The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
ABOUT KANSAS,

No farmer is successful who does not in
addition to other crops grow tame grasses
and clovers Alfalfa stands drouth better
than any other, and is being cultivated
with great success by our best farmers.
The Missouri Pacific railway manage
ment is having S25, 900 passenger depot
built at Leavenworth. The requirements
for better depot accommodations at Wich-
tia are far more pressing than those at
Leavenworth.
Captain Barnes, living south of Newton,
informs the kansan that the infected
chinch bugs that were scattered through
his field of corn did the work claimed for
them, and that everyone on his farm is
laid out in gne shape.
Chief Justice Horton states that there
are already before the supreme court suf-
ficient cases to raise every point of law in
the new mortgage law, and that the
opinion of the court on these points will be
handed down in October.
The Winfield machine shop was burned
last Friday night, the building and con-
tents being entirely destroyed The shop
was sold by the sheriff short time ago,
suspect that the fire was of incendiary
origin.
At Sterling, Kan, on a recent Sunday
a minister prayed God to make the heart
of Governor Alvgeld of Illinois as soft as
his head This moves the Atchison
Champion to observe: God can do any
thing he chooses, but that is asking good
deal of Him even for a Kansas preacher.
An Abilene banker estimates that the
people of Dickerson county have at least
$500, 900 in cash slowed away in their
| pockets, old teapots and stockings. Dickin-
sou county is perhaps hot worse off in this
| respect than the average of counties in the
state. That is one chief cause of the pres
ent financial condition.
Ii is claimed that Jewell, the Rock
Island rainmaker, has been uniformly
successful in inducing precipitation in the
twenty-five counties in western Kansas
where be has eyperimented. Russell
county's citizens ought to induce him to
pay them visit: il is said that in portions
of that county no rain has fallen since
September of last year, aud no snow dur
ing the winter.
Cloy Weaver, son of A O. Weaver. who
is the teacher at the Kickapoo mission
school, is but - years of age and is the
| clever boy who received the SIS prize lin
! lieu of a ticket 10 the worlds fair from a
| Toronto, Canada, firm for making the
most words ont of the letters that com
| pose the word Chicago. He made eighty
eigh words, says the Western Spectator.
| Out OF a total of fifty-six teachers GER
titcstes granted in Douglas county at the
last examination only.eleven were given
/ 10 men, and OF these nos one was first
| grade. Noting the circumstance the New
/ ton Republican observes that in this field
/ OF usefulness the women have in recent
years gained a decided advantage. and
whether they are better teachers or not. it
is certain that within very short time
| they Will have no competitors
| In her speech at Hiswatha a few DAYS
ago Mrs. Lease said she had made politics
pay" whsrest the World remarks: And
she has. She has paid for the farm. She
lss nice city home. She has established
her husband IN the drag business. Her
son goes to college and draws q salary as
secretary OF the OssawaIomie asylum
She Is making several thousand dollar. a
=. year No man has ever made politics pay