Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
KANSAS KOLLARY.

KANSAS KOLLARY.
Downs is one year old and has spent
SEC, 900 for new buildings.
The Harper postoffice handled last year
not less than 100000 pieces of mail mat
ter.
Coleman Rigney, near Paola, young
boy, drank pint of gin supposlng II to
be cider and died from its effects.
In Hamilton county one man brought
suit for $4,000 against another man for
alternating his wife's affections"
The government land grant to the ag-
ricultural college has all been sold and
the endowment resulting Is SOL, 4o6. ~.
The trial of Mrs. Tennyson. aged 20,
charged with poisoning her aged hus-
band over year ago, began at Olathe
yesterday.
The presence of a large number Of
COWBOYS wearing six-shooters in broad
brimed hats gives Anthony the appear
ance of border town.
Pap" Anderson assures the Republi-
can that there viii be fifteen lines OF
railway running into Newton ere snow
flies next fall. As prophet Pap" is
lalla.
The secretary of the interior has disal-
lowed the depreciation claim of John
Cole, of Comanche county, for S2,S63
damages committed by Cheyenne Indians
in 1874
The blacksmith shops of the Missouri
Pacific railroad in Atchison burned
Tuesday. Work was resumed at the
FORCES as soon as the debris was cleared
away.
The Courier tells OF the organization
in kingman for the manufacture of
natural gas Probably they think they
can make natural gas cheaper than
they can bore for 1t.
Over 547 marriage ceremonies have
been performed in Atchison during the
past two years. The exact number OF
divorces granted during the same period
has not been aScertained.
A company will be organized in Atch-
ison within the next sixty days for the
purpose of furnishing electric motor
power to all kinds of machinery now
operated by steam and water power.
Reports from Rawlins county, Kansas.
say that there IS plenty of corn, hay and
feed for man and beast drought that
section, and that live stock was never i'll
better condition Good for northwest
Kansas.
There was held at Harper, last week,
a meeting of the horsemen of Kiowa and
Harper for the purpose OF agreeing on a
| fall meeting. II was agreed to hold a
meeting in October, either at kiowa or
| Harper.
The Champion says that st. Louis
| house has sent an order for the first
twenty car loads of salt made by the
| Sterling salt works, and Chicago goes
her one better and wants forty car loads.
| They will be accommodated.
An elopement of quite a sensational
| character occurred in Atchison last Fri
day evening. The young gentleman,
! however. returned while the young lady
is still absent. Considerable mystery
surrounds the case.-Champion.
| Summunduwot is the name of an Odd
! Fellows lodge at Wyandotte. When a
| Wyandotter comes home late at night
and tells his wife he has been to large
! she makes him pronounce it. If he can
| do SO, it's all right: If he can't she knows
he is lying and has been to joint.
The very latest venture in journalism
/ is the Splvy Index by Geo. W. Kelly, a
| sixteen wear old boy. In his salutatory
he saws; Our best efforts will be given
! in your behalf, apd we believe that if
one and all work for one end that all
will alike prosper. The correct idea.
Jas. C. Barkwell. for several months
! ell Il "
| Courier. died at the Leavenworth sol
dier's home or the 23d of December. lie
carried with him to the grave number
of wounds received IN the service of the
| Union during the war OF the rebellion.
A rolling mill is among the big things
/ Leavenworth expects in the near future.
| The Sun says such a plant will be trans
| ferred from the east and viii be the
| largest one OF its kind west Of the Mlssis-
sippi Constant employment to 0OO men
| is promised.
/ And now it is said that some of the
churches in Saiina are thinking of ex-
peling all its members who believe In
/ christian science. There is no law
against people believing anything. At
! the same time societies have the right to
prescribe their own 'doXles.
The Republican asserts without equiv
ocation that Harper viii have sugar
works and no mistake. And when il
/ comes to salt. it says they will soon be
shipping 800 barrels per day. Also that
/ HARPER will soon furnish coal to the peo-
. pie Of Kansas. Reasonable allowance
/ should be made. however, for the ex-
uberance of the Republican Invariably
incident TO youth.
All of the stock in the proposed cream
erv at Medicine Lodge has been sub
/ scribed. and now it only remains for
/ Davis & Rankin to do their work. Mr..
Davis will be here this week to select a
site and buy the land. Within the next
sixtv DAYS the creamery will be COM
pleted and I'm operation, the contractors
saw. 1t will have capacity Of 10000
pounds Of milk per day.-Index.