Wichita eagle., 1889-10-27
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Seeds. Sips. saions. Sprouts. Shoots and sIis.

Seeds. Sips, Scons, Sprouts. Shoots and siissrs.
| Erie, Neosho county. held its first fair
two weeks ago and it proved success all
around.
| CLAY Center is experiencing the thrilling
at the present.
| The Tribune says over 1000 car loads of
| cattle have passed Her1n.ton en- route 10
! market since August !.
As between hold-ups by foot pads ana
attempted suicides, Augusta has exper-
| fenced an unusually exciting time the
past week.
Hon. John j. Ingalls,. United States sena-
tor. will address the Republican meeting
at Medicine Lodge next Tuesday, October
g. at two o'clock D. N.
The Presbyterian church at Eureka has
called Rev. Thorpe, of Wellington, Kansas,
to fill their pulpit. and he will preach this
Sunday morning. at 10:oo.
The Conway Springs Star says that if
there were % new residences in that town
they would all be taken within "A hours.
So much for the sugar mill.
If the farmer gets fifteen cents for his
corn and the consumer pays sixty cents
bushel for meal, the Salina Republican
asks what is the profit and who gets? We
give it up.
In the absence of anything else to steal
the sneak thieves over at FL Dorado steal
potted flower plants just to keep their
hands in. They evidently hope for better
things later.
S. II. Dodge, of the Beloit Gazette, says
he saw specimen of the tickets voted In
Montana under the Australian system,
and that it is thirty-fve inches long by six
inches wide. No wonder the print fellows
all favor the 'plan."
Caldwell wants a sugar mill, Mulvane
wants cheese factory, Belle Plaine wants
water works, Cicero wants an elevator,
Riyerdale wants salt works, Wellington
wants lake and Wichita wants them all
to have what they want.
A citizen of Belle Plaine lost a twenty
dollar gold coin few nights ago and after
twenty-four hour hunt. found it secreted
where he put it in a somnambullstlc ut.
The News didn't tell his name.
The Barber county people have discover
ed that sorghum seed make an excellent
fue.. The Medicine Lodge Cresset says
quiet a number of people are burning cane
tops for fuel and say the result IS highly
satisfactory. An even, hot fire can be
kept"
Thursday night and everybody was so
tickled over it that the managers tickled
'em again by repeating it Friday night.
The Republican describes it as a dandy,
though it says nothing about any dudes
being present.
Wellington Gazette: 1t will be news to
large number OF cur citizens 10 know
that experts are prospecting for coal on
the farm Of ~hatfer brothers, about two
and one half miles from the city They
assert confidently that their search Will
prove successful.
The Eureka Herald asserts that mine
of shoe backing has been discovered in
Pratt county, Kansas. and the lucky fluid
ers are now prospecting for mine OF shoe
brushes If this don't make the Pratt fell
lows bristle up they are a more big headed
set than we take them.
Superintendent Harding, of the Wichita
road, was in town lasa Friday. negotiating
with the Davis Bros. and Mr.. Horville for
LOCO car loads OF .;ravel Ii the srade is
made the road will begin to uncover the
bed ~ once and agrees TO take out 100 Car
loads d month.-Iola Register.
A gentleman named Dubois of Brewes-
ter county. Texas, recently purchased 4S0
acres of land near South Haven, Sumner
county. He intends it for a horse ranch.
Speaking OF horses, the Wellington Stand
ard says very few people are aware. per-
hapS, that there now 100 horses in Sumner
county worth oyer 81 900 each.
A son OF Peter Ramseyer, II years of
age, was riding horse across a fed on
hisfather's farm last Wednesday, when
the horse stumbled and fell, breaking the
boys leg below the knee. Ramseyer did
not know that the leg was broken, hence,
it was - hours before the leg was properly
set Harper Sentinel.
Salina is just rearing up on her hind
legs with Indignation. The Missouri
Pacific railroad folks have changed the
running of trains via that place so that it
is virtually made the terminus of branch
line. She threatens the road with the
state railroad commission If 1t don't re-
store the former status quo.
Monsieur Firmin, the states representa-
tive at the Paris exposition, has been heard
from again. He has just informed the
secretary of the state board of agriculture
that the exposition managers have ac-
corded mention honorable" to the Con-
way Springs company and the Douglas
Sugar com any for their sorghum sugar,
refined and sorghum syrup.
H. NJ. Upham, the Coffeyville express
agent whose wife and daughter were tho
victims of the famous dynamite explosion
last fail, has returned to hansss again
after trying to live in Maine. His wife
and daughter have almost entirely recoy-
cred from their injuries, but the mystery
connected with the explosion has never
been straightforward Courant.
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