The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
ABOUT KAN SAS.
Kansas county superintendent will meet
annual convention at Emporia May 16,

/
| in annual convention at Emporia May 1G,
/ Il and IS.
The superintendent of public instruc-
/ ton has called a meeting of the state
! board of education for May II.
! Kansas has 4,539 church organizations
with membership of 326 93S and $685.
church edifices, with value of S., 4S7, 069.
Mcpherson countys big 4, $50 pound OK
is off for the worlds fair. 1t will be the
biggest four-footed beast at the great
show.
Kansas has 35 UNCONVENTIONAL schools
with an average yearly attendance of
1881 students. The value of buildings
and other school property is S2,5s3,15
! A singing school teacher committed sui
| eide in Newton last week. The charms OF
music lost their soothing scinch in the
presence of domestic discord, hence the
/ whyfore.
| Miss Hattie Horner has returned from
! Chicago to her home in Whitewater. She
has never fully recovered from the injury
she sustained several months ago in rail
road accident.
The state treasurer pays out in cash
more than 100000 every month. Last
month Si25 900 was paid. In March $780,
600 was paid out, but last March was an
unusual month,
The interstate oratorical contest took
place at Columbus, O.. Thursday night, in
which Kansas, among other western states.
was represented. and in which-mirabile
dictu-kansas didn't get first prize. Some
thing wrong.
Ex-Governor George 7. Anthony is one
of four who have secured the lease of a
large tract of coal lands in the Indian Ter
ritory, and he will at once devote his eu-
tire attention to the development of the
property.
Arkansas City Dispatch: Good rain
Thursday night. This will help the wheat
out in good shape. Spring crops ali look
fine Very little fruit was hurt by the
late frosts. Cowley county never showed
better prospects for bounteous season.
Attorney General Little has decided
that county attorneys are entitled 10 but
81 20 as fee for filing complaint for mis-
demeanor when the party arrested pleads
guilty, and not $l2. so as seems to be the
practice Of some.
The Republican convention of the Six
teenth judicial district of Kansas, COM
posed of Edwards. Hodgeman and Paw
nee counties, will be held in Larned on
Tuesday, June 20, 1898, at II O'Clock a m,
for the purpose of nominating q candidate
for Judge of said district
The Goodlaud rainmakerS were at work
again this week, and were successful: that
is, it raiued ont there. The Lawrence
Journal asserts that the fact that it raiued
harder in nearly every other part of Kan
sas does not change the fact that it rsined
at Goodland, but it may make some people
doubt.
1t is reported that the chinch bug is do
ing some damage in Pratt county. The
county commissioners might adopt the
Neosno county plan. n repository has
been established where live, healthy bugs
viii be exchanged for diseased ones. Snow
use talking: the chinch bug has to move
when Kansas gets after 1t.
The state live stock sanitary commits
sion has reported to the governor that
there was TO further danger to the cattle
OF the state by Texas cattle. The Quaran-
tine rules are being enforced at Coffey-
vile. Caldwell. Arkansas CITY, where fe-
yer infected cattle could enter from the
south.
\. !. Anderson of Lawrence was ap-
pointed member Of the state board of
health Friday. Mr.. Anderson is a Demo
crat and was endorsed 10y the State Home
pathic society for the position. THIS APP
pointment completes the list Of members
OF the board. The board elects its cwu
secretary, but the appointment Will not be
made probably before the regular meeting
in June.
The Arkansas Valley Land aud Irrjga-
. ton company has already contracted for
about II. e{.1 acres of breaking, and If they
have no bad lack tbsy will have - 90
acres in wheat next fS!l in pawnee. Fin
uey. Haskell. Hodgemau. kearuey and
other counties. The Jetmore Suni3ower
says next year the company expects TO
break ont the remainder Of their lands IN
southwest Kansas.
An absent minded Hiswatba yonng Lady
WAS duly married and left home with her
husband on 4 bridal tour They stopped
al "a hotel aad retired Ike old folks hat
toward morning the bride, se4utily dress
ed rushed dowa iaio tbs ofiice screaming