The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-24
ALL OVER KANSAS.


A meeting in the sugar interests will be
held In Halstead TO-DAY.
From all reports Judge Mckay, the PEG
pies party's farmer-judge, is proving him
self worthy of the confidence reposed, and
fully equal TO the task before him
The Voice denies the report that there
are several cases of smallpox IN yelling
ton. 1t says there is only one case OF yarlo-
loid and that is rigidly quarantined.
The Alliance house is trying to establish
a new county Office to be known as county
printer. He is to be elected every two
years. This is the slickest scheme yet.
Businss must be very good in Atchison-
The Globe saws a couple of boys got TO
fighting on Commercial street today, and
not more than three men stopped to watch
them
The Times says nearly one hundred men
have applied for positions on the police
force in Leavenworth One man now on
the force as q patrolman, Is worth about
$50 CO.,
The good that die are not all young. The
Peabody Graphic, the Augusta journal
and the Burns Mirror had reached years OF
maturity and were all good; but they have
all ceased to exist.
Atchison is becoming very swell town
AT recent reception soup was served IN
cups. 1t is said to be good idea. 1t stag
gered the guests for few moments, Dut
they soon rallied and came again.
One news stand in FL Dorado sells $500
daily papers every month. Ii Dorado Is
not considered fast town, by any means,
but it doesn't propose to be left in the race,
as far as keeping posted Is concerned
Next Monday is the day for the special
nlPcfion IN Ia hold in WELLINGTON ON the
matter of voting bonds for prospecting for
coal and gas. The Voice says il is pretty
generally conceded that they will carry.
Judge C. G. Foster, of the United States
district court, is confined to his residence
in Topeka by sickness. He has a kidney
trouble. That alleged wild boar hunt in
Colorado was fake, as was suspected.
The Haven Independent says farmers
are complaining great deal about hog
cholery In that section OF country. Some
have lost all their hogs, after feeding them
20 cent corn for sometime. They feel
little blue.
The Atehison Patriot says Cloud county
elected surveyor last fall who can't sur
vey section OF land TO save his life he
should have followed the example OF
went into the Office
A. Morris, living five miles southwest of
Burton. near the corner of Harvey, Sedg-
wick and Reno counties, sold one OF his
farms (320 acres few days ago to Charles
SHELTON, from Posey county, Indiana, for
$1,000, or S25 an acre.
The Globe says Atchinson county has an
average OF about S50,0t0 on deposit ali the
time, for which it receives six per cent. or
$, 0U0 year The present contract will
run until April. Wonder how many other
counties in the state are as fortunate?
The newspaper outfit of the Coldwater
Echo, Democratic. has been purchased By
Messrs NJ. S. and II. A. Boyce. the name
changed to the Coldwater Voice and run
by them as an Alliance organ. Another
exempliication OF the-lion-and-the-lam
act.
Major Penn, the great Baptist revivalist.
and evangelist has left Hutchinson and
gone to Nashville, Tenn, to commence a
series of meetings there. The Hutchinson
meeting continues, under the direction of
the pastor of the church in which 1t was
being held.
The fellow. supposed to be working for
the coal dealers, who two months ago WAS
going about predicting long and severe
winter is out of job; but it is expected
that he will shortly drive trade with the
ice people and begin an unusually long and
hot campaign.
A big rattlesnake who got gay and start
ed out to force the season, was killed the
other day in Santa Fe, in Haskell county.
1t ways probably prompted by the success
full forays of the ravenous wolves 81 upon
defenseless women and children (?) in that
neighborhood % q few days before.
The arrangements for a 100-barrel -four
mill in Dighton, Lane county, are nearly
complete and within sixty days work will
be commenced, and possibly sooner The
Journal saws after work has commenced it
will take from thirty to sixty days to COM
plete it, but even then it will be ready in
time to grind up all the old wheat now in
the county before the new crop comes in.
The original and only genuine (all others
are spurious imitations) Blind Tom Is
making a tour of Kansas So is an Uncle
Toms aggregation with the best Topsy
Marks. Little Eva and original blood
hounds The protracted absence from
Kansas of the last named entertainment
was becoming oppressive. But all is well
now.
A noteworthy and difficult surgical oper-
alton was performed at Freeport last
Saturday on Il man named Campbell who
was so badly burned the Sd inst. Camp
bells legs were both almost a mass of cor
ruption and decayin9 flesh at the time the
operation was performed, week having
elapsed from the time the accident Oc-
curred.-Harper Sentinel
A dastardly piece of meanness is report
ed from the vicinity Of the New Salem
church near the north line Of Dickinson
county. The church was built four or five
years ago and being an expensive structure
the corner stone contained a collection of
coins newspapers of the county, state and
nation, bible, etc. as Is usual in such
cases. Last Sunday the congregation
found that some wretch had broken the
stone and taken the money and papers,
leaving the bible and discipline The ques-
ton of Malachi, "Will a man rob Cod" is
fully answered Abilene Reflector.