Wichita eagle., 1890-02-05
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SUNFLOwER SHADOwMGS.
Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and slivsrs
The population of Kansas has increased
S5 per cent since 1850.
Only seven naturalization papers wers
issued in Shawnee county last year.
The Atchison Patriot says the g.. 900 ma
! jority in Kansas in cold facts is only e. .6SL
Enterprise claims not to have single
| empty building. Its name does not admit
of it.
An English syndicate is trying to pur-
chase $1,000 acres in the nsighborhood Of
Ellsworth.
There are between 1.5o0 and 2. 900 patents
at the Garden City land office awaiting
| their owners.
| a GAYLORD druggist now languishes in
the county bastile for too Jealous trafhch-
ing in grip medicine
1t is expected thai the government viii
spend about half r2illioa dollars TINS
| year at Fort Leaveuworth ana the soldiers
| home.
! A exchange remarks the larse number
| of restaurants on Kansas avenue aI 10
peka. There is probably something De-
| hind this.
| The interesting Isenberg has sold the
! Harper Sentinel to Jonas Cook, and Will
devote himself in the future to some peace
| full calling.
| John A Anderson, of Kansas. has been
! a member Of congress for fourteen years
| and yet Reed snubbed him. Are the yet
erans accorded no privileges In the house!
| A Kansas towE has an O-be-joyful club,
! but it doesn't differ materially from the
| common club where everybody tries 10
make everybody else as disagreeable as
/! possible.
The Emporia Republican announces that
| it is not Candidate for Senator Ingalls,
| place. Hudson doesn't want 1t; Peck has
| Withdrawn and now the only opponent lett
is Rats Burton.
A country editor in Kansas has received
a pair of wooleu socks from his old home
IL Vermont. He has hung them IN his
sanctum as curiosities, with a card at
tached explaining their use.
When the ground hog came out at Ar
kansas City, they arrested him and pre-
vented him from going back This is only
one of the ways they have Of curtailing the
workings of Providence at Arkansas City.
a Methodist Protestant college is to be
located somewhere in Kansas, presumably
at Kansas City, but small donation In
lands and money aggregatlng $50 coo TO
Sl00, 900 is wanted and the matter hangs
fire.
The Washington Post, laboring under.
heavy poetic cinsplrations, WAS delivered OF
the following stanZa January %:
'''Twas on this day and month forsooth
That Kansas, thirsty land,
In 1861 stepped forth
Her statehood to command" F"
The statican of the Lawrence Record
has found out that there have been thirty
nIfrNf rad 1s.tN.a
ment of Kansas G. a. K. during the year,
eleven posts have surrendered their char
tiers, seven are delinQuentS and four unac-
counted for. There are 4S2 posts with
1900 members. The amount expended
in charity during the year was s., ,62S.57.
A Mitchell county farmer, seeing the
statement that jolting sick cholera hog
will cure him, devised schems whereby
he drives a half dozen or SO onto mov-
able platform, and jostles it up and down
by horse power. The scheme works well,
and his hogs are getting better. A healthy
hog needs no exercise, but a sick hog
needs exercise to give him an appetite.
The latest piece of capital gossip is that
James Hamilton and Governor Humphrey
have rebelled against each other. When
Rory Moore resigned as assistant state
treasurer, there were those who said, ''all
is not WELL" Now it turns out that Rory
and treasurer Hamilton had split.
When Hamilton resigned, he made it
condition with Governor Humphrey that
his successor should not re-appoint Rory.
Sims was appointed TO succeed Hamilton,
and he is about to reinstate Rory, therefore
Hamilton and the governor are at outs.
The first treasurer of Kansas was H. r.
Dutton, who served one term; he was sue
ceeded by William Spriggs, of Anderson
county, who held the office two terms.
Martin Anderson was the next treasurer
and served one term. He was succeeded
by George Graham, who had only one term. |
j. +. Hayes, of Olathe, took the Office in
1871, but resigned in April, 1874, to escape
Impeachment by the state senate for using
the state funds for private purposes Gov
ernor Osborn appointed the Hon. John |
Francis, then a resident of Allen county, |
to fill the unexpired term. Sam Lappin |
took the Office in January, 1875, but proved |
a bad egg and resigned on December 20, |
1875. Governor Osborn again appointed |
the Hon. John Francis to fill the vacancy |
and he served until 1877, when he was elect |
ed to the Office and served for three full |
terms. His successor was the Hon. Samuel |
T. Howe, who served two terms. Next |
came the Hon. James w. Hamilton, who |
served three years and a few weeks.