The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-05
SOMETHING ABOUT KANSAS.

| About $50. 900 of real and chattel indebt-
edness was Cancelled in Riley county dur
ing the month of January.
Twelve hundred rabbit scalps and seven
coyote scalps have so far been presented 10
the county clerk of Ford county
Over $4,000 in cash has been paid out
during the past year by the twelve cream
cries Of Dickinson county to the farme
4 western Kansas farmer sold 1.OOJ
bushels of wheat from a field Of sixty
acres. This, on S5-an-acre land, Is pretty
successful farming.
From reports it would seem that the
rabbit slaughter in Coffey county during
! the recent snow is the largest Gu record,
running up into the thousands.
! The state, at its forestry stations ut
/ Ogallah, Trego county. and Dodge City,
/ Ford county, now has about 800 900 year
| ling forest trees for free distribution.
Fire-bugs are holding high carnival in
/ Arkansas City. The Traveller says a fire
occurs nearly every night. and it costs the
| city $40 every time the department Is call
/ ed out.
! The proposition of the city OF yelling
/ ton to vote 1000 bonds for tHe purpose
of prospecting for coal and gas was vo ed
upon Tuesday, and carried by majority
of 252.
! The number of school teachers employed
/ last year in the state Is ii ,6l2, against p,
013 for the previous year. The number Of
school houses was ., Sll, or eight less than
| in 1889
The Kiowa Journal notes as a society
event in Comanche county last week. a
dance at Dali Dubbss Little Old Sod
! Shanty on the Claim" on Bachelors
Ridge. A sort of stag affair.
At Kansas City, Kan, Tuesday, the
thermometer at q a. m. registered 3 degrees
below zero; at o'clock it was : degrees
above, and at s it was 6 degrees above
zero, the coolest day OF the year.
During the month of January there
were added to the roles III tue Topeka
pension office the names of ,465 new pen
sioners, and lS6 were dropped for various
GAUGES, leaving net gain of ,2'O.
In Clay county during the year 1890 the
net gain of mortgages released over new
mortgages made was $162, 2j2 -. In other
words the people of Clay equity owe that
much less than they did one year ago.
We hope when we die that we shall go
to live in a novel or fairy book, where
everything complicated aud uncomforta-
bic comes out all ight-AtchisOn Globe.
VIII help you all we can; hope so, too
An item, "How TO Kill Town" is
going the rounds of the country press. A
better thing TO do would be to insert the
little word mot" after how. and recon
struct the item on that basis, don't you
think?
The Ness county News denies that there
is any restitution in that county. The
News has been doing this every year for
twelve years and will probably continue
to do so ad infinitum-Ness isn't that sort
of a county.
George Parkman living eight miles
east of EmpOria, sold two Car loads OF
apples for 81 ,215, the fruit to be delivered
on the track The Republican says he
has sold over =, 900 worth oil fruit from
his small orchard.
The treasurerer of the Morgan monu-
ment fund at Winfield states that there Is
no doubt whatever but that the contribu-
lions will reach $1,000. This IS no less AN
honor TO the sentiment of the community
than a proper tribute to the boy-hero.
John Waller. the colored orator of Kan
sas, is the leader OF a movement to have
an industrial convention in Kansas City,
Kan, next June, TO look after the in
dustrial tinanc al and social interests Of
the negroes in Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma.
The Atchison Globe is the first to break
the mourntul news that there Is another
kick coming to the schuol children. Not
OILY uOeS ~ dSulu1tOii = b4l lutal NOlllC vi
Sunday, but Valentines day. with its eX-
element OF Valentine boxes. comes On Il
day when there is no school.
There is none of the Maiden's Blush
about the Topeka Journal or it would
never have suggested that ''all the apple
raisers in Kansas ought TO be Interested
in Sir Arthur Suliivans new opera,
''Ivauhoe," brought out in London Satur-
day night. The principal part IS sung by
Ben Davis
An Alliance man explained why his
party in the legislature selected Judge
PETER as its candidate dor OuIted states
senator He said it was in response TO, or
accord with the all-prevailiHg demand or
desire for variety. Variety, You see,
said he. is the spice of life. PETER means
pepper-see%
\ move is on foot to make the State
Dairy association branch of or depart
meut of the State Agricultural college of
Manhattan. y committee was appointed
10 70 before the legislature and awaken
the members to the necessity OF sufficient
appropriation 70 aud a proper dairy station
TO the state Agricultural college at Man
haitian, similar to that OF the state Of
WiscOnslon j. &. Union
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