Wichita eagle., 1889-04-05
KANSAS KoLLARY.

Hon. Chas. B. Lines, of Wabaunsee
county, died at his residence In Wabaun-
see county, on the 31st ult., aged 81
years. He came to Kansas in 1856.
Medicine Lodge has got back one of
her Dollars she lost IN the Territory re-
Gently. John returned Tuesday. Ar
thur will probably pass back shortly.
A woman thought to be insane,
jumped from car window on the east
bound Wednesday mornings train at
Emporia and got badly jammed up
Republican.
Medicine Lodge has a coming sculp-
tor in the person of A. S. McClearey.
Art connoisseurs who have examined
Mr.. McClearey's work say that he un-
doubtedly has the elements OF genius.
The state board of railroad commits
fioners have ordered reduction of from
10 to 25 per cent In rates OF freight
charges on coal from the Leavenworth
mines, and 11-worth is happy.
There is no smallpox in Atchison at
present. There have been in all just
four clearly defined cases of smallpox In
this CITY this spring-three adults and
one child. All have recoyered.-Cham-
| pion.
| The Kansas railroad commissioners
have decided that railroad company
cannot charge more for hauling car
load of mixed live stock. hogs and cat
tie, for instance, than the maximum rate
charged for either class.
A Winfield paper announced Zarelda
Wallace, the author of Ben Hur, to
lecture in that town recently. If we'd
been her we'd have publicly corrected
the mistake. and in Lew thereof would
have credited the authorship to the
author.
Burden elected a Democratic mayor,
Dexter elected a Democratic mayor,
Arkansas City elected a Democratic
mayor, and Winfield elected a Demo
cratic mayor and police Judge. What
smatter with the cities of old Cowley!
A creamery with capacity for work
ing 10000 pounds of milk per day Is
nearly completed at Medicine Lodge:
! Verify the metropolis of the state OF
Barber is just aswimmin' in the milk
and honey of good things. No bad Med
! icine there.
One hundred and twenty-five of the
| Oklahoma home seekers who shall TAIL to
realize their expectations in the ''prom-
ised land" will do well to beer in mind
that there are 20, 900 acres of government
land in Logan county, this state.
Tuesday night, at S:45 o'clock. the
most terrific wind storm ever expert
enced in the history of Sallna struck
that city. Pedestrians were caught I'M
awares and it was with difficulty that
the streets were made pasSable by the
electric lights.
The members of the bar at Coldwater,
last week, on the adjournment of dis
| trict court, passed resolutions highly
laudatory of Judge Price. That was his
| first term of court and the edorsement
he received was very flattering. Politics
did not enter INTO the affair.-Medicine
-.
The Russell Record wants to know
how many garden spots" there are IN
Kansas. Why bless your soul, Jones,
there is only one and that covers the en-
tire state. The soil of Kansas is richer
than the famous vale of Cashmere and
ten times as lovely as that dreamy land
of lotus eaters-Salina Republican.
A well known colored man by the
name of David F. Taylor was accident
ally drowned in Mud creek, about three
miles east of Lawrence Tuesday. as
near as could be learned, Taylor had
started out on fishing expedition and
while wading the stream sank IN the
mud and water and disappeared from
sight before assistance could reach him.
Baldwin City elected woman's ticket
Tuesday by 1873 majority. The offices OF
mayor and council will be occupied III
the future by women. Mrs. Lucy Sulli
van was elected mayor. The following
ladies were elected to the city council
Mrs Dr. Martin, Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Stew
ard, Mrs. Kidder and Miss Lillian Scott
S. Topping was elected police judge.
The subject of manual training school;
is exciting considerable attention now
among educators everywhere. The
fourth annual report of the Kansas labor
bureau treats this subject at considera-
bic length. Five manual training schools
have reported to the bureau from Kan
sas The showing is highly satisfactory
The agricultural college at Manhattan
gives the most decidedly favorable adj
vance in producing mechanics as well as
farmers. The plans for carrying man
ual training schools, as used by the
! largest schools in the United States, are
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