The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
AROUND THE oouRrs.

An inventory of the estate of David
| Staekhouse was filed in the probate court
| yesterday.
j. N. Ocheltree, OF Homer. III, is visit
ing Journal Clerk Charles Mccoy, of the
district court.
James E Hogan, of Independence, and
Miss Stella g. Semans, OF this cisy, were
issued marriage license yesterday.
Christian Kuster and Miss Martha NJ
Loefter, of Cheney, were given the neces
sary documentary permission to wed yes
terday.
An application for the appointment of
Charles RossIer as guardian of s B. West,
a minor, was fled and approved in the
probate court yesterday.
Judge Buckner Is praying every day that
some all-powerful influence will move the
hearts of the commissioners one of these
fine days to buy carpet for the parlars of
probate court. A great many people are
married in the parlor every year and the
judge thinks it would be the proper thing
to furnish them carpet To stand on and
ease their trembling feet while the knot is
being tied.
". P Cleveland, the genial and phiIoso-
phic chief clerk of the probate court is
studying the facts and figures on record in
his Office with view OF ascertaining the
causes of insanity So far as he has gone
he is inclined to believe that insanity is a
species of epidemic that breaks out every
three months. He showed an EAGLE re-
porter the record yesterday and called at
tention to the fact that all the insanity
cases which have been tried in the pro-
bate court this year, were in branches
and about three months apart. The court
goes on for about a quarter without q
case and then two or three cases are tried
within a period of few days and no more
cases are heard of for about three months
again. He holds the same view of insanity
cases that Dan Parks does with reference
to railroad wrecks and does not remember
a single case which has developed that a
few more did not develope day or two
later. He is going to write to the governor
of the insane asylum to ascertain from
him whether he has noticed the co-inci-
denee
The boys around the court house have
great joke on Sheriff Cone. It is well
known fact that there is another citizen of
Wichita who looks as much like Rufe as
one egg does another. The double" con-
cluded to go Leavenworth recently to take
the cloride of gold treatment and when he
went into the institute, mostly all the
patients there began to nudge one another
and wink and whisper and look wise. |
Who is he? was the interogotory of
stranger and all whispered
why he is Sheriff Cone of
Sedgwick county" One fellow was lit
tie skeptic and he edged over to the |
double" and asked him where he was
from and he promptly replied, "Wichita-"
This settled the question aud it was i'm |
mediateIy noised abroad that Sheriff Cone |
of the great county of Sedgwick was seek |
ing the elixir of sobriety. The report |
spread outside the walls of the institute |
and became almost common talk in the |
city of Leaveuworth. A short time ago |
Rufe went to Leavenworth with pri soners |
and from the moment he struck the city |
every acquaintance he met began asking /
him questions about the chloride of gold 1
treatment. He learned of the report in /
this manner and began Immediately TO |
hunt the author of it down. After few
hours he met his double and after shak-
ing hands, etc, ne learned that the double
was in the institute and then saw st a /
glance how the report originated, for even /
here at home the sheriff has been taken
for the double, aud the double for the /
sheriff very frequently.