The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-08
ABOUT KANSAS.

Inc AtchlSOn puOitc SCHOOLS Opcueu MOI
day morning with an enrolment OF about
1,400.
The September term OF the state supreme
court began Monday. The number oil
criminal cases is larger than for many
| terms
An old Usage miner visited the Atchison
coal fields Monday and was surprised al
the fine quality of coal to be found there
He says it is better coal than has yet been
discovered in the west.
/, The Odd Fellows of Kansas will go TO
Chicago 5000 strong. Sept. %. That viii
be Odd Fellows week at the worlds fair
l F. H. Bsttop and w. H. Young are en-
gagged in working up interest in Kansas
Lawrence is to have a Columbian mu
steal and dancing carnival. an entertain
ment of the same nature as the kirmess.
! The entertainment will be given Friday
and Saturday, Sept. Is aud l6. Oh, dear
During the silver debate IN the house
Jerry Simpson received letter from
| Kansas constituent which read: Jerry.
you stand by IL to until he'll freezes over,
aud we'll send you pair of skates to come
| home on"
Topeka Capital: Populists focked to the
state house i'll alarm Monday morning
when they saw the flag floating with the
stars down-a signal of distress. They
were informed that it was mistake OF
cross-eyed janiior
| Farmers are forbidden to sell watermel-
ons on the business streets OF Arkansas
! City, for the reason that the buyers eat
the melons on the curbs and throw the
! rinds into the street. A new sort OF prohl-
bition, and enforced back end foremost.
The Newton Kansan says il is rumored
| that prominent member OF church Is
to bs disciplined for breaking the Sabbath;
the charge is that "he had his fence
painted late on Saturday evening that it
might dry on Sunday" Probably an un-
vanished lie.
| The Fort Scott Monitor hears a rumor
| to the effect that a combination has been
! formed between Major Morrill, and George
l.. Douglass of Wichita, Morrill, to bs the
candidate for governor ana Douglass the
candidate for attorney general Don't be-
| lieve it.
| Notwithstanding the hard times the
Salina mills are preparing to ship more
-four to Liverpool, England. The Repub-
lican boasts that times never get so dull,
either in this country or in England. that
Queen Victoria is obliged to do without
her Kansas -four.
II admit" says Newton cobbler. that
the dull times are good for my business.
People come here to have their shoes
patched and mended that would have
thrown them away in good times and
bought new pair. It's an i'll wind, you
know, that blows no one good."
A dispatch from Washington gives the
Information that the Salina land office is
TO be consolidate d with the Topeka one
or course the Salina people see the pros
pect of their new government building
"fade like dream" in this announcement,
and are correspondingly gloomy and de-
pressed.
The Champion boasts that the most pious
man on earth lives in Atchison. Recently
he went to Chicago with his wife and two
sous and refused to let them visit the
worlds fair grounds because they were
kept open on Sundays. That freak is
equal to the fond mother who gave con-
Sent for her daughter to go out to swim,
but cautioned her to hang her clothes on Il
hickory limb and not go near the water.
The Champion says there is a woman in
Atchison who was married at the age OF IL
years, and at the age of 81 was the mother
of ten children, and there were no twins or
triplets among them, either. During the
first ten years of her married life she gave
birth TO child every year, two of them
being born within eleven months. Eight
of the children are now living The two
that died were born healthy but died IN
infancy.
Out of total of son cars OF stock ship
ped into Kansas City during the month of
August the Santa Fe took in 3 $40 cars.
The Missouri Pacific comes next with
LIS cars. The Rock Island next with
1.100 cars. For ten days. ending Aug. 81,
1898. the Santa Fe put into Kansas City
1,4l2 cars against 1886 cars during the
same period in 1892. Most of this stock
went from Kansas