The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-24
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

Lie COnGTdCG Tor Jne output VI tu0 poIli
tertiary coal shaft for the ensuing year has
been let to Ed Thomas for 6 cents a bushel
in the summer and 61s cents in the winter
months.
Arrangements have been completed for
still further developing the natural gas
fields at Cherryvale and the inhabitants
| seem to think that city is on the verge of
| another boom
Among the prominent society events in
Arkansas City this week may be noted the
dinner given by Skipper Holland to Stand
ing Buffalo, White Eagle, Snorting Bear
and Moccasin Jim.
The first grand lodge of Kansas, Degree
of Honor, was organized in Topeka We'd
nesday. This order sustains the same re-
latiOn to the A. o. L. W. that the Eastern
Star does to the Masons.
The family of S. R. Peters say that he
will not be at home before July 10. He
has taken a short trip to Boston and out
upon the ocean for the benefit of his health
but the report that he is soon coming home
is without foundation.-NewtOn Repub-
Hcan.
A district conference of the ministers of
the Wichita district of the southwestern
Kansas conference will be held in the NJ
f. church in Pratt On the 25th, 2Sth and
10Th inst About fifty persons from abroad
viii be in attendance and the exercises
promise to be very interesting
Never, in the history of the country"
says the waggish editor of the Ottawa Re-
publican, 'has there been more perfect
union than now in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party" And then the editor turns
around and gives Farmer" Funston col
umn and half roast on the same page.
Brady, of the Salina Republican, is the
most irascible man in the Kansas press
gang just now. He is like the Irishman at
the Donnybrook fair-he hits every head
that comes in reach of his shillaly. He
seems to have it in for the entire congress
siOnal delegation, and the way he batter
whangs them is a caution.
The opinion of Senator Edmunds, made
in Washington Tuesday, relative to the
dressed beef inspection law, says the Atch-
ison Champion, is substantially the same
as that made by Senator Elliston, of that
city, some time ago. What was Elliston's
opinion? But it's no difference; neither it
or that of Senator Edmunds will alter or
in any way affect the decision.
The Champion demands of the Atchison
authorities the passage OF an ordinance re-
quiring all dealers who handle concen-
trated I've to brand or label it as poison.
The Champion says there has been more
deaths in the last few years from persons
carlessly letting lye be about the house
where children can get it than from all the
other pOisons together.
There was ice the other morning on the
Walnut river at Fl Dorado. Alec Butts
notes this, and asserts that there has not
been day in Butler county this season
warm enough for Bent Murdoch to wade
into the Walnut with a dip-net after min
MES" But all the same B. NJ. has had
lots of bait and the bass and sun perch
have had hard time of it.
Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad. 1t is seriously feared that the
deities have got it in for Major Hudson.
He is so wroth at the ''impertinence" of
the resubmissionists in the gall they dis
played in requesting an interview with
his excellency, Governor Humphrey, that
he characterizes them in his Topeka Cap
ital as ''hellions." Go get an original PACK
age, maj, and calm yourself.
Living as close as he does to Missouri,
George Martin ought to be authority, and
this is his opinion: 1.-THE collector of in
ternal revenue over the line says an orig
inal package of beer is an eighth of a bar
rel, because there is no stamp provided for
less. Our opinion is that the definition of
the term Original package will simmer
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meeker and meeker all the time. Next
thing you know he will possess the earth,
or at least great big slice of it,
The Journal says Lawrence is excited.
Not because Japan is about to create
congress or parliament of two houses,
which is the most important step in pres
ent history; or because Europe is on the
verge of a terrible war; or because the Nc
Kinley tariff bill is threatening to tear
asunder the Republican party; or because
the Farmers Alliance is likely to control
Kansas politics for a few years; or even be
cause that county has just had a grand
jury, but because an elderly lady said she
thought it wrong for the boys and girls to
90 off on picnics in lone couples.
The following item appeared among Alex
Butts Kansas notes in the Kansas City
Star: 'Inexhaustible quantities of red and
yellow ochre have been laid bare by land
slide five miles south of Drain, Ore 1t
looks like rock, but dissolves readily in
water and gives fine color on wood. 1t is !
believed to be an extremely valuable find" |
What the thunder has Oregon red ochre TO !
do with Kansas? If Kansans should need /
"coloring" matter at any time they can /
find plenty of it nearer by, in Missouri, for |
instance. 1t is villainous enough, but it /
will answer.