Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-03-16

The Newton Republican has a young
( lady for local editor.
Five bushels OF corn viii buy pair Of
! jeans pants At Fort Scott, c. o. d. and the
| fesurn Of the 'gunny SACKS"
Rev. Dr. Thwing did not accept the
4 CHARACTERISTIC nor evidently the unmerit-
ed attacks upon his name and ability.
/ In spite Of the scarcity Of money and low
I prices of farm products. over 80 per cent Of
\ the Kansas taxes for 1889 have been paid.
/ Sol Miller is opposed to free Mexican
/ iuX ores This Will call out request
( from George Martin TO know what soils
/ fighting weight Is.
/ Courtesy has grown greatly in Kansa
1 Journalism. Not one paper was rude
/ enough TO ask If Rev Thwing had a wife
/ and II she wrote letters.
! The women. or part of them. at Atchi-
Z son are benz ON having the school board.
/ They do not wish TO dIsappolnt Annie Be
( SAINT when she comes over
/ The young opera composer Of Topeka IL
/ is said, has been requested to introduce
| John Browns Body in his latest pro-
/ duction by one who is solicitious for his
/ success.
| It is estimated that three-feurths OF the
/ Kansas wheat crop of 1889 has been mar
/ keted, while more than half OF the corn
I crop is still unmarketed. aud in the hands
/ of farmers.
/ IL takes the Topeka Democrat so long 10
review Senator Ingalls, that II any readers
I OF the Democrat ever doubted that ingalls,
was big man they have gotten over it by
( this time
"The first grange in Kansas was organ
/ iZld IN Hiawatha in 1872, and there has
been more or less hay seed mixed with
LIS war al a lev INIT 10
rises to remark
1t is told of Matthew Arnold that when
he was in this country and ate some buck
wheat cakes he remarked, Why they arc
not so nasty as they look But he did
not remark this to any western poet.
It is said that Senator ingalls, mas never
lost faith in AtChisoD, but invests in
Atchison property right along. II the
senator Is such an important factor IN the
district of Columbia he should be able 10
make something in real estate specula-
tiOns there. Grover Cleveland's recent
good luck proves that such opportunities
are open.
The state board OF agriculture is talking
Of Introducing kaffir corn IN western
kansas IL the board wants 20 strike the
popular sentiment of this portion Of Kan
sas they must not not introduce any corn
that would do away with che bliss and
=
roasting ear.
1t is expected that COO teachers will at
tend the meeting of the Southern Kansas
Teachers association At Parsons, on
March .6-2S 4 large flag is % 10 present.
Ell by the people Of ParsCns 10 the county
which sends the greatest number OF teach
ers. The territory nov embraced within
the limits Of the southeastern now extends
from the Indian territory 10 Nebraska
The farmers in a lumber Of the counties
Of the state are refusing 90 give agricui-
tur8l statistics 20 the assessors, upon the
ground that n - furnishing information
for the grain gamblers such measures
on the part 81 farmers viii not amount 20
much. The grain gamblers Information.
such as they desire and is necessary for
their purposes, - acquired through pri-
vate agencies The farmers are standing
in their own light by not permitting the
assessors, whose business II is, 70 collect
such statistics.