Wichita eagle., 1889-07-21
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips, scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sliv.

SEEDS, Sips Sclons, Sprouts SHOOTS and SiYers.
Sterling claims to be sending flour tC
| England.
A girl with big head at Newton is nc
curiosity az all.
No amount of coaxing will bring the
thermometer down.
There are 2,419 old vets at the home at
Fort LeavenWorth.
The Atchison canning factory is huge
string bean at present
William Fisher u Topeka burglar, got
nine years as his reward of merit.
1t is now alleged that Emporia girls spit
On their hands, when they play at tennis.
The old settlers of Harvey county will
hold reunion near Newton on August %.
At the way cabbages are growing it will
take about one cabbage for a barrel OF
| kraut.
The prospect for a fair at Newton has
| become so big that they've had to take it
out of town.
A Douglas county man cleared go bush
els OF wheat from five acres, or fifty bush
| els to the acre
The silence is oppressive in one part of
! LeayenWOrth where some frog ponds nave
! been filled up.
! The little bit of a branch with sixteen
/ Jumbo pears on it is the bait for the pa
! pers at present.
Sixteen cases of small pox are reported
at Piqua. The town is quarantined and
no trains slop there.
A Mcpherson man has peach 90
| inches in circumference, but is afraid to
trust it in an exhibition.
\ gentleman who arrived in Winfield
pInt2.ftav n IA kan iS fret IL.
railroad at the age of u.
Usage county corn is fourteen and half
feet "a with messenger coming down
from tie top with later measurement
Kansas City Star: The total valuation of
railroad property at Topeka is placed at
500, 1853. This, of course, does not include
the state house.
John huffman, while operating binder
near PaXlco lad his arm pierced by the
needle and was pinioned to the machine
for half an hour.
Boom item In the Atchison Patriot: The
elevator horse in the Harwi building is
getting so used TO his daily toll that he no
longer needs driver.
Prof. Garfield of the state university has
just received the high honor of being made
president OF the national school teachers
association in session at Nashville.
The flag pole at the soldiers home will
be erected IN few DAYS. Governor Smith
asserts that this is the tallest pole in the
United States, II being 19o feet high and
costing 1000.
The citizens of Garden City held a meet
ing Wednesday 10 make arrangements for
the exposition. i president, secretary,
treasurer and executive Committee were
chosen, and the prospects for success are /
good.
Il c. News: The average wages at /
Wamego are 81 II per day, at Topeka az Or 1
1t costs 3l.5 cents day 10 live a. the for 4
mer place and o1.I cents at the latter. II 4
person wants TO get rich at Topeka he 4
should move TO Wamego.
Two poor orphan boys who attended /
Sunday school picnic at Merriam park 4
yesterday were arrested, taken TO Oisthe /
and lodged in jail. al because they took 1
piece Of cake out Of the basket OF one of 1
the pienicers. The boys had had 10 dinner.
The South side Mining and Manufac-
turing company az Galena, Kansas, the
largest lead industry in The state and one
that furnished tATee-fouTshs OF the lead
mined in tie United States has asked fox
receiver: The property involved Is esti-
mated al sen, o9J.
4 GOODNESS has sprung up between E P.
Diehl, OF Oiatne, and the Western Union
Telegraph company and a hot legal fight |
IS the result. D.ehl has sued the telegraph
for fifteen hundred dollars
damages for delivering message wrong. |
Il was sent from General Powell CLAYTON.
OF Arkansas, and read: send me forty
tons OF ice" This was transformed into
was not noticed until half Of the ice had
been sent A nice point Of law - involved
IN the suit. and tie case Will be watched
WIZ interest By ice men