Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-01
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Kansas pensioners receive 100000 an
nually.
Leavenworth is swallowing another dose
| of horse thieves.
A post of the G.. A. R. has been estab-
| lished in Ottawa.
The Winfield fair opens Sept. and con-
tlnues the rest of the week.
Barton county reports this the best hay
| ing season for many year.
The fall meeting of the Great Bend
Coursing club will begin October p.
In Kansas filings without ''envious''
are as rare as mosquitoes without wings.
What a stingy man he is who does not
have five seats in his wagon on circus
day.
Everybody wanted to kiss Jacob Stot-
ler's prize baby. 1t was too sweet for any
thing
A favorite way of shielding in Kansas is
filing gasoline Reservoir while the burner
is going.
The mayor of Fl Dorado has publicly
announced that there is no small pox at
that place.
Mama county farmers who have tried it
claim that raising tame grasses pay
handsome profit.
1t is awfully hard to be requested by
paper to reflect upon two line grocery
advertisement
Kansas hasn't been letting her reputa-
ton as windy, dusty state drag IN the
least the last week.
The Minneapolis fire department is
working to win prize at the Ottawa tour
nament on the 18th.
It is only from the fact that there isn't
room enough that the Kansas policeman
don't burst on circus day.
It is silent accession in Kansas towns
that the man who carries an umbrella
when it is not raining is English"
The acme of disappointment is reached
In Kansas when a man buys ticket to the
show and don't get to use it.
It is wonderful how many excuses the
force will present TO the editor for eating
that watermelon in his absence.
Topeka Capital: In about two weeks all
the farmers of Kansas will for the time be-
ing become chiropodis,s, rs it were.
People canwalk on the streets of Parsons
without coDfessor now, as they have pro-
hibited BASEBALL on their thoroughfares.
Down at Harper they say prairie chick
ems do talk" but they mean that the
game fills the huntsmen's Golfers i'm
mensely.
The farmers of Barton county have most
all their ground ready for sowing wheat
and will pat in larger acreage this fall
than last.
The employees of the Lawrence shoe
factory, recently established there. are on
a strike. They have not received their
wages for several weeks.
The Downs Chief says it is impossible to
Il.
farmers hauling their products to the
Rock Island to be shipped.
A rare item for a Kansas exchange: The
party who carried off our gold pen last Sat
urday will probably avoid exposure by
prompt return of the same.
A horned toad was found ar Salina, the
first one ever found in the Stack. {.
K. c. News. Strange. for every boy in
Sedgwick has or has had one as pet
The athletic craze has struck the kids
at Stafford, and every vacant granary,
barn, ice house, etc, now contains bag OF
sand, rings, a bar and other apparatus.
At Medicine Lodge the Santa Fe COM
pany has signed the lease on the five acres
near the stockyards for the gypsum works,
and the works will be commenced soon.
H. B. Woodbury., of Cawker City. has
l 700 acres of corn growing with prospects
of at least 100000 bushels He has har-
vested 100 acres of wheat and an equal
amount of other small grain.
The average daily receipts of milk at the
Axtell creamery last week were S,44
pounds per day, or total of 220, 5S4 pounds.
The price paid, fifty five cents per hundred
poui DIS, amounts to Sl,213.2l.
The old soldiers reunion at Baxter
Springs which will commence on Septem-
Der and continue four days, will be ad-
dressed by Senator Ingalls,, Congressman
Perkins and other prominent orators.
A little baby that was crawling around
the front door step was discovered the
other morning eating maple worms. says
the spirit Of enterprise in Il Kansas child.
There is mighty sermon in the re-
ported story that poor farmer asked n
preacher to pray for bountiful harvest
on his impoverished field. The preacher
replied as he looked at the sorry prospects:
This is a case that does not yield to pray
err. This needs manure"
A farmer living near Marysville has
forty-acre peach orchard. and up to Satur-
day had sold 1000 bushels of this years
crop, and has over 2020 bushels yet to pick.
Re ships mostly to Denver and other west
ern cities and the prices received ranged
from 81 to So so per bushel,
\ young ladyin Labette county has been
10 cent missionary subscriptions
with success. The giver was requested 30
fill out the blanks she furnished with the
amount given and sign their names that
she might make proper returns to her
superiors. Tie blanks now turn up as
notes and call for 500.
At the St. John ". f. church last Sun
day the choir sang Jesus my all TO heaven
is gone in their usual impressive and APP
probable style. They wound up the last
line of the last verse: And say, this is the
way to God" when they sat down and the
seat gave way and every man and woman
of them turned circus somersault
The Topeka city government has been
for some time to induce the
Pacific railway to put its track in
passable condition on Adams street. Fin
ally. by threatening 10 tear it up, the COM
pany has been made TO act in the matter
TIE engineer OF the company is in the city
aud is looking the ground over, promising
to take immediate steps to put the track
and the street IN good shape.
There is no telling where the trouble
resulting from mortgage will end. An
Odin man mortgaged his farm TO get his
wife pair of diamond ear rings. The
wife took in washing from the summer
boSrders to pay the interest on the mort {
gage, and the first day lost one OF the dla-
monds in the suds, and tried to hang her
self in the barn: but the rope broke and |
she fell on $50 Jersey calf and broke its
back
K. c, News: Officer c. f. Reynolds of
the Metropolitan police force in this city
was yesterday fined 500 and costs IN Just |
ice Bradley's court for striking Isaac Spec
ter, whom he had under arrest for disturb
ing the peace. City Attorney Cobb gave
notice Of al appeal in the case to the dis
trict court. There has been considerable
Of late in regard 20 one or two
of the police officers on this side being