Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
SUNFLOWER SEADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips, sclons Sprouts. Shoots and Silver

Castor beans are sold in large quantities
at Cunningham.
A man at Solomon City has been arrest
ed as counterfeiter.
Late cane was slightly damaged in some
parts of the state by recent froSts.
An Attica man shipped nineteen car
loads of watermelons this year.
Garfield county cheese took the first pre-
MUM at the state fair at Topeka.
The dudes of Kansas are having new
capes made to fit their old overcoats.
The state convention of the Y. NJ. G. A.
will be held at Topeka October 10 to 70.
The sugar factory at Leavenworth is
now making $50 barrels of syrup per day.
The Tobeka Choral society numbers $50
members, and no two open their mouths
alike.
There is married woman in Atchison
who weighs 200 pounds, that was born a
triple.
There are % daily, 729 weekly, 50 month
ly and IA semi-monthly publications In
Kansas.
A typo out west struck for higher wages
because the visitors read copy over his
shoulder.
Arkansas City has a man with the
felicitous and unprecedented name of
Happy Lank."
Thirty-three coal miners from Peru, ILL.,,
have been taken to BUrlingame to work IN
the mines there.
The Trego county bar docket for the
September term of court contains thirty
seven foreclosures.
The Evangelical Lutheran synod of Kan
saS is in session at Atchison with seventy
five clergymen in attendance.
Judge J. r. Brinkerhoff, one of the old
est members Of the bar of Rice county,
died suddenly at Lyons yesterday.
A great many of the socalled New York
novelties advertised in Kansas, originate
in brains west of the Mississippi.
The Kickapoo and Pottawatomie Indians
are holding their annual corn dance on
their reservation in Brown county.
The work is progressing slowly on the
Richland artesian well on account of the
sand working down behind the pipe.
1t is said that an excellent quality of
Irvine can be made from the sunfiower
plant This settles the national flower
questions.
f. Z. Derr, formerly secretary of the Y.
NJ. C. 4. of Clay Center, was arrested
Monday nrght for executing mortgage
on bogus farm.
The third quarterly meeting of the Kan
sas Butter and Cheese Manufacturers as
ISOLATION will be held at junction City,
October 16 and Il.
People who miss their awning ropes
these mornings. will usually find the boys
playing horse" aud girls jumping rope"
at the school grounds.
The trial of Edward Silver, charged with
the murder of William Proctor, wealthy
Atchis0n county farmer, last May, was
begun at -Atchison yesterday.
The most active man in Leavenworth to
have the Joints closed is Vlnton Stillings
the owner of the saloon on the Missouri
side of the pontoon bridge.-Salina Re-
publican.
4 Harrington druggist has been refused
permit to sell alcoholic liquors on the
grounds that the man had changed loca-
tion under his former permit without noti-
flying the court.
The state wants photographs Of each Of
the secretaries of state who have served
from 1861 to the present time. or the ten
men who have held that position, only one,
John ". Robinson, is dead.
A colored apple packer of Leavenworth.
Sc years Old, dropped dead yesterday morn
ing on the street, while in the act OF taking
a chew of tobacco. The disappointment
must have been something immense.
President Marvel, of the Santa Fe road,
has commenced reduction of expenses by
laying off number of employees in the
shops at Topeka and Emporia and discon-
tinuing two hight passenger trains.
Mrs. Polly Bruce. aged s. years, the
mother OF ex-UnIted States senator B. X.
Bruce, died at Leavenworth Tuesday
night. She was native OF Charlotte,
Va, and a slave during her early years.
Atchison Globe: 1.-The only difference /
see in Atchison,' said an old citizen who
has been absent several months, Is that
nearly ali tie men want to get Office, aud
are negIecting their business in conse-
quence."
The editor OF the Rich1and Republican
traded for white and black pig the other
day; the pig, fearing a slaughter. broke
out the same night aud the outlook IN
Morton county VIII be alarming unless
that pig turns up.
Somebody is deroeating the Land OF the
Vedas' relating missionary horrors at
Arkansas City to get money to buy a
at the Winfield college TO &c
loaned to some person unable 20 pay his
way through college
The W. C. /. L. have Drawn up 3 petit
ton demonstrating against the safe Of
tobacco. cigaretts, etc, to boys. There IL
a law enacted by our legislature TO protect
the youth against the evils OF the smoking
habit and IL should be observed.
Newton has something new A Iefs
handed barber. This doesn't make much
though, as ia Newton boys
mind, and the major part Of the custom
lies with the youth, the lather. toilet
water and powder ~ seven -eighths Ct the
shave.
Leavenworth Sun: TIE Home Goa! mine
was put down At a cost OF so. 600 which
was considered q wonderful achievement
II is stated on coed authority that the
Brighton coal mine. which is eleven feet
BY ten feet in tie clear and 100 feet deeper
than our other mines, has COS. SO go iess
than the Home mite.
Dr. Buffum Of Long Island hes IL his
possession Two very rare books, one Ho-
rner's Iliad 10 the original Greek and the
othe. a Materia Med.ca Ia the German
Language dsted March. lz5e,, making & So
years old The lids are Of wood, covered
with leather. and are nearly hsls 81 inch
taick - Lincoln Journal
A policeman a: Leaysnworfh ratified On
n mans window, and wheu be came near
his him CT the head with club and took
liza OF % iasI for being drank and dssor-