The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-27
ALL OVER KANSAS.


Good for bed bugs-fat, healthy. sound
sleepers
A 100. acre farm near Mt. Hope was sold
last week for s, 000-S25 an acre.
Mulvane is very anxious to hold fair
next season. A good thing to have.
Good prairie hay is selling for $40 per
ton in many parts of the state, and in
some others at half that price.
There are 4.765 persons of school age in
! Harper county. Outside OF the cities of
Anthony and Harper there are 3,4OS.
| The Globe saws the Atchison county
| farmers are so well satisfied with the
wheat prospect that they are selling of
the Old crop.
| The state oratorical contest, which was
to have been held in Topeka, February Is,
will be held in the opera house at EmporIa
on the evening of February %.
| The editor of the Ellinwood Advocate
has turned weather prognosticator He
says Italy experienced more cold weather
last week than for years TO come
Seed corn will be very important item
for farmers next spring, and 1t Is none too
early now to arrange for getting what you
know to be thoroughly reliable see'i
Caldwell is !to be onel of the three
towns in which the postal department
will experiment with the free delivery
system to demonstrate its practlcaollIty
or otherwise.
The proposition to vote aid to the
amount of $50 900 in bonds TO the Wichita
and FL Paso railway company, which was
voted on last Monday, was carried by
majority of l40-Harper Graphic.
Somebody has figured it out that it costs
5000 day to run the Kansas legislature.
the per diem of both houses aggregates
1876, little over half the amount named.
The machinery" must be of pretty high
priced sorts, don't you Think
The Towanda lodge, Knights of Pythias,
has installed its new officers as follows: A.
Lancer, p. c.; w. 5. Walt. c. c.; 5. Cupp,
V. C; Chas Fisk, P; j. Z. Sorter, X. r.
s.; j. d. Straw, NJ F.; J. K, Kerr, NJ. E.;
Z. Champion, VI. A.; j. Blake, 1. u; L.
Hayman, o. G..
All church organizations in this portion
of the county have been more than ordin-
arily active during the winter months,
and at various points in the vicinity very
successful revivals resulted from CHRISTIAN
effort and much real good has been accom-
plished.-Attica Advocate.
An Atchison county farmer suggests as
a prevention of hog cholera that the hogs
be kept in a dry place and be fed nothing
but oats. The remedy has been tried
number of times and found to be very
effectiye 1t is claimed that it will even
eradicate the disease after 1t has once at
tackled a drove of hogs.
Chicago News: The Springfield Repub-
lican cannot endure John j. ingalls,, but it
is holly in love with Senators HOar and
Dawes. Well. there Is no more account
ing for this than there is for the preference
which some misguided folks manifest for
the effeminate dried Goldfish as against the
voluptuous channel cat that lnfest the
turbulent Missouri.
An Atchison man who has spent n good
deal of his time in Topeka says the bill re-
pealing the metropolitan police law will
pass although Gov. Humphrey may veto
it. He says the presence in Topeka OF
police commissioners lobbying against
repeal has made the state senator's slls-
picious that there is something in the
woodpile.
The crop prospects for the coming sea-
son are so very fiattering out in Barber as
TO cause the editor of the Medicine Lodge
Cresset to hone for return to farm life.
Hear him: Though it has been twelve
years since we left the farm, the rains and
heavy SHOWS this winter make us wish we
had some good ground TO put in corn next
spring. Corn planted in goO1 ground and
well tended, we will insure will make
good crop next season"
There will be two big wolf drives in
Doniphan county on the 3lst. They Will
cover a good portion of the county, and
900 men are expected to take part There
were never so many wolves In the county
as this winter Besides the common prai-
RE wolf, the large grey timber wolf has
also appeared in large numbers. Calves
and large sized shoats are carried off
nightly, one farmer losing twenty pigs in
one night. not long since.
We have one man in Harper who has
been doing good business and residing
here for five years, during which time he
has never been outside the county, never
ridden on a railroad train, nor got home
sick for ight OF the surroundings he left |
in the east. lie was at Anthony Monday, |
rs a witness in court and rode down over
the II. * :. This shows how nearly all
the elements OF enjoyment are found in
the environments of IA home III Kansas
Sentinel.
Religious wonders have not ceased. Ar /
oouia furnishes two remarkable CONVEX !
sions in the last few months During the
Methodist revival while r. b. Fugate was .
at the asylum in Osawatomie he was made /.
the subject of prayer by the Christians at /
the request of his wife and at a jubilee /.
service at 8 o clock a. N. special prayers /
were offered for him. As nearly a. could I
be estimated he was converted at the same .
hour. On Tuesday morning of this week 4
Rufus HolIowell started out to buy /
corn with no thought of going 4
to church and while he was 1
passing the Argonia cemetery an exceed /
~ dark cloud came over his vision, and he .
fell of his horse on his face and lay IN the
road until two ladies came along, going 10 .
church, and helped him uD. His first re- 4
quest was for them to pray for him. which 4
they did right there He went TO church I
and was converted. He had been fighting
Christianity for twenty years. His parents /
are devoted members of the Friends T.
church and live in Wichita. The Apostle .
Pauls conversion does not seem 50 won
ful when we have such examples at home. /
-Argonia Clipper.
WALL STREET POLITICS.