Wichita eagle., 1890-02-12
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Seeds, Sips, sc;ons. Sprouts Shoots and siiysrs
The state oratorical contest will be held
at Lawrence on Friday evening.
The Republican state league will hold a
convention in Topeka on the 20th.
By an improved Kansas process sixty
| head of cattle can be dehorned in an hour.
Secretary Fuller, OF the defunct Topeka
Insurance company, has been arrested,
charged with perjury.
a few weeks ago Shawnee county man
| gathered several bushels or apples from
trees that blooned late in the fall.
Kansas produced SIS, Geo 600 worth of
stuff last year, but the trouble is she has
| the greater part of the stuff still left
| The G. s. r. at Harper are mad at
| Peters because he recommended man for
| the postoffice who was not an old soldier.
l. It is proposed to start new Republican
organ at Washington, and the Lawrence
Record thinks it should be Reed organ.
There is no end of enterprise in this
state. A citizen of Manhattan. Kansas.
was recently baptized by Rev Dr.. Taimase
in the River Jordan.
Adam Bremen, who died at Doniphan
the other day, owned the largest orchard
in Kansas and annually manufactured
Another batch Of consular nominations
sent TO the senate Monday. but Kansas Is
Unrepresented. There seems to DO very
few kansans going abroad this year.
There doesn't seem TO be any reason
why Buffalo Jones shouldn't get his bill
through. 1t is not in the interest OF the
farmers, says the Emporia Republican.
The Kansas plumbers do not agree with
the government experts and condemn them
for finding the cause of the Tracy mansion
fire as they did-in super-heated pipes.
At Fort Scott last Tuesday night
chorus girl OF the Eyaugeline company
swooned on the stage. She probably
caught sight of herself in mirrcr, some
where.
According to state auditor Mccarthy
Kansas had during 1889. :, lao. ESQ head or
cattle, $50. 1858 head of hogs, $40, $50 head OF
sheep-the largest total of live stock IN its
history.
There is a girl in Caldwell who can put
a whole hen egg in her mouth and close
her mouth over it, and she is not bad
looking girl either, says the Gueda Springs
Herald.
Sunday the Arion Singing society of
Topeka, twenty-five strong. departed for
Now Orleans to attend the twenty-sixth
annual national Saugerfest Thu Arlons
will make strong effort to secure the
Sangerfest for Topeka in 1892 and are
hopeful OF success.
J. r. Graham, of Emporia. formerly a
newspaper man of that city, has been
studying the reason why so much Kansas
farming is Improbable, and finds it in the
kind of crops planted. The value OF win
ter wheat averaged 81 per acre; corn Sc 10
per acre; broom corn 81 IS Der acre: tobac-
co S66 per acre; cotton 81 Ii per acre. Mr..
Graham thinks that the farmers OF the
southern tier OF Kansas counties ought TO
devote their land entirely to cotton.
The "penitentiary consumption" is a
new disease discovered by the Lamar Mis-
Sourian. 1t usually attacks applicants for
pardons and readily yields TO treatment
when the patient gets outside the walls Of
the prison. 1--WE don't remember" says
the MisSourian, lever to have heard of one
of these pardoned consumptives dying,
and Bob Younger is the only instance in
our recollection wherein convict from
whom executive clemency was withheld
died in prison." There have been two
"consumptives" released from the peni-
Tertiary within the past few weeks, and
the Missourian will doubtless keep tab,
on them and report them if tkey don't die.
An amusing occurrence took place at IN
bank Friday afternoon of last
week. Reuben fdlFIaX, Il negro, presented
a check at the Atchison National bank
for SLIGO signed by a prominent
North Atchison lady. The teller glanced
at the figures in the corner OF the check |
and mistook the dollar sign for a figure |
eight, reading the amount eighty-one dol |
lars and sixty cents. Counting out that |
sum, he paid it over to the man. who took |
his departure. The mistake was after
wards discovered, the police notified and |
Fairfax arrested. He says he went to the |
lady's house to clean out a cistern, and !
when he had finished he was given |
a piece of paper with instructions !
to take it TO the bauk. He |
handed it TO the teller, who told him to in-
iorse 1T. The darkey did not know how To !
read or write and could only put down his |
mark" When the man began shooting |
gold pieces across at him, be said he !
thought they were a new kind of copper
cents After he got home he found out
MS error, but thinking the white man
should know more than he, be concluded |
hat it was too late to return the money.
&c paid his taxes of Sl6 and gave his son
2 so TO obtain "A marriage license. which
lad been postponed for want of funds.
fhe officers let him go.