The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-07
sUNFLowER sILHoUETTEs.

Atchison grain dealers bought Kansas
wheat last week that weighed 651s pounds
per bushel.
The Third party Prohibitionists will
open their campaign in Kansas with a
grand rally at Topeka on Monday evening,
Aug Is.
The dyspeptic of the Atchison Globe
plaintively observes that we have the good
things to eat in the summer and the appe-
tite in the winter. He has the serbs
sym.
Corporal James Tanner of Washington
passed through the state yesterday on his
way to New Mexico. He will return to
Kansas for the state reunion at Wichita in
September.
Captain e. d. Rose, a prominent citizen
of Hoton. died and was buried Wednes-
day. During the war he commanded CON-
psny E of the Eighth Kansas-Colonel
John A. Martins regiment.
There is a strong probability that the
three harvest excursions" to be run into
Kansas this fall will be extensively patron
lied. The immense crops in Kansas again
has made the state great favorite among
people in other states.
Here's text for another calamity wall.
1t is estimated that fully seventy-fve
bushels of wheat was destroyed in Kansas
this year by the chinch bug. Snow use;
disaster is bound to come to some crop OF
the state.
The Lyon county Democrats met in con-
vention at Emporia Friday and nominated
a straight ticket to show their disgust OF
the shabby treatment received by them at
the hands of the Peoples party county
convention.
An item has been going the rounds of
the state press that Judge Bashore, in
charging a jury, incidentally remarked
that there are no flies on this court"
He says he did make the remark, not to a
jury, but to railroad lawyer who was
trying to 5ulldoze him.
The Hays Sentinel predicts that Ellis
county farmers will increase their winter
wheat acreage this fall at least % per
cent. They have found it crop to de-
pend on A good many other counties are
at this moment preparing to do the same
thing for the same reason.
They say that Governor Lewelling spent
a lonely evening while in Salina last week.
There was only one man in the entire
place whom he knew, and he was out of
town. He sat around the tavern all even
ing with calamity frown on his counten-
ance that was truly disheartening and
effectually forbidding.
Judge r. NJ. Cheshire, who is the NOM
inee for congress of the straight Demo-
Gratis of the Third district, who refuse to
support jeff Hudson, is one of the leading
lawyers of Columbus, Cherokee county.
he has lived in Cherokee county ten years
and is one of the most influential Demo-
Gratis of southeastern Kapsas.
The state board of equalization lowered
the assessment in twenty-eight counties,
raised it in forty-six counties and left it
practically unchanged in other parts of the
state. There was an Increase of thirteen
per cent. in Atchison, seven in Dickinson,
nineteen in Doniphan, seven in Marshall,
ten in Nemaha, nine in Osborne, four in
Republic, eleven in Salina, and six in
Sheridan. There was decrease of six per
cent. in Brown, six in Cloud, four in Jack
son, eighteen in Jewell, thirteen in Potta-
watomie, six in Rawlins, twenty-five in
Wallace. Haskell county was decreased
tifty-two per cent, while Clark was in
creased fOrty-five per cent.