The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-07
SOMETHING ABOUT KANSAS.

! Atchison wholesale houses employ a
many men as the ST. Joseph wholesalers
The Champion insists that AtcnIson IS on
OF the best jobbing cities On the river.
Work on the new pontoon bridge scros
the river at Atchison will commence abou
the LIST of April, and the work Will proos
bly, be completed in four or nve weeks
''Since we have heard from all OF tn
women" says the Washington Post, Il
is hard to understand what part the mel
took in last years Kansas campaign"
A very determined effort is being mad
to discover and arrest the footpads wh'
waylay, maltreat and rob the old soldier
| on their way from Leavenw3rth to thu
home.
Emporia Republican: Mr.. PETER ha!
taken a look at the United States senate
| and the senate has taken look at Mr.
! PETER They both seem to think they car
stand it.
Pittsburg World: There is a man II
| Lyon county named Bible. He does not
| lie around in the parlor, though. like most
| Bibles do. for he raised $500 bushels oil
corn last year.
| The Stafford Republican thinks that II
! we can't raise free silver" in Kansas, we
can raise hogs. cattle, corn, oats. wheat,
cotton. tobacco and potatoes, whether II
pleases Mr.. "Goldbug" or not.
The tattle-tals of the Globe has discov-
cred why an Atchison man pays SO much
attention 20 his wife's grave: be passes
the house of very pretty girl he Is flirting
with every time he goes there.
There is farmer in Stanton county who
has yet in the stacks, and unthreshed,
4, 900 or more bushels OF wheat and yet we
are told that farming in Southwest Kan
ia fail
The present enrichment at the Soldiers
home at Leavenworth Is 2,Sol. during
February forty-fve were admitted. eleven
readmitted and one transferred from an
other home. Eight soldiers died ID Feb
ruary.
Judge Foster has returned from Excel
sor Springs. His health has not i'm
proved. and he will start for the Sprudai
salt springs in Germany as soon as his
health will permit of the journey.-To-
peka Democrat.
The Apperson family. of Ford county,
seem to he pretty well ''in it." w. W.,
who has just been given foreign mission,
has sou, Frank B, who is chief clerk IN
the Garden City land Office. Verify, kiss
ing goes by favors.
At Geneseo a company intends to sink
a shaft in search of salt. That town al
ready has an extensive pottery with I'M
limited deposits of the finest potter's clay
in the state. Genne don't propose TO walt
for the clouds to roll by.
Jerry Simpson had occasion recently in
Washington City to use the term nom de
plume. and it tickles his Alliance constl-
tuents immensely every time they think
how Jerry ''sassed them grandies down
there aquOtin' French at 'em."
1t is said that the sentiment at Lansing
was very strong against the bill abolish
ing the state board Of pardons. They
were laboring under Misrepresentation.
1t is not likely that the number of par
dons granted will be lessened by the
change.
The Boston Post says that society in
Dodge City, Kan, is divided into Just
three classes-those who put out their
washing, those who have their washing
done for them, and those who do their own
washing This is sufficient evidence that
tue town is clean one.
The sheriff of Clay county. Ken, who
arrived in Sumner county a few days ago,
has started home with one Ham BENZ.
farmer living about twelve miles north
west of Caldwell, whom ne arrested on the
charge of murder. 1t is alleged that Benz
killed a man in Clay county last August.
The Salina Republican says there was
S175, 900 in cash paid to the farmers OF Sa-
line county for wheat in the months OF
January and February of this year 1t is
that much greater amount
will be paid out in March and April. Sa-
line county is certainly fruitful field for
the farmer.
Some weeks ago correspondent pro-
NOTED the editor of the Record to major
but last week another correspOn-
d,eu n A
we will soon he reduced to the ranks. This
is private Marion Record. To be CASH
ered straig htaway would Do less hurtful |
aud much more agreeable, no doubt.
The Leavenworth representative in the |
legislature found inscribed upon the desk |
which he occupies, the following words: |
Il hope that the one occupying this desk |
n '91 will find it more profitable than l
lid in SO Out about $500" The present
occupant has indOrsed the inscription In
his manner: Not worth d-n this
rear, '9l. :"
What big state Kansas is' Down At
Wichita the dog-catcher has already com
nenced operations, while in the northern
art of the state dogs are still sleeping be
lind stoves.-Patriot. And not only so,
Tut ice is being shipped out OF Wichita by
he car load every day. Will" IN Atchlson
lot pound has been saved so far, accord
ng to the same paper.
The census for Kansas shows that Doug
as county leads the state IN the num5e
f Indians, 44S being credited TO that couu-
y last year Wyandotte leads In colored
opulation, having los. The same county
as % Chinese the greatest OF any. The
Ocatiou of Haskell institute, the govern
1eut Indian school, being located IN Doug
IS county accounts for its excess OF Indian
opulation.
At the regular meeting Of the Iuka ALI
nee No. Isis, of Pratt county, he'd on
larch Sd, 1891, the following resolutions
'ere adopted
Resolved, That henceforth we sever all
elations with any political party to tne
I'd that every member may vote as ne 1
nooses aud not be deprived of his political
'eedom. That henceforth we Will not IL
ulge in party political discussions to the
I'd that feeling of fraternity and broth
lily love may be maintained in our order.
An Oberlin paper says northwest Kan
IS has been discussed a good deal, and
as been designated as a part OF the coy
e country" This comes from the fact
lat that section is short IN crops and the
sople are paralyzed by debt. W hen IL Is 9
essed with plenty, as il has been IN the &
asst, there is no particular distinction
ade between it and other portions OF the G
ate In 1883 it led all sections in the !
of corn Tor fuel And al
TX about that section being abandoned [
the coyote aud the cattle ranger Is mai
ious, and will be powerless 10 inlure. s
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