Wichita eagle., 1889-10-11
sUNFLowER sHADOwINGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and Silver

An Usage county famer on wager
hucked 100 bushels of corn between suns.
Medicine Lodge is waiting for the new
school building which will soon be fin
ished.
The supreme court has decided that In
gals is the lawful county seat Of Gray
county.
1t is always best to laugh before you
read Joke. because, if you don't. you may
be disappointed.
S. F. Burdette, of Leavenworth, held the
office of secretary of the Kansas |. D. 0. T.
for twenty-eight years.
| Abilene has band of white caps. The
| papers do not call them Organized" SO
they are not thought dangerous.
Lawrence is infested with a gang Of
thieves. 1t is thought that some volatile
romancer has been reading Jonathan
| Wild"
The Atchison Champion has been APP
praised by W. H. Haskell, Hon. J. j. In
gals and Ii. Clay Park at a valuation Of
$4,000.
| Everybody at Richfield is waiting for the
new artesian we'll to pop" and a great
degree of nervousness pervades the COM
munity.
Lyon county has hand corn mill $50
| years old which was captured at Cerro
Gordo and was the first corn mill in the
| country.
Emporia has "whistled jig to mill
stone, as far as the appointment Of new
| postmaster by the present administration
Is concerned.
One of the Morton Monitor crew is
learning to plav the fiddle The rest of
the office respectfully asks to be remem-
bered In your prayers.
A Riley county farmer raised 101 big
loads hay off fifteen acres of alfalfa and
hive acres of third cutting and tive OF
fourth yet to hear from.
This is the time of year that you put on
your heavy underwear, and twenty-four
hours afterward try to puff cigar and
blow your nose at the same time.
The Harper County Farmers alliance
will hold meeting and picnic at Anthony
next Saturday President II. B. Clover. of
the stage alliance. will be present.
DR.. w. L. Challis, of Atchison, father
in-law of the late John A. Martin, has
taken out papers of guardianship of the
seven children of the dead ex-governor.
The salvation army has abandoned
Hiawatha, and Manhattan is going to be
lighted by electricity, which would rather
Indicate that the army was going there.
X c Star: An Emporia man has de-
cllued the nomination for the office of
coroner Things are changing in Kansas,
though some people don't seem to realize
it.
Colonel John A. Martin came to Kansas
in October, 1857, aged - years The editor
of the Citizen landed in Kansas the same
month of the same vear.-EredOnia (kan
Citizen.
A field of flax in Jefferson county
raised fifteen bushels of flax seed to TIE acre.
This ought to furnish enough fairy fax
for all the masquerades IL northern KAN
sas this winter.
Some burglars were cracking a safe, the
other night, when they luckily remember
ed that they were in Fl Dorado and quit.
1t afterwards turned out that the wasn't
anything i'll the safe
There is noticeable increase in Kansas
population of the old men with long rat
eaten hair and gretn-spectaces, who talk
of natural selectun' and organisms.
1t ought to be stopped.
Parties desiring our autograph to paste
in their albums can cut 1t OFT a subscrip-
ton receipt We are always ready to &C
commodate our subscribers IN this manner,
says the Arkaion News.
Emporia Republicans: The Topeka Cap
ital sends out deep harbor map, with a
margIna note stating that Topeka Is Il
sesses interest. but it lies Largely IN the
marg nal note.
K c. Star The theory that the illness
that carried off John \. Martin was caus-
ed by eating only two meals IA day is caus
ing more or less anxiety among the editors
in Kansas who have been accustomed TO I
getting along with one.
The gypsum plant will be the most i'm
portant industry to be started here in /
1889 The creamery is good and so is the
sugar plant; but the gypsum works will |
no grass rain or drouth says the Barber
County Index.
A Pratt county farmer sold out his farm |
to his hired man last year for SIS. This /
year the young man raised 1000 bushels of /
of wheat and 2 600 bushels of corn, all |
amounting to Sl.500 for the crop He paid |
for his farm and has 100 acres of land and /
81 600 besides.
The board of regents of the state univer-
sity met at Lawrence yesterday but took /
no action toward the selection OF new /
chancellor 1t is thought that nett er
Garfield nor Thatcher will be chosen, but
that some eastern man will be selected, |
SAYS the X. c. News
Emporia Republican: eyes" said the |
president, Il think we may confidently ex-
pect within the next year or two to have |
several more territories knocking for adj
mittance to the union. Idaho, Wyoming,
Kansas and one or two Others are becom-
ing populated and will soon want to be !
states. Yes, this is destined to be a great
country"
The A. O. L. W. anniversary associa-
tons annual meeting for central Kansas
takes place at Abilene, October %. It is
expected that between $50 and 400 mem
bers will be present. Reduced rates of one
and onethird fare have been obtained
from all points within a radius OF 100
miles from Abilene. On the evening OF
the 18th public reception will be given
the visitors at the opera house.
1t was hard to tell which was in the
greater numbers at Camp Schofield today,
the soldiers or the spectators. Ii being the
day of the grand review and the last day
of the maneuvers, hundreds of people
drove down and great many went on
trains. The inspection and review was
gone through much the same, to the or
binary eye, as that of last week, but if any
thing IL was more imposing. Tomorrow
the troops will be paid off, and on Friday
they will begin marching 10 the different
forts for winter quarters. They will all
80 except Captain Thomas troop.-Arkan-
sas City Dispatch.
The citizens of Morton met at Rlchfield |
for the purpose of organizing an artesian
well company recently. A committee of
three was appointed to prepare plan OF
organization and petition to De presented
to the county commissioners asking them !
to call an election to vote SIS, oc0 bonds as |
county stock in the company, and adj
journed to meet Tuesday evening.
At a later evening the report OF the COM
mittee was received and adopted, and q
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