Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-21
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Seeds, Slips, Scicns Sprouts Shoots ana Siisers.
Atchison is working for starch fac
tory.
| A move is being made to incorporate the
| town of Milan.
| Eighty head Of cattle have died OF
! stalks in one neighboshood IN Smith
county.
| This was to be a very early severe fall,
| and agonizing for some prophets to live up
| to their weather.
| The table etiquette fends are now prac-
ticing on forking single bIckwhear cake
| from the pile, successfully.
| Winfield has raving maniac and all
| the young people go around in the evening
''to see the house." where he is confined.
South Haven has eight doctors and Il
prospect of getting two more. The prac-
tice of pumokin pie before retiring may
have something to do with this
K.C. Star: The revival at Lawrence
seems to be making Roadway, but a good
many of the university students still wear
celluloid collars and cuffs.
An English syndicate with an immense
capital has commenced buying up farming
lands in Kansas. But then English syndl-
Gates can't subsist IN Kansas atmosphere.
This is poor time Of year to visit your
country friends and view the harvest
glories, in Kansas. There is too much
corn unhusked and too few laborers to do
it,
Shatz, of Cedarvale, who will be remem-
bered as shooting man by the name OF
Ross, on finding him under suspicious cir
cumstanceS with his wife, was convicted
of manslaughter in the fourth degree.
The near approach of the opening of the
cSx- I0c m ar
people to go out and locate their prospec-
tive claims. A party will leave this city
tomorrow on a prospecting tour, says the
Winfield Courier
La Crosse Clarion:
A crash-the foreman stood agast,
With type about his shoes.
Surveyed the fallen form and said
''Well there! I've broke the newsw
Last Saturday one merchant at yelling
ton employed brass band to play at his
store and another firm treated his custom
ers to the music of piano and violin, and
every body came down town, and II looked
just like fourth Of July night.
The county clerk of Sumner county
made out $50 election certificates this
week, being the number of officers elected
in the county at the recent election. In
addition to this there were $50 defeated
candidates, making $40 in all, or one 10
every six or seven voters.
Advices are being daily received from
England telling of the superior quality OF
the -four made from Kansas hard wheat.
This will certainly tend to advance the
local price of -four, AS the prices our mills
are getting in Great Britain dre more prof
liable than those in this vicinity. Besides
this there is less liability Of loss from fail
ures, and the sales made are for larger
shipments. -Atchison Champion.
The members of the Kansas delegation
in congress are natives of the following
states: Senator ingalls,. of Massachusetts;
Senator Plumb and Representatives Per-
kins, Peters, Kelley and Funston, of Ohio;
Morrill,, of Maine, and Anderson and Tur-
ner of Pennsylvania. Five of the nine are
Ohioans. ingalls,, the oldest. IS SO, and
Turner, the youngest, Is A years of age.
The University Kansan rejolces in the
addition to the museum of the State L nj
versity of some very fine specimens. 1t
SAYS: Judge West recently returned
from a four months collecting expedition
in Western Kansas. The result OF his
labors were seen in thirty-nine cases of
specimens which arrived this week, weigh
ing 900 pounds aud making half car
load. The specimens are those of fossil
vertebrates of the cretaceous formation,
including saurians, fishes. turtles and
pterodactyls. There are between seventy
five and one hundred jaws Of fossil ami
mails, some with teeth intact anG some
without. The pterodactyls number about
half dozen, and are the first the n1iver-
sity has obtained. Among other fine
specimens is saurian jaw found in the
MCKEE Mine canon. Only about two
inches of the upper jaw projected from the
rock, but the scientific eye of the judge
knew there was something there, and as
result the museum has obtained an ex
traordinarily fine specimen"