The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-01
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plea smaller proportion than most any
other state. The death rate In Kansas Is
very light, says the Emporia Republican
The name of the Methodist minister al
Eureka. Kan. Is AnaniaS. a suggestive
name, and one that ought TO prove e1fec-
tive against lodging on the part OF ms
parishioners.
There are six counties in Kansas which
are without regular organized Sunday
School association. The Dodge City Times
calls the attention of John Wannamaker
20 the circumstance.
Two cases of statuary from Italy on the
way to Fort Dodge, Kan, were seized at
the custom house at New York because
they had been inyoiced at one-third their
yalue.-k. c. News.
Observes the Atchison Globe: If it should
ever become universal for women TO wear
pants, the fat women will be subjects Tor
pity. A fat man looks bad enough, but a
fat woman dressed in pants viii look ten
times worse.
ingalls,, Gray county. is said TO be enjoy
ing quite a boom. 1t viii soon have SUI
gar mill Touring mill and cheese fac
tory. Contracts have been closed Tor the
first two and the award Tor the third Will
be let today.
Mr.. AIcGiuty is a candidate forthe eoun-
Gil from the Sixth ward OF Leavenworth
He is a Prohibitionist and doesn't believe
in drinking whisky fast an void: He Is
liable to meet with the same lI-Iuck as the
Gotham McGinty.
A cashiers check for S24, 900 being the
beuuest of the late Rev Gotwald, of Kan
sas City, to Midland College, OF AtchlSon,
was received in Atchison Friday, and Is
now on deposit AT the United states Ma
tiOnal bank, says the GLOBE.
The peach orchards are mass of pink
bloom and the indications are that an
other dig crop of the delicious fruit Will be
gathered and, Rarper county makes her
own sugar and raSes her own cream TO 90
with them.-Bluff City Herald.
Six hundred and forty tons or ,29S; IA
pounds of sugar were manufactured III
Kansas last year by five mills from less
than 1900 acres of sugar cane, the total
value of the product of the four largest
mills being S136, 3l9.-kansas City Gazette.
On Wednesday last there was born to Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. BartsOn. residing IN Topeka,
a little girl whose weight Is but fourteen
ounces. More than that. she is perfect in
form and features, healthy, strong and
likely i'll time to cast as big vote as any
woman in Kansas. So says the Democrat.
Two Kansas women who were in the re-
cent Cherokee strip excitement tell the fol-
lowing: They met a man on clam ana
asked him what he would take for it. He
replied: Five cents for the claim and a
nickle for himself" As the two went to-
gether there was no trade.-Dodge City
Times.
There is a man in Arkansas City, says
the Dispatch. whose wife wants a divorce
on the grounds of his coming home nights
with his breath smelling of limburger
cheese. This womans rights business Will
prove marriage a failure yet II something
isn't done The idea of Il woman kicking
on q little thing like that!
The Topeka Journal has a $4,000 libel
suit to amuse ii at present. The complain
ant is an eX-councilman named Lull. The
Journal will probably not be very greatly
Inconvenience or annoyed by the proceed
ing. neither is it likely to be Lull-ed to
sleep. Frank Mac is too wlde-awake ana
resOurceful for that.
Atchison has a citizen who is something
of a NaZarite in his way. The Globe says
that DR.. Cochrane. of that city, has never
had his face shaved or his hair cut in bar
Der shop, although he Is quite an old man.
Remarks about the color of the wind that
TOYS with the doctors hirsuit are in order.
Mother Earth is beginning to blush in
fond anticipation of the time when people
will find the strawberry mark on her
besOm. remarks the Clark County Citizen.
That was while she was being battered by
Old Sol several days ago. She pulled on
her winter wrap again sunday ana Will not
make any such premature exposures, at
present.
We have it on the most reliable author
itv tina two weeks ago today there were
fourteen drunken boys in attendance at
devine service in the Salem church, Mon
mouth township. The boy ranged in ages
from II to ~ Some of them never saw
an open saloon" But they We're shame
fully drunk, all the same.-IOpeka Re
| publican.
Regent Valentine, in his paper, the Clay
/ Center Times. tells "Malah' Hudson that
he can't force the regents by wholesale
I living. bull-dozing, etc, TO make Canneid
chancellor. That being the case, the I'm
poria News sizes it up TO a dot when 1t says
/ Garfield has no more show for chancellor
of the university than has a pi9-tailed
Chinamau
The dairy industry in Kansas is rapidly
/ coming TO the front. There are now 10,
( creameries in this state in successful oper
alton. This moves the AtChIsOu Cham
/ pion to remark that 1.-THE only kind OF
/ dairyiug that viii not succeed IN Kansas
! at least not this year, j. the attempt x
milk and church the alliance in the inter
/ est Of political hacks" The cream IS not
/ for that ilk this set.
! According to the published tables Of the
/ Kansas state board of agriculture the av
4 erage value Of the various crops produced
/ in the state for the last five years Is as FOL
J lows: Corn per acre, S6OG; wheat, St.B
oats Sc 81. while broom corn averaged
+ so. D per acre: sorghum, SIS; potatoes
/ 50 -. castor beans. SIC 81; cotton, 81, 20
/ bacco. sG3 rs. miIlet -; hemp So: flaw :.
/ In this statement the average value Of
/ fruits. vegetables poultry. eggs and hal
( does not appear All this suggests the
necessity of q great diverslliCatiCn OF crops
I-Atchison Champion
Mayor Albright Of Winfield. is an enthu
. siastic eVpegmenter with the touaeC.
! plant He believes southern Kansas sol
j. suitable 70 it. He has 1000 young. 10
( baccO plants ready TO set ont To ODFlaff
the damage which may De done by TOE
winds that prevail during the summer ~
/ thi, region he viii set his tobacco plant
in a corn field where the corn stalks wll
afford them protection. II ms mono
knows no more abCUt the cultivation o.
the weed than is implied iu the Statement
that he has his supply Of slips ready - -c
out be j. not likely % reap fortune iron
his first years operations. However, n
bacco is a mighty good crop 70 experiment
with.
The result Of the I.eavenwoTth city cleo
tiou today is looked forward 20 with inter
ct. The women Of Leayeuwprth nav
+ taken more active interest 80 Toif'r
than ever before. When the city camp "a
began a few weeks ago a number 81 laGl"
met end organized ladies city contra
committee. They appointed proper sna
committees for the different wards ant
went about organizing in q thorough an
{ systematic manner J Ge cali haa a4T-stG
been issued for the regular Republics
convention. and all the deleZstes wer
about 10 be selected S. usual. 81 hen ta
ladies called On the rr1umltteernen q %
various wards and asked 20 ue allowed ref
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