Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-19
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliss

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Seeds. Slips. seions Sprouts. Shoots and slissrs.
The Santa Fe railroad has 1900 cars in
use and needs more
There are a very few towns in knansas
this year, 1889, that will not haye we'd
ding Christmas day.
Mayor Waggoner, of Atchison. seems to
nave CHOSEN tumbrei to drive MS ponce
commissioners to execution ID.
They lately exhumed a petrifed man at
Wellington, aud be is the same one the
| fellows go out to see between acts.
The Globe says: Things in Atchison are
SO slow that it is a relief to note the growth
Of the Presbyterian Virginia creeper
Cy Leland got the dictatorship of inter
nal revenue General Rice is now said TO
talk about internal with al $50 substi-
tuted for "t.'
The water works at Independence have
been appraised by the United States court
for bondholders, who propose to take pos
session, at s42, 900.
Hon. Jacob Stotler, editor of the Well
| ington Press, is a candidate for state
printer. but Cliff Baker is trying to per-
| suade himself that Jake Is just talking.
| 1t is said things have become SO unstable
and unsettled at Leavenworth that tile
| pillows at night, along with their watches.
The prince of Wales. aweary waiting for
vacant throne, is suffering from melan-
| choly Since the advent of Harrison the
prince has won large following or SYM
pathizers in Kansas
The man who owns that gorilla at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, which killed bull dog
in fight Tuesday, is thought throughout
Kansas to be just trying to bring himself
to MIR. Harrison's notice.
Washington atmosphere is going to be
hard on Judge Brewer, 1T is said, as he SUI
fers from asthma. This IS strange Tor the
reason that such statements as this are
usually mace after a man has failed IN his
aspirations.
The latest news from the capital an.
nounces that Vice President Morton is
the best dressed man in Washington. This
would lead one to believe that j. Il. Bur-
toms pantaloons have already begun to
bag at the knees.
There is an old prediction that if it
SHOWS on Christmas night we expect
good hop crop next year. and great many
people who are alike prohibitionists and
superstitious are anxlously awaiting
Christmas night.
Some young man with an attorney 1nstl.
eating him has set up a claim to half OF
the site of Topeka. He evidently does not
realize what he Is doing. and it Is thought
he is the same person that found rich
mine of gold there recently.
State Secretary William Higgins will
send a copy of the Kansas problbltory law
to the consul general OF Russia at New
York, by request, to be forwarded TO the
Russian government. Prohibition Itself
in Russia would dOubtleSSly not De as sue
cessful as the cars life.
NH
west. So is the center of political infiu-
ence; it used to be in Virginia, thence it
moved to Ohio, and now it is located in
Indiana. By the time it strikes Kansas
the present young man in politics" in
this state will be feeling around for soft
spot near the great white throne"
Atchison seems to be developing into
considerable of grain market. The
Champion says the volume Of business
thus far this year will aggregate 5,24l coo
bushels of wheat worth So, pa 100. 62; 1885,
eco bushels Of oats, worth 9.6OO.21; 4, 49,
coo bushels of corn. worth $6o2 U0022, and
POI 900 bushels OF rye, worth SI0,3oO.3o, or
a total of wheat, oats and corn OF s, s24 ,o22
bushels with an aggregate value OF 96,Ol0,-
13llS.
In this state there are 1873, 561 farms. Of
these S3.7 per cent are cultivated 10y the
owners, 3.2 per cent by tenant money rental
only two states in the union with a greater
acreage of oats than Kansas in lSSS Hill
nois comes first with 2.S3S,000, Iowa next
with 2560,G83 and Kansas third with
1885, 1926. All the others struggle behind
For every 1000 acres of land surface in
Kansas there are l13 acres planted in corn,
20 in wheat and 32.in oats. Lands not In
farms, 50 per cent; productive lands, 20.6
per cent; wood and, l9 per cent; unproduc-
tive farm area, 1875 per cent.
Senator ingalls, has bill before congress
to divide Kansas into two judicial districts
"a northern and a southern district. The
bill also provides that the northern dis
trct shall contain three divisions for the
purpose of holding terms OF court, to be
known as the eastern, central and western. /
The eastern division will consist of John
son, Douglas, Wyandotte, Leavenworth,
Atchison, Doniphan. jefferson, jackson,
Brown, Nemeha, Marshall and Washing
ton counties and the court is to be held at
Leavenworth The court for the central I
division shall be held at Topeka, and the |
counties in the division are Shawnee, Wa
baunsee. Riley, Pottawatomle. Geary, /
Dickinson, Clay. Cloud. Saline Republic, /
O tawa, Lincoln, Mitchell and Jewell. !
The remaining counties of the northern |
district are TO constitute the western divi- |
sion, and the court Is to be held al Hays |
CITY. A similar division is to be made of |
the southern district, the divisions to be |
known as the eastern, central and western.
The eastern division is TO contain
the counties of Miami, Linn, Bour-
bon, Crawford Cherokee, Labette,
Neosho, Allen, Anderson, Coffey,
Franklin, Usage, Lyon Woodson,
Wilson and Montgomery. and the term OF
court is to be held at Fort Scott The
central division is to contain the counties
of Chautauqua, Ellis, Greenwood, Chase,
Morris, Marion, Harvey, Sedgwick, But
Ter, Kingman, Cowley, sumner, Barbour,
Harper, Reno, Rice and Mcpherson, and
court is TO be held at Wichita. The re-
naming counties OF the southern district
are to constitute the western division, and
court is to be held at Larned.
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