The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-29
KANSAS IN BRIEF.

y. A Hajght, formerly county survevoT
of Cowley county, is now totally blind
He has been granted pension OF SI2 pei
month.
The smartest thing the sockless sage OF
the Seventy was while tiggers don't lie,
liars figger" IL was not only cute, but il
has been fOrcefully verified
The Harper Sentinel is authority for the
| statement that in the north half of Har-
! per county there are at least $4,000 bush
| els of the wheat crop of 1890 not yet mar
/ keted.
! The Colby university of Waterville, Me,
! has presented COPY of Theodore Parker's
| discourse on the Kansas-Nebras6a qUes-
| ton, delivered February Is, 1854, 10 the
| State Historical society.
| The Leoti Western kansan says that
! Wichita county under irrigating bitches
will produce one million bushels OF wheat
annually A million bushels Of wheat
will irrigate a large area.
The Horse Protective association of
southern Kansas has notified j. r. Ran
dolph, the secretary of the association,
that joint convention will be held IA Ar
kansas City, February 9TH
DR.. Diamond Dick, who has hawked
his patent medicines all over the state, has
Quite enterprlsing for the doctor, but
dead give-away on the town.
They have decided to build some side
walks in Salina bat can't agree on the
width; some want them 10 feet and Others
S feet. The number OF joints In the town
should determine that point.
The Western Kansan, published at
LeOti, Wichita county, is only four weeks
old, but it is so full of legal ads that it
had to issue a supplement to hold its
straight reading matter" \ picnic for
its publisher
Burlington Nonpareil: Considerable
land Is beginning to change hands even If
tits midwlnter. BY spring we look for land
TO advance in price all along the line.
There will never be another such time to
make paying investments in real estate In
Kansas as at present
An Ohio man who has been lately bay
ing lands in Cowley county said 10 a rep
resentative of the Arkansas City Dispatch
that Speculation will never be as wild in
western lands as 1t has been In the past,
but those who buy now, while prices are
at the bottom, will make money, for rise
is sure TO come with single good crop
year" Correct: And the observation up
plies to all the southern portion of the
state.
% Butter county Will nave 10 make out
with its present old rookery a while longer.
The FL Dorado Times says the county
commissioners resciuded their resolution
to submit a proposition TO vote 500,
bonds for the erection of court house
Several considerations actuated the board
not the least of which was the knowledge
that the proposition would he defeated
and the county he out not less than $500
tor election expenses.
The First Baptist church of Howard.
Kan. will dedicate their new church
building, Sunday, February l, 1891, at IL
O'Clock a. m. The services will be con
Quoted by the Rev. l. y. Clark, secretary
of the American Baptist Missionary union
for Kansas. Colorado, Nevada. Indian ter
ritory, Oklahoma and New Mexico, and
Rev. |. ID. Newell, secretary OF the Baptist
state convention Of Kansas, assisted by
other distinguished ministers.
The Hope Herald calls attention To a
matter OF interest thus: A good many
people who have occasion 10 write to
parties at Elmo, this county, persist in ad-
dressing letters tC Banner" ana Banner
City" Banner postotiice is in TregJ
and there is a Banner City on the
Rock Island road in the northern part OF
tue state Letters intended for Elmo
should be so addressed or are liable 10 mis-
carry.