Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-04
KANSAS KoLLARY.

KANSAS kOLIAHY.
Colonel Learnard assumed the super
intendency of the Indian school at Law
renee Tuesday.
Anthony. celebrated the new year by
starting a fire under Incorporating pans
of its first salt plant.
The Topeka City Railway company an
nounces that it will build ten miles OF
electric road at once.
Stanton county, Kansas. claims te
have finer wheat fields this fall than car
be produced in California.
There are SIS students at the state
normal school it Emporia. They come
from fifteen states and territory.
By the death of Col. ]. NJ. Jones, OF
Cheyenne county, northwest Kansas
loses one of its best and most useful cit.
liens.
1t is estimated that there are now one
hundred creamerieS in Kansas. There
is room for twice as many more without
crowding.
Charles Shelton, the Arkansas City
jointist. who fired at deputy sheriff
Frank Thompson has been sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.-Win-
field visitor.
The Atchison Globe gives this bit of
good advice to boys: ''Eat your corn
bread early in life and you viii establish
system Of digestion that will stand pie
later on"
The delegates appointed to represent
Kansas at the Washington centennial in
New York will hold preliminary meet
ing at Hon. Geo. r. Peck's Office in To-
peka, January Il, at 3 p. N.
Ford Gazette: The successful manu-
facture of sorghum sugar, now being
realized, will make every acre of land in
western Kansas worth $50 IN less than
three years from date.
Atchison is the largest hard ana soft
coal distributing point in Kansas
Champion. If this item falls under the
eyes of the 11-month paper folk it will
cause response that will be heard.
Topeka complains of an unusual influx
of sneak thieves. Going in TO get the
lay of the land for next week S operations
on the occasion of the hubbub likely to
be produced by the assembly of the legis-
lature.
Newton has curiosity-or did have,
in the shape of a goose which, upon be-
ing killed and dissected, was found to
have dermoid cyst-a large lump filled
with feathery growth-said to be some
thing very rare.
The Kingman Leader thinks there
is some foundation for the rGmor that
the Union Pacific will extend its line
south from Mcpherson through Hutch
inson, Kingman, Harper and Anthony
in the early spring.
Mayor Hackney filed his resignation
as mayor with the city clerk today. He
says he has no time to properly fill the
office and his constitution is unequal to
the fights necessary to keep the munich
pal affairs properly moving. Winfield
Courier.
1t was an Abilene man who went
crazy because his employers gave him
The combination to the safe with instruc-
lions not to reveal the secret The bur-
len of secrecy weighed too heavily on
MS mind. Republican.
The editor of the Richfeld Democrat,
who married a short time ago. seems to
nave gone into the alliance on the proba-
plan. He says: 1--WE will in
'orm the brethren of the press whether
marriage is failure after few months
Haskell county is preparing for a
sugar works on a big scale. Tuesday
he charter for "Tne Haskell County
Sugar Manufacturing company" was
lied with the secretary of state at To-
IA. with a capital stock of $3.50, 900.
The report is revived in Atchison that
wo Missourians have succeeded In locat-
ng and restricting a part of the cargo
# the steamer Pontiac, which in 1S4S
ank in the Missouri river between
Atchison and st. Joseph, with 5000 bar
els of whisky on board.
The silk flag to cost 500 offered by
" Ex-Governor Osborne to the Kansas
ounty showing the largest numerical
Increase i'll Republican majority at the
ate election has been presented TO Shaw
lee county, whose majority was 300.
t was made of the finest silk, mounted
n staff of polished black walnut and |
urmounted by brass spear head,
There is a financial institution in Atch- |
of the strongest and most pros
erous in kansaS-representin today a |
aid up capital of 100000 cash, which |
vas started little over two years ago |
With but $2,600.-Champion. This is one
f the half dozen Institutions there, !
oubtless. that are claimed to beat ma /
lonal bank for profit.
A few days ago Pacific slope paper |
aid that Ness City was the great rival /
o Wichita, and people laid it to the pre-
ailing state of ignorance out there. |
low here comes the Kansas City Times |
nd declares that 1.-The little town of |
less City is being moved to Monte I
una "-Salina Republican. And the
eople are laying it to the same prevail /
1g state up there.
Sunday evening about shutdown, VIII |
am Freeburn, the crippled artist at the
oor farm, attempted suicide by cutting /
is throat with razor. He was found
i his room with a horrible cash cut IN
is throat. the windpipe entirely severed. /
When first found he was supposed to be
cad, but several hours afterward
Disc was heard in his room, and it was
)und that he had revived and was try
lg to get out of his room. claiming that
e was cold. DR.. Pugh, the county ply
clan, and DIR. Elder was summoned and /
ewed up the wound, and think he will
ct along all right.-Wlnfield Visitor.
A California widow had plans made for a