The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-17
ALL ABOUT KANSAS.

The Cowley county Jail has twenty
three prisoners, one being d woman VINO
is in for burglary.
kansas Dav" will be Thursday, Jan.
90. Every school in the state ought to
make preparations to celebrate it.
Nickerson and Hutchinson are having
quite a tussle with scarlet fever. There
are quite a number OF cases reported from
both towns.
Twenty-seven of the so-called Alliance
members of the Kansas legislature have
authorized the clerk to record them on
the journal as Democrats.
Toe socials are the thing in FL Dorado
Just now OF course everybody IS IN -.
them. Sex has all to do with the point OF
interest, but sox cut 10 figure in the case.
Easter Sunday in 1891 comes on March
% 1t is can never occur earlier than
March % nor later than March p, but may
come on these days and on any days be-
tween them.
Hunters have killed two colts for an
Ottawa man this winter and shot one Of
his horses in the neck. He is laying" for
the next man or boy that comes onto his
land with gun.
The attendance at the State Agricultur-
al college at Manhattan on January ~ was
49, The total number of students VINO
have been assigned to classes this year IS
$50 high-water mark in attendance hay-
ing been reached.
The Mennonites in Marion county were
so successful the past year in silk culture
that their brethren in Mcpherson county
have decided TO try it another year. A
number in that vicinity are making prep
arations TO go into the business on quite a
large scale.
The men who ten years ago planted or
chards aud have since taken care OF them
are now making money. The men who
plant and carefully take of orchards Will
make big money in the future: Every
farm should have good orchard as well
as good garden plot
A man who had been held in the Rice
county Jail lS9 days for violating the pro.
hibitory law was released on writ OF
habeas corpus, Monday, issued by order of
Judge Clark Of the district court for that
county, the Judge holding the law, under
which he was tried and convicted, 10 be
unconstitutional.
The Arkansas City Traveller says there
are thousands of people camped along the
line of the Cherokee strip who are home
less and are waiting for favorable action
by congress. 1t appears like there IS TO be
a repetition Of the conditions and Incl
dents attending the opening OF Oklahoma
if the government shall adopt the same
plan for opening the strip that 1t dld Ok
lahoma.
The United States experimental station
at Garden City has received small
amount of Navajo corn from lvanho, l. l.,
which viii be experimental with next ser
sor. This is "A soft corn, small ear and
cob with twelve TO fourteen rows on each
cob. and well adapted to this latitude. The
Imprint saws from three 10 five ears are
grown on each stalk, and requires but ut
tie labor outside OF planting and gather
ing.
The county commissioners Of Reno
county made something or "a departure
from the custom of designating some par
ticular physician TO look after ana give
medical attention TO the country lndlgent
citizens. They made an order giving the
person to be treated the privilege OF nam
inc the pbysiciau wanted and fixing the
paw at half the regular charge made by
physicians for similar service 1be change
seems 10 be a COmmeDdaole one.
Prot Hay. at the Oberlin irrigating COZ
vention. said that he had tr5sve ed over
nearly every county in Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Dakota embraced IN tae arid
and semi-arid region, ana i convinced
from his observations that geologlcallA
they belonged 20 the same class he IN
derfiow. he thinks : practically mex
haustible. The convention decided that
the reservoir system and the use Of pumps
were practicable for irrigation
One Of the slickest games ever worked
by confidence men is that Of buying a
farm. One Of pair looks over the coun-
try until be finds the man be l. after and
then buys at the farmer ow1 price, pay
ing from So 70 500 down 20 bind the bar
ya?n Befo-e the nspers can be nssie out
q confederate comes along. fails IN love
with the same farm and oilers the farmer
=. Goo more than the other. The agricui-
turist sees a speculation here, and ne buys
the first purchaser off with pig bonus
Then b5Ih men drop out and the farmer
learns something new--kiova County
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