Wichita eagle., 1890-02-20
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Seeds. Sips. seioas. Sprouts. Shoots ard Silver.

| Seeds, Sips, Scons. Sprouts. Shoots ard Stsefs
: Corn is king in Kansas, but he dom
seem 60 have hold OF the sceptre.
| Labette county has sixty church organ
izations with an aggregate membership o
T 500.
Professor Garfield and his banner ar,
progressing nicely, particularly the ban
ner
The three new supreme court commits
soners are B. Z. Simpson, George 5
Green and j. c. Strang.
The Mascotte is over at Atchison, ant
now there is nothing left for the amuse
ment of the citizens but the postoffics
fight.
Barring New York. Illinois and Ohio
Kansas has more soda fountains than any
other state liz the union. Such is the size
OF our fizz.
At Lawrence joint was raided recently
and the kegs Of beer carried TO the polic:
station in hack, and that, too, with tht
top down.
There is rumor that the Democratic
editors of the state of Kansas are going to
get together. The question right now IS,
where is her"
George Martin thinks that ''Dick" Walk
er lis a statesman already beyond his
/ depth.' There Is salvation for Dick,
however He will float.
The citizens Of Cherryvale have COM
menced the work OF piping the principal
streets of the city and within a short time
| the town will be lighted with natural gas.
| 4 skeptical exchange iusnuates that
| the Kansas man baptised by Dr.. Talmage
| in the river Jordon oughtn't 10 be trusted
! any further than man Immersed IN the
kaw.
Congressman Funston has introduced a
bill to establish a school for teaching the
manufacture of sugar. If this doesn {
bring relief 20 the farmer il is not runs
toms fault.
The county treasurer of Wabaunses
county was defaul'er TO the amount OF
S29, 306 After spending S. 900 in prosecu-
tions the county compromised with the
bondsmen for *10,G0
Mr. Funston has appointed soldiers to
presidential postoffices in the Second dis
tric5 at the following places: Kansas City.
Kansas, Lawrence, PieasautoD, Garnett,
ForS Scott lola, Humboldt.
n. S. Goss the state ornithologist is COM
ing home from Nicaragua as soon as he
can get here. The climate does not
agree with him and the birds also refuse
to have anything 10 do with him.
Chicago Tribune: A sugar syndicate is
Preparing TO plant 5000 acres OF sorghum
and 900 acres of sugar beets In Kansas
this season. There Is either a large amount
of sugar or experience In store for that
syndicate.
Recently ct Atchison man was seen TO
pick up horse shoe and surreptiously de-
posit 1t in his oyercoat pocket. Late devel-
opments reveal that he is running for the
council and regards this propitation of the
evil spirits as a sort OF scoop on his forty
competitors.
The Patriot says: ''Atchison has more
pesSimlsts to the square yard than any
town IN Kansas" and in the same number
we learn that Atcbison has ''three of the
grandest suburban lakes in the west"
What they seem to need at AtchisOn more
than anything else is decisive action.
The citizens of Elk county, Kansas,
where Prudence Crandall Philleo, the ia
nous martyr for the cause of negro educa-
ton, spent the last years Of her life, and
where her remains were buried few
weeks ago, held a memorial meeting last
week and appointed committee OF eleven
to collect funds for a monument. Several
eulogies on the character of the departed
were delivered, and resolutions adopted.
'.My two boys are IN Jail, one Il and the
other 10 years old; put in there by our
county attorney. And what for? Because
they hunted-shot Il rabbit or squirrel on
Sunday. Is not our county full of men
and boys who hunt on Sunday? If one in
ten of them were arrested and sent to Jail
it would take many Jail like ours to hold
them. Now why this persecution. We
have lived here nearly twenty-one years; !
l have paid nearly two thousand dollars |
in taxes" The above plant and a great
deal more appears in the Howard Courant,
signed by the father of the youths
Wellington Mail: Captain Mahan re-
ceived a handsome cane last night which |
was made for him by George Cochran. The |
cane proper is made from one of the elm |
logs which constituted the first building |
erected in Wellington, and which WAS re-
Gently torn down and removed. The head |
of the cane is made from black walnut |
of historic associations which was pro- /
cured from the old kickapoo ranch on Bit |
ter creek, ornamented with IA circular !
piece of ivory and INLAY OF white wood. |
Where the head and body of the cane /
Joined there is also an INLAY of Minnesota |
pipe stone taken from the famous pipe |
stone quarres from which was taken the
material used by the northern Indians in
making those pipes which Longfellow has
il his beautiful poetic story
If Hiaw ha.