Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. seions, Sprouts. Shoots and slis

Seeds. Slips, Scions, Sprouts. Snoots aho Ssisets
The farmers are sowing wheat in over
| coats this fall.
| The Atchison fair had rainy week but
it cleared s., coo.
Chetopa is to be lighted by electricity.
This will be nice for the bugs.
Barber county thinks boom is nibbling
at her bait, and she will catch it.
| People will continue to announce the
first frost from now till snow flies.
Barber county has raised this year $780,
| 900 bushels of corn and din't half Try.
| The Prohibitionists of Brown county
have nominated q list of county officers.
Barber county will sell this year 5000.
900 worth of live stock. She sold So0O,OoO
| worth last year.
| There were 500 bushels of castor beans
| shipped from Englewood Saturday and
more coming in daily.
| Expenses at the round house and Santa
| Fe shops in Emporia will be reduced 900
| by lay-of of men Friday.
When Newton people want to get up on
style. they go down to the depot and in
| spect the transit passengers.
| The Salina firemen won the first cash
| prize at the tournament contest OF state
volunteer nremen at OtIa"a
| 1t is a hard contest for the champion
| ship, in Wellington girls mind, between
a drummer and a baSe-baiIlst.
A man isn't supposed to have seen the
world. at Medicine Lodge, till he tries to
| break wild colt to the sulky.
A. R. Johnson, wife and four children
| We're poisoned at Atchison by eating meat
that was fried in diseased lard.
A farmer was seen on the streets of
Atchison the other day with wagon load
of cord wood grown on his own place.
The Kiowa Journal advises the citizens
to p,ow up the whole town and SOW IL In
| wheat. 1t might yield something then.
People may not know it, but the man
who sells ice in the summer and runs
coal yard in the winter is mighty cute"
A state convention Of the Young Wom-
ems Christian associations Of kans-
sas will be held at Manhattan, October )
to e.
Give the citizens of Medicine Lodge
plenty of water and buckets and they can
lay it over the best fire company in exist
ence.
A strip of land ~ by miles in breadth
and length in the vicinity of Lawndale
yielded q 900 bushels of small grain this
season.
Young jackson who was killed in the
prize fight at ST. Louis was the son OF
Captain jackson the founder of PaWnee
Rock, Kansas
The 9-year-old daughter Of w. W. Pc
bles, of Meriden, who was bitten by Cog
two months ago Was yesterday stricken
with hydrophObta.
A Kingman man considers the advances
to stranger quite sang froid, when 1t is
toe regulation what time OF day is IT."
'GoJ chew, pard!"
A new trial has been granted in the w.
p. HiginbOtham case at Manhattan. This
bank at Clay Center.
Some enterprising fellow can materially
assist in boming Marion by jumping. off
the standpipe in a barrel. That would be
a characterization Globe.
A writer in the Newton Republican
signs his name, "a Kansas Fool" Most
newspaper writers prefer to use nom dc
plume-Emporia Republican.
From the prevalence of custom at
Medicine Lodge, OF bringing the spirit Of
a congenial company in Il tin bucket, they
speak Of a man as Gin his pals"
K. c. Star: A Newton dealer gives
shoe bag with every pair of woman's shoes
which he sells. This Is a great snap for
The Winfield Courier says Edison is not
an impecunious count. He refused S2O, Geo.,
600 for hiss:photo"- graph. Mr.. Edison very
much resembles a Kansas politician, in
this.
C. F. Meserve, of Springfield, Mass, the
new superintendent of the Haskell insti-
tute, Lawrence, is expected to reach Law
renee and assume charge of the school this
week.
The Rock Island shipped nearly one
thousand car loads of stone from the
Marion quarries during the past twelve
months, besides what the Santa re has
taken out.
A government steamboat which was due
at ST. Joe On the 10Th has not arrived there
yet. The name of the boat is the Alert"
1t is stuck on a sandbar between Atcnison
and st. Joe.
Topeka's city council has passed bridge
ordinance and November 5 the election will
occur. The ordinance calls for $3.50 600
structure. The old bridge was condemned
some time ago
Atchison Globe: A one armed man runs
Il joint in Topeka, and when witnesses are
asked why they visited his place, they say
they heard that the mans arm was grow
ing and they wanted to see It,
One hundred and fifty babies contended
for the premium offered for the finest
specimen of Kansas baby at the Topeka
fair last week. The award was made to
child of Mr.. Larimore, Of Topeka
The fruit season is nearly over and it
would be a surprise to know the number
OF cans of fruit put up this season. Every
family has all the way from five to TWO
hundred quarts each.-Cunningham Her
aid.
John n. Reynolds of Atchison, who
wrote book called GA Kansas Help
while an inmate of the penitentiary, has
entered the ministry as an evangelist and
will open his work next Sunday at High
land.
A local reporter of Marion finds that the
women of that town have bought during
the past season Il, 400 tin cans and 1900
glass cans. So the youngsters can have
preserves to eat lots Of times besides com
panY days"
Governor Humphrey yesterday pardoned
from the penitentiary Julius =. Bailey. of
Reno county, who has served six years of
a life sentence for the murder of his father.
There is a strong probability that Bailey
did not kill his father.
A kansan who has just returned from
visit to Springfield, the Illinois capital
city. says the state house there belongs to
the frult-cake order of architecture; every
thing is sacrificed to the desire to put on
more fros5ing. The great central dome
would De ma iestic but the architect has
surrounded it with little Gomelets which
suggest the cruets of salt, pepper, mustard