Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

a sulphur match.
AT present most of Kansas seems pretty
well occupied by keeping the neighbors
cows off the garden and organizing brass
bands for Fourth Of July.
Seven thousand and two Numbered
pounds milk received at the Annapolis
creamery is the largest amount reported
yet and more COWS to hear from.
Cane seed sufficient to plant 1000 acres
was distributed last week among the
farmers who have contracted TO raise
cane for the Liberal sugar works.
Grandpa Benson, an old citizen of 70
years, at Belle PLANE, was tapped the
twenty-second time for dropsy last
Saturday, according to the local paper.
There were 191 arrests made in Leaven-
| worth last month for violations of the
city ordinances, three for state offenses
and two for crimes against the United
States.
The bellies of Larned numbering fifteen
will present "Rebecca Triumph at the
Larned opera house tonight. Their on
iy safety lies in the fact that they are
the bellies OF the city.
Chivalry seems to be on the wane in
Greensburg. Not far from that place a
mountain hon has been killing stock for
some time past and no one has taken the
trOubleto encounter him.
Isaac Shockley. the young man con-
victed Of shooting at Santa Fe brake
man at Burton, was sentenced by Judge
Houck Saturday to one year and half
in the Kansas state penitentiary.
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abated zeal at Atchison. Every day
nortionately they make the big canvass
tent wider and swing another electric
light.
This is the festive time of the year
when the walls of the editorial room
are decorated with innumerable samples
of wheat and the abused editor thinks
| he's esteemed after all or at least is not
forsaken,
Saturday morning the fremont house
at Downs was burned. The loss, about
$4,000, was fully covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire was doubtless in
cendiary as coal oil had been freely dis
tributed about the premises.
Frank Ryan. aged twenty-six and I'M
married, an employe at the Santa Fe
shops in Topeka was seriously if not ia
tally burned by the explosion of a gaso-
| line lamp with which he was burning
off paint from car Monday morning.
| There are now nine sugar factories
| either built or in course of construction
| in Kansas, located at the following
places: Fort Scott, Topeka, Conway
Springs, Attica, Medicine Lodge, Meade
| Center, Avalon. Liberal and Ness City.
The commissioners of Hodgeman
county have petitioned the supreme
court for a writ of mandamus to compel
the Garfield county commissioners to
pay part of the debt voted by Hodgeman
county before parts of it were added to
Garfield.
The Neodesha Register discovers that
the party of young society people of that
place who made a raid on an onion
patch are a ''sweet-scented crowd"
There must be something thoroughly
enjoyable when society munches onions
mutually.
A livery firm at Wellington has
brought suit against the individual mem
bers of the Republican county central
committee for bill of $50 for carriage
hire, which was contracted during the
last campaign and which the committee
failed to iquidate.
William Proctor an old widower living
in AtChison county, three and half
miles and half south of Everest was
fonnd dead in bed week ago Sunday
afternoon. Proctor lived III Atchison
county fer over thirty years and was
well known by the older citizens.
Emile Firman, the Kansas commits
sioner at the Paris exhibition, has esUaD-
lished his headquarters at No. 20 Rue
Delamore, near the exposition grounds.
With the $4,000 the state donated to-
wards his enjoyment Mr.. Firman ought
to make quite a splurge even In Paris.
The street car drivers at Winfield have
been neglecting OF late to stop dead
still at railway crossings, and now the
city marshal bids them beware. This is
a timely warning as both mule and
driver, besides the car itself, have been
in imminent danger, at least twice day
heretofore.
r. E. Wallis, of Morton county, in the
extreme southwest corner of the state,
has 100 acres of wheat. twenty-five acres
of corn, thirty acres of rice corn, twenty
three acres of oats, four acres of alfalfa,
five acres each of milo maize and katfir
corn, three acres of garden and 200
thrifty forest trees.
The state board of railroad assessors
have completed their work. Their re-
port shows the total increase in number
of milef of main track in Kansas over
that possessed in 1888 to be $3.50 miles, |
while the increase in total assessment !
over last year is $4,618, 464.29 Only six |
counties out of 100 in the state are with |
out railroads, and these are remote and |
newly organized.
Scandal journal: A jury has decided /
that Belleville pay George w. Persons I
$3.50 for falling into an unprotected cis- /
tern while preambulating the street one /
dark night If the city dads deemed it 4
necessary TO have some one IN that els
tern to give their tank water" more
body" they might have hired some one
for less money to have gone down dur
ing daylight.
Kinsley Mercury: The Kinsley cheese
factory takes in every morning from
four to five hundred pounds of milk
They now have on hand something over
five hundred cheese that are too fresh
for shipment. They are shipped as fast
as they can be made and got ready.
The farmers that are interested in this
are making more money they
could by putting their milk to any other
purpose.
The schools of Kansas contributed one
thousand dollars, which amount has
been forwarded to Mrs. Ward, TO the
Mount Vernon association to replace the
building on the Washington estate. The