Wichita eagle., 1890-02-09

The Bender women are still alleged and
still III custody.
The new postmaster at Leavenworth is
still unappolnted, and so is the one at
Atchison.
A forest of native trees covering 100
acres is one of the beauties OF the Fort
Hays reservation.
If there is one man the Kansas Demo-
Gratis hate more than Speaker Heed, 1t is
George T. Anthony.
The wild geese are flying north. but the
ground-hog went back in his hole. There
is an eror somewhere.
Dickinson county, with a population of
25, 900, has but ten cases on Its district
court docket this term.
A church war is in progress in Leaven-
worth. TO the great dereliction of the spring
production of doughnuts.
Six of the seven candidates for the Atch-
ison postoffice claim they fought bled
and died" for their country.
1t is reported that Senator ingalls, is on
the last chapter of his novel. 1t is not
stated whether the climax will be printed
in carmine.
Nothing has been heard about Jacob
Stotler as state printer for some time. but
the spirit that should elect him is still
rife, just the same.
The students of Washburn college, To-
peka, are on the war path because the
faculty has refused to let the young ladies
attend the Oratorical contest at Lawrence.
At Newton man made total failure
selling wooden legs The people up in
Newton are not built in way to demand
any such aid. They get there with both
feet.
Senator Ingalls, daily lunch at the SEN
ate restaurant consists of nine oysters
fresh from the shells. 1t must be the
acidulous vinegar he puts on them that
works the acrimony In the senator.
The ablution of mans morals once in
a while interferes with his physical clean
illness. The police judge or Pittsburg
fined man SO recently on the charge or
stealing bar OF soap.
The editor of the Geuda Springs Herald
in a confidential mood announces that a
ten pound boy made its appearance at his
residence last Friday evening and began
at once to assert his rights on the prem
ises.
The Coffey county farmers met in con-
vention the other day and roasted Con-
gresham Kelly for running in bills for
costly soldiers monuments instead of in
PRODUCING measures for the relief of the
people.
The engine that whrled Nellie BLY,
through Kansas has been perfectly incoI-
rigible ever since. Recently it jumped the
track and another engine had to be sent to
pull in its stead. Railroad men claim that
it is hoodooed.
Atchison Globe: The mayor and mem
bers of the city council should have their
photographs taken in group. with their
heads lying on one another's shoulder.
Whenever people do not like each other,
but don't want it known, they haye their
photographs taken together in some such
way.
The total value of agricultural products
in Kansas for the year 1889 is estimated to
be Sl03.5!2, 498. Corn is estimated at $51,-
649. SO, less than 1888 by about S750,000;
wheat S19, ,S42, ,574, about $7,S00OO0 greater
than 1seS; oats S7&54, ,S12. about 81 900
less than 1883. In these three crops Kansas
in 1889 was better off by &, 000 than in
1sSS
John z. Reyburn, who has been nomi-
mated IN the Fourth congressional district
of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy caused
By the death of William ID. Kelly, is not
formerly of Kansas but he came very near
it, He is a son of w. s. Reyburn, ESQ,
who has vast property interests in Leaven-
worth and is the son-in-law of Judge
Robert Crozier, of that city.
The old bachelors Of Mulvane held a
meeting not long ago and organized an
"Old Bachelors Matrimonial society"
The object OF the society IS to try TO
change the order OF things" in Mulvane
and let the outside know of their deploFa-
ble condition. Marriageabie ladies might
do we'll TO correspond with the secretary,
Luke Lightfoot. The organization has
slxty-one members to start with.