The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
sUNFLoWER SHADoWINGs.

The man with a curiosity today dug up
the tree he planted yesterday to see If the
roots took hold.
If Samuel Peters keeps up his present
lick he viii come to be known in congress
pretty soon as Economy Peters.
Salina is at present searching out the
beauties and merits of public building
bill with the appropriation stricken out.
About fifty suits month are filed in the
district court of Atchison county. There
/ is a great deal of "neighbOring' in Atchi-
son.
The total amount of coal sold and sup
| piled 10 the state since the opening OF the
mines at the penitentiary Is 10,9o3,S A
| bushels.
Money talks, but not so forcibly as type.
An editor defeated bank president for
mayor at the municipal election at Linds-
/ borg on Tuesday.
Professor Snow says he cannot find
| chinch bug We would call the professors
! attention, however, TO the fact that the
! chlgger still lives.
/ The Wellington ladies have organized
| bicycle club and the skating rink has
closed up again. This ought to Danish all
doubts as to Wellington's boom.
/ There is one thing in common between
/ our Senator ingalls, and the English poet
! Algernor Charles Swinburne. Algernon
[ has passionate penchant for red neck
ties.
The Syracuse city council and water
/ company are at outs, the council refusing
| to pay the last quarters supply on the
/ ground that sufficient water was not FUR
nished.
/ Tom Moonlight. of Kansas, is ''men-
! toned as a candidate for governor on the
| Democratic ticket next fail. Mr., Moon
! lights retirement from politics Is very
graceful, indeed.
Webb Wilder and his Annals have
been notified of the historical fact that an
issue OF the Emporia Republican appeared
Wednesday without an editorial mention
of Senator ingalls,.
Captain Thomas Morrison, one of the
first mayors of EmpOria, and most estl-
mable gentleman, was last week elected
mayor of Florence 1t is not often that an
Emporia man goes off on this line of pro
motion.
Ex-Governor Osborne has put on his
near-sight spectacles and seen the rebellion.
He says Eve cannot any longer furnish the
big Republican majOritles and let the man
ufacturers down east, who are rich, get all
the benefits, while we have nothing but
mortgages TO show for 1t.
Meade Republican: An extensive
prairie fire commenced last Sunday over
in the canyons adjoining the Stumperora.
A back fire was started by Mr.. Jackson,
an old man. to protect his property, but 1t
got beyond his control He eXerted him
self to such an extent that he died Sunday
night.
Suit has been brought by Anderson
Grey, of Conway Springs, against the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway for 81 400 damages.
Mr. Grey bought 1000 hogs in Missouri
l. -, sr+1-n JTrof
through to their destination. They were
unloaded at Kansas City, where 1t Is
claimed, they caught the cholera, from
which 500 of them died after reaching Mr..
Grey's farm.
1t is not easy for the Kansan WHO'S not
bOtanist and could not tell stamen from
a pistil, to believe that there are 1000
native species of Towering plants IN this
state when those he is intimately &C
or so, the wild flowers of our prairies the
daisy, golden rod suntiOwer, butter
flower, Kansas beauty, wild bean, Johnny
jump-ups, sensitive plants and others.
A call has been issued for a convention
of the Patriotic Order Sons of America to
be held at Topeka, Kansas, on Tuesday |
May 6, at $50 a. M, for the purpose OF
forming a state camp, electlng officers and /
transacting such other business as may be !
presented. The call is issued for the sew
eral district presidents of the state and will /
be composed of them and five White de !
gree members from each camp now or
ganized or to be organized before that /
date.
Once on time Santa Fe trains used TO |
run through Garden City without stop |
ping, but always paused at Sherlock /
which was then Garden City's greater |
rival But Garden City irrigated, raised /
such tremendous onions, and attracted at /
tentiOn toward herself, and grew INTO |
mammoth proportions. Last week the |
postoffice at Sherlock was discontinued and |
the few remaining inhabitants toldtogo to |
Garden City for their mail.
The young Garfelds existing in Kansas
only need time and the growth of the |
political Importance OF the state to boost
them into the presidency. Every summer
at Baker not less than fifty boys walk at
least 1000 miles during the summer to sell
enough books to attend school the next
year. They did this year after year and 1t
make men of them. One OF them Is going
to be president of Baker university one of
these days, too, one who tried to make his
fortune in that way and failed is making
his fortune now by running newspaper,
and others are making their mark.
Secretary Rusk, the other day. was chal-
lenged to a showdown on one of the pet
trophies of the department of agriculture,
and soon found it necessary TO acknOwl-
edge his defeat An ear of corn twelve
inches long has for some months been Tn
Gle Jerry's pride and joy, but today DR.
Wolfe. of Reno county, Kansas, walked
into the department and wanted to talk
corn I'VE already have the longest ear of
corn in America, F" said the secretary con
fidentlv well trot it out and put it
these, replied the caller, bring
ing out of his valise a half-dozen huge
ears. Uncle Jerry sent for his best nub-
bins and the clerks gathered round to see
the result of the contest. The ears brought
by Dr. Wolfe measured fourteen inches,
nearly two inches longer than the pride of
the department. well, / swow!" eX-
claimed the secretary. 4 guess III have
to acknowledge the corn" DR.. Wolfe Is
the most enthusiastic corn-raiser in the
United States, and made Uncle JerTy's
eyes bulge out by telling of his last year
crop Of 8, 800 bushels from 500 acres.