The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-10
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sUNFLowER sHADowNGs.
Kansas does not have April showers
! properly, but it has April blows.
! John \. Reynolds has gone off to Mis-
souri,. He took 1900 Twin Hells' with
| him.
| The Manhattan Nationalist does not
/ favor the Bellamy idea, notwithstanding
| its name.
! It viii not be very long now until the
rhymes about the pesky housefy viii begin
to appear.
Right now IS the time of year when
Kansas people claim that they can see their
garden truck growing
The Pittsburg Smelter has twenty-five
thousand dollar libel suit on hand on ac-
count OF an April fool item.
Black bass fishing has commenced over
| in the Walnut with q slight falling of on
the street corners OF the valley town.
The price of corn has commenced to go
up and the sand hills are again becoming
the nearest approach to mountains IN this
state.
Wellington has discovered oil about
seven miles away. OF late Wellington has
been capering around in a fractions man
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boom on.
The Winfield Courier announces that
there viii be a good item of railroad
news for the public now in a few days.
This is the first time the Courier has said
this for more than year.
Atchison young men have gotten up
minstrel troop and started out to do" the
state As the state usually withstands
these annual outbUrsts, the young men
will succeed, reversably speaking.
Rev. J. l. Vanlandingham. formerly
real estate agent at Tribune, has again en-
tered the ministry. There i not the same
demand for corner lots in Tribune as there
is for those in Paradise, this spring.
A young Topeka boy fell from the top of
the state house Sunday afternoon. On
being picked up he protested to being
taken home but, nevertheless, he was,
and the doctors are uncertain whether he
viii recover or not.
The stars and stripes were raised over
the Beloit public school building Friday,
under the auspices of the G. y X. and
Ladies Relief Corps. Kansas children are
taught more patriotism than those of any
other state in the union.
Vol. No. Of the Cowley County Cen
sor, the first paper published in Winfield,
in 1910 announced that Two or three
buffalo hunting parties are out from this
neighbOrhood to the range, fifty miles west
of us" Who would believe that to see
COwley county now!
1t will be remembered that year ago
two bright Kansas girls, Misses Adele and
BERTHE Read, were publishing the West
phalia Times and the Lane Star. Miss
BERTHE was married TO q young man living
in Missouri and Miss Adele to Mr.. Haskell
editor of a paper at Grand Junction, Colo
RADIO. 4 short time ago the husband of
the former was killed in a railroad acct
dent Last week Mrs. Haskell died at her
home in Colorado.
The Haskell institute at Lawrence.
named in honor of the late Dudley c.
Haskell, owns 400 acres of land, with
thirty-Bine buildings valued at 1925. 900
There are $50 students. ranging from five
To twenty-eight years of age, 800 of them
being boys. Twenty tribes are now repre-
scented, including the Pottawatomie OtOe,
Seneca, Oneida, Kiowa, Sioux. Pawnee,
Shawnee, Pawqua, Seminole Delaware,
WyandOtte, Cherokee, Creek, Chicasaw,
POnca, Peoria, Caddo, Wichita, Cheyenne,
and ArrapahOe. The Cheyennes have the
largest representation. The cost Of edU-
eating the Indian IS figured at Sl55 each
per year. The appropriation asked for this
institution for the coming year IS S125 600.
Several prominent Englishmen visited
IHIS country Il y ear dSO anu examined IIt
farm lands with view of colOnizing sever
al hundred families from England. They
thought a school was necessary first in or
der that the emigrants might become &C
quainted with American farm life without
any hazardous experiments. 4 company
of English and American capitalists was
organized with the object OF buying a large
farm and establishing an agricultural
training school for young Englishmen.
The agent of the company visited every
county in the state. and Saturday pur-
chased the farm Of Whitsed i.aming. near
Tonganoxie, for S23, 900 possession 10 be
given June l. Mr.. Lamng is "a native of
Cornwall. England, and before coming 10
this country was the steward Of the estates
of the Prince of Wales Three hundred
acres Of land bought by the company are
in English bluegrass, 290 acres are
under plCw, and the orchard contains 200
apple trees and cherries. peaches. pears and
smaller fruits. Mr. Laming bought the
farm eight years ago fer $1,000. The
syndicate owns at present 5000 acres If
Kansas farm lands. The training school
VIII begin with over 100 students. A CON
cert hall. lecture room and an Episcopal
church viii De added 10 the other bulad
ingS and Bishop Thomas VIII appoint
rector TO take charge. EnglIsEmen only
viii be admitted is students. The course .
viii be similar I'd that of the agricultural
college al Manhattan