The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-30

ABOUT KANSAS.

Sherman county claims to have produced
half the wheat which Secretary Mohler
credits to the western belt i'll Kansas.
Coffeyville wants to know if there is
another city in the state that can produce
a mother % years old with nine children.
II not she will claim the pennant.
Among the solidest institutions of the
state is the Exchange National bank of
Ell Dorado stands conspicuous. On July
IL it had on deposit subject to check $780,
93S o.
Fifty acres of Butler county wheat
| crop raised by ID. S. Bonham has been
threshed, and the fifty acres made 1857
bushels, a fraction over thirty-nine bush
els per acre.
The boss yield of wheat reported from
| Kansas this year is that produced by n
Sumner county farmer on the Minnesota,
which averaged forty-eight bushels to the
| acre. Sumner is great empire in every
| way.
A Jewell county man last year cut sew
enty-seven tons OF alfalfa from thirteen
acres, worth $50 per acre. This year, dur
ing the drought, his first cutting amount
ed to nineteen tons. This statement is
vouched for.
The Yates Center News says farm land is
changing hands in Woodson county at
rapid rate, and in every case the purchaser
is paying the spot cash. And, further
more. the lands are not being sold by the
sheriff, either.
The Republican says the increased valu-
alton in the railroad assessment for this
year will make the railroad taxes paid to
Saline county about s., 500 more than the
amount paid by the railroads in the coun-
ty last year.
The true philosophy of life is to adapt
ones self to existing conditions that can
not be changed and make the most of
whatever of opportunity Is presented.
This is suggested by an item in the Salina
Republican which stated that the inmates
of the Salina county poor farm celebrated
the 9th birthday of one of their number.
Coffeyville is evidently beginning to feel
its oats. The Journal says: "Fiying Jib
can pace around anything that wears iron
for one mile, and when he gets keyed up
for race he may be able to do it for three
of them" At that rate Flying Jib is
likely to have a boom, p. q.
The Topeka Journal says that Noah |
Allen, who is making speeches TO the |
striking miners in the interest of Ceace, |
will be paid for his services out Of the |
governors contingent fund. All the same |
the taxpayers of the state will have it to |
pay This providing for Noey public |
expense is getting mighty chestnutty.
George w. Watson of Larned, supern-
10, - tlxo AL, < Il
ton company's property, is of the opinion
that the drouth in western Kansas is caus-
ed by prairie fires He calls the attention
of the old settlers in the western counties
to the circumstance that every fall when
there have been extensive prairie fires has
been followed by a dry season the next
year. the theory seems plausible.
After three years and four months of
assiduous labor in the interest Of Barton
county as whole and the Republican
party III particular, Morgan Caraway |
steps down from the tripod of the Great
Bend Register and is succeeded editor
aud proprietor of that paper by Joe Ii.
Borders The press gang of the state say
goodbye to Caraway with sincere regret.
while wishing that his successor may in
every way prove worthy one.
Replying to an inquiry from Ohio that
was prompted by IA statement made to the
1uerist by an alleged former resident Of
Gray county, that no rain had fallen III
that county for five years, the Cimarron
New West says, in part:
March and April have had no RAIN but
we record the rainfall for May "a inches;
June, 2ll inches; July, up to 2lst, 4.35
inches. Il is true that some portions of
he country have not been blessed with
this much rain, but we believe that the
rains will become more general aud more
abundant Rain indications are good
Western Kansas suffers abroad worse than I
1t home"