Wichita eagle., 1889-08-13
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Seeds. Slips, scions, Sprouts. Shoots and Sir

Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliy.rs.
Santa Fe will soon have grist mill in
operation.
| Coldwater has an 500 pound bell for one
| of its school houses
| The quietude at Emporia is something
sad since Texas Tom has gone.
A ''rattling good dinner says one Kan
sas editor, SIS cabbage and pork with pie
for desert"
The canning factory put up 5000 cans of
corn and tomatoes at Emporia, run until
IL o'clock .. m.
The office of fire marshal at Arkansas
City has been made salaried one. He
draws 5000 per year.
The circus passed Sunday in Wellington
with palpable falling off in the attend
ance at the places of worship.
The state house dome don't keep up
with the cone, but it is doing very we'll.
1t is going up at the rate of foot day.
Kiowa has concluded to hold fair this
fall and the business men down there are
contributing literally TO insure its success.
1t is not known how much truth there is
in it, but the circus people used corn stalk
for center-pole at Arkansas City, it Is
said.
Rabbits are said to be getting scarce and
wild since there has been such raid
made upon them lately for bounty out
west.
The total disbursement of the pension
Office at Topeka during the fiscal year
which closed June 80, 1889, was s',231, :
S58.4S.
Having purchased 200 gallons of mi
crobe killer" and Mothers kneed." Win
| field ought to keep on its feet till spring
anyhow.
An effort was made in the Wyandotte
council to have the fine for keeping tip
ping shops reduced from $50 10 SIS, but
the mayor vetoed 1t.
The Sedgwick Paragraph gives this
Item: In recent storm wigwam con-
tanning five Indians was Instantly killed"
1t probably meant louise
Atchison Globe: Do not imagine that
newspapers will print everything you
hand them. What you consider angels
food may be only corn bread.
The Kansas corn crop this year will be
nearly twice as large as last year: 1t was
1862 900 900 bushels last year. and will be
over 300, coo, 900 bushels this year.
The proprietor of the soap factory at
Emporia is going to close up his factory
with nearly 5000 of the stock on hand.
He says Emporia merchants refuse to buy
OF him.
In "a way, if you will consider it, the fact
that the circus took 81, 900 away from Ar
kansas City is great compliment to its
sobrety. 1t would have bought at least
100, 900 beers.
Another soaking rain has put Dickinson
county out of the reach of any possible
damage to the corn crop. If any one
should start the doxology, how the farm
ers would join in
A Garden City paper. speaking of the
death of an old citizen, says he has gone to
better world. but expresses great doubt
whether he will find it any improvement
over Kansas.-State Journal
The Arkansas City papers now state for
safety in face of better apple making its
appearance, that that much talked of
apple fourteen inches in diameter" was
nothing but common crab apple.
State Journal; One of the chief recon-
mendations ola gentleman who is running
for register of deeds in Wabaunsee county
is that he keeps the best hotel in the coun-
ty. And that is good recommendation,
too
A farmer notes the fact that the corn not
knowing what the harvest was to be,
failed to provide shuck enough. The
result is that much corn is exposed to
the weather by the ends of the ears stick
ing out.
The Atchison Daily and Weekly Patriot
has been incorporated with au authorized
capital of $4,000, by II. Clay Park. II. Il.
Horn, L. j. Emien and 5 l.. Carpenter, of
Atchison, and William Mckinney, of JEFF
fersOn county.
The Topeka fambeau club has been
asked by the French legation at Washing
ton to name a sum for which it will go
to Paris, 100 strong, and give series of
displays during the closing week OF the
exposition. The matter is being considered.
1t is said that colony of $50 colored i'm
migrants from Mississippi is 20 be located
in Graham county. That county was the
scene Of the first successful attempt of
colored people to locate on the public lands
of the United States. If these colonists
display the courage and industry of the
first families of Graham county they
will succeed.
The Leroy Reporter, the first paper to
start the story of an agent selling 100 BIZ
bles in Yates Center, and which has been
so extensively copied by the press all over
the state, now demands that the people of
Yates Center give it chrome for adyer-
Using the town. All right; what shall 1t
be? Grover Cleveland, Galloway or Jack
ass?-Yates Center News.
Clay county Republicans have taken an
unusual method for apportioning dele
gates to their convention, One delegate !
will be allowed for every ten Republican /
voters. The convention will be big one /
containing 1913 delegates, Clay Center |
alone having II. One object of the Repub- !
lican managers in making the convention !
so large was to lessen the possibility of |
disreptuable jobs
Emmous, the drunken brute of Gaylord, /
who, while drunk, knocked his wife down (
and was tarred and feathered by the good /
people of Gaylord, came out with card /
in the Herald last week apologiZing for |
his cusseduess. He says whisky is the 1
cause of nearly all of it. Whisky has a /
hard name. but somehow IL never does 1
any mischief until il gets into bad COM
pany.-Alton Empire.
An account has been examined and ad- |
justed between the United States and the /
state of Kansas under the provisions OF I
the deficiency act Of March 2, for the per
centum upon the net proceeds Of the sales
of lands from July 1, 1854. TO June 30, 1876, /
inclusive, within the limits OF the state,
heretofore embraced in certain Indian res
ervations, and $40, Tt0 50 has been RENTED
to Governor Humphrey by draft.
The unwilling of the Grant monument
at Fort Leavenworth will take place Sep
TENDER IL. at o'clock in the afternoon
There will be a full dress parade of ell
the troops stationed at the Fort and the
garrison band will furnish music for the
exercises at the monument. The orators
for the occasion viii be Senator John j. I
Ingalls,, Major VIM. Warner, Of Kansas
City, General Chas. w. Blair and Captain
Geo R Peck, Of Topeka.