The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-07
ABOUT KANSAS.

Seymour Davis has been appointed state
architect by the board of public works.
The position is worth 81, 500 year.
Eleven girls and one boy will graduate
from the high school in Atchison IN June:
four of the young ladies are colored
st. John was strictly in it, Tuesday,
electing the Republican candidates for
mayor, police judge and three of five coun-
cilmen, though light vote was polled.
Crinoline is going to have as smooth sail
ing, even among the women, as the cham
pions have imaged. The women bicyclists
are dead against the hoop skirt and are
organizing to fight it, mounted or on foot.
The Caney bank officials, it seems, were
prepared for robbers. 1t had the bulk of
its money hid in an out of the way place
and when the robbers ransacked the money
drawers they only found S2,G75.35. They
took that, though, and still have it.
How commonplace seems those Georgia
names which the eastern papers are hav-
ing so much fun about. in comparison
with Bowersock and Bromelsick and
Greiffenstein and Poppendick and Popenoe
aud Jumper.
academy of language and literature will
be opened at Music hall, Lawrence
Wednesday evening, April -, and the bal
ance of the sessions will be held at the
university buildings.
Arkansas paperpredicts REPETITION of the
Wichita boom in Jerusalem, noting which
the Kansas City Star compliments Wichita
by remarking that it is quite doubtful
whether farming land could ever be made
to bring $50 front foot in Hebrew COM
munity
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of the new paper mill at Fort
Scott. The building will cost about s., 900.
Work will commence immediately. AS
soon as the structure is completed it will
be furnished with about $50, 900 worth of
machinery manufactured expressly for the
experiment of making the sugar cane pulp
into fine wrapping paper.
The report that eX-supreme court COM
mlssiouers, George S. Green and j. G..
Strang, would form law partnership at
Guthrie, Ok, is denied at the supreme
court room in Topeka. Chief Clerk Brown
says that he has heard from the commits
sioners and both are at their homes
Judge Green at Manhattan and Judge
Strang at Larned.
If the editor of the Champion were as
impulsive and irascible as the editor of the
Patriot seems to be over the defeat of the
combine ticket in Atchison, the panther
sign would be visible on the streets of that
town any hour of the day. If the editor of
ha bo, falN - H.
a scrap any minute.
The Cowley county district court con-
vened Tuesday morning. Among the i'm
portant criminal cases that will be heard at
this term the Patterson and Sanford MUIR
der case; the Reed murder case; the Kilion
murder case; the Chase rape case and the
McMullen embeZzlement case.
The entire Republican ticket was elected
in Atchison with the possible exception Of
mayor. Democrats claim the election of
w. I. Bland over NJ. j. Cloyes by eight
majority. Republicans claim tie, 1896
votes each. The city council will canvass
the vote today, Friday. OF the 800 women
women who registered about 80 voted.
1t has leaked out that the story of Ed
Howe losing his money in the Kansas
/ 1oan and Trust company at Atchison was
but ruse to get out of his Mail venture
in Kansas City, Missouri. He did not lose
by the failure, but did drop about s., 0e0in
his two or three weeks experience over the
line, so gossip says.-k. G. Gazette.
p S.-Instead of a weeping willow, it
will now be in order for every good citizen
of Kansas, in observing dwellings Arbor
day proclamation, to go forth and plant
p elm. Clubs may be needed for trumps
later on.