Wichita eagle., 1889-05-31
SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.
Memorial exercises in honor of the
late Judge Usher were held Wednesday
morning at the court house in Lawrence.
Leavenworth's amateurs are anxious
to sing Patience" but are afraid the
audience viii prove anything but Job
like.
Phil Lacy, aged -, Lying at Atchison,
shot himself in the head, probably fatally,
Tuesday night while playing with re-
volver.
Judge Benson, of the Douglass county
circuit court, admitted twelve law stu
dents of the state university at Law
renee as members of the bar.
A wall from the Salina E. S. A.: "Mean
old Kansas City has refused to allow
women to run saloons. Oh! ye gods,
when will the women get equal rights. "
Drs. Crawford, Harvey and Painter
have been appointed pension examining
surgeons at Council Grove and Drs.
Holt, Lane and Conway at Cottonwood
Falls.
The Parsons Sun wants its readers to
take time to walk out into the country
and hold few sweet whisperings with
nature What's the matter with hol-
| lerin'?
Abraham Raber, of Hiawatha, whose
wife obtained a divorce from him last
week, attempted to kill Mrs. Elizabeth
Wheeler Wednesday because of unre-
Quilted love.
Taking the cue from the Salinanas
the Harvey county convention of the
Equal Suffrage association will be held
in Halstead Wednesday, June 8, after
noon and evening sessions.
Salina will have something to say
about freight rates June 4, as well as
Wichita and few other points
Gazette. Who asked you? 1t isn't
recorded that you'll be called on.
Salinas freshness is now accounted
for. The city assessor is nearly through
his work and is already warranted in
stating that the population will be very
close to 10000, if not over those figures.
Colonel Leon DeBost. nephew of
United States Marshal Walker, will be
his chief deputy. Colonel DeBost has
filled the position of stenographic clerk
in the governors office for several years.
Barton county is having a room fitted
up in their court house for the accommo-
dation of CROOKED" women. The pur-
pose, presumably, is to encourage them
in an effort to reform. If so-or in any
event-the example is worthy of imita
ton.
The Sedgwick Paragraph is eight
years old this week. The Paragraph is
one of the best weekly papers that comes
to our exchange table and it is gratifying
to see evidences of appreciation of its
worth on the part OF the good people of
that community.
About the silliest gush a-going IOWA
days is the stuff gotten up by the equal
suffragists of Salina regarding Marsh
Murdoch of the Wichita EAGLE.-Abi-
lene Reflector Oh, well. just let 'em
alone: it don't hurt Murdoch and does
them sight O good.
There came near being some sad scenes
at Salina Tuesday night, the result of
disappointment to the expectant males.
The damp, bad weather necessitated-at
least it caused-a postponement Of the
Cleopatra social where the ladies were to
dress in tissue paper costumes.
A 10-year-old son of Robert Perkins,
living three miles southeast of here, was
driving the cows home last evening
when one Of them turned on him,
knocking him down and tearing his
mouth open badly, besides injuring him
on the hip.-Newton Republican. If the
bovine family don't hold their temper
and use their horns with less freedom
upon the humankind the first thing they
know there won't be a horn left.
Eastern papers are publishing as an
Illustration of what Kansas soil and the
climate which frequently visits here can
do, story to the effect that a man
in Saline county, during the
dry years s0wed wheat on the
same land for three success
sive years without getting a head Of
grain. i few years afterward the wheat
began TO grow, and he harvested In
mense wheat crops three successive
wheat crops three successive years, with
out ever blowing or sowing ,-(Iazette.
Pearl, the four-year-old daughter Of
W =. and Mrs. Ramsey. was drowned
at Medicine Lodge Saturday afternoon.
The child, with several companions, was
playing in Spring Creek. in front os the
creamery, when Pearl fell from log OF
which she was standing, and drowned IN
water three feet deep. She was ths
largest OF several children present. and
her companions did not realize he.
danger for sorae time after she had dis
appeared Finally one Of them told her
mother Pearl Is ID the water" The
child's mother az first thought nothing
serious or unusual Of the occurrence, bat
called 70 Mrs. Ramss-, and told her
what the child had said. Mrs. Ramsey
supposed that Pearl was merely playing
in the edge OF the water.
but went after her. She was h0r
ritied 10 discover the condition Of affairs,
and ran into the water and recovered the
limp and lifeless body OF her chiia-
Every effort was made 70 restore the life
of the little one, but wifhou. success
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