Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-28
suMrLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. seions.. Sprouts, Shoots and sl~sf'


"Our State is having hard row to hoe,
but the harvest will be all the better for it.
Charley Gleed saws that his last was the
best speech Ingalls, ever made. Gleed is
an original thinker.
The Harper Sentinel stands i'll with the
postmaster general It has q "Wana-
maker & Brown" advertisement
In adversely and prosperity there are
two things Kansas towns will always do
start newspapers and bore for coal.
The coffin at a recent Atchison funeral
cost $500 This piece of gossip will call
for speedy resume of afternoon teas III
that town.
The story comes from Washington that
Plumb is lighting ingalls, in good earnest,
and is using his influence to place Con
gresham Perkins in the line OF senatorial
succession.
State Treasurer Hamilton will COM
mence suit for libel il the United States
court against Henri Watterson. lie is
obvious that Mr.. Hamilton will not retire
from politics.
DR.. McClynn says he would be burned
at the stake before he would retract a
word he had ever spoken. If McGlynn
was sincere in this. his existence would be
mighty brief if he was a Kansas politician.
In Montgomery county, last season, nine
bales OF cotton were grown on nine acres
OF land, and sold at Kansas City for nearly
$50 bale. The same ground planted VIII
corn would have yielded about 81 an
acre.
1t is said that Jim Leggett calls himself
Judge Leggett when talking TO Washing
ton newspaper men. This Is modesty
when 1t Is remembered that kanSanS AT
Il 10 nnrf led lrpy rr
and colonel.
A syecial meeting of the Kansas Short
horn Breeders association has been called
to be held at Topeka: February II. Hon:
William Sims, Ex-Governor Click and
others will read papers. Breeders and
stockmen are invited TO attend.
1t is related that the Dodge City mayor,
while her special train halted at the de-
pot, tried to make a speech to Nellie bly,
on dodge City as commercial and farm
ing center" 1t is limited that while III
Kansas she was presented with an Atch-
ison vitritied brick.
The American Glucose works IN South
Leavenworth have shut down tor an in
definite period. The manager claims that
depression in business caused this action,
as there was no market for the output or
the plant. One hundred and fifty men
were thrown out of employment 10y the
closing of the work.
The Syracuse Journal relates the follow
ing: The bottom fell out of one of the
largest sand hills south of the river one
day this week and a small lake of water
clear and bright aud of unmeasured depth
has formed in its place. Explain 1t some
body" Things must be looking up away
out in Western Kansas. 1t is dreadfully
hard to tell story like that on an empty
stomach.
A woman who is terribly cross-eyed has
secured postoffice in Kansas. Her optical
popularity will greatly facilitate the dis
tribution of mails in her Office. as she can
at the same time read the address on
postal card with one eye and the matter on
the other side with the other. This, how
ever, cut no figure in her appointment.
She is the widow of a man whose substi-
tute was killed during the war. Says the
st, Joseph News.
Congressman Peters has introduced
bill for the division of Kansas into two
judicial districts, the division to be made
not lengthwiSe, as Senator Ingalls, bill
would divide it, but by a line running
north and south. The bill provides that
the dividing line, beginning at the north
ern boundary of the state, shall follow the
western and southern boundaries of Wash
inqton county, the western boundary of
Riley and Davis counties. the western
boundary and part or the southern boun-
Diary of Morris county, the western and
southern boundary of Chase county and
the western boundaries of Greenwood, Elk
and Chautauqua counties TO the northern
boundary of the Indian territory.
Tomorrow the schools will celebrate
Kansas day. The school artist has been
busy the last week drawing the stupendous
seal of Kansas, the stars and "ad astra per
aspera," on the front blackboard; dozen
orations or so, relevant to the suspicious
occasion, will be fired from the rostrum; a
talk from the teacher and then the whole
thing will wind up with John Browns
Body" when, after a DISPOSAL of his soul
and knapsack and sorrowful picture of
Jefferson Davis suspended on sour apple
tree, the children will go home admiring
and respecting Kansas more than their
fathers do or they themselves Will when
they grow older.