The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-19
SOMETHING ABOUT KANSAS.

G. S. Jones, of Attica, has been chosen
| cashier of the First National bank of Med
icine Lodge.
A lady who lives at Manhattan wrote
and had published 500 songs last year.
Poor Manhattan.
The Santa Fe Monitor says the prospects
! for big wheat crop in Haskell county are
getting brighter every day.
Jacob B. Chase, the last survivor of a
party of four who located the site for To-
/ peka in 1854, died at his home in Newbury-
/ port, Mass, last week.
There were 1852 teachers employed last
year in the schools of this state The
number of school houses is SSH. The per
capita for the current half-year is forty
/ niEe cents.
In the case of the Rock Island Railroad
company VS. the counties holding stock In
the Chicago, Kansas nd Nebraska, Dick
inson county loses 100000 and various
townships of Dickinson county SCI, 900.
Missouri Pacific agents rerort consider
able immigration from western Nebraska
and South Dakota TO Arkansas and south
west Missouri, passing through Kansas, II
| better state than either, and why? Can
anybody tell?
The Sombart trial at Ashland is grind
ing along slowly, in much the same man
ner as before, with nothing new OF impor-
lance The examination of the states
witnesses concluded Friday. The jury
was secured in two Enterprise.
Hazleton is happy, next to hilarious.
The Express says the prospects for n large
wheat crop were never better, the ground
is in fine shape for planting, the peaches
have not been killed by cold weather and
we have had an extremely mild winter.
The Freeman says ]. A Findlay, of Nc
Pherson, has shipped since December -,
$780, fifteen car loads of eggs, besides a
large mum Del of dressed and live chickens
Mr.. Fiudlay paid out during the month of
January about Sl7 900 for eggs and poultry.
From the promiscuous manner in which
the Kansas press gang have been passing
around the head of Queen Lii of Hawaii in
pilates" one would guess that the guillos
tine had been in operation out there, but
she is said TO still be vivacious creole
beauty.
It may not lie known to some that any
one allowing stock to run at large is liable
to penalty of not less than 81 nor more
than $40 per head, for each day that such
animals are permitted to run. This pen
atty is in addition TO liability for damages
the stock may do.
William ID. Matthews, Leavenworth.
Kan, WAS the first mau Of color commits
stoned an officer in the United States army.
He was born on the eastern shore of Mary
land His father was full-blooded Afric-
an and his mother the half-white daughter
of a Frenchman.
The proposition TO change the name Of
Geary county back to Davis is foolish, but
that is no excuse for George W. Martin 10
make himself ridiculous in opposition to
it. Martin is not a resident of the county,
and his frenzy about the name is tire
some,-to the Atchison Globe
Judge L. d. Bal ey. of Garden City says
that 5000 acres of crops Will be irrigated
this year in Western Kansas. Two-thirdS
of this area will be in Finney county and
the remainder will be divided equally be
Ford and kearney counties. The cost of
irrigation is about II. % per acre,
The Belle Plaine News did not so much
as lose step by its publication office being
destroyed by fire the first OF last week
Turnkey just went right ahead and his pa
per came ont on Friday as usual. The
office and material was entirely consumed
loss about $500 partially insured. The
News Is something like cat-hard 10 trip
up and next TO impossible 10 kill.
Chicago Grocer: The Fredonia Canning
Co, OF Fredonia. Kan. sold on this mar
ket last week fourteen cars OF apples and /
peaches. The prices named were $500 for !
gallon apples, and sl7j for pie peaches. |
The quality of the fruit is said to be very !
fine. The product OF the company ha, I
made a decided bit in this market. aud 4
in future 1t Will meet with good demand. I.
A sofa with history fell into the hands .
Of an Ottawa uphoisterer the other day.
When taken apart there were found be- (
tween the back and the cushion forty
seven hair pins. three mustache combs. /
nineteen sUspeuder buttons, thirteen /
needles, eight cigarettes five photographs.
III pins. some grains OF coffee, few
cloves, t'venty-seveu vest buttons, SIX .
pocket knives, fifteen poker chips a via. 4
of homeopathic medicine, thlrty-four /
Jumps OF chewing gum. nine toothpicks
and four button hooks. The sofa be-
longed 10 a man who had seven unmar-
ried neutrality-suspicious.
According 10 the second biennial report
OF me silk commissioner. there were nifty
four families who raised cocoOns last wear,
and received an average Of 20. 52 per house
bold One hundred and forty-two ounces
OF silk worm eggs were dIstri Outed, one
hundred ana SIX ounces Of which was pro
duCed II Kansas. The silk Teeied AZ the
station brought 81 Per pound more than
the imported product. There are large
quantity 81 eggs on hand prepared az the
station for free distribution, and any Of
our citizens who desire 20 engage 10 six
culture should write 70 the coDr1issloneF,
l.. A. Buck Peabody. kansas