The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-01
ABOUT K ANSAS.

The State bank Of Stockton paid out
| S30, 600 on checks for hogs and cattle last
month. Aud it didn't bust" the bank,
| either.
| A woman was arrested by the town
marshal at Conway Springs aud lodged in
the lookup, and. thereby hangs s. coo
damage suit against the corporation.
| During thunder storm Wednesday
morning lightning struck barn near
Spivey, killing several horses aud destroy
ing the barn and some other property.
The Salina paper mill ships from one
to three cars day of paper, the prod net
of the factory. The paper combine hasn't
squeezed it to death yet, as threatened
Major William p. Overton. one of
| Wyandotte county's earliest and honored
pioneers, died suddenly about 9:45 o'clock
Wednesday morning at his home in Kan
sas City.
Wheresoever and under whatever cir
cumstances. there you will fiud the form
erly- ofKansas man. A IIeavenworth
man had cousin (name not given so
down Oh the British hattleship Victoria.
Some of the "Cimarron train robbers
have been located" the four of them
have been identified" and the New
West says when they are tried in Clmar-
ron no little sensation may be looked for
| among every body.
Ten head of horses, of the kind they
raise in Jewell county. will buy quarter
section of land in Nebraska Kansas City
Star. And one Sedgwick county bred colt
is worth more than it would take TO buy II
whole section in Missouri.
After a chase of nearly year the Santa
| Fe detectives lodged three men in Jail n
day or two ago on the charge OF wrecking
a train in Usage county, in which wreck
three men were killed and many injured.
One of the men has made confession I'M
plicating the other two.
Sol Miller has met mathematical
problem in the matrimonial situation in
Troy that puzzles him. He says that
while adding one and one together, thus
making one does not affect, per Sc the
population of the town, yet when one is
suDtracted from two, three remains.
The Salina Republican, in commenting
upon Il philantrophic tramp who struck
the town aud refused to accept work upon
the ground that it might deprive man of
family of the job, said, "nuder a ragged
pair of trousers may often beat true,
manly heart"
Newton Republican: n. W. Huston,
! living in Pleasant township, nine miles
east OF Newton, lost in the recent storm
five head of registered shorthorn cattle
and Il fine Jersey COW. The cattle were
standing in bunch and bolt of light
ming killed the six animals in d instant.
| The loss is $40.
\ suit for divorce brought by Mrs James
Wright OF Oxford, Sumner county, which
has been on trial in the Sumner county
district court for the past week, brought
out the fact that Wright, who is a farmer
had accumulated 500 900 ia the past TWEEN
" years by sticking TO his farm His
domestic relations don't tally with his
name nor his business management, evil
IDENTIFY
Mrs john Watts of Topeka has fallen
heir to a large fortune and in com pany
with her husband will sail from New York
on Saturday TO Abo Finland Oa March
e. her father died and left an immense es-
tate, but did not leave will, so the estate
will go TO his child, Mrs. Watts. 1t viii
probably amount to 500, 900
The Winfield Courier says Cowley coun-
tvs prospects for a big crcp were never
better. There is probably more wheat
raised this year han the mammoth crop
OF last year The corn crop bids fair 10
equal the largest average the county ever
had. Oats will far exceed the most san
guine expectations, and the peach crop
viii be simply immense and VIII com
mand a big price. Bully for Cowley.