The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-29
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The fatality among the smokestacks in
| Kansas Thursday was the greatest known
in years.
1t is said as lar as the free ore business
Is concerned the Mexican government Is
not worrying about il.
4 business man of Cheney offers to loan
! farmers castor beans for seed and buy all
they raise al 81 a bushel.
There is a young girl at Wellington who
has her graduating dress all made and
hasn't even thought Of her essay yet.
Cherryvale is fun of gas. no less than one
hundred and nifty dwellings and four stores
are now lighted through this agency.
There Is a politician in the eastern part
OF the state, who claims that he Is eligible
TO the alliance, because he once sowed his
wild oats.
The wind blew 50 hard at Arkansas City
that the Dispatch says 1t expect TO md Its
new planted onions growing on the neigh
borS' roofs
Only about seventy-five ladies registered
in Marion this spring The Globe says the
trouble Is the women do not know they are
emancipGted
The Harper Graphic iD all seriousness,
says there IS q pig and cow painted on a
meat market down there that would do
credit TO Rosa BOnheur.
Kansas people are always sympathetic.
When the wind is blowing the hair OFT
their heads at home. they wonder how the
poor people IN Dakota are getting along.
1t is now officially announced that the
alliances IN Kansas number 2,0GO. Com
pared 10 the aggregate myriads who at
present possess the earth, the alliance Is a
small affair.
General Won Caprivi. the new chancel-
Tor, has Il second cousin who is probate
judge at Minneapolis, MINI. The gener-
erals relatives in Kansas, so far, have
kept a becoming dignitied silence.
The big bridge that spans the Minnesota
two miles north OF Oxford, Sumner
county. was blown down by the storm
Thursday. It is estimated that it will
take from 81 200 to 81 100 to put it in re-
pair.
4 fishing party from Parsons was out
Tuesday and caught los pounds of fish out
Of the Labette creek, just north Of the
water works dam. As this is the first one
Of the season any over estimate, due to en-
thTsiasm, Is pardOnable.
The State Sunday School union will be
% years Old on May y, and it will Celebrate
its quarter centennial at Hutchinson on
that date There are only SIN counties in
Kansas which are without regularly
organized Sunday School associations.
The old government buildings on the
northwest side OF the plaza at Fort Scott
were sold IN 1855 for 81. 155. They cost the
government So, 900. All of them are still
standing, and have since passed through
different hands at prices well up in the
thousands.
Somebody has coupled Prof. Canield's
name with Senator Ingalls,, and says they
are most talked about in the state Just
seen boys do. They attach cats TO the end
of kite tails and send it away up-away up
out the proper sphere of good sensible cats.
1t Is predicted that game birds and fish
will be plentiful next season because OF the
mild winter But there is no rose without
a thorn 1t is also predicted that ali kinds
of insects and bugs viii be numerous next
summer because OF the warm winter. The
worst of ii IS it is easier to catch bugs
than fish.
An idea of how much Importance some
people regard the right to vote is received
when it Is realized that there are any
number Of people who would vote for a
man whom they had seen in preference
over a man whom they had not seen, with
the hope that they would be able some
day to say that they had seen the presl-
dent.
Ottawa Republican: Judge Benson on
yesterday decided IN an deliberately drawn
opinion the case of Mrs. French vs.. Bow
eTsock OF Lawrence, in a suit to recover an
interest in the Consolidated Barbed Wire
at that place The case involves
S3S, coo and is the largest between private
individuals ever brought in this district.
Alex Butts on mich cows: 1t has only
been within the past five or six years that
much attention has been paid to dairying
in Kansas. Up that time it was quite a
thing to see a farmer with from
80 to $50 cows who MIXED only three or
four OF them and allowed the calves to run
with the rest. Thas sort OF shiftlessnesS 1
has played out, and there are now los
creamerieS in Kansas.
The Arkansas City Dispatch has launched
out into poesy it says locally:
We've got him on the slate
And he'll be our candidate,
Was the meaning exclamation
OF a certain delegation
That made a nomination
Last night.