The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-10
ALL AROUND KANSAS.

"a magnetic fanatic is the verdict of a
Boston newspaper writer on Mrs. Lease.
There is enough wheat raised around
Kiowa to keep Touring mill running SaS
days in the year.
The election to decide whether we shall
have new convention or not will be held
in November, 1892.
The preemption and timber culture laws
have been repealed, and no further entries
will be allowed under those acts.
At Mcpherson the county commission
ers have declared that SO is enough for
burial of INDECENT poor, and that is all
they will pay.
The incubator seems to have settled the
long disputed question of which is the
mother of the chicken. the hen that lays
the egg, or the one that matches it,"
Atchison Globe: Equal suffrage is dead.
thanks TO the senate. Loug live the woman
who curls her hair, dresses up pretty and
tries to be good looking.
The Fort Scott Monitor tells of local
sportsman who sold to local dealer, the
other day, eighteen dozen wild game at ST
per dozen. He must have gone pretty fur
10 bag that much.
A vein of tbirty-six inches of solid coal
has been discovered by Superintendent
Carr, OF the Leavenworth Coal company at
a depth of thirty-feet below the floor of the
Leavenworth coal mine.
The Indebtedness of the people OF Riley
county decreased during the month of
February $l2 PA 50 on chaJtie mortgages,
s.. 1880 on real estate mortgages re-
leased, total OF S17, 6S7.02
VIII Stotler vouchsafes the information
that the student from Baker university
hQ ref n raj
contest at Emporia is only Il years old and
has never tasted soda biscuit.
Ex-State Printer Baker will have to keep
his printing establishment or sell it to
some private individual or firm, the legis-
lature having declined TO buy it as a per-
manent investment for the state.
A number of farmers living in the east
ern part OF Sumner county Will fertiliZe
their wheat with salt this spring Salt
can be obtained for So go per ton for fer
tilizing, if the buyer Will sign a contract
that it will be used for that purpose.
A Lyon county Kansas man last year
paid a rental of $3.50 for a farm in tnat
county on which be raised 5000 bushels of
corn, which he can sell for 81 600. A pretty
fair investment. Yes, there's money in
farming to the farmers who work the land
in Kansas.
completed, gives the number of Indians in
jackson county at two. There is some
thing wrong about this. There is at least
400 Indians on the Pottawatomie reserva-
ton. Many other similar mistakes appear
in the reports. Journal
The trades unionists of Leavenwortb
forwarded to the legislature protest
against the hiring out of prisoners at the
penltentiary to contractors Evidently
the t. Il S. would rather labor themselves
and help support the conyicts in idleness
than to have the latter's labor come in
competition with theirs
There is so little land to rent in ELS
worth county that farmers are trying TO
buy, and mum Der who sold out or gave
up and went away few years ago now
want to purchase their old farms back.
Moral: Let every man who has Il good
farm in Kansas hold on to it,
The French spoliation claims passed by
congress serves as a winfall to J. A. Hans
brough. a photographer of Abilene His
share of one of the claims will amount to
$50, 600 in good United States currency
He will quit striving after shadows, prob
ably, and settle himself down to enjoy the
substance.
The Atchison papers are Dragging q good
deal over the new pontoon bridge they are
W nave W iheuy- IHey pay particular
stress on the fact that it is to be purely
domestic, i. e.. to be constructed by home
the material all to be purchased
of local dealers, as though it were de-
parture from the usual policy.
The Coldwater Review ended its exis-
tence as chronicler of Kansas events with
last Fridays issue. The Review has been
a clever local paper, but its share of the
business of the town and vicinity which
has been divided between four papers was
not enough to warrant the publisher of
Review in the continued expenditure of
time and labor necessary to make credit
able paper, and he quit trying.