Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25
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Seeds. Sips, soions. Sprouts. Shoots and ss.rs.
| Greeley county Will hold three days
fair at Horace, commencing, Tuesday. the
3d.
| The highest flag pole in the United
| States was raised Saturday at the Soldier 8
| home
| VIII H. Cady, of Augusta, succeeds
| Warren Foster as editor of the Cheney
| Blade Cady starts off like he knew what
a local paper is meant for.
| Ten trains of cattle passed Kiowa last
| Tuesday, consisting of one hundred and
sixty cars. The cattle was from Texas
and the Strip, principally.
| There are two Ashland Journals now
| published in that town, the result OF a
recent local ructiou. Both claim to be the
| original and regular party organ.
| Stanton county now has a Jail of her own
| in which she can keep her criminals. Here
| tOfore the county has Harmed out' its
| prisoners in the lails Of adjoining counties.
| j. G. Ibeck, of Ness City, was nominated
| by the Democratic convention at Scott
| City, Tuesday, as the Democratic sacrifice
| for judgeship in the Thirty-third district.
| News.
The Cheney creamery is doing a fine
business. They have orders in all the time
| for more butter than they can produce.
| Notwithstanding the fact that they are
making about $50 pounds per day.-Blade.
Last Tuesday an election was held in
Greeley county TO vote upon the question
| if issuing SO, 600 in bonds for the purpose
of building court house. The bonds car
| ried by fifty-three majority.
The Ellsworth girls are not yet onto the
fao laaf ciC raft fol- Sr At
there's no telling when they will strike 1t
and when they do the meeting of the
clans in the club rooms will be simply i'm
mense.
The felicity with the press fellows of the
state play" on the names OF the different
towns shows that they are pert set. They
all Kansas. and have little regard for the
state Of Missouri the subject of their butts
| may be in.
Young Jackson who was killed in the
brutal prize fight IN st. Louis, was a
Kansas boy. His father, Captain jackson,
at one time lived in Florence, and was the
founder of the town of Pawnee Rock, i'll
Pawnee county.
The dedicatory services of the G.. A. r..
grounds and buildings at Ellsworth to the
use of the Grand Army will take place on
October 2. These grounds are the first to
be devoted solely to the use of the u. A.
Rs. in the state.
Caleb Cox and Mrs. Anna Bailey of l7-42
were married at the Tribune hotel last
Tuesday afternoon in the presence or a
large number Of Enthusiastically Repub-
can. Evidently Caleb wanted a mothers
watch care, and Anna what she got.
Secretary Rusk came all the way from
Washington TO find out just how sweet
Kansas is, but he missed more than half
4 No. hner hyrf foil
ing to get here before the county insti-
tutes adjourned. Tribune.
Potwin is in the midst of missing child
sensation. The Messenger says: News
reaches Us of little child, whose parents
live south of Pontiac, getting lost last
Wednesday. The child strayed away from
home and diligent search is being made to
find it, but at last accounts the wherea-
bouts of the little one was unknown.
A man by the name OF Mr.. Potter STEP
ped into vat of boiling water at Obryan's
sorghum mill in the south part of King
man county last Wednesday. The vat was
left uncovered and Mr.. Potter stepped into
it unawares. His feet were burned SER
iously and it will be sometime before he
will be able to work again.-Harper
Graphic.
The Fort Scott Monitor now says it
costs little less than cents per pound to
make sorghum sugar at the Fort Scott
sugar mill That shows a margin of profit
of at least 33 per cent. 4 short time ago
the Monitor declared that the sugar in
dustry was SO far practically failure.
Glad to know it has found out its mis-
take.
\ farmer-lo looking fellow stalked into q
pool room in Leavenworth the other day
and bantered the champion pool player To
shoot the balls with him. After few
games each of which the greeny lost, he
proposed to make it interesting. 1t was
agreed to, and almost before the champion
WAS aware of it the sucker walked out with
Sl2o of the experts money.
Evidently they don't want any very
large influx OF citizens in the vicinity of
Udall The Record asserts that 1T isn't
che big crops of wheat, corn and oats of
which Kansas boasts this year, any more
than the very bountiful crop of twins
gathered in this year, rounded out with
several sets of trlplets. The soil, the
water, the very air is prolific" That's as
bad as the Geuda Springs neighborhood.
The measured acre of ground which has
been sown TO wheat annually for the past
nine years, without any manure of any
kind upon it, mas produced seven crops in
the nine years-two being total failures
from winter killing-the least of
which is thirty-seven bushels Of
Zimmerman wheat, and the largest
fOrty-seyen bushels. The total
product divided by nine, gives an annual
average product, including the years OF
failure, of 24.9 bushels. The soil is the or
binary bench land OF the kaw Valley, in
clined toward the east, but gaining no drip
OF fertilIzlng material from any higher
level. II is such good wheat land as Kan
boupClS in E'p.vlor (rrarlbic