The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-05
SOMETHING ABOUT KANSAS.

| The weather since the first has been
| beastly-regular king-of-beast-ly.
| A man crossed the the river at Atchison
on the ice Sunday for the first time this
| winter
Salina has about secured paper mill
but 1t won't be safe to refer to it as paper
town, unless you want Bristow astraddle
| OF your neck.
| A charter has been filed with the secre.
tary of state for the Fraternal Co-opera
| tive colony, NimiteD OF kiowa, Barber
county. Directors-F. l.. Leonar.. John
g. Watrus, G. F. Haskins. G. H. Downtain,
Fred Humphrey.
1t is said that the farmers of Harvey
county have determined upon erecting a
Touring mill to he under the direction of
the Alliance The site has not been Sc
lected yet, but Halstead has been making
| pull for it against Newton.-Republican
In his report which is included in the re-
port of the secretary Of the state board of
agriculture, State Sugar inspector George
+. kellogg. says that 81 ,740 pounds OF sor-
ghum sugar and 4e, 2o0 pounds OF beet
sugar were manufactured in Kansas il
1860.
The Citizens bank, of Medicine Lodge.
has flied its charter with the secretary OF
state. Directors and stockholders-W. 3.
Woods, Kansas City, Mo-; z. A. Chandler,
Sioux City, Ia; II. G. Thomson, +. B.
Chaplin, A. j. Jones, Medicine Lodge.
Capital stock, $50, 0OJ.
The old saw of there are tricks in all
trades out ours" is being exemplifed in
the actions of number OF farmers" liv-
Ing contiguous to the strip, who 1t is al
legged have driven the bulk OF their cattle
across the line to eyade the assessor and
will thus renig on the payment Of taxes.
Arkansas City is still in the gateway
to-the territory business The Traveller
OF Tuesday contained this item "Yester-
day newa was received in the city that ten
car loads of negroes would arrive here in a
short time. They are all bound for Okla
homa and will arrive over the Missouri
Pacific"
Cock fighting is the chief entertainment
among Atchison sports just now. The
Patriot tells of a main that took place
there night or two ago wherein the birds
were heeled with two inch gafs. and that
one Of the cocks drove his sword into the
leg OF one or the sports who undertook to
monkey with it,
Sol Miller offers the following sentence
tor school teachers to dissect, and is will
Ing to bet quart of molasses that some
OF them will find nothing wrong with il:
"A widow woman who was always noted
for truth and veracity. and who had re-
Gently celebrated her centennial anniver
sary,. died of pneumonia fever, Friday
evening at 8 O'Clock p. M. and her funeral
ooseqUIes were numerOusly attended by
many people"
Meteoric phenomena are becoming quite
common in Kansas But few days ago
a large meteorite fell in the central part OF
the state, and Sunday afternoon another
supposed TO have weighed several tons.
exploded near the earth, in Atchison coun-
ty, filling the air for some distance around
with strong sulphurous odor and smoke.
A piece Of it, composed of iron, rock and
coal, and weighing 235 pounds, came near
falling on Il man named Hall, who hap
pened to be passing the place where it fell.
He stopped, and as soon as it cooled sutfi-
GENTLY to be handled, loaded il onto his
wagon and carried IL home.
A farmer who is well known near Mui-
vane, Kan, came to Kansas in ~ without
Il dollar; took a claim; now has 40 acres
OF fine land-nO mortgage on it. Four
hundred acres is worth SIG, 900; $50 acres is
worth 81, 000 2l0 acres is worth 81 300; has
32o cattle worth s., 25O; has 30 horses worth
81. 80; has $500 bushels OF wheat; has :, 900
bushels OF corn: has 80 stock hogs worth
S9U; has 81 600 in other personal property;
has due him from the Santa Fe raiiroad
for right OF way through his, land, S5,400
has Si,00l at Interest; never had q failure
III all crops any year; raise fruit In large
quantities and consider the great Arkan-
sas valley of Kansas the heart of all farm
ing countries. He says "a man that cannot
succeed in farming here, will fail anywhere
III my opinion -