The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-21
SOME KANSAS POINTS.

God bless the homes of Kansas
From poorest to best;
The cabin OF the border,
The sod houses of the west;
The dugout low and lonely,
The mansion grand and great;
The hands that laid their hearth stones
Have built mighty state.
SOL MILLER.
| A colony of twenty colored people from
Missouri has settled on farms near Garden
City.
The largest land sale ever made in Norton
county was that of Ernest Broquet dispos-
| ing of 900 acres for So, 900.
Will 2. Symns. jr., of Donipban county,
! shot an old she wolf and nine pups Mon
day. He got $50 for the scalps.
The Cawker City Times thinks that
steady by jerks the former traducers of our
| fair state are coming TO their senses.
| A Barber county farmer last year raised
$50 worth of oats on a SIS acre of land, and
$50 worth of wheat on 50 acre of land.
LATE C. Smett, OF Stockton, was appoint
ed receiver of the United States land Office
at Kirwiu, vice Webb McNall, resigned.
Charles NJ. Martin, of Salina, is thought
to stand a good chance to be appointed ex'
| ecutive clerk of the United States senate,
| The implement men who visited oul
| country last week, say we have the best
| crops of any portion of the state.-Rich
field Monitor.
J Steam blowing was successfully tested
at Garden City Monday, the engine plow-
/ ing strip twelve feet wide at the rate of
| four miles per hour.
The state supreme court has decided
that county commissioners cannot con-
tract county printing for a larger period
than the life of a board, which is just one
| year.
| Hon. John A. Anderson will leave Cairo,
| Egypt, for home ON April II. He has FOL
several months been suffering in a
| hospital, unable to make the journey
| home.
| Newton Beers is in Atchson with his
popular comedy company. In the next
| town down the river another member OF
the beers family dagger holds the boards
as star in the roaring farce.
Its claimed:that there will be more trees
planted in Jewell county this spring than
have before been put out in five years. and
| If properly planted the conditions of the
ground IS such that most of them will
grow
The salt shaft at Lyons is 7xl6 feet. II
cost over $4,000 10 sink it. 1t is double
cased and flied with hydraulic cement be
tween the casing TO the depth Of $50 feet.
| 1t is 1, 06j feet deep and goes through rs
| feet of salt.
The citizens of Pittsburg are making
extensive preparations to entertain the
/! Grand Lodge knights OF PYthiss next
month. II they succeed as well sc they
! did last month with the A. o. L. w.
/ Grand Lodge the knights will keep their
| l&nces in poise.
| The Wallace circus that did such a rank
/ fakir business in Kansas last year is billed
! for return season this year, but under a
| different name The ontfit is doing bust
ness" this season under the nigh sounding
title Of Wbitby a. Cooks British and
American Allied Shows. Keep your eye on
the day aud date-and your hand on your
| pocketbOck.
The census of the school population
makes wonderful showing for Kansas.
According to the figures OF the federal
census OF 1890, this state leads the country
in percentage of public school pupils.
Some of the leading states are Iowa, % per
cent: Nebraska, - per cent; Missouri, ~
/ per cent: Ohio, % per cent; Illinois, ~
| per cent: South Dakota, - per cent Kan
sas tops them all, her public school pupils
being 3 per cent OF the entire population