The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-31
ABOUT KANSAS.


grapes daily
Judge Aimerin Gillett of Emporia was
married yesterday. the 18TH. with Mrs.
Anna B. Zimmerman OF Hutchinson at
the brides home in that city.
Rev D. c. Miner and a coterie of fellow
prohibs from Topeka have gone to 81.
Louis, to be gone ten days. What will
become of 1.-The cause" meanwhile?
The next sitting of the state supreme
court will be held Sept. 3. 1t is probsbie,
however, that Judge Horton will dispose
of some accumulated business before that
time.
The fiscal year OF the Old Fellows
grand lodge closes with the month of Au,
gust. All the secretaries OF subordinate
lodges are preparing their books for the
wind.up
Sixty petit and twenty-three grand jur-
ors will be drawn this week for the Sep
tember term of the Uui led States district
court, which will be held at Wichita, be-
ginning next week.
The examinations for state certificates
and diplomas are being held this week by
the state beard of education at Topeka,
Ia"iCuCc, " Audcio,
Great Bend, Kansas City. RUSSELL Phil
lipsburg, Dodge City and Leoti. The ex-
amiuations will continue throughout the
week.
The state insurance department is in re-
ceipt of letter from the receiver OF the
defunct Equitable insurance company of
Denver in which the holders of policies in
that company are urged TO send in their
policies and receive in return the uneX.
pired premiums on their policies.
The heaviest yield of wheat reported by
the secretary OF the state board OF agricul-
ture for the year 1898 was raised by Seigel
Car of Lakin Haskell county. His field
OF ten acres nettcd him 90 bushels or six
ty five bushels TO the acre. Haskell couu-
~ is In the way-out-west part OF the state.
Governor Leweliing has been notified by
Chairman Caldwell of the Western Pas
senger association OF Chicago that a rate
of one fare fer the round trip from all
Kansas points to Chicago has been author
lZed for Kansas week. These tickets will
be sold Sept. 10 AMI II. and will be good to
return including Sept. II.
As a diversion from the WEAKNESS of the
Hughes court-martial aud that dam prop
osition that still hangs fire. the people of
Topeka find surcease of mental misery in
the game OF checkers. 1t also helps them
to forget the erstwhle enjoyments of the
club room, of which they are now de-
prived. It's a great trick to live In
2-peka.
Elk Senator Fl. B. Kelley, formerly of
Mcpherson. but more recently of Law
renee, announces that he will locate in
Oklahoma us soon AS the Cherokee strip is
opened. He will open law office in con
nection with II newspaper Office at Perry.
Senator KELLEY is an old newspaper man,
and used to run" the Mcpherson Free
man. He is now IL member Of the State
board of charities.
The MOdoc club of Topeka have ar
ranged to give one performance of the
Kansas cantata in that place on Septem-
Der 4th, and for that special occasion
Captain Rowlcy has prepared what he
calls the curtain rising act, in which is
portrayed aud characterized the organiZa-
ton of the Kansas legislature, with
all the more prominent characters
we'll represented. Among this charac-
tiers represented by the Mo1ocs dur
ing the performance will be that of Speaker
Doug ass. Fred Close, j. NJ. Dunsmore,
Senator PETER, Senator Ingalls,. Jeremiah
Simpson, Chancellor Snow. Senator Mar
tin, Ranmaker Jewell, Moliie Lease, Colo
mel John Brown and others.
At the initial performance in this city,
the cantata proper will begin the second
act, in which the cry of the Modocs is intro
duced in the refrain Of the opening and
closing chorus.and is as follows:
I'VE hail from Sunny Kansas,
We're way up on ghost dances,
We grasp the golden chances,
And now that music talks
We are band Of Kansas bummers,
We've travelled and warDied many sum-
mers-
Nighthawks, Jayhawks, Modocs"
Then will follow numerous solos BY
those members who represent prominent
Il ch.racfars