Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
Th aiehta Daily gagle aednesday goruno gune 49, 1888

mean enough to steal rose bushes of the
graves in the cemetery.
Palor spreads over her features and
sets Kansas all atrembling when the
idea strikes her that ten to one it viii
rain on the Fourth.
The county commissioners OF Butler
county have raised the assessed value Of
the county over $50, 900 by their action
as board of equalization.
The Kinsley cheese factory has de-
clared dividend for the months of Oc-
tober and November last Of 81 per 100
pounds of milk furnished.
SAYS the farm hand to the stranger,
ominously: do you hear that 'er buzz
ing noise? Hold on, stranger! that amt
no cyclone; them's threshers."
Newton Republican: With water bub-
bling up through the cellar bottoms it
may be remarked again that Kansas is a
slice off the juciest part of the earth.
The whole of Butler county is wearing
q smile of increduhty. Some one claims
to have a COW over there that has given
birth to eight calves in twenty-seven
months.
The News says "Rev. Madden of Kan
while the present lynching excitement
prevails. Even prohibition would not
save him.
Edwards county now has two cooper
alive cheese factories. One of them is
located at Kinsley, the other at Lewis.
They use about II, 900 pounds of milk
daily, making 100 pounds of cheese.
Walter Chase, of Cheyenne county.
has sworn out warrants against eighteen
persons, charging them with assault. 1t
is intimated that the assault was COM
mitted with a rope hung over the limb
of tree.
The city marshal of Hutchinson was
instructed to procure the star worn by
Mr. Myrick and dismiss him from the
force-it being the opinion of the coun-
Gil that two men were enough for the
police at night.
Anna Buchanan, the 16-year-old
daughter of Postmaster Buchanan at
Abilene, was shot and dangerously
wounded by revolver in the hands of
Charles Jolley, who pointed the weapon
at the girl in sport.
Pratt county Times: The water works
wind mill and tower has been taken
down and portion of the tower set up
on tho northeast corner of the county
square for the use of the fire company as
bell and hose-drying tower.
The Latham Signal came out and
called spiders ''insects," which provoked
a rebuff from an exchange. ''Spiders
amt insects. They are animals and be-
long to the araneida family, of the class
arachnida." And the wrong doer wept.
The K. c. News is something wonder
full in its computation and estimates. 1t
says, so far as reported 1876 Kansas
papers have expressed themselves in
favor of capital punishment, forty weight
ale non -committal and four are against
it.
A little boy at Sterling found a pocket
book containing $50. The little fellow
hustled around for two or three days
and at last found the owner. Since
then he has been thoroughly enjoying
himself with the 8 cents reward given
him.
Wellington Press: A colony of doz-
en- colored men from Topeka passed
through the city today in wagons. bound
for Red Fork, Oklahoma. They will be
followed next week by car load from
the same pace who will go by rail with
women, children and household goods.
A "student in Harvey county COM
municates to paper the closing exer-
cises of his school and starts off his re-
port this way, which is quite neat,
ELECTRICALLY: st was on Friday, June
18th, when the students of the Mennonite
seminary their last performances had. !"
The first well sunk in the system
which is to furnish junction City 500, 600
gallons of water was finished Wednes-
day. 1t is SO feet deep with 36 feet of
water in the hole. Water was found in
Is feet of coarse gravel which rests on a
stratum of rock. Another well was
started 20 feet distant.
Gypsum Valley Echo: One day last
week while Charley, son of Richard
Spencer, was cultivating corn on his
fathers farm near this city he plowed
up and brought to the surface $50 Uni
ted States gold coin, and few feet away
from it he found a Mexican piece of
gold near the same size. The U. S.
bore the date of 1861 and the Mexican
1862, Seven years ago hand III the
employ of Mr.. Spencer found two geo
piece near the same place.
j. C. Render, of Valley township, one
of our most successful wool growers,
shipped clip of about 1000 pounds
Tuesday, to the Capps WOODEN mills at
Jacksonville, Illinois. Mr. Render is an
old and experienced wool grower and
regards this the best sheep country he
has ever seen. He says the grasses here
are especially nutritious and fat produc-
ing. and that his sheep are always in 4
healthy condition. He gets IS cents per
pound for his clip-about cents more
than he got last year.-Scott Sentinel
Herald.
The Sedan Graphic has this on the cy-
clone that happened along in its vicinity
the ground on Mr.. Gregory's farm and
over two bushels of potatoes were picked
up where it passed over his potato patch.
Mr.. Gregorys shepherd dog was carried
off by the cyclone and mas not yet come
down, so far as known. The cyclone
carried a cow across the river and
dropped her after breaking off both her
horns without any other apparent dam
age. The cyclone passed through a
herd Of cattle and carried a bull and a
COW over a half mile. The cow was
killed, but the bull after he had been
dropped walked back to the herd. ap-
parently uninjured by his aerial fight.
The track Of the cyclone through this
county was about COO feet wide and for
several hundred feet on either side the
crops and other vegetation was noticably
affected, all being twisted toward the