The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-14
ALL ABOUT KANSAS.

The Ness county Jail is now empty, for
the first time in many months, says the
News.
! Ten wagon-loads of broom corn drove
! into Lakin on Saturday last. from Stevens
| and Morton counties. The Index says the
| price paid was $40 per ton.
The Hutchinson people are all discuss
! ing the question: Did the London Galety
! Girls in exhibiting their performance in
! that city, give an immoral show"
! A Society of Friends is to be organized
/ at Leavenworth. Col. Anthony refuses to
/ recognize it, being suspicious that 1t has
lsome intentions personal to himself
! The present seems to be specially "a sea-
son of refreshing from the presence of the
/ Lord" for the church in Kansas. Almost
| every town is in the midst of religious
| revival.
! A formerly Kansas woman, Mrs. Ed
ridge of Lawrence, is matrOn at Pine
/ Ridge agency. She is much pleased with
the Hotchkiss guns and their effect on the
! Indians as persuaders
Did you ever notice that the farmer who
sticks closest to his work complains the
| least This is not intended as reproach.
/ The same is true of the attorney, and the
merchant and every other man.-Atchison
| Globe.
Atchison Globe: As this is the time when
the country elects United States senators,
old Subsidy PomerOy's definition of an
! honest man is called to mind IAN honest
man is one who, when bought, will stay
bought"
The winter months are half passed and
but little cold weather has yet been eXpe-
rienced. The fellow that predicted long
and severe winter was evidently in the
employ of the coal trust or some other
comoine.
They are already beginning to talk
! about county fair at Medicine Lodge
/ some time this fall The Herald says ev-
| erything is favorable for good crops this
/ year and a grand display could be made IN
I all departments.
! 1t has been agreed. says the Atchison
| Globe. that Mr.. Fisher member of the
| legislature from the country district, shall
| introduce the bill apprOprating $1,000 for
| the enlargement of the Soldiers Orphans
! home in that city.
| Judge Graves, of EmpOria, ruled in a
! case the other day in the Lyon county
/ court that the words with exchange de-
/ stroyed the negotiability of a prOmissOry
note. 1t Is a question that has never been
! decided in Kansas before.
/ An Atchison doctor informs the Patriot
| that fifty years ago and even less, there
were more girl babies than boy babies
4 born into the world. Now the reverse Is
/ true and the family where the majority OF
1 the children are girls Is an exception.
II is said that wolves are invading the
western border counties of Kansas in
/ great packs in search of food and are at
! lacking women and children. Probably
another lie gotten up for campaign pur-
poses. Il is doubted that there are so
( many wolves, either two or four-legged,
! in that region.
Atchison is put UP by the ears over a
profound local sensation. The Globe says
( a woman of that place who has the gift Of
writing almost as marked a. Jim. the
I peuman.n writes anonymous letters 10
/ her women enemies she Dretends that
/ the letters come from men. ana they pro
/ pose all sorts OF things.
Bennett township. kingmau county
/ voted by an overwhelming majority IN ia
! vor of issuing bonds TO tie Wichita and
! II paso railway. She was only asked for
: - so in bonds, because that would be the
full amount she C uld issue according 10
( law having voted in aid OF two other roads
within the past four years.
W. NJ. Speck, Republican representative
/ from Garfield county. arrived in Topeka
sunday. He told a journal representative
+ that the county seat trouble reported 70
exist in his county l. fake. HIS home Is
in Ravenna. and when be ieiJ there oatur-
day night everything was peacabie. SAer-
iff Hughes, he SAYS, Is responsible for al
the reports that are being sent out
The following j clipped from the
Mercer pa Dispatch and Republican Of
Dec -: A we'll known fruit dealer at
Clarion a few days ago opened fine
barrel Of apples. In the center Of the
I barrel be found very large one
wrapped in paper on which was written:
q.
apple i desirous OF matrimouy, she viii
please 20 correspond with Harry Camp
bell. Topeka Kan The apple with the
note was puT into a package purchased by
| a school teacher near CuTlisville, ana de-
velopments are awaited