The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-30
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Mrs. Lease will write piece for the
Agora about woman's suffrage.
Butler county has a farmer who pays
81 coo taxes-and he pays it in advance too.
There will be no more legal quail shoot
| ing in Kansas this winter after Saturday.
Wellington has sensation over liquor
prosecutions in which John A. Murray,
the apostle of prohibition. cuts a sorry
| figure
The annual convention of the sheriffs of
the state is being held in Topeka this week
Fifty sheriffs from all over Kansas are in
attendance.
Governor Lewelling will deliver the adj
| dress of welcome and A w. Smith will re-
! ply at the opening session of the state
board OF agriculture Jan. II.
The johnson county alliance, at meet
ing held last Tuesday. passed resolutions
unanimously endorsing John w. Breiden-
thai for United States senator.
There were ninety people killed last year
! on the Santa Ee system OF 1852 miles,
seventy one on the Rock Island of 3, IA
miles and forty on the Union Pacific of
! 1871 miles.
! The lowest temperature in the state is
reported at Ottawa. That's where George
| Z. Anthony lives and some OF the cute
punsters are trying to draw conclusion
from the coincidence
A live cottonwood tree with petrifed
root has been discovered on the lands of
Deer creek in Atchison county. That COR
ner of the state has long been noted for its
fossils, of various sorts
Judge John Guthrie, who is to retire
from the bench in the district court for
Shawnee county Jan. l, has formed law
partnership with Ralph Ingalls,. The new
law firm will be known as Guthrie g.
ingalls,.
Hon. t. T. Carver of Salina, Judge s. R.
Peters of Newton and T. B. Dawes of Clay
Center, have been retained by the Repub-
lican state central committee TO defend the
Legislature contest cases In the supreme
court.
Mrs Mary f. Lease, who was announced
to lecture at Crawford's opera house, To-
peka, next Friday night, will not lecture
on hat date. She is still in ill health.
The Journal announces that she will de-
liver lecture III Topeka IN the near
future
Ex-senator John J. ingalls, received
telegram Wednesday announcing the fatal
illness of his father at Haverhill, Mass,
and the serious illness of his brother-in
law, S. \. Dyer, at Boston, Mass Mr.. In
gals left Atchison for the east the same
night.
Only five county superintendent out of
1906 were elected last month for a third
term. Their names are as follows: Miss
Frances Katner of Doniphan county, j.
Il. Bickerdyke of Russell county, 3. ID.
Vanorstran of Marion county, and S. z.
Gebhart of Pratt county. The last named
is y Populist and the others are Republi !
cans.
A swell dinner was recently given in |
New York City, in honor of George h.
Peck, but nothing so delicious was brought |
forward that Mr. Peck could not top it !
with something from the west. In discuss |
ing very fine specimen of fish an eastern
man said: ''Mr. Peck, you haven't any |
thing that you can compare with this in
the west" NO was the quick reply, Il
must say the Lord created brain food |
where it was most needed"
"Will we," asks the Democratic editor |
of the Olathe Herald, as he observes Mr.. |
Lewelling his bright crown adjoining with |
Jewels precious jewels found only III the |
middle of the road, while Barney Sheri- !
dan, Tom Morgan, Father Mcintyre, L. p. |
Fulton and other gems of purest ray |
serene are left in the dark unfathomed |
caves of ocean, kiss the hand that smites |
us?" Now listen for the echo when it |
comes hurting back.
Atchi> on Patriot: B. p Waggener has |
been employed by the Usage Mining COM
pany of St. Louis to defend the company
in the damage suits brought by the vic
tins Of the mine horror at South McAllis-
ter in January 1892 An explosion took
place in mine, it will he remembered,
and fifty-seven people were killed and 1876
injured. Suits have been brought for
aggregating 81 Coo, 600. They viii
be tried in the United States court at Souih