Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-29

for Kansas. Four commercial empires
independent of Kansas City. Mo-, ano
dependent only on Kadsas. and all rich
prosperous and happy, and all proud OF
Kansas, all vieing with each other IN
generous rivalry and anxious to assist
one another rather than aliens and peo-
ole hostile to the growth and prosperity
Of Kansas KANZAN.
sUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips. soions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliYeFs.
Emporia has a new grocery store, too.
Hays City subscribed 500, 900 for a sickle
factory.
Salina wants her artistic propensities
recognized.
Marysville has voted to issue bonds fol
waterwOrks.
Gov. Humphrey appointed twelve
notaries public Thursday.
The Abilene Gazette, for six months
published at Salina, is dead.
The salary of the superintendent Of the
public school of Emporia is 81 ,SOO
Even the onion patches wilt when an
Emporia girl sings Her me, Norma"
The citizens of Downs will celebrate the
tenth anniversary of the clty's birth OIL
July u.
Salina now stands over her grocery
store and protects it from the derlslon OF
other towns.
The state of Kansas paid out of her
treasury last month sd, OSl.41 for Chart
able purposes.
A menagerie at Fort Scott won't draw
any crowd at all. They've seen 'em all
afore in the cutters.
Salina is going to have ''The Last Days
of Pompeii" and Bulwer Lytton IS IN great
demand there at present.
They aver that when an Arkansas City
politician puts on white shirt, he Is dead
sure batting for county Office.
A bottle of whisky, asmashed derby and
loosened knees constitute malarial lever
among the bloods of Leavenworth.
With some papers one issue suffices to
demand forty-nine other issues to explain
and apologize for the contents OF the first.
The Fifth congressional district reunion
of soldiers and sailors will be held this
year at Blue Rapids from August Is &c
16.
Despite the efforts of science to hush il
up, it has at last got out that white fun
gus'' is what's the matter with the chlncL
bug.
1t has now come to light that a number
of Topeka people thought the visitor, DIR.
Guinness, was the one Of Dublin scout
tame.
Mrs. T. Garland, of Wellington. claims
to have baked the first bread from 1855
wheat The grain was cut, threshed and
ground all in one day.
While it rains every day in Kansas now
it is not rare to hear the mOss-growI
grunter from force of habit inadvertently
remark: 81 wished it'd rain"
It is not alone the Presbyterians at
Wellington who think that the boy who
likes music and plays the piano is surely
doomed to be a bar-keeper or hotel clerk
The race between S. Lehman's red
Sprague and SeftOn's red Wolf for &, oOt
will be the greatest turf event ever wit
messed at Newton. 1t will come otf July 4
The Santa Fe is enlarging its stock
yarus at Protection, Commanche county,
from which point they expect to ship from
0,00O to 10000 head or cattle this sea-
son.
The Emporia News says that some En-
pora people imagine that the Sandwich
islands are where our ham sandwiches
are made" Think of it, and collie ct
town, too.
The statement that Iceland has but six
papers is being printed abroad as an III
ducement to those Kansas editors who are
wont to play high executloner with thelI
towns in every issue
his COW Zephyr" she seemed such an
amiable hephyr. When the farmer drew
near she kicked off his ear, and now the
old farmer must dephyr.
At Winfield the marshal hires man to
cut the weeds at $3.50 per day. Then IN
the evening, in place of lawn soclals, the
fire bell is rung and the citizens turn out
and search for the lost man.
An effective way of finding boy who
has run away from home in Kansas Is tC
advertise for him and call him weak
minded" 1t will humble him every time
and he will come back home, boy Ike, Tor
sympathy
"Father, who is that portly man with
the long beard who gazes IN the book De
fore him so studiously; IS he philoso-
pher?' NO, my son; that IS politician
who has been chosen to read the Declara
ton of Independence on the fourth, ana he
must have il by heart"
Cocoons are arriving at the silk station
from all parts of the state, and the steam
sitter is kept pretty busy. This has been
a rather unfayorable season for serl-cui
ture owing to the continued wet weather
but the crop is much larger than ever De
fore.-Peabody Gazette.
Leavenworth Sun: Hon. Lucien Baker
went again TO Kansas City this morning e
consult further with the chief officers Of
the American Express company, "a K
what legal proceedings shall be INSTITUTED
against CITY Marshal Robinson aud tht
civ for the seisure of the liquors entrusted
to the company in Missouri for delivery IL
Kansas
Stephen Eelimer was harvesting To-
Herman Martin, four miles south OF I Dan
and on Thursday forenoon was bitten OF
the foot by a prairie rattlesnake. Atel
killing the RATHER he started for Unaii
and bv the time he reached DIR. whitney
Office his foot and leg were badly swollen
Tie usual remedies were applied and lie Is
getting well.
T. n. Stewart, OF Philadelphia, wa
granted franchise TO construct a Pontoo'
bridge across the Missouri river near '2uln
daro- The bridge will be in operation oI
August l. The charges will be; Foul
horse team and vehicle, round trip, .
cents: two horses, 80 cents; one horse :,
cents Horse and rider, round trip, =
cents: foot passengers, cents; horses anc
cattle each way 10 cents: sheep and hogs
each way 3 cents. Stewart has sImi1a
bridges at Leavenworth and Lexington
g. Civ Globe