The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-03
ABOUT KANS AS.

The quarterly pension payment will be-
gin Saturday at the Topeka agency.
Hunnewell is to have paper again, the
first issue to appear this week. 1t is to be
called the Hunnewell Voice, and Miss
Sunshine Johnson is the edtress.
Past Grand Master F. H. Betton, who
succeeds ". II. Wasson as secretary Of
Odd Fellows Fraternal Benefit associa-
tion, will remove the office to Kansas City,
Kan.
The ST. Louis Post Dispatch thinks that
with the sunfiowers of Kansas turned
into printing paper the enlightenment Of
he world will proceed with something
ike velocity"
J. W. Henthorn, city editor of the Win
field Courier, died at his home in that city
Wednesday. of typhoid fever contracted
about the time of the strip opening in
which he took part.
Secretary Whitfield is issuing invitations
to those interested to attend the first an-
nual poultry and pet stock show of the
Sumner County Poultry association.
which will be held at Wellington, Decem-
Der 1st and 2nd.
A bevy of Newton girls, logged out in
masks and mother-hubbards, outvied the
boys of that town in their Halloween
sportive abandon. There was no crimson
coloring used, bu. it is said there never
was such dust kicked up.
The Winfield postoffice stands sixth
among the second class Offices of the
United States-that there has been but
one complaint filed in eighteen months.
and that was shown to be- the fault OF the
complainant and unavoidable on the part
of the Office.
Out Of the fifty-one who are taking the
civil service examination in Topeka this
week, seventeen are from Topeka, six
from Leavenworth, two from Atchison,
and the remainder from Emporis. Gar
nett, Overbrook. Solomon City, Manbat-
tan, Holton, Alma, Usage City and Con-
cordia.
Topeka Mail: Captain John A. Fisher,
a we'll known member CT Lincoln post of
Topeka, who now lives in Florence, was
married about yea: ago. He was then
nearly 20 years old and totally bliud. He
has just written to his friends here that he
is the father of a 12-pound boy.
In noting the circumstance that couple
of Lawrence wheelmen rode to Tonga
noxie and back the other day in two hours
and eighteen minutes, the distance being
twenty miles, the *. c. Star scores the
touchdown that the Lawrence sportsmen
can do almost anythin. but play football
Attorney General Little says that there
is nothing in the new election law to pre-
vent ii candidates name appearing on the
ticket as the nominee of two parties He
holds that the supreme court in its decis-
ion last Saturday practically decided this
way. Mr.. Little also says that where two
men OF the same party are candidates for
the same Office. one nominated by the reg
ular convention of the party, the other an
independent candidate. the regular nom
ines shall be placed under the party head
and the other shall appear under the head
OF independent candidate" Many in
quiries have been made OH this point.
Mrs. Ruth 5. Todd, a delightful char
acter known to the early settlers of CEN
trail Kansas, died in Chicago, 1850 p. H.,
October 2S, in her SSth year.
She was the widow of Rev William Todd,
a missionary to India, who returned TO
Oh account of his health, settling
in Kansas about the year 1858. She was
one of the faithful pioneer women of the
state. She always prayed that she might
be taken quickly, and when the time came
a loving Father answered. She was bur-
led near Wakefield, in Clay county, yes
terday.