The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-05
suNFLowER s1LHoUETTEs.

The Barnum & Bailey circus will be in
Kansas in September.
| The Calamity liar is loose again. He
has discovered some grasshoppers out in
Stevens county.
Atchison has a freak in the form of a
freckled mule. The girls and boys must
all wear their bonnets and hats up there.
A Miss Worm has been appointed post
mistress in southern Sumner county
Office The Oxford Mocking Bird wants
| TO get onto this.
| The Hutchinson Republicans mean to
see their way clear to success, even if they
have to fight hard for it; they have organ
lied a fambeau club for the campaign.
A one-eyed toad has been discovered at
Garden City. People there are thinking
| OF instituting zoo department. TO the
agricultural experimental station near the
| city.
John E. Frost, land commissioner of the
Santa Fe, who has just returned from
| Colorado and western Kansas, says he saw
| no evidence of destructive hot winds along
! the way.
The Leavenworth Kelley institute claims
| to have cured $50 patients. That explains,
| probably, why the Times ceased its fight
on the governor and the local police COM
missioners.
! The Republicans of Cowley county two
years ago took Nipp for the sheriff's
Office, and it proved so satisfactory that
| they will make Staggers at the district
clerks Office this fall.
AS between the sheriff of Cowley and the
sharper Dreyfus-which name means three
feet-in their contest, the first to arrest
| and the second to escape, it was case Of
| nip and tuck, but Nipp finally tuck him.
Secretary Mohler within the twenty-four
hours up TO Monday at p. H., received
reports from every county in the corn belt.
showing that the corn crop is in first-class
condition. Heavy rains were reported
from almost every correspondent.
Tense f. Massey, residing with j. II.
Price, his son.in-law. one and one-half
miles south of Arkansas City, is the oldest
man in Cowley county, and possibly the
oldest man in the state. Border Bulletin
says he is 80 years old and is yet hale and
hearty old gentleman.
"a pes anti is the anagram Popularist
paper perperpetrates on the maine of the
Republican candidate for congress in the
Sixth district. All the same the said can
didate will poster the Pops up there worse
than chiggers this fall. He'll make 'em
think they 'soG down on yaller jackets
nest"
During a thunder storm at Newton,
Sunday afternoon, the residence of Mrs.
Cowan was struck by lightning, Chin
ney top and part of the roof being demol-
ished. The Kansan says the same build
ing Was struck by lightning. in the same
place, about five years ago. No one was
injured.
1t has turned out that Harry Overholt
of 2pka is cousin OF Manager Prick of
the Carnegie steel mills, and the Kansas
City Star remarks, editorially, that If
modern history has ever developed a per-
son of any notoriety, good or bad, who
has no relations in Kansas, the country
has yet to hear of it.
Quite an important charter was granted
by the secretary of state, Monday, to the
Cherokee Mining and Smelling company
of Cherokee, Kan. The purpose of this
corporation is to operate zinc, coal ana
kansas, and to do all things pertaining to
mining and smelling business. The
amount of capital stock is $150.0O0.
One of the Lawrence papers few days
ago announced that little steamboat is
being fitted up at that point to ply the
Kaw as pleasure craft during the sum-
mer and fall, and an incredulous Topeka
paper ventures to say that its understand
ing has been that the fuvOrite vessel with
the Lawrence pleasure seekers is the
schooner" The 2-pekan probably sizes
up Lawrencians by Its own appetite.
A. p. Fullerton, treasurer-elect of Clay
county, has offered to the commissioners
his official bond with 140 farmers ''in good
circumstances" as signers, but it still lacks
about $40, 900 of the S120, 900 required. He
has spent several weeks time and $50 in
money getting his bond in shape and
seems to be having pretty hard time of
il. Evidently the commissioners of Clay
do not propose to take any chances on the
personal integrity alone Of the Judiciary
with the county's funds.