Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-18

City.
The Knights of Honor in Kansas are said
to number 10. 600.
The latest piece OF farm gossip: 1.-THE
cornknife cut the knee.
Atchison Globe: Our very poor kin and
our very rich KIN always live the longest.
The society girls at Tonganoxie always
finish" at Baker university, says the h.
c. Star.
Several families in Sumner county are
burning corn for fuel, because OF its mex
pensiveness.
Peabody claims to have struck thirty
foot bed of salt aud wants TO sink shaft
down thereto.
II is rather puzzling to find wedding
hand painted"
Fort Hays will probably be vacated next
year and turned over to the state as a
soldiers home.
The city marshals of Kansas always had
aknack of making the giants IN side shows
ashamed of themselves.
The worst weather prediction TO the So
Letting servant girl IS the report, Light
housework; fair wages"
An enraged mother at Topeka applied at
run in" during the fair.
One of the shortest lifed things in this
world is the panes Of glass IL the street
lamp near Il c0lOred church.
A grain elevator was torn down at Well
ington yesterday. The shooting gallery
and menagerie still flourish,
The man with the big muscle and the
light heart can stack the most tons of hay
Hay bp II ia
A fig tree grows and bears fruit every
which should stimulate Lawrence's
rivalry.
Each of the Burlingame carpenters
donated days work 10 building a band
stand, and Burlingame will hereafter have
band concerts.
Lawrence Tribune: 1t is said that the
name of Gabrilovitch TSchernischewiski,
the Russian author, is held III adherence
in his native country.
The man who makes himself obnoxious
by following ladies after night in small
towns is always known" and as invarla-
bly, had better stop"
A considerable amount of valuable ex-
hibits were stolen from the Atchison fair
grounds Saturday night during tie tenn
porary absence of the Waterman.
Rural correspondents say that mush
parties are ripe. We don't know what
they are, but suppose they are a sort of an
offset to MissoUri's succotash picnics.
Orehood, the baggeman who was ar
rested recently for stealing from trunks,
etc, was tried at Wellington this week
and sent to the pen for term OF two
years.
The friends of Mr.. Ware will be pleased
TO learn that a second edition OF the
Rhymes of IrouquiIl' IN volume twice
the size of the first issue, viii appear in
October.
A St Joe funny man made a great hit
at the exposition by taking a pi6card
''hands of y from the big wax apples and
hanging il on the plaster bust Of the
Venus di Milo.
Peaches are 50 plentiful in southern
Kansas that IN many places they are SELL
Ing at fifteen cents bushel. and yet riS ht
here in Wichita the same peaches are sold
for one dollar per Dushel.
A man in kingman county sold his
peach crop of about 1900 bushels at 40
cents per bushel, and they We're All shipped
to Colorado. and that is the way that
money grows on trees in kingman county.
Two boys were fatally shot at Winches-
ter Saturday night by Willie Ray. A
crowd OF boys fastened ticktack 10 his
window, and he, thinking they were bur-
glars, fired Il load OF shot into the crowd.
The Grant statue at Fort Leavenworth
was baptised with rain right after the I'M
yelling ceremonies. This was pOetiCal,
but unfortunately the people were baptised
the same way. which was not, says the
State Journal.
Belle PLANE is troubled with chicken
killers who go to the chicken coops in the
rear end of the stores, and wiring of the
heads of several chickens and lay them at
the back door of the store for the owner TO
remember them by
Burns, a small town in Butler county,
has state reputation for its large trade
in hay. There are six presses running
now, and the town is crowded with loaded
wagons. One hundred tons were sent out
one night to Kansas City.
1t is reported that an Atchison minister
Sunday roasted the fair association, and
said, among other things, that he had the
same respect for the fair association as he
had for band of horse thieves. It never
pays to buck a gambling device, no matter
of what trade you are.
Ex-Governor Crawford, of Kansas, who
has been charged by various newspapers
with fraud and violation of the law in
receiving the percentage fee paid him By
the Creek and Seminole Indians for nego-
tiating the sale of their Oklahoma lands
TO the government, has been vindicated by
the opinion transmitted By Attorney
General Miller 10 Secretary Noble in rela-
ton to that transaction. The payment Of
the money, according 20 the attorney gen.
eral. was authorized and fully approved
By the Greek and Seminole councils.
The Lawrence Lawn Tennis club is out
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printed in chocolate, TO the frst annual
tournament. Friday aud Saturday, Sep
TENDER - and .. The tournament Is open
to ali players in the state Of Kansas. The
matches will be for the best sets out Of
three. all advantage sets All players de-
feated By the winners OF the first
prize in the singles and doubles shall
have the right 70 compete for the second
prize. Wright and Detson's Champion
ship balls will be used. Play will begin at
9 a. n. Friday. The prizes are all worth
striving for II you shave or wear Tennis
sashes.
Pop Is dead. He died last Sunday from
the effects Of gornandizing Oh wheat Pop
was Texas pony belonging 70 Major lie
mont, and at various times has had the
wrath Of almost the entire populace
showered upon him He was faithful
animal. aud had stood The Tigors Of almost
a quarter OF a century. At he same tine
he was as full Of mischief as Texas steer
is Of ticks. and there was no. gate nor
stable door N the town be would 10. open
If the notion entered his bead He would
also devour the cor tents CO clothes line
As readily and with - great relish es any
William goat He was hauled oft 20 his
last resting place Sunday afternoon.
kiowa Journal
IL O'Clock Saturday evening . farmer
who was DELAYED in TIE city on account O.
= ha -~y, xen-z9 STARED home wf.k his -~E$s