Wichita eagle., 1889-08-01
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, Slips. seions, Sprouts, Shoots and sHy.

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Richfield and Syracuse have stopped
hunting coyotes long enough to plan for a
grist mill.
The most sensitive thing at Newton is
the ice. You cannot even look at it with
out hurting it.
A Dark Day" will be presented in Bis
Emancipation day.
Report says in Medicine Lodge the mayor
OF the city has been fined 81. so and costs
for being drunk on the streets.
i. 1t is no easy thing for man who works
| around treshing machine. Notice ap-
pears regular of laborers giving out.
AT meeting Monday evening of the
Congregationalists at Arkansas City, it
was decided to build a $4,000 church.
A Lawrence girl denominates Ham,
burg steak and Iyonnaise potatoes as a
slight repast," to her Kansas City friend.
A Kansas man has bobbed up with an
answer to What is SO rare as day in
Junep Any day on the top of Pixies
Peak.
The deserted skating rink at Ell Dorado
reads sad satire to ''sassiety" on its
whllom days of mirth, weak ankles and
| broken heads.
The Anthony Journal mentions four
| farmers who have threshed their wheat,
the crops averaging 3414, 361z, 40 and ~
bushels per acre.
Kansas leads the states in the wheat and
| well in the front in the corn crop of the
season. She stands ITO on the first, Isl on
corn and ITO on oats.
AS the pontoon bridge nears completion
great swarms of old TASKS and demlJohns
| that haven't been seen for years are being
| resurrected at Leavenworth.
The chinch bugs breathe in peace once
more. Prof. Snow has gone to the noun
tains. But he can't come any cholera
dodge on the bed bugs out there.
The Arkansas City Traveller vainly
thinks Old Sol is turning red in the face
these afternoons for the sole purpose of
warning its delinquent subscribers.
There will be a grand ball at Geuda
Springs tonight, with such an array of
costumes as would startle Worth. Not
true WORTH but Mr.. Worth, of Paris.
Superintendent Scott of the Chilocco
Indian school near Arkansas City, has sent
forth an edict that there shall be no more
bear and dog fights and whisky drinking
on the reservation.
No doubt the report is false that the two
people who took the prizes on the best
written advertisements at Arkansas City
are being urged strongly by eastern pub
fishers to write a book.
The barn of Jacob Harmon, at Golden,
was struck by lightning during the storm
Thursday night and burned to the ground
together with eight tons OF oats lately
hauled.-Grant County Register.
Downs, which celebrated its eleventh
anniversary on Saturday last, claims a
population of nearly 1000, has four large
churches, two commodious school houses,
two banks, water works and fifty-One bus
mess houses.
The illustration of the temerity of
western editor clipped from an exchange:
The way our public affairs are conducted
is disgusting. We are fully persuaded
that the average citizen is but little better
than the hog"
The engineers in charge of the United
States Geological survey visited Haper
Yesterday. They place the altitude of
Harper at 1,4l7 feet above sea level which
is much lower than the estimate of pre-
vious ngineers.-Sentinel.
A. j. Moses, of Haddam, has COM
menced two suits against the Washington
National bank and certain bondsmen for
s., 600 cash. These suits are for false I'M
prisonment in the celebrated cases of the
bank against Moses 81 Andrus.
A modern John Vaudeville relates that
the only difference between the "Ohio !
houses" and Indiana hotels" so plenti- |
tut and noticeable along the main line of
the Santa Fe in Kansas, Is that the bed !
bugs in the "Ohio houses" wear gaffs.
The parties who are bringing damage !
suits against the rapid transit company /
will discover when this company pull up /
their tracks that they have been biting of /
their own nose. A hint is rs good as Il |
kick, says the Leavenworth Sun.
Thirty clerks employed in the auditing |
department of the Santa Fe at Topeka |
were discharged Monday The recent fire |
destroyed many records and necessary pa
pers and until these are replaced the small /
clerical force remaining Will be sufficient
to do the work.
The item below cannot be credited to
Kansas man, because if he should have
happened to be in so piriable a condition
he would have gone to bed with both boots
and coat on: "A most remarkable case of
lndeclSlO ion was that or & man who sat up
all night because he could not determine
which to take off first, his coat or hi.
boots"
Marshall County Democrat: A couple
Of confidence men got away with 81, 100 Of
A. Scott's money at Blue Rapids, last
Tuesday, while the Robbins show was
there Scott was induced to bet on game.
The fellow who acted the confidential
friend of Scott pretended TO be a minister.
and promised to reimburse him as he
claimed TO have S25 900 in Il bank al Omaha,
Neb.
Kansas City Star: There is finally some
hing up at Lecompton besides the foun-
lation of the state house aud Governor
house for the newspapers TO
write about. 1t is a boy years old who
las sat in the laps of two grandmothers
md fhrae Srresr-OrandTn OtherS and has
been handled on the knees Of two grand
athers and three great grandfsthers, ali {;
If whom are living and in Kansas, except
ng one grandmother.
Atchison Patriot: OF late there has
,een quite a number of horses uDhitched,
AIKEN to other parts of the city, tied to tel ,
graph poles and left to be found by their
owners Last evening John Abrams, a
armer living near Good Intent, hitched
lis team in the alley back of ID. {. New
combs store, and after transactlng some
business returned TO the alley TO get his
lorses and they were gone. Alter search
Dg several hours he found them hitched
10 a telegraph pole on North Tenth street.
This is the first time any white man liv
ng in this county has seen the Fall river
-alley flooded There will be lots Of WORK
o do in the flooded district Immediately.
The wheat and oats must be turned and
'estacked, bridges must be put In, burrows
must be plowed to allow water 10 escape
rom corn fields, runs and draws will have
o be cut open and cleaned out in many |
,laces, fences will have to be rebuilt and (
ost stock must be hunted up.-tredonia
citizen.
The Santa Fe Railroad company laid
witch TO Hunters mill at Wellington one
hight last week The work was done at
night for fear Of an injunction. The