Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds, Slips. ssioos. Sprouts. Shoots and Silver

| A cantata is in training at Burden
| No year will the "wife's folks be well
| come in Kansas more than this year
| kansas" obviously observes Nebras-
! ka paper, sets on the top rail picking her
teeth"
| Some of the oats brought into the Har-
per market is terrible looking stuff, being
| black ana musty.
| The man who does not care for county
! politics don't read very many weekly
newspapers this season.
| A Wellington man never thinks OF Of
| fering you the cigar until he has bitten
off the end and 1t is too late to press II on
| you.
| The unparalleled happening of two dog
| fights in one day at Cheney, greatly m
creased the trade of u transient fortune
| teller
C. J. Jones has disposed of half inter-
| est in his herd of butfalos to some parties
| in Ogden, Utah. for the handsome sum of
$4,000.
| building OF the grand stand at the fair
grounds, but it will be finished in time for
| the fair.
| Lane county wheat runs from f1fty-eight
| to sixty-two pounds per bushel test
| weight. This shows that it is of an excel
lent quality.
| Wellington Press: The favorite way for
Wellington man to carry beer is to make
1t look as much like package of laundry
as possible.
The Kansas City, Wvandotte & North
western railroad company expects To have
passenger trains running into Lawrence
| by September 10.
| 1t is said that the members of the King
man all wear their caps on the side of
their heads. but no two just slike, which
makes a great effect on parade.
| The Santa Fe is putting in railroad
scales at Marion. This is the only kind
that will bear his weight after a man has
been drinking Chingawassa waters awhile.
The Cheney, Clearwater and Colwich
creameries are now handling about 40. 900
pounds of milk per day and are paying the
| farmers surrounding them about 500 for
| the same.
| Since it mas been announced that a knife
! is now made with milestone in the han
die, every boy in Sedgwick county who
has heard of it knows what he wants for
| Christmas.
Garden City has voted bonds for flour
| ing mill. That would seem to indicate
that Flnney county expects to keep right
on raising the same kind OF wheat crops
she produced this year.
| At Randolph, Kansas, where a Swedish
camp meeting has been going on, there
was a congregation of $500 Swedes, more
of this nationality than were ever before
| seen together in Kansas.
Harper Sentinel: The new channel of
the big ditch crossing South Central
| avenue Is nearly completed Children
| born when the work began are now large
enough to roll bicycles.
| A county editorial association was Or
ganiZed in Reno county on the 9Th inst j,
| l.. Sponsler, OF the Arlington enterprise
was elected president and Dan +. DugaR,
| of the Sylvia Herald, secretary.
The only difference apparent to the citi-
| zens of Lincolnville between the old and
new postmaster is that the former played
checkers, and the present officer spends his
/ leisure moments spitting at a crack.
The new separator at the creamery ex-
/ tracts the cream in half the time of the
/ old one. Patrons are much pleased with
its work, as they can be supplied with
skinned milk without waiting anu sitting
around in the butter.
| Oskaloosa independents: While follow
| ing mp the hint OF the Globe, the Atchison
! girls hide their valuables III their shoes at
| night. burglar fell into a Newport tie
the other night and was captured by the
police before he could get out.
| Several monied men of Abilene are about
| to form stock company with 100000 to
| purchase the Case block in that city and
| transform IL into hotel. Another story
| will be added and the dining room will be
on the tAird floor. IL will be called the lie
| Grande.
| A description of an undertaking shop
| concluding with: I'VE found upon ill
| quiry, that their prices were very low and
md of 70
! Death" several times on the local page
| looks rather queer for Vol No. of the
| Goddard Reporter.
| During the rain storm last Saturday af-
| ternoOn, Joe OIth was struck and killed
| by lightning. He was working on wheat
| stack with Nick Cordells thresbing ma
! chine, about a mile east OF ct. Mark.
Nearly all the men were more or less in
/ jured but none serious except Mr.. Orib.
| kiowa Herald. Mr. j. f. remnant has
! been notified and time given him by the
contractors that if he is not back with the
machinery and at work on the salt well
| according TO the terms of the contract his
| action will be considered as an abandon
ment of the well and n violation OF his
agreement with the city, and proceedings
will be commenced against him. He was
| notified by registered letter.
A few hundred yards from the group of
mineral kpFlUxs a. tNlH-dNas-d, Is q
lonely grave. marked by two rude stones.
1t is the resting place of Robert Bailey,
the first white man buried IN Marion
county. He bcrnesteaded the land which
forms the site of Changawassa Springs
and he was murdered by John Wise near
his own door, IN 1862 The men differed
in politics, Wise being pro-slavery and
Bailey an abolitionist. One day Wise
came 70 Bsiley's house armed with a
butcher knife sad shot gun, and asked
him to take grist OF wheat TO the mill
Bailey refused, and quarrel ensued IN
which Bailey was sho. aud killed in the
presence OF bis wife. who promptly
mounted a horse and rode 70 Marion and
notified the settlers OF that place. Wise
was tried and sentenced 70 the peniten-
tiary for six years, but WAS psrdoned out
before his term expired, and died only
few years ago al Leavenworth.
The elixir az Harper as described BIZ
Isenberg Of the Sentinel: An aged patri-
arch of the Fourth ward read an article on
the Brown-SeQusrd elixir last week: feel
ing little rusty 10 the joints he concluded
to try H. He slaughtered young billy
goat: securing some OF its tallow, gall,
gore and vitalizing fluid and ground them
up in a coffee mill with some rain water
with fresh wiggles in f. He secured
single barreled horse syringe and fired
about a quart OF the com pound under his
skin in different parts Of his body, then
sa. down TO await results He felt the
yigor Of youth coming on IN tros sud
took down his suspcnders 20 give the v.gor
more room 10 expand IL the course Of an
hour be felt Ike 6utting something Just
like goat, and be went a. & The
old lady was in the kitchen making
apple pies, and tie first :hiny Sd.
knew the old man had busted her