Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-08
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.

| They are the worlds most influential nsnt
sUNFLoWER sHADoWINGs.
Seeds, Slips, Seions Sprouts Shoots and sivsrs.
Scarlet fever and diptheria arm-in-arm
are making their yearly visit.
A Latham farmer raised at the rate OF
163 bushels of peanuts to the acre.
Emporia Republican,: Fort Scott is 60
| ing into the manufacture OF vltrlhed Orlck.
| Adam Bunner, of Doniphan, raised 1OO.-
| 600 pounds more grapes TINS year tnan
| last.
Hill. the Colby bank defaulter, is still at
large. Pinkerton detectives are on his
| trail.
1t is rumored that a syndicate of east
| ern capitalists are buying up coal lands In
Kansas.
The Osborne county -four mills are run.
| ing day and night to meet the demand OF
the trade.
One thing may be said to the credit Of
the Newton soap factory, it does clean
| business.
Atchison and Fort Scott will now have two
| things TO be jealous Over-vItrltled brlck
and Jay Gould.
The Fort Scott Monitor is in favor OF
turning the Hutchinson reformatory into
an insane asylum.
A man doesn't feel half so important
when the cab he rides in has an election
banner on the side.
At Emporia they speak of man who
wears shoe-string bout his hat as from
the paw-paw regions.
Augusta has hotel keeper who doesn't
| take newspaper and he is as unpopular
as a girl with sore eyes.
| Perry, the blind musician who gives
recitals and musical lectures, is doing the
northern part of Kansas.
Charles S. Gleed, of Topeka, was ad-
mitted to practice before the United States
| supreme court yesterday.
The corner stone of the First Baptist
church was laid at Phillipsburg, Tuesday
with impressive ceremonies.
From the way new papers are starting in
| Kansas the long felt want must still be
empty, says the Abilene Reflector.
A clever stroke of advertising on Mr..
! Gilmore's part is the mention six cannon
in his musical programs for Kansas.
Topeka Capital: Five Kansas counties
this year produced more than half As much
corn as the whole state produced in 1887"
| Married, at Lawrence-Stewart Henry,
of Denver, Col, and Miss Nellie Thacher,
daughter of Judge S. .. Thacher, OF Law
renee.
The Railway Age says the general audi
ditor's Office of the Santa Fe, now located
in Boston, will be moved to Topeka De-
cember l.
Congressman Peters says it costs Senator
Plumb Sl2, 900 Il year to live In Washing
ton, and he is one of the ''painest livers"
at the capital.
The editor of the Mulvane Record is
prancing around Pixies Peak at present.
On Pixies Peak, this time of year, it Is
necessary to prance.
A portrait and biographical album of
Sumner county is being prepared, and
| anybody may become prominent with d
reasonable amount of hard cash.
Emporia Republicans: Eli Perkins is
! lectu ring in Kansas. The time WAS when
Eli would draw big crowd in this state,
but that was before Tomlinson developed.
| Keene plays at Emporia tonight. He
will probably remark the absence of the
whilSome peanuts. cracking In the
audience. Emporia isn't the town it used
to be at all.
X. C. Star: Why doesn't some one give
old Chief Mayes couple OF corner lots IN
Arkansas City? That would bring him
around all right on the question OF opening
up the Cherokee strip.
A burglar at Parsons tried to get away
with a pan of milk, but somebody fired at
him and made him drop it. the thief is
now trying to console himself by deciding
that it was chalked water.
The Beattie Star says: Huskers have
informed us that this fall it is not much
more work and no harder to put eighty to
100 bushels in wagon than it was to put
sixty TO seventy-fiye in last year.
Several western journals printed edito-
rails OF welcome to the All-America dele
gates, in the Spanish tongue, and the New
York Sun speaks of them as "misfit, miss
spelled, misprlnted cigar-box Castilian."
A Kansas editor objects to three meals
per day and advocates one meal and
thus" ne say, ''do away with the eternal
grind of eating" This unparalleled
statement occurs in No. S, vol. l, of his
paper.
An action in equity was begun in the
United States court at Topeka Tuesday
against the Marion Belt 81 Chingawasa
Springs railroad company for the appoint
ment of receiver. The road is eight
miles long.
Thorough investigation shows the liza
biities of the broken Abilene bank to be
1885,, 900. The assets consist mostly of de-
tors to appoint an assignee has been called
for November 81.
Notarial commissions were issued Tuesday
AS follows: NJ. L. Clark, of Caldwell; NJ
Bloch, of Wichita; Waldo Hancock, of
Beverly; H. d. Holloway. of the Soldiers
home; John A. Moss, of st. Marys, and j.
+ Baker. of Hutchinson.
DR.. Buck, who has charge of the silk
station at Peabody, is in receipt of letter
from Bedding Bros, of New York. stating
that the Kansas silk which they had han
died worked nicely, and that they were
very much pleased with it.
Thomas county, the next but one from
the Colorado line, on the Rock Islands
northwestern line, raised more corn than
any of the entire thirty-one new counties
in western Kansas. Thomas county was
unusually favored by the rains of last sea
son.
Lawrence Journal: Kansas City calls
for the Republican convention In 1s22. II
we are to deal in futures, Lawrence offers
Mount Dread as a place for Gabriel TO
stand when he shall blow his trumpet on
that coming day OF weeping. wailing and
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