Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-07
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Governor Bishop Perkins, of Okla
homa, would sound well, so it would.
Newton boasts of the superiority of its
baking powder and cutlery. 1t produces
| both.
George Toner, a Santa Fe brakeman,
| fell from caboose at Nickerson and was
killed.
The state G. A. r. encampment begins
at Emporia on Monday next and will
! continue three days.
Hon. R. f. Thomson, of Minneapolis,
has been appointed judge of the new
district composed of Ottawa and Saline
counties.
Every Lawrence heart swelled with
pride when the tidings flashed over the
wires, The Cyclones take first place in
the inaugural ceremonies.
The analysis of the Barber county
marble proves it to be the best Alabasta
marble found in the United States. The
two companies are now ready to fill ali
orders. City Union.
The connecting link between Nebraska
and Kansas has just been placed in SER
vice by the Union Pacific railway. This
train leaves Council Bluffs daily and
runs through without change to Man
haitian, Kansas, making direct connec-
tons there with the Kansas division of
the Union Pacific railway.
The Edmond Times of the 1st instant
says that no news has yet been received
from its missing editor, Mark j. Kelley,
who disappeared three weeks ago. He
was last seen about two weeks ago in
Kansas City, and thorough search by
one of his friends, aided by the police,
has been made for him there without
result. His disappearance is an unex-
plainable mystery, as there seems to be
no cause for it.
An attempt to wreck the west bound
Santa Fe passenger train, No. Z, Sunday
night, near Cedar Junction, twenty-five
miles out of Kansas City, was frustrated
by farmers timely discovery. Two
rails had been completely loosened by
drawing the spikes. and if the train had
struck that point under full Roadway
there would have been a disastrous
wreck. 1t is supposed the fends who
did the work were intent upon plumber.
The Yates Center council has distin-
guished itself by passing an ordinance
making it unlawful for minors or adults,
male or female, to cOngregate on Sunday
on the streets, or on any other day. 1t
is lawful to congregate at the postoffice
if the mail is on time, but if one hour
late the crowd must dispense A heavy
fine is imposed if the ordinance is
broken. \ strict Sunday observance is
desired. Must be tuff set of citizens.
At the last meeting of the board of the
Winfield Fair association it was decided
to return to the old date-first week in
September, instead of the second. The
fair will begin on Tuesday, the third,
and hold over Saturday. A committee
was appointed wha will wait on our bust
ness men this week and solicit special
premiums for the fair. A committee /.
was also appointed to revise the general
premium list Other measures were pro-
lected with a view of making the fair /
come up to its usual high standard. A
circuit was formed that so far includes /
Winfield Wichita aud Hutchinson
Courier.
The humane society people of Topeka /
have their indig. wrought up TO the .
highest by the action of an up-up young I.
man of that place in drowning litter OF .
pups right before the face of the pups 1
mother, and they are talking about /.
suing the perpetrator under the law pre-
venting cruelty 10 animals. From OAR
winian standpoint the act might be set 4
down as cruel TO all concerned. and from
a business point of view cruel 10 the dog
killer, but whether, in point of fact, was
ii more cruel to dispatch the infantile |
CANNES as was done. or to wait until |
they should come under the ban Of the 1
anti-dog ordinance? any way you take /
it, as far as the pups are concerned, its a
dog-gone arbitrary transaction.