, 900 per month for milk, and as
the farmers produce the milk solely on rye
and sorghum hay in winter, the rye and
wild grass pasture in the spring and sum
mer, there is big profit at % cents for
milk in summer and 81 per cwt. in winter.
The Capital says ''in the list of 100 best
books read by Lawrence hterateurs we
fail to see the Kansas Herd Book men,
toned" But it is in Lawrence just the
same. You will find it in the kitchen
where its precious leaves answer for a lamp
chimney cleaner. in the dining room, TO
prop the baby up at the table in the abb
sence of Congressional Globes, in the
study as footstall and sometimes In the
parlor as a pseudo bible, and so on ad
| iaflnitum.
Ellis Headlight: Maude Page, aged H.
daughter of Riley Page, who lives on q
farm twenty miles southeast of this city
was alone on her way home from school,
sbotJ- eivht miles distant and when sire