Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-30
KANSAS KOLLARY.

An Englewood man catches wild geese
them.
D. F. Spencer of Madison, Greenwood
county. died few days ago at the age
of Sc. He was a native of Rhode Is
land.
An old settlers reunion win be held at
South Haven on February 90 Arrange
ments are being made for rousing big
time
The s'hosband protective society" of
the disreputable ladies to leave the city
at once.
A number of Seward county citizens
have organized ditch company for the
purpose of running an irrigating canal
from the Cimarron river.
Westfall brothers of the Wilson Ma
tional bank have bought the stock of the
Ellsworth Central bank for $4,000 cash
and assume control at once.
The Atchison Flambeau club, the old
est club Of the kind in existence, is max
ing arrangements to attend the coming
inauguration at Washington.
Ottawa citizens are indignant because
the postmaster removed the postoffice to
different part of the town one night
without telling anybody about it.
The price of Usage coal at the mines
has been reduced fifty cents per ton. The
price to the consumer, however. remains
the same. Let's investigate: let's legiS-
late.
Rev. 0. w. Shaw is having good sue
cess in Minneola, little town out in
Meade county, Fifty-four accessions to
the church IS reported in two weeks
meeting.
The farmers of Harper county hold
meeting every Saturday afternoon at
the Harper court house to discuss mat
tiers of interest to the farming COM
munity.
In 1887 Kansas raised seven million
bushels of wheat and in 1888 twelve
million bushels. The increase of this
years acreage is estimated at from thir
ty to fifty per cent,
Greeley county is a little more than six
months old, dating from her temporary
organization, and is completely ridden
of the prevailing county seat CURSE
Tribune Enterprise.
Del Valentine says that at Salina the
the newspaper war has given way to an
absorbing interest in doctor who cures
knock-kneed children and makes the
bellies of the village ''toe out"
At the close of powerful and elo-
quent sermon delivered by Rev. Hartley
at the Methodist church last evening,
seven persons united in membership
with the church.-Wellington Standard.
Saturday night the electric light plant
in Burlington, comprised of some thirty
five incandescent and arc lights, was
lighted for the first time, and worked
without hitch throughout Nonpariel.
The whereabouts of Brown, the miss
ing real estate man Of Wichita, sup
posed to have been murdered, are still
mystery. Republican. Yes, it
''are, we regret to say, with no prospect
of immediate solution.
James Martin, the father of Governor
Martin, fell from the back porch yester-
day morning, cutting his face and bruis-
ing his body severely. Symptoms of cry
sipelas are setting in and it is feared that
the accident will have serious results. -
Atchison Patriot.
Sumner township, cor. Conway Star:
'fMr. E. Bishop has been cutting and
hauling posts and wood from his grove
on the creek. He planted his trees six
years ago next spring. From one tree,
which was very small sapling then, he |
got four good posts out of the first cut"
Plant trees.
The Abilene Reflector says that Sail |
ma man is rewriting Uncle Toms |
Cabin" In the Salina mans play little |
Eva doesn't die in halo of red fire, but |
she throws Legree out of the window by |
the seat of his unmentionables and then |
marries Marks, the lawyer -T0peka |
Journal No mention is made of Topsy: |
but maybe the Salina mans version amt |
never had none.