Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-23
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The entire western portion of Kansas
is covered with snow from five to six
inches deep.
Fort Riley is wearing large sized de-
sire to have Uncle Sam bore there fer
natural gas.
Topeka is all agog over the report that
Allen Sells will put in $50, 600 to $780, 900
in improvements on the Windsor hotel
this spring.
The Lawrence Journal says there are
ia ex-members of the legislature from
Douglas county, the greater part of
whom remain to this present time.
Winfield people are still torn up about
the pronunciation of the word parquat
1t ought not to worry them so long as
they have the price to get into the opry.
1t may be true as rule that there is
nothing in a name. but it is just bit
odd that the capital city should select A
Wolf to inspect its food supply of fresh
meat.
The Geuda Springs Herald learns that
the bridge across the Arkansas at that
place is an assured fact, and predicts
that the improvement will be of great
benefit to that place.
The Summer county farmers at their
association meeting last week decided
that Kansas raised corn is good enough
for them for seed and will not invest in
the early varieties of northern growth.
Ais well that ends WELL
Charles Culver fell from an ascending
cage in the shaft in the Child's salt mine
Of nd fcI- a1
mp on the rocks at the bottom of the
Courier says his injuries may prove
fatal.
1t is asserted that the county seat con-
test in Seward cost the county $50, 900,
and that this fact accounts for the de-
feat Of the proposition 10 issue SEA, 900
in bonds for court house purposes. The
people wanted to renew their financial
hold, so to speak.
A bill has been introduced in the legis-
lature tending the work of coroners SO
that they shall look after fires as well as
deaths. The bill provides that all coro-
ners shall hold inGuests of fires in their
counties in the same manner
as they are now held in case of deaths.
Shop-lifters in Fl. Scott appear to wear
pants in the greatest profusion. One of
them carried off seven pairs of trousers
at one fell swoop, while the clerk was
not standing more than twenty feet
away.-Topeka Journal. The shop-lifterS
didn't have near as many pants" as the
fellow who was painting" to get away
from the aforesaid 'shop-lifter." who
had gun which Mr Rothschild des-
cribed as ''a mile long. Monitor.
The Western School Journal. organ of
the teachers of Kansas: says that many
Of the estimates made concerning the
cost of school books are wild guesses. 1t
asserts that the actual cost of text books,
% the people of Kansas. cannot be over
100000 per annum, while frequently it
IS stated that they cost millions. The (
Journal has ascertained that only about /
800 spoilers are sold annually, in Topeka, /
md they cost only $3.50.
Medicine Lodge had three mayors in !!
side of half an hour one night last week, |
md the Index calls the council meeting
the best nights work in its history"
Two of the said officials could not see |
heir way clear to approve an ordinance |
passed by the council to issue $780, 900 in /
,ity bonds for water works and sugar /
liant, and stepped down and out. The /
irst was mayor de facto, the second ex-
,fficio, being chairman of the council
BOARD. The third man stuck.
Monday a fourteen-year-old son of
levi Kunkel, at Lafayette, was shooting
With an old gun. when the breech pin
vas blown out, and turning end for end,
truck him with the screw end i'll the
entire of the forehead, breaking through
he skull, and penetrating to the depth
f almost an inch. He pulled the iron
ut, ran to the house, bleeding badly.
\ physician was summoned who took
ut large number of pieces of bones.
he boy may recover, but the result is
cry doubtful.-Troy Chief.