Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-01
sight of its present caput makes him

slght OF It's present cdput makes ninl
nervous.
| D. F. McAdoo last Saturday sold four
hogs in Medicine Lodge that aggregated
| ], 500 pounds in weight, or an average
of 315 pounds each. Barber county Is
the corn belt for sure.
There are quite number of Indiana
| soldiers in and around Sterling who talk
| of going TO Washington on the 4th of
| March to witness the inauguration OF
Gen. Harrison as president.
| And now it is Atchison's turn to jubi-
| late. The location of the Missouri
| Pacific railroad shops has finally been
decided upon at that place and work IS
to begin by or before the LIST of March.
Matte Moore, colored, who killed her
husband ar Leavenworth some time ago,
pleaded guilty TO manslaughter IN the
third degree, and was sentenced to one
months confinement in the county jail.
W. H Hornadsy, the editor of the
Udall Record, is up at Topeka, and has
left Mrs. Hornaday in charge OF the edi-
toriai helm. That accounts for the I'M
usual sprightliness of that very clever
paper the past week or so.
Medicine Lodge still retains much of
the importance that has long attached to
it as a live stock shipping point. The
Index SAYS three cor loads of cattle and
one of hogs were shipped from there
Monday night.
The Willing Workers, presumably
mothers society, of Medicine Lodge, an
nounce through the local papers that
they will hold baby show at that place
February 8. In the language of the
great apostle to the Gentiles, "help those
women"
The discovery of coal near there has
so revivified Salina that they are already
talking sugar plant and other industrial
schemes If the City of Salt don't keep
squint on herself she'll get too bump
tious for anything, with her two papers,
both daily, to egg her on.
Judge Eaton of Atchison, says the
Patriot. is not very old man, but he
claims to have eaten three wagon loads
of Saratoga chips. P. S.-Sarotoga chips
are no kin to Buffalo chips: they are
Irish potatoes sliced very thin and fried
brown.
Lyons Tribune: We omitted Kansas
from the states which allowed aliens to
vote at six months residence by merely
announcing his intention of becoming a
citizen. This is not as it should be. A
15-year-old boy has as much political con-
ception as the average foreigner after
such a limited residence.
A 36-inch vein of coal only q short
distance below the surface of the ground
has just been discovered near Salina,
and it has Almost thrown that place into
conniption fits. The Republican says
specimens of the coal have been tested
with the most fattering success. Glad
of it.
Col Phillips, of Salina, must be a very
nervy sort of man. He has not only I'M
dertaken to mop the earth, SO to speak.
with Wilkeson, the defamer of Kansas, |
but threatens to remove the grease spot |
that may perchance be left, with ex
Gov. Robinson if be don't quit bobbing |
up so tantalizingly.
The revival services at the Baptist !
church in Wellington are still in pro-
gress and apparently growing in inter
est. Rev. Miller Is a powerful preacher /
and his sermons are listened TO atten- I
lively every evening by large congrega-
tons. Hardly night passes but what !
there are one or more additions to the |
church, and it is safe to say that these |
will double the membership. -
Standard.