The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-07
KANSAS IN BRIEF.


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The young ladies of Burton have organ
lied brass band.
There are ten criminal and 2lO civil cases
/ set for this term OF the district court in
! Harvey county.
! The Newton National bank is arranging
! to reopen its doors and resume business
at an early day.
! The Cheney creamery is out of debt and
short time ago declared a dividend of 10
/ per cent on last seasons business.
/ The Review says vacant houses are get
| ting to be scarce article in kiowa, and
they had 40 tornsdoS or fires there, either
The inters ate commerce commissioners
are booked 10 visit Kansae in about two
weeks TO consult with shippers III regard
TO rates.
Two years ago fully one-half the houses
in Cheney-business houses and residences
were vacant; now there are no vacant
! buildings there, and business is good.
The Topeka Lance objects to the pic
lures printed of PETER He has pretty
full suit of whiskers," it says, ''but he
does not wear hair mattress on his
face"
The Fl Dorado Times says about twenty
Germans are in the city prospecting for
farms in Butler county. They are mostly
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a colony.
Thirty-eight below zero in Minnesota
and thirty eight above in southern Kan
saa. The carol of the spring bird is much
more desirable than that of the sleigh
bella. Z. Traveller.
Kansas short-horns seem to be on top.
The professors of the agricultural colleges
Of Indiana, Nebraska and Michigan have
come to Kansas to get Short-horn cattle
for their college herds.
Just before the last cold snap the farm
aTs of this vicinity had commenced their
spring plowing We are glad to see this
for it shows that they do not intend TO lie I
the spring get very far advanced before
they 90 to work putting i'll their crops
Burton Graphic.
Conway Springs Star: Talk about cheap
stock feed, why don't some of our farmers
try sugar beets? There is no better winter
feed for stock, COWS, calves, horses or hogs
than sugar beets From fifteen to twenty
tons can be grown on an acre, and there is
no soil better adapted to their growth than
around this city.
The house sundry civil appropriation
bill carries an item of so 900 for the Atchi-
son public building. TINS in addition to
the $4,000 already appropriated, makes
SlOO.0DJ. This in some measure mOliifieS /
the intense forlornity felt by the erstwuile /
favored city at the departure of its poIIti- I
cal glory
The city of FL Dorado has concluded to I
give Butler county the use OF the city /
building rent free for three years. This /
will virtually settle the county seat wrangie /
which seemed to be imminent inasmuch /
as the county commissioners metand with I
drew the proposition To vote $4,000 To /
build new court house.
Joel Underwood, one of the leading
farmers OF Macon township, Harvey cOun- I
ty, disposed of filty-One hogs which weigh
ed on an average rs pounds each. Five of /
them together weighed 3.240 pounds or
64s pounds each. The market price was
-. ID. Kansas seems to be all right in the
hands OF the right men.-NewtOn Republi-
can.
sam Wood won a victory in the supreme
court Thursday In the matter of his APP
plication for release on habeas corpus
(Stevens county case) the court sustained
the exceptions To she return and discharg-
ed the prisoner. sam is the biggest man
In Topeka, If no. in the state Look out, !
Judge Botkin; your official head is in
jeopardy.
The Atchison Champion says hogs and
cattle are being shipped from the Central
Branch country in great numbers. The
crop last year was not a total failure by
any means. and the stock now being ship
peu viii Drlng great deal OF money into
the country. Ia another year the people
OF western Kansas Will have forgotten
that they ever had crop failure.
A private letter received by the editor OF
the Abilene Reflector from W. +. Birch
more at Chattanooga, Tenn, says: IF. II.
Burris, formerly OF \ oilene. died at his
residence in Chattanooga yesterday, Jenu-
AIRY 81. The Reflector says: This :. il
one respect, Burris' second death, as it
was currently reported and believed some
years ago tuaJ he had died
The editor Of the Atchison Globe, who
has made personal canvass OF the sub
Jet, declares that there = a sweeter look
on the lace OF the woman who wheels /
buggy through the streets. with several .
little ones hanging 70 her skirts, than yol
VIII find on the face Of tie woman who
rides IN her carriage holding ON her lap a .
pct poodle. yet be remains the same incor- (
rogl ole old zach he mas teen for years
Since its political glory has departed
Atkinson appears 70 be making q strong
Did for notoriety OF another sort The
Globe SAYS il j. alleged that there are At
least dozen men in AtchlSon who are
living with women 10 whom they have
never been married The same paper also
AVS that u i becoming quite common IN /
Atchison Tor nsn TO get drunk en- the / ,
streets, and have all the fun they want,
without police interference Nevertheless
here are some there who defend the met
'opoiltan police system Is paragon OF ex-
,elLence and economy.