Wichita eagle., 1889-06-12
sUNFLowER sOUPCoN.

Another spring has been discovered a
Geuda.
Stevens county is said to have 2,0Ot
acres in watermelons.
Cairo is in an unprecedented strai
without barber shop.
At Udall green shutters on your house
make you lone of the four hundred.
To eat olives and use '.ennuir are mat
tiers of equal social attainment In New
| ton.
Alex. Butts saws there is no talk OF
cannonading for rain in Kansas this
year.
| Lightning struck a school house one
| night last week and knocked a literary"
sky high.
One thousand dollars of the guarantee
fund for the Kansas state fair remain to
be collected.
It is now stated that Oliphant, the
Topeka murderer, has lived formerly in
every town in the state.
A new new ''cooler" is being built at
Neodesha. Suppose when its finished
they will have warming"
The Neodesha band is practicing
nightly, the citizens suppose either for
Fourth of July or internal meanneSs.
The young ladies of Paola are talking
of organizing brass band. The citizens
are equally Indifferent whether they talk
or play.
1t was thought that the Topeka fam
beau club was blown out, but it appears
again with the prospect of more breath
than ever.
A metropolitan policeman who was
hurt by the mob the other night, has
taken vacation. He evidently DOM
like Topeka.
In the county seat contest between the
towns of Cimarron and ingalls,, in Gray
county, the supreme court has decided
in favor of Ingalls,.
town, asks questions, looks over the
ground and leads people to believe he
anticipates something, Is out again.
Since the Munhan meetings IN Atchi-
son the good old historic horses that
have logged along undisturbed for the
last twenty years, are being pulled for
fast driving.
The Attlca council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting billiard and pool
hall proprietors from allowing minors to
frequent such halls. Both parties are
liable to be fined.
The people at Emporia kick because
an exhibition of a large COW has visited
that city for the last eight years and the
manager still claims the animal to be
just years and six months in age.
The Domestic Science club is the
title of cOterie of ladies
at Manhattan. At their last
meeting they dicussed the ''peddler''
and decided upon a scientific annihlla-
ton" of him.
The grave of Oliphant, the Topeka
burglar and murderer, was opened
Thursday or Friday night and the body
stolen. The matter is regarded as very
mysterious and several theories of the
disappearance are given.
the board of railway commissioners
recently decided that Saratoga was en-
titled to station facilities and decided
that the Wichita & Western should keep
an agent at that place. The depot was
opened the first of the week.
The old stone water tower at Yelling
ton, supporting the large wooden tank
in the northern part of that city, into
which the water is pressed In order to
obtain pressure on the mains, Is to be
taken down and an all iron stand pipe Is
to be substituted.
Emporia Republican,: A gigantic horse
eighteen hands and one inch in height
attracted attention on Fifth avenue yes
terday. The animal was owned by S. 2.
Whortzendruber, who liyes eleven miles
southeast. The horse is five years old
and is well proportioned.
In the district court the $4,000 dam
age suit entitled H. H. Scott VS.. the A,
T. & S. F. railway company has been
decided in the defendants favor. The
suit was brought for damages for being
elected from Santa Fe train between
Emporia and Wichita after Scott had
paid his fare but mislaid his hat check.
He is Chicago travelling man.
At the close of the Parsons schools, an
exposition of the work done was held In
the opera house. There were fancy
needle-work, paintings, drawings, pen
manship, bookkeeping, kindergarten
work, woodwork, lead-moulding, ship
building, and even cakes. The exposi
ton was generously patroniZed, and ex-
cited intense interest.
A human skeleton was found near the
west of Udall, by some boys
fishing, half buried in the sand. The
rise of the waters had partially uncov-
cred it, leaving the skull exposed, which
attracted attention. 4 knife blade was
sticking between the ribs, the sheath
was also found, a pair Of shoes ana a
bullet mould.
Items from correspondents:
"Whew just see that new double
seat carriage at Justin HOLSTERS"
anna Busch is taking instrumental
music lessons"
Amy Smith, while milking on Sun
day night, was kicked in the side and in
the head. Amy, you better be shy OF
kicking kows."
Work on the sugar mill is being pushed |
forward. The masons are |
now engaged in laying up the walls Of |
the second story Of the building. The |
switch from the railroad has been com
pleted so far as the boundaries of the |
property, and 1t viii be fin
ished in few days to the doors of the |
mill. Word from Cleveland, Ohio,
where the machinery is being manufac-
tured, is cheering, and everything points
10 the completion of the plant in ample
time to work up this seasons crop Of
cane.-Ness County News.
4 Burlingame correspondent OF the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat SAYS: "At party
held here few days ago 70 celebrate the
10th birthday of Father John Drew,
--r1 Of tiaa crr1asts uara older than the