Wichita eagle., 1889-08-06
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tne Town CLOCK.
The Fredonia millers are paying 60 cents
for No. wheat.
| Chanute levied fifteen mills for school
| purposes this year.
| Emporia has been discussing sewerage
and has decided that it cannot afford it,
The Topeka sugar factory proposes to
work up 10, 900 tons of sorghum cane this
| season.
Salina wouldn't care much if some Eng
| lish capitalists would gobble up some of
the town.
The Mcpherson female base ball club is
now busy practicing an improved slide, +"
in private.
| Calvin Sanders, Leavenworth coon, let
some of the "bad blood out of Joe Woods
yesterday morning.
ElDcrado huntsmen have already began
| loading their shells and practicing the reg
ulation sportsman's squint
| Kansas is estimated to have nearly
1900. 600 acres of oats this year and the
yield is placed at G.. e00, 900 bushels
| They never tear foundation down at
Salina, that they don't find a frog living
and in good health, encased within Il.
People are still remarking the redness of
the sun. 1t couldn't be that these crop es-
!
1t is rather hard to tell whether the SAL
walton Army or the ice cream parlor draws
the bigger crowd this summer at yelling
| ton.
A new office has been created on the NJ,
K. g. T., of assistant general freight agent,
and the appointment will be announced
! soon.
The Dighton cheese factory has been in
| operation about forty days and. so far, has
turned out about 900 pounds Of first-class
cheese.
Judge A. r. Blackburn, of Anthony,
| has been appointed travelling freight agent
| for the Frisco road between Beaumont and
Anthony.
| An Ossawatomie girl has such large feet
that shoes No. 201 are required. They are
| AZ inches long and measure 1874 inches
around the instep.
State Journal: Wichita, Topeka and
| Fort Scott have natatoriums, such as they
are, but Geuda Springs opened one last
night worth 900.
When they put a man in the Anthony
calaboose and he doesn't get out during
J the night, they have got good case or
lunacy against him.
An accident at lawn tennis game in
ElDorado recently revealed the fact that
the young gentlemen of that place wear
red under garments.
1t is force of habit that makes the editor
of a paper in a town of $50 people, add to
| the announcement of a new drum corps,
don't fail to hear them"
| 1t is no trouble at all to recognize the
court house at Winfield this time of year.
The fence about is loaded down with
politicians day and Eight,
There are nine candidates for the Office
of register of deeds i'll Greenwood county,
and the county seat papers are busy biting
and sounding silver dollars.
Piaua is still quarantined, although
nothing definite has been received from
that place for few days. 1t is known that
Q few people are still sick with the disease.
Kansas City Star: Journalism seems to
be on the decline at Wichita. None of the
papers there printed a picture of the first
| hog killed at the Whitaker packing
! house.
| An ElDorado man can secure the full
services of the fire company in case of con-
! fagration, if he has been diplomat enough
to previously announce that he has keg
in cellar
| The fact that an elevator in an Atchison
| building makes rs round trips a day,
! causes many of Atchison's pians people TO
/ look at the block with no small amount of
| suspicion.
State Jourual: The Manhatten police
| judge hasn't had n case before him for IL
| week He don't find il necessary even to
open court. This shows the Elysian state
| of matters and things in Kansas.
Buxton has had somewhat of a boom
! since the destruction of the Fall river
! bridge near Fredonia. 1t is said that al
most every store Ill Buxton was Cleaned
out" last week by the farmers who went
! there TO trade.
Ell Dorado Republicans: VIM. Martin
dale, of Emporia, who has been in the cat
| tie business in this state for the past
! twenty-five years says it will pay farmers
to feed this winter, provided they can buy
! their stock cheap enough. He Is lot very
enthusiastic about it, however.
Pratt county has 800 acres at the finest
! castor be ans ever seen growing under the
SUP. The crop will make between thirty
and forty bushels to the acre, some even
| claim rs high as sixty bushels per acre for
! some of it. The beans are already sold at
| 81 per bushei delivered here in Pratt Is
| there any other crop that Will yield big
| ger profit than this!-Pratt Times.
| Farmers and others at Neodesha feel
confident that the grade of the Missouri
! Pacific railroad wv. l. & w. divsonl,
which crosses Fall river DIT right angles,
| impeded the flow of that stream by block
aiding it, during last weeks food, and that
| the depth of water on their lands was
much increased in consequence during the
| overflow and the damage sustained was
| accordingly greater, and will sue for dam
ages.
Topeka Capital: If all the railroad COM
panies which have ever filed articles of
/ interpretations in the office of the secretary
of state had carried out their plans, the
railroad mileage of Kansas today would
| be equal to that of the entire United
States. This showing is large enough as
it is but it is not a marker TO what the
roads built on paper would have been had
they materized. Even now there are sew
eral charters filed every month. and this
thing has been going on for twenty years
Burlington Republican: The death of
| little Job, the three year-old son OF George
Thockmorton. last Saturday was terri
bly, sudden and sad event for the parents.
While playing about the house and when
out of sight of his mother but for short
time he fell into a pail of hot water that
she had placed upon the porch for a mo
ment The legs and lower part Of the
| body were badly scalded, and never recov-
cred from the first shock of the fright and
pain. Death occurred about = o'clock Sat
urday morning.
About three weeks ago mad dog came
to the farm Of Jerry Stocking east Of here,
iust in the edge OF Chautauqua county
and bit several OF his cattle and also blt
Mr. Stocking and his son. Mr.. S. tried a
mad stone which failed 70 adhere and but
little more was thought OF the matter
until last Monday when five OF his cattle
went mad and had TO be killed. A dog
in the neighborhoOd bis at the same time
was kept tied up and went mad in nine
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