Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-06
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A Jewell county farmer last year sold
$50, 900 worth of cattle and hogs.
The maple worms seem to have gone
away in cahoots with the chinch bugs.
A number of antelope have been re-
ported shot in Decatur county recently.
Governor Humphrey delivered the
memorial address at Osborne on the
thirtieth.
The Federal building at Leavenworth
was opened for the transaction of bust
ness Monday.
The corner stone of the German Luz
| theran church at Atchison was laid last
Sunday afternoon.
Last month John Doe was convicted
of vagrancy four times, of bootlegging
whisky, and of fast driving.
Tennis and church socials are holding
uninterrupted sway in several social
circles throughout the state.
The Taloga Star comes out this week
with glowing boom edition, printed in
red ink by way of emphasis.
Forty thousand trees were planted in
Garden City two years ago and, it is
said, nearly all are growing,
Fifteen acres of alfalfa near Garden
City made fifty tons of hay from the
first crop, without irrigation.
The police commissioners of Atchison
turned into the city treasury $500 last
month after they had settled all bills.
With the lightning devouring its daily
COW and the pooling against the lottery
things are getting along very nicely at
| Fredonia.
A precocious youngster at Emporia
catches fish with steel-trap. 1t is only
his youth that gives the story any
audience.
A collection of one hundred dollars
was taken up the other evening at re-
vival at Atchison for the help of the
Johnstown sufferers.
Lawrence papers amuse themselves
with claiming scoops on each other.
The difficulty for the other paper is to
recognize the SCOOP"
Lawrence has lots of visitors this week
on account of the commencement ex-
ercises of the state university. Every
body looks intellectual.
A hard shell turtle weighing about
| fifty pounds, supposed to be about fif
teen years old, was recently caught III
pond near Palmer, Kansas.
Alex. Butts says that the composite
photograph of the Kansas University
class Of 1899 looks like fellow who has
been stung in the face by humble bee.
Miss Minnie Waller, daughter of the
colored lawyer and orator of Topeka,
John L. Waller, graduated with the
highest honors from the Hobson institute
at Parsons last week.
| Fredonia has great big town clock;
bran new and the citizens since its cree
ton have been examining into Its mec-
hanism and ascertainlng the exact num-
| Der of blocks the figures on the dial may
| be seen.
4 society for the cultivation Of the
art of conversation has been started by
Lawrence ladies. Two boarding school
girls ''staying all night with each other
could give them pointers. Topeka
Journal.
The Northwestern Telephone company
operating telephone lines in northwest
ern Kansas has suspended business,
owing to the demands made upon it by
the Bell Telephone company on the
ground Of infringement.
The Hartford Call has stirred up two
or three miniature cyclones in its vicin-
ity by publishing under the head Of
dead beats" those who have failed to
pay their debts at that Office.
1t is in bad taste for a Kansas orator
who expects to get into the papers in his
address to a college to quote Greek In
Greek characters. 1t robs Greek of 50
much of its significance and awfulness
to see it in plain English type.
There is a rumor in circulation to the
effect that a Burlington man owes bis
hired girl nearly hundred dollars, and
figuring that it will be cheaper TO marry
her than to pay the account, has COM
menced preparations for the wedding.
The Atchison Patriot, the oldest Dem
ocratic paper in Kansas. is to be sold
June %, by order of the te United States
court. This is rendered necessary by a
disagreement of the owners, not on ac-
count of any lack of value in the prop
erty.
Constable Lonergan, of Leayenworth,
arrested John FoSsett at TOnganoxie
Monday. Fossett stabbed the city mar
shall of TonganOxie eleven times, and
then held off an officer and posse of seven
deputies who undertook To arrest him.
Fearing the local officers could not take
him. Constable Lonergan was sent for.
The St. Johns military school for
boys has received fifty stand of arms
from the war department at Washing
ton. The boys are very happy, as they
have been waiting for the guns some
time aggravated somewhat by the per
sistent jack rabbits, who have taken up
quarters near the college.
Gaylord Herald: One old soldier was
made supremely happy last week. or at
least as happy as man who has been
totally blind for more than twenty years
can be. His name is Frederick Schewe-
gor, a member of the Nineteenth Penn
sylvania volunteers, and the cause OF
his Joy was the allowance Of his pension
by Commissioner Tanner. He gets 3d.
coo for arrears of pension and So
month for the rest Of his life.
Atchison Champion: 1t is very evi-
dent that many of the sweet girl grad
yates" of the State Normal school, who
are supposed to be educated as teachers,
soon tsTn their education to account as
teachers at home. The Emporia Repub
lican publishes list Of the committee q
one hundred, made up Of persons for
merly connected with the State Normal
70 arrange for a commencement Tecep-
ton. Thirty-eight Of the seventy-four