The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-17
ABOUT KANSAS.

Nearly $780, 00 worth of stone buildings
will be under way in Winfield within thir-
ty days.
ing of quail or prairie chickens except by
the owner of the land.
Such punishment as that don't "hurt'
Jim the least bit; you'll have to Leg-it
faster than that to catch him.
The monument for the soldiers of John
son county will be placed i'll the cemetery
at Olathe and dedicated on Memorial Day.
1t must have made Jim's Legate to read
the dailies during the past month and find
what big failure he has made at reform
ing-Lyons Republican.
Mrs. NJ A. Clark, the lady member of
the board from Jewell county, has been
elected secretary of the new board OF
worlds fair commissioners.
Farmers in Mitchell county report the
prospect for wheat very f1attering with the
exception that the stand is thin. The
wheat is in excellent condition.
The Midland Elevator Company of Win
field last week filled an order from Gal
weston for 100, 600 bushels of wheat. 1t re-
quired AS cars to transport the grain.
Benton, Butler county, has paper of
its own, now, which circumstance will no
doubt deprive the Ell Dorado papers of
many interesting items of local news from
that locality.
Pascal Fish. former chief of the Shaw
nees, who owned the land whereon Eudora
stands, was found frozen to death about q
month ago in the Indian Territory. He
was nearly 80 years old.
Bernard Kelly, the newly elected de-
partment commander of Kansas, announces
that the headquarters of the department.
will remain as heretofore at rooms and 5
in the Keith building, Topeka.
Last year a certain neighborhood in Sew
ard county had planted 400 acres of small
grain. This year that same neighborhOod
has 200 acres in the same crops. A fair
illustration of the general situation in
Western Kansas
George Fretsome OF Winfield has just
executed $500 mortgage on tract of
land in the Flint hills, and the Arkansas
City Traveller tantalizingly remarks that
the chances are that the other fellow will
fret some besore he sees that $500 again.
president of the Woman's Relief corps,
has issued her first general ORDER thank
ing the department for her election and
giving notice of the establishment of her
headquarters at Norton. Kan.
Milan Press: The members of the A. o.
L. w. lodge of this city made up purse
of about SIS this week and presented it to
their brother Workman, Marion South
wick, who is nursing broken arm as n
result OF serious accident which befell
him last week.
Discussing sanitary preparations for the
cholera the Topeka Press says that "tbe
first of April should see every alley as
sweet as New England kitchen and
every frog pond as dry as a Kansas resub-
missionist." That's the doctrine; pass the
order down the line.
Governor Lewelllng approved every act
OF the legislature. OF the 36 bills which
were passed by the two houses, not one
was vetoed. The last was signed 10y the
governor Monday evening at go O'Clock
About one-third go into effect upon publ
cation in the Official state paper, and the
others are to be published in the statutes
Hon. John II. Brown. one of the fore
most Masons IN the United States.
writer of ability, an accepted authority on
Masonry, and for more than quarter of
century grand secretary OF the Masonic
bodies of Kansas, passed away at his resi-
dence at 632 Orville avenue, Kansas City.
at O'Clock Sunday AFTERNOON in his 9th
year.
There were % claimants and witnesses
attending the land Office last Friday, 1t
being contest day. This is the largest
number that has been present for a Ion
time. Tie lands OF Southern Kansas are
again being sought after with an old tim e
vigor They are becoming valuable
Garden City Herald.