The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-15
ABouT KANSAS

R. D. Mobley. formerly state land agent
| OF Kansas, died the other day q Grane
Junction, Colo.
The tuba player in the Humboldt bras
band confines his diet to sweet potatoes
He is said to be- the loudest blower In the
state.
Topeka is threatened with an epidemic
lof diphtheria. The number OF cases re
| ported to the health officers is increasing
, daily.
The Democrats of Lyon county have
placed in the field straight ticket. The
convention was largely attended and very
enthusiastic
The Grand Lodge, l. o. o. F., OF Kan
sas, in session at Topeya the past week.
voted to hold its next years session In
Wichita, as did also the Rebekah degree OF
the order.
Mrs. John G. Otis has applied for joo
in the pension Office. The Topeka Jour-
nal observes that taste or pubic lie
makes it impossible to 60 back to the
milk cans
In response to a letter from Or. Eva
Harding, Mrs. Lease writes that she never
charges for making equal Suffrage ao-
dresses. and authorizes DIR. Harding to
draw on her for $50 for campaign expenses
Blythe way, the al setter on the Ell Do
RADIO Republican is up to snun; IN FACT.
he's dandy. The front page OF last
weeks Republican is IS pretty as picture,
with its rules and dashes and curlimacues.
Topeka didn't worry over the loss Of
81 to;3 foir
that two or three state conventions would
be held there within couple OF weeks
took the worry all out of it. She is mere
than even already.
At the conference of the African NJ. E.
church just closed in Kansas City, Kan,
resolutions were adopted without discus
sion, condemning the lynching of negroes
for criminal assault. and at the same time
condemning negroes guilty of such crimes.
Politics at kiowa is so warm that at a
recent city election there twenty-five can
didates to fill vacancies in the city council
received a total of twenty-nine votes. IL
is hoped that like zeal in the counties of
the state will not produce similar results
next month.
Many inquiries have been made con-
corning the quality of paper to be used for
the tickets at the coming election. 1he
secretary of state says that the law is
silent upon this subject, and that the
paper usually used for tickets could be-
used this year.
The Grand Legion of the Select Knights
of the A. o. Z. w. of Kansas meets in
Topeka next Tuesday evening at Repre-
hall. Mayor D. e. Jones on
behalf Of the city will deliver the address
of welcome, and Colonel George w. Reed
will welcome the guests on behalf OF the
order. About $50 delegates will attend.
Kansas is divided into niue health dis
tricts. There are also nine members OF
he state board Of health. Each member
has general supervision of one of these
aud the secretary of the board
has just received reports from the MEM
bers of the board as to the state OF health
Ia their respective districts. These reports
show that the general health Of Kansas is
sood. At Augusta, Butler comfy, there
is an epidemic Of typhoid fever and few
cases at Wellington and Salina. AT To-
oeka and Olathe there are few cases Of
scarlet fever aud diphtheria reported, but
hese cases mentioned constitute the en-
ire amount of contagious diseases in the
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