Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-06
KANSAS KOLLARY.


John Brook, of Peabody, gave bushel
of onions each to over 100 families on
| Christmas.
The week of prayer will be very gen.
orally observed by church people through
out the state.
Marion decided last week, by two
thirds vote, in favor of new school
house to cost $12 900.
Kansas railroads will make 30 per
cent reduction in the freight on seed corn
from eastern Kansas to western until
April 80.
The Baptist church at Minneapolis
| has expelled from membership all who
! believe III the doctrines of Christian
Science.
Burlington is to be lighted by cleo
tricity. The dynamo, lamps and other
! fixtures for the system arrived there the
first of the week.
Uncle Sam has paid out to Sc, 169 ex-
! Union soldiers and sailors through the
| Topeka pension office during the year
1888, $7,107, 10000.
A marriage license was issued at To-
peka Wednesday to Abner Wiseman,
an aged negro who claims to be 116years
old. His bride is IS.
According to the record, as published
in the COncordia Empire, there were 1I0
marriages, 10 divorces and 81 deaths IN
Cloud county last year.
The time for shooting quail, accord
ing to the statutes, " is past and gunners
will do well to look leedle oud in their
forox-C JI,1or tho y,yi,,rnl crap1a
Miss Jane McMurray, aged %, daugh-
ter of ex-Sheriff McMurray, of Crawford
county, committed suicide at GIrard by
hanging herself. Cause i'll health.
Charles K. Holiday, of Topeka, who
was appointed secretary of legation at
Venezuela by President Cleveland, has
been promoted to change d affairs.
1t is rumored here that the projected
railroad from Caldwell via. Attica to
Bucklin will be one of the sure things in
the early spring.-Attica Advocate.
II. H. Richards, of Wichita, and other
capitalists are expected on Monday to
look over this place with view to erect
ing a sugar mill here.-Medicine Lodge
CreSSet.
We understand that the Nickerson
Register has changed hands. The new
proprietors, w. Z. Raisner and W. S.
Claypool will take possession about the
first of February.
The Manhattan Mercury thinks that
when a young man makes the statement
that he don't care how he gets his money
provided he succeeds in getting it, he
will bear watching.
A GRAY county farmer has Just har-
vested 1900 bushels of peanuts from fifty
acres. At fifty cents bushel which is
a low price for good peanuts, his land
yielded him $50 per acre. There IS no
crop that would pay better.
Mrs. Jennie Kellogg, of Emporia, has
been admitted to practice before the su-
preme court of Kansas, Jennie tired of |
waiting for the clouds to roll by and con- |
Guided to hand in the rolling.
With creamery, salt well and sugar /
mill in operation this season. Clearwater |
viii move along with unerring prosper
ity. They calculate on having all Of /
these and maybe other enterprises.
We take back a statement made in a 1
previous issue that wolves are as scarce |
They amt. A party of hunters south of |
last week-Lyons Tribune.
Atchison estimates ''the Missouri Pa |
cifc railway the best friend in ever /
had" Leavenworth feels different. Up /
there they suspect the VI. 2. OF being be- I
hind the suit for S40,0 against that /
place brought by the Santa Fe. SO it {
goes.
There is a rumor in circulation to the |
effect that Burlington man owes his /
hired girl nearly hundred dollars, and |
figuring that it viii be cheaper to marry /
her than TO pay the account, has com |
menced preparations for the wedding
Republican.
Lawrence society is On the kee wee Of /
expectancy over the announcement by /
the Journal that it has it from good au- |
thorlty that there IL first-class social /
sensation brewing. The Journal man Is 4
collecting the facts III the case, which /
viii sooE BE- given to the public.
When you hear Of a man complaining /
Of poor crops in Kansas county pull him /
by the sleeve and whisper in his ear that I
corn is p cents per bushei: hay 81. 20 4
and $500 per ton; butter - cents per |
pound and eggs ID cents per dozen.- |
kingman Daily Courier.
Another new government officer has |
taken up his headquarters in Fort Scott, |
the advance guard, perhaps, Of many /
more who win be located here when the /
government postofiice IS completed and |
the state is divided into two judicial dis /
tricts. The gentleman who now takes !
up his abode with Us Is the chief clerk Of l
the railway mail service, who has 103 /
postal clerks under his JurisdIction--
Monitor.
Ranchmen IN from the plains all say
that the coyotes and wolves are unusu-
ally thick and daring this winter. They
are killing many calves and colts. and |
even grown cattle One raiser alone has
lost - colts IN one week. Many OF the
stockmen are spreading poison over their
ranches to Try and thin them out.--Ateh-