Wichita eagle., 1889-07-11
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Seeds. Slips. seions, Sprouts. Shoots and sliy.


Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliyers
Hush! the normal institutes are asleep
There are 16,0S3 horses in Cowley county
Chanute has been declared city of the
| second class.
| A prominent merchant" is a term oil
| the widest scope in Kansas.
New wheat was selling at Lyons last
week at So cents per bushei.
The knights of Pythias, Atchison, Kan,
are taking of erecting $4,000 temple.
1t is not wonderful that it rained frogs
at Paxico last week. 1t does it every year
| Most of the Kansas towns are now deny
| ing that their postofice salaries were re-
| duced.
The Leavenworth coal companies now
| deliver coal at 21< cents per bushel, S1S7
| per ton.
A correspondent states that q neighbor
was thrown from his horse but not killed
| entirely.
The Leonardville Monitor worries that
| its heavy shipments will spread the rail-
| road track.
From 10000 to 40. 600 head of stock are to
shipped from Protection during the next
few months.
The Kansas supreme court has decided
that verdict rendered by a jury on Sun
day is not legal.
A Manhattan man has invented can
dle-holder for collins, warranted to stand
the worst kind of wake
The Santa Fe is cutting down its force
all along the line. About 200 were laid off
at Argentine and thirty at Emporia yes
terday.
Tone of the Emporia's News in its COM
ments on the prize fight: Il told you So"
The News must have had something up on
John L.
Mulvane has washing machine fac
tory. The machine was invented by
citizen of that place, who is manufacture
ing them.
Professor L. L. Dyle, of the state univer-
sity museum, has gone to British America
on a five months hunting trip after ami
NAL specimens.
j. II. Franklin, of Russell. Kan. presi-
dent of the normal board Of regents, has
received an appointment as second deputy
auditor OF the treasury.
Mr.. Plumley has traded his cows for
steers, and his fine matched mules for
mar es.-Attica Advocate. Well, that don't
make it any better for breeding.
The Kansas City Star is responsible for
false teeth down his throat while tryin to
light one of Senator Ingalls, cigars.
The Fort Scott Tribune says: cit was
currently reported on the streets this after
noon that the city council had prohibited
by ordinance the Sullivan kilrain fight"
Kansas leads in the yield of wheat per
acre. The report stands: Illinois, Is bush
els; Michigan, 10; Kentucky. l0.S; Kansas
~; Indiana Is; Ohio, II, and Missouri, Is.
On the Sd of May last Kansas had 100
national banks. Their capital stock ag-
gregated 81, 800 405; their surplus fund,
81 S44 go and their undivided profits, ST.
207,900.
Courier: \ northwestern Kansas editor
was called out of bed one night to receive
a subscription. After that he sat up
nights for over week, but the Ofense was
not repeated.
AT literary up in the northern part of
the state last week heavy rain storm
came up and imprisoned the crowd for all
night, and now there are any number of
experience" afioat.
An exchange prints the following unique
If John Jones, who
twenty years ago deserted his poor wife
and babe, will return, said babe viii kick |
the stuffin' out of him"
Whenever a chOleric editor thanks a !
lady for the beautiful flowers sent him. i
the conclusion may be drawn that he has /
said something detrimental and she has /
dropped IN with cabbage.
Since the knowledge has come to the |
city council of Leavenworth that under /
the laws of China the adult who loses his /
temper is Sent TO jail to cooi off, are think |
ing seriously OF adopting it.
1t is thought that the statement that |
+ I q of 7
made up his mind that base bali is game /
worth no mans time to learn will not at |
feet the Kansas small boy in the least /
1t is quite affecting TO see "Snerl," a |
on the ArgOLIa Clipper, bid !
farewell to his readers IN a pathetic strain
when the average makes his adieu with q
'damnatIon to the whole community"
There is movement on foot to run an
train from junction City Man
haitian and Namego and other points to
Kansas City next week for the purpose of 1
attending the Last Days OF Pompeii."
1t might cause some Kansas papers TO
blush if they knew that the quibble on
'spell"-like thiS-''a strange spell fingers
about the work Of Josh Billings" was dis
covered over two hundred years ago by the
author OF Gpllivers Travels
The great Proctor murder sensation in
Atchison has tiZZled out. Proctor is now
believed to have died natural death. and
he Atchison papers are looking around
or another bank robbery, or something.
% get excited about.-Topeka Capital
Oxford Mocking Bird: Last Saturday
light some william whitfield pannel from
he front door OF Fl. Barrett's store. Some
hink it was done by robbers, but we are
If the opinion that it was the result of
novel in the hands of some
boy"
Fort Scott Monitor: Last night about II
'clock Marshal Robertson was summoned
% DR.. Diamond Dicks camp to ouell n
disturbance. Upon arriving on the ground
lie found the doctor Intoxicated and max
ng things lively, whereupon he arrested
he doctor and brought him to the lookup.
The doctor proposed to put up So for his
appearance this morning, which the mar
hal accepted and released his prisoner.
The doctor then again became :beligerant,
'enting his anger upon the marshal. who
earrested him and locked him up second
ime, where the doctor will remain until
AIKEN before Judge Stark this morning,