Wichita eagle., 1890-02-01
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
eeds. Slips. seons, Sprouts. Shoots and sIivers.


Alfalfa seed is now worth s. per bushel.
Seward Jones. of the Tri-County News,
has fallen heir to $50, 000.
Mr. Tomlinson, OF the Topeka Democrat.
writes back that he has found something
shameless up in Iowa.
A Kansas woman publishes another
book. Kansas authors have one consola-
tion-Queen Victoria does, too.
The mad-dog scare is come again, and
lots of good dogs that deserve something
better are being shot on suspicion.
From the observance of customary
move of state official is born the suspi-
cion that Andy Felt wants to be governor
A Hiawatha man who lost some money
found a mouse nest in one of the bureau
drawers lined with finely chewed green
backs.
Dickinson county will be at the front
with the number of mortgages releases
for the first month Of 1890. Over 200 will
be recorded.
1t is estimated that there are over 200
car loads of corn awaiting transportation
on the North Solmon branch, and over 125
cars on the south branch.
when woman" sagely observes the
Gray County Jacksonian. ''can spit at q
mark and hit it, she deserves political
rights as much as man."
G. w. Click is said to be DESTROYS of
a second term as governor of Kansas. Mr..
Click took the tide at the food some time
ago and is now out IN mldocean.
There were reformers in 1854. and they
bothered about Kansas Edward Everett
Hale tried to reform people In their way OF
spelling Kansas. He wanted it Kanzas,
but failed.
Marysville will celebrate the completion
of her water works by a jubilee February
4th. Hundreds of printed invitations have
been sent out, The festivities end with a
grand ball in the evening.
The turnkey at the city calaboose at At
Gibson is learning to play on the guitar.
Mr.. ingalls, probably heard of this &C
that "a thief wrongs himself most"
having disposed of his load of corn yester-
day, was asked by another if he had sold
his corn. Yes" was the response, land
l got just two drinks and a lunch tor it,"
No matter how ingenius the advertiser,
he does not always realize all that his ex-
pectatons promised The New York World
publishes map with Nellie Bly's route
marked down on the Union Pacific. But
then the Santa Fee takes the money.
According to the Garden City Herald al
falfa will turn out ten bushels OF seed to
the acre, which commands in the market
81 a bushel. If there is a crop in Kansas
that will pay $40 an acre it is time that
more of the farmers were finding it out.
Washington Letter: Senator Plumb.
who has been almost everything in his
soldier, stockman, miner, millionaire
also added to his accomplishments the
setting of type and writing of editorials.
Farmers are warned against set of
swindlers going over the state selling barb
wire fencing. They offer to furnish good
eight-wire fence with iron posts for cents
per foot and secure contract which after
wards turns out to mean cents per foot
for each wire, or total Of "a cents.
Ingalls, still writes letters Senator
Ingalls, SAYS the Wellington Mail, ''in
private letter to party friend in this city,
does not hesitate to say that he and Presi-
dent Harrison are not on the friendliest
terms. In fact, he plainly states that he
has no influence whatever with the adj
ministration."
Martin Allen, of Hays City, the Kansas
commissioner of forestry, states that ap-
plications for free trees should be made at
once and can not be filled later than March
l. He says if the applications do not ex-
coed Z, 500 he can give each about 900 little
trees-or proportionately more or less as
varied by the number of persons asking
for them.
When we read of the ingalls, family at
Washington, of all of their wonderful
faculties and rich dramatic talents; when
we read that once when a particularly
brilliant flight of oratory was made by the
senator, followed by a quickly suppressed
burst of applause, Miss Ingalls, made the
motion of swinging censor before her
father" it is hard to believe that they ever
came from, ever lived in a state SO tar re-
moved from histrionics as Kansas