The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-27
ABOUT KANSAS.


the circuit court at Hutchinson last week
Dad enough. he lives near Cow creek.
Mr.. Harvey F. NJ. Bear and Miss Grace
A. Thorpe were married on July 20 ut
Centerville. la. They will be at home in
Wellington.
The business men and taxpayers of
Newton have petitioned the city council to
license joints TO sell shop tea and other
Misunderstanding drinks" Who said the
world is fiat?
Beauless Newton girls, in spirit of
sarcastic revenge, call their pet poodles
Dude, and they never fail to speak
the pets name whenever in hearing of a
young man, or men.
A Mrs Hanna plunged into a fountain
in the park at Topeka last Friday and res
cued drowning child that had strayed
away from its mother and fallen Into the
water. Brave Mrs. Hanna
The mayor at Parsons has been arrested
under the prohibtory law for not enforc-
ing the law against selling liquor. Very
few actions have been brought under this
section of the law, and the outcome OF
this case will be watched with interest.
There is an old bachelor living in New
ton that owns half dozen we'll paying
business blocks on Main street, yet the
circumstance that he sweeps and takes
care of his own bachelor apartments is
sufficient justification to the Republican
to note it AS among the unusuals.
The river situation at Atchison is be-
coming seriouser every day. Unless the
IF he hon bo cid.
stopped it will not be long until a new
bridge will have to be builc across the
channel of the river to get to the bridge
that now spans the stream.
Lawrence Journal: about 5. 100 pack
ages of diseased chinch bugs have been
sent out from the experiment station Mt
the university this year. This means
about 6I5. 900 bugs and the cost Of sending
them through the mails reaches $3.50. 20.
And it seems to be money we'll spent.
A circus was in Lawrence Saturday,
and, mirabile dictu, the Journal says
there WAS not a single marriage license
issued; the first time such thing has oc-
Cured in long while The question that
is naturally suggested by the statement
is, what has a circus to do with the issuing
OF marriage licenses, or vice versas
Governor Lewellng has appointed the
following delegates to represent Kansas ut
the bimetallic congress at Chicago. Aug. l,
the first five being all but one of the ex-
governors of the state now living: John p.
st. John, Charles A. Osborne. Charles
Robinson, james NJ. Harvey. George W.
Click, l.. L. Humphrey, +. b. Johnson,
Frank c. Hare, Colonel w. b. Adams and
w. ID. Rppey.
The Newton Kansan tells. no lie when
it says that some of the tramps now going
over the country begging something TO eat
are gentlemen who never did e. days mau-
ual labor and do not know enough about
farming to hoe a row of corn. The trouble
with them is that they do not want TO
learn. AS one expressed it recently, the
reason they do not try to get work Is be-
cause il they did i; would keep some hon-
est and deserving laborer out of job.
A meeting of representative citizens of
Barton county was held in Great Bend
July 18th, to consider the subject OF irri-
CATION. A committee was appointed 20
call a convention of delegates from central
and western Kansas to take action on this
all-importani question. August =. YVES
fixed as tie date and Great Bend the place
far the convention and an address issued
inviting all the counties Of western Kansas
TO send representatives,
In phlegmatic. lick-and "A promise sort
of way tie Journal says the fishermen
that do business on the river 81 Lawrence
have been divided into two classes: one
class own all the fixtures tcT capturing
the fish, the other class attend the nets
the latter part OF the evening while the
propriesors sleep. and IL there should be
any fish in the nets they take them out
The latter class, commonly known a.
thieves" have become quite numerous
ia the past month and make more money
than the ones thaE own the nsis-
This item. from tie Arkansas City Dls-
patch. exhibits the ve.a Of superstition
that raus through the entire human
family. though it viii not Re denfrd sSsst
il j. much more developed in some than
some otheEs: Yesterday " teE jim DAD 5
barn was on fire the reporter heard az cd
lady remark: We'll. knew theirs was
goirg 70 b. fire today lsss. terrible
dream Of Gre last nl.a; aa9 weal6 aSs
tell ); before brsakfsst, because j. = lad
luck 20 tel dream ecgors breakfast