The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-02
ABOUT KANSAS.

/ The county convention OF the People s
party of Sumner county will be held IN
Wellington Sept. .. 1t will consist OF pa
delegates.
Winfield fair Sept. /, 9, 3 and f. Eight
thousand dollars cash premiums. Balloon
ascension second, third and fourth days of
fair. One and one-third fare on all rail
| roads.
Reports come from all parts of the state
that the farmers are preparing to put a
| larger acreage to wheat this fall than ever
| before, exceeding in some counties this
years crop by 25 to 80 per cent.
A LaCygpe, Kan, woman has sheet 90
years old which was the property of her
| grandmother in Ohio, aud was made from
! fax woven at the beginning of the cen
| fury. She will send it to the worlds fair
/ d. W. Jones has resuscitated the Pea
body Graphic and put it agoing. He says,
/ in his salaam that the Graphic will eSchew
| politics and devete itself TO gathering and
| disseminating the news. 1t makes very
| clever start
| The Globe says there is a man in Atchi-
son who goes by the name of ''Settemu
| agen" among his good fellow" acquaint-
ances. 1t doesn't mention his politics; but
that isn't necessary; his name is a dead
| give-away on that.
The Leavenworth people have raised
| 500, 600 worth of the real estate bonus TO
the compressed air plant, and are conti-
dent of raising it all. That is a big sum
of money to risk on wind. Suppose the
| compressor should bust?
In an address at the Baxter Springs re-
union last week Hon. Lou Hanback, stated
that Kansas is not only the biggest state
in the union and raises more corn. wheat
and oats, but can show more babies than
any other As an enthusiastic Kansan
Lou is a Lulu.
The scarcity of farm hands in Wichita
county is beginning to become matter OF
serious concern 20 our farmers. Twenty
dollars per month and board, by the year.
has been offered, and no one to accept it.
The farmers have more work than they
can do and can obtain no help.-Leoti
kansan.
Mr.. James A. Rumble. a farmer west of
Aida in the edge of Dickinson county, is
not making any vociferous kicks about
his wheat crops this year. From twenty
five acres he has just threshed loo bush
els of good No. wheat. This made a
yield of nearly 43 bushels per acre. He at
tributes this yield to the Alliance victory
last falL-Junction City Union.
Some correspondent to the Kansas City
Star is authority for the statement that
cattle in COmanche and adjoining counties
were QYln5 Win SuDSLfOke Intfo mas
not been a case of sunstroke of any kind in
this county this summer We have had
only four or five hot days the entire sea-
son, and they were not hot enough TO
cause suffering. Enterprise
The increase in the acreage of small
grain which will be sown in Ford county
this year, over that Of last year, will be at
least 300 per cent. Everyone is imbued
with the idea that another successful sea
son will follow this. Many eastern own
ers OF Ford county land are arranging TO
put out big crops. immigration will be-
gin this fall, but it will not reach the full
tide until next year.-Dedge City Times.
1t is not surprising that few stacks of
wheat should be set on fire and destroyed
by lightning in this county. These little
accidents are not due to any bad intention
on the part of the electric current, but be-
cause the stacks are SO thick on the ground
that there is nowhere else TO strike. Even
a bunch of fine stock huddled alongside of
a barbed wire fence, stand no show TO get
killed while this condition of things con-
tinues-South Haven New Era.