The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-11
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1t is almost time for the chiggers K
bite.
Sam Wood denies officially that he ha.
been killed, hut nobody believes San
Wood.
The mayor and council, ten men in all
of Atchison drink four gallons of water a
one meeting.
The Farmers Alliance of Haskell county
repudiates the anti-Ingalls resolution
adopted az Topeka two weeks ago.
There is another new regent for the State
university and he viii have TO be sounded
as 10 his position on the chancellorship.
! Not a few remark the many good things
Congressman Peters has said since he an
nounced he would not run Tor congress
again.
+ Ex-Governor James NJ Harvey is likely
10 be candidate for the legislature from
Riley county. Politics seems TO be catch
ing'' in Kansas.
The mayor of Abilene has ordered the
! shaking of dice for cigars to be stopped
His honor at present has no interest IN the
cigar stores OF the city.
Two men vino were convicted Of selling
liquor at the G. a. X. encampment at Sd
lima have been pardoned by Governor
| Humphrey. ~ canteen eXemptS.
versity have been covered with green cloth.
Aesthetics still hold an important part on
the curriculum of the university.
In back district in Manitoba there is in
the tax books this entry, referring to some
crown lands: Owner, Victoria; ocCupa.
ton, queen; residence, England"
Some of the women had to cast their
votes in livery stable The election com
missioner of Topeka is not one who could
strictly be called ''lady's man.
The income of John D. Rockefeller,
president of the Standard Oil company, i
| $50 an hour. and he doesn't accent his
name on the second syllable either.
So far as reported the only lady mayor
elected in Kansas this year Is at Edgerton,
/ in Johnson county, and very few people
! Will have heard of that until now.
! The Emporia News Democrat says as TO
names it is in the same boat with the Law
/ renee JOurnal-Iribune. 1t Is a great
wonder the water is not pouring in over
! the gunwales.
! A coIored farmer in Cowley county viii
| put out an acre of tobacco this season and
/ six acres of cotton. He says that a soil
and climate that will grow watermelons
| viii grow cotton and tobacco.
The Atchison Patriot complains of the
reclIesSness of the men who drive the beer
I
die Of the street and go tearing along re
gardless of the life and limb they are en-
dangering.
Senator Plumb has introduced a bill in
the senate appropriating $1,000 for the re
lief of Il man in Leavenworth county to
pay him for his scalp taken by the Indians
in 1864 1t seems to Us that man under
such circumstances should have been con
tented with having retained his life.
The Salina Republican says of the col
ored woman elected to the school board in
that city: Mrs. Allen is intelligent and
competent" 4 colored woman who is in
telligent and competent Is certainly to he
preferred on a school board to men who
sign their names His Y mark. rs some
OF them do on school boards III Shawnee
county.
Prof f. n Plank. botanist, Of Kansas
City. Kansas, says that no state IN the
union has a richer and more varied flora
than Kansas. The fora includes about
1900 species of Towering plants, Prof.
Plank IS preparing volume on Kansas
botany which, when published, viii sur
prise many Kansas bOtanists. 1t viii add
many species to the commonly known fora
of the state.
Louisville COurier-Journal: Statistician
DOdge's circular on the agricultural de
preston has not been received with en-
When Farmer POdge
Had read what Dodge,
The statiStiCan, sad,
He rose in ire
And poked the fire
Till everything got red.
General Frank Reeder. son of Andrew
H. Reeder, first territorial governor of
Kansas, may possibly be the Republican
nominee for governor of Pennsylvania \
Tor .ir,- ial Gf u
eral John W. Geary. afterwards served two
terms as governor of the old Keystone.
General Frank Reeder IS graduate OF
Princeton. At the age OF u. IN 1852, he
enlisted as private IN the army, and was
discharged in 1861 as a colonel at the age
of q.
Noble Prentis says: kansas is a good
outdoor country People are never sun
struck and never frozen TO death, unless
they venture out in blizzard The aver
age number Of days IN a Kansas winter
when the mercury goes below zero Is
eight. The weather j. uniform, in way
that Kansas possesses what may De called
state weather; a TWO days rain goes all
over the state. there are no mountain
ranges tn stop or divert the rains. The
sun Is n broad luminary, had Kansas say
age, they would worship its sun, and owl
lied men should be more grateful for Its
benefcence.
The state board Of charities which Tues
dav visited the insane asylum and reform
school adjourned Wednesday. The fol
lowing amounts were drawn from the
state treasury for the current expenses oI
the institutions named:
Blind asylum. - US. y
Deaf and dumb asylum ..-.-.--....- t,iff"-Vs
Industrial school FOR girls ......-. J,lUIu'
lmhecile asylum ii@.al
Reform school. ...-.--.-.......- .--'.--'
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