Wichita eagle., 1889-10-25
sUNFLowER sHADoWINGs.
Seeds, Slips, seions. Sprouts. Shoots and s'sse

| Seeds, Slips Scions. Sprouts. Shoots and S'.sefs.
The Kiowa fair began yesterday and wi
continue three days.
| The mud is so deep in Mcpherson county
! that teams can scarcely travel along the
| public highways. That means another
booming wheat crop next year.
The acreage of wheat sown in Kansas
| this year is considerably larger than thai
| of 1888, and that was the largest acreage
sown in the history of the state
Leayenworth's pontoon bridge is prov
ing such clever hit in a business way
that Atchison is talking about spanning
the Big Muddy at that place with one.
Atchison will vote at the November cleo
| ton on proposition TO build a $1,000
market house. Alex Butts thinks that 1t
probably more style than the taxpayers
will feel like Shaping on.
Mrs Minnie Wallace Walkup. OF the
Emporia arsenic sensation, couple or
years ago, has obtained pension because
of her husbands service in the army. She
has just returned from Europe.
Marriage seems to be considerable of a
failure at Topeka with all its goody-
goodness. Six applications for divorce
were filed in the district court there Tues
day. Unhappy people! Unhappy Topeka!
Ellsworth people say that they lost
money by the soldiers reunion. but they
don't claim any kick coming to them on
that account, as they feel that they were
more than compensated by the pleasure of
knowing that y good time was had by their
guests.
K C. Star: The enrolment this year at
the Kansas City Agricultural college is the
largest in the history of the institution.
There are 397 present as against S33 in 1888,
in n
enrolment consists Of 254 males and 143
females
Governor Humphrey and other state Of
ficials occupied box at Mcpherson re-
Gently during an '.Uncle Toms Cabin"
show. A sarcastic remark concerning one
Tomlinson made by one of the ''Markses"
drew great applause from the box.-Law-
renee Journal.
The Troy Chief says the treasurer Of
Riley county refuses to allow the commit
tee appointed by the county board to ex-
anime the treasury, and will not permit
the probate judge to have access to his
books and papers. Begin to get ready for
the statement of another tiduciary gone
wrong"
At a meeting of the Harper county SOL
dier's reunion association held at the dis
trict clerks Office in Anthony on the 11th
inst, it was decided to hold soldiers re-
union on Friday and Saturday. November
Sth and 9th, the place of holding same hot
yet being determined upon.-Freeport
Leader.
Eight colleges have been built in Kansas
during the past year. This sort of thing
will go on until the sunfower state will
have to import all of its farm hands and
kitchen girls from Missouri.-Kansas City
Star. 1t also means that the state don't
intend to impose upon candidates for office
the labor of conducting educational cam
paigns.
The state encampment of the G.. A. r.
will meet in Salina the last week in Janu-
airy. There will be present more than 900
delegates from posts, the Woman's Relief
pected that Gen. Russell A. Alger, of
Michigan, national commander, will be in
attendance, as well as other prominent
men.-News.
According to a dispatch from Minneola,
the sugar mill at that place IS Il < eat sue
cess. Sugar of an excellent quality has
been made, Notwithstanding the technical
objections and criticisms of experts"
We congratulate the gentlemen on the
success of the undertaking, and next year
we hope to see an Adamson rooster in
every township.
Responses from Ex-Lieuteuant Governor
Riddle, Grand Recorder Forde and Hon.
j. E. Riggs, announce that all those gen.
tl5men will be present next Monday at the
great y. 0. L. w. meeting in this city.
Every lodge in central Kansas will send
from ten to twenty-five members and the
gathering will be a most notable one. The
town will be given over to the brothers and
they will be made to feel perfectly at home.
Abilene Reflector.
Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the eminent
evangelist, was in the city last evening, on
his way from Topeka to his home in Chi
cago. 1.-The Y. III. c. A. convention at To-
peka," said he to d reporter while eating
supper at the union depot, ''was the grand
est thing OF the kind | ever attended. Mr.
Fisher, the state secretary, was there and
his work in controlling and keeping to-
gether for three days that big body OF men
beat anything of the kind l ever saw y
Kansas City Times.
The Caldwell Journal says Constable
Jarrett rounded up couple OF horse
thieves ia good shape last week. Two
young men arrived in town with fifteen
head of horses, which they at once COM
menced to dispose of. They finally sue
ceeded in striking a figure with Sam Dun
tual worth. Jarrett suspected that some
thing was wrong and arrested one of them
and when he started after the other he had
his pony and pulled for the terri
tory. He was pursued by Jarrett and
Overtaken out by the stock yards and
brought, ween he confessed that he had
stolen the horses down in the Choctaw ma
ton, about fifteen days ago.