Wichita eagle., 1889-06-20
suNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, Slips seions. Sprouts. Shoots and slhsrs.

| SUNFIOWER SHADOW1NGS.
Seeds, Slips, seions. Sprouts, Shoots and sllyers
Arkansas city will have a pottery.
Jewell county has Isl, goo acres Of corn.
Fort Scott contemplates new college
! Emporia has q bad case of counterfeit
| dollars.
| HoIton has finished the $4,000 Presby
| terrain church.
| A stratum of marble has been found il
Labette county.
Coffey county people don't think a higf
school necessary.
The canning factory at Atchison has pu
up &C, 900 cans of peas.
| The Paola gas company has struck
large flow of natural gas.
| The A c. Traveller says the latest WORK
| in fiction is Winfield's annual census re
port.
| Phe cecsts returns for Crawford county
show an increase in the population, ovel
1888, Of 2. 1877.
A perpetual injunction has been granted
| LeaYenworth.
| Salvation has cost Atchison 5000, exclu
sive of what may be given DR.. Munhall
Cheap enough.
The next meeting Of the Northeast Kan
sas Editorial association will be held in
Holton next October.
Dan Brown, Russell county farmer,
was drowned last Saturday while bathing
in pond on his farm.
Tho pupohar af for ~,
school diplomas in Saline county was 30
the number who passed, "A.
A snake of the blue racer variety invad
ed Jewell City bank, and was stared out
Of countenance by the cashier.
c. A. Malur, jeweler and druggist at
Newton, has made an assignment with
$1,000 liabilities and $4,000 assets.
Garfield county is beginning the erecti on
of fine three-story court house and Jail,
occupying ground area of 2,S7O square
feet.
A man is regarded as an irreclaimable
chump in Topeka if he takes any notice of
or remarks the bugs around an electric
light.
Kansas City Star: Fame is awaiting
the Kansas woman who will bake the first
bread from flour made out of this year S
wheat.
Salina doesn't seem to get discouraged
over the fact that there hasn't been a
party there in a year that wasn't a ''sur-
prise"
1t is stated thal the Farmers alliance of
Norton county propose to start bank in
Norton for the purpose of loaning money
exclusively to farmers.
The revival meetings at Atchison are
held in tent and it is not at all unusual
for converts when ''testifying' to reach
down and scratch for chiggers.
"Joe Filkins," says Kansas exchange,
'went out to the literary on 142 creek last
Saturday night and didn't get home until
Monday noon. We are onto you, joe"
There was good chance for Paul Re-
we're at Augusta. if some fellow had ascer-
tanned the flood was coming some hours
before and been on the ground in time.
K. c. Star: A Kansas farmer whose wife
has reputation for making good potpie
and making it often can hire harvest hands
for 10 per cent less than the usual wages.
Miss Jessie Fox, aged &c, daughter of a
farmer living six miles southeast of Law
renee, committed suicide by shooting
herself through the head. Cause, des-
pondency.
Grand preparations are being made for
the laying of the corner stone of the $780,
900 school building at Medicine Lodge
next Monday, under the auspices of the
Masonic lodge of Kansas.
Sunday night at Arkansas City Mr.. j.
NJ. Groves, through mistake, attempted
to gurgle some carbolic acid and was
strangled and became unconscious. There
is not much hope of his recovery.
In Leavenworth. after these unusual
rains, it is no occasion for surprise if a
man wakes up and finds sidewalk sur
his place, where there was none
Any number of sidewalks have
been warped out of sight.
Many an old soldier will hear with pleas
ure that Pension Commissioner Tanner is
about to visit Kansas. He is to spend
several days in the state the latter part of
this month, and will speak at Ottowa and
Topeka on the Goth.
There are sc, 900 acres of wheat in Ottawa
county. This will average aver twenty
million bushels of wheat this year. There
is also very near 1900 head of cattle in the
county to be fattened and marketed this
and fall.
State Journal: 1t is reported on good
that Col. L. A. Smith will retire
from the editorship of the Leavenworth
Times aboul July 1, and accept position
with the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis. |
Col d. r. Anthony still owns S33, 900 worth !
Of the 800, 900 stock Of the concern.
The Methodist college building at Win
field answers as a place Of refuge during |
any unusual excitement The other |
% orning, at a. M, man became |
b little nervous over a thunder storm, |
phoned the omnibus. dumped the family |
IN and drove up to the college, where they |
spent tie night
The Capital corrects the report tele-
yraphed from Topeka that the minister |
who attempted to save Oliphant from the |
fury OF the Topeka mob was pal of the |
murderer. The Capital says: "His name
s Gregory, he lives at Newton, and he was
The guest of j. R. Mulvane"
AT Winfield Sunday night two fellows
started down either bank Of the Walnut
warning the people that huge wall Of
water was coming. The wall didn't
,ome, but the fellows still went
IN and 1t is supposed they are
n Arkansas. still expecting that mighty
.ush Of waters TO oyertake aad eaguIf
hem
Winfield Courier: Sheriff Common has