The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-28
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j Noble Prentis says ''outfit' Is distinct
i've Kansas word.
One of The surest signs of rain for til,
morrow is to dig bait for fish the evening
before.
Kansas win be allotted two commission
ers OF the world 5 fair, one Republican auC
| one Democrat
| The Southwestern Kansas Teachers as
/ ISOLATION viii hold its spring meeting al
/ Syracuse on or about April Is
/ There We're thirteen old soldiers at
1 Leavenworth arrested in one joint yester-
/ day ON the charge of drunkenness.
/ The Republican convention of the Tween.
/ ty-third congressional district Of Kansas
/ has been called for Garfield. May O.
/ Il has not yet been announced that Z. IT.
Clover. of the Farmers Alliance, wants 70
/ 90 TO the United States senate from Kan
sas.
There Is a man at Topeka who Is labor
ing under the agreeable hulicination that
he IS the king of the United States and he
Is isn't hotel clerk either.
An uncle of Governor Francis. of Mis-
souri,. Is one OF Schweinfurth's disciples.
but there Is yet to be found formerly of
Kansas III that gloritied gang.
+. \. Morrill, has been selected as a MEM
Der of the board of managers of national
soldiers homes. TO succeed the late John
y. Martin. and several papers say AS we
predicted
The candidates for railroad commission
ers are 4. K. Greene. present incumbent
Cambridge, P. b. Maxon OF Emporia and
Farmer Smith of Mcpherson.
The Methodist ministers Of northwest
Kansas are convened at Minneapolis and
are telling one another of the crops, prairie
Tires and general outlook. and singing and
praying and disposing, betimes.
\ Christian science woman at Arkansas
City Is trying to cure horse of the stag
gers by prayer. Veterinary surgery has
changed considerably on the Kansas border
since the early portion of eighties.
Frank p MacLennan, of the State Jour
nal mas been sued tor damages in the sum
of $4,000 by Mr.. T. b. Lull, who desires
to represent the Fifth ward in the Topeka
council The journal is improving.
The editorial excursion for northwest
ern Kansas is finally determined upon.
The Santa Re viii take the editors mo
proxies to Galveston about the middle of
May. The association cOnveneS this year
at Mankato.
Mr.. Emile Flman, product of the last
legislature, our French representative, Will
return home this month. Mr.. Firman LETT
something less than 5000 with the French
people as token of remembrance. Wei
come home, Emile.
A smart little boy in Palmyra was kick
ed by mule, an exchange relates, but in
stead OF saying naughty words or going
home crying to his mother he tea the
mule within five feet of a bee hive, backed
him around to it and let him kick.
Drof XV;1I;,,,, e
music department of the Kansas State
university, has resigned and Will quit at
TIE end OF the present college year. He
viii 20 to Harvard university for several
years and take up new line of work.
If the alliance controls the next Iegisla-
ture Ct Kansas, twenty-five candidates for
the United States senate will spring up
who have never been heard of at this time.
says the Globe. There are plenty of men
in Kansas who have confidence i'll their
ability.
\ class IN English composition has been
in the State university and each
member is constrained 10 produce a stauza
OF ten lines within q stated time. There
Is Il tendency at our state universities 10
cultivate Caesuras and meters at the eN-
penSe of natural talent on the mandolin
and guitar.
The Scandinaviaus Of Kansas are endeav-
Orng to secure the appointment by the
Norwegian government of q vice consul for
Kansas. The large Scandinavian popula-
ton and the large prospective Scandinavi-
IN lmmi gratiOu make il necessary that the
mother country should have vice consul
here
Kansas writer's have within the past few
months found their way into BelfOrd's !
Lesiie's, The Forum, Harper's, Popular
Science Monthly, and several other well
known magazines. Literary fellows are
TO be found in every school district in Kan
'as now. Some time before 1909 somebody
will proclaim that Kansas has an over-pro-
AUCTION in genius instead OF corn
A .Jetmore man has a theory and he tells
t. He argues that the great impeachment .
% successful farming ana growing of crops
II far western Kansas has been the yearly
prairie fires, In his opinion these fires sap
great deal Of moisture from the ground /
ma from Il sort OF crust upon the surface. !
Fhich l. almost impenetrable and which .
.auseS the greater part OF the rainfall To .
eek the draws instead Of being absorbed .
" the soil. a. il should be- If every farm
+ and owner Of lands throughout south
Western Kansas would see to it that a
rood, wide tircguard Is placed around
very foot of his possessions for the next
WO years. thereby preventing these yearly
Tres. the thick buffalo grass would in that
ength of time form II sort of mUlChing for
he ground. hold the moisture. and by
ausiDg evaporation, AID materially IN
bringing about more rainfall. which would
make western and southwestern Kansas
lac most productive country on earth.
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