The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-18
ABOUT KANSAS.

DR.. Eva Hardy is a candidate for secre-
tary state board of health.
Kansas acreage of corn planted is much
| larger than any previous year.
Governor Lewelling will deliver the
Fourth of July address at Osborn.
Kansas City Gazettee: Kansas, first in
wheat, first IN corn, but il stands at the
bottom of the ladder in bank failures.
The State Sunday School association of
the Christian church has established in
Salina, state office with a secretary who
will give it his exclusive attention.
Adjutant General ArtZ anAeunces that
the battalion encampments, during which
the Kansas militia will drill for week,
will be held In the month of'August.
The Sumner county Republican conven-
ton will be held in Wellington, July 18th,
TO nominate candidates for the various
county offices to be filled, including the
district judgeship.
John Bull of Garfield annex to Finney
county has hundred mich cows on his
ranch and is going to set up cheese fac
tory there soon. That's the kline of men
who never below calamity.
A wit at the Saline county teachers in
stitute has settled an often-discussed ques-
ton by declaring that hanging is benef-
cial to the man hung" as sit gives him
visible means of support"
Notwithstanding the commonly accepted
statement that the wheat crop of the state
will not be much above half of what last
years crop was, the demand for harvest
inn h nd hipAinoy tyuip
to be as great as usual.
The Globe. Republican of Dodge City he's
reports from several farmers who claim
that their wheat will yield from % to 40
bushels per acre. Part of the fields are
irrigated and of course will make nearly
double the yield of the parts not irrigated.
The Newton Republican says good
judges estimate that fully three quarters
as many bushels of wheat will be harvest
ed in Harvey county as were taken out Of
the fields last year. And with between
800, 900 and 400, 900 bushels of old wheat on
hand the farmers in the county are in ex
cellent condition.
The following dates have been claimed
for Kansas fairs: Moran, August 11-25,
inclusive; Winfield, September IS; Par
sons, September SIS; Wichita, September
1915, aud Girard, September IL Is. The
St. Joe fair will be held September IS 23,
and the Kansas City fair September $3.50.
The summer solsuice, says the Cimarron
New West, is the season when Old Sol be-
gins to draw a bead on the equator. You
are wrong, klaine; we are in it now, and
the big orb is getting away from the
equator as fast as the law allows, up into
cooler regions. Nevertheless, this is
burning question in Kansas at this time.
The discharged mail carriers at Kansas
City, Kan, propose to fight the order of
discharge p. S.-Since hearing Of Olney's
decision in the Topeka case, which is just
like theirs, the discharged carriers at Kan
sas City, have concluded to pocket the
affront and walk out-another case of
Davy Crockett and the coon.
There was an odd genius in Newton,
Thursday. He was a supposed tramp, but
said he had in his possession an 1904 dollar
and other valuable coins. The Republi-
can says he did not exhibit them, saying
that he would not sell them there. as their
value would not be appreciated in town
of that size. As soon as the latter remark
was noised On the street half the town
turned out to avenge the insult, and If the
author of the libelous assertion hadn't
vamosed beforehand he would probably
have worn a suit out of the place made up
Of tar and feathers.