The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-21

years ago at this time did not look half as
| well as it does now, yet the crop OF that
year yielded eighteen bushels pei acre.
! The prohibition crusade viii boom now.
| Albert Griffin has given ~ up his govern
ment position at Washington. and has re-
turned to Kansas to live. The Atchison
! Patriot suggests that he will make an ex-
! cellent Ia ID boureen blower" to accom-
| pary Rev. Niluer's calamityites.
| On Tuesday of last week the little
| daughter of Fred Wilkine. residing near
Nescatuuga, Comanche county, picked uu
I'D Il box OF strychnine and ate some OF it.
Ia little while she complained of 'tast-
ing something nasty" and in an hour was
| corpse. Somebody was guilty OF crimi-
nal carelessness.
This piece of indecent exposure IS from
the pen Of Ed Greer OF the Winfield
Courier:
Judge Timothy McIntire Of the Arkan-
sas City Democrat, who was married less
Than week ago, has turned his entire at
tentlon and editorial columns over TO
| matters pertaining 20 the strip It may
be interesting TO the judge but lots OF peo-
pie are getting tired Of it. ~
Eureka Messenger: One day last week
pig was born on the premises OF Mr.. o.
Benedict Of Spring Creek township, which
IS one OF natures rarest freaks. The ami
NAL has two distinct bodies, eight legs,
and four ears, but only one head and two
eyes. The two spinal columns enter the
head entirely separate from each other,
the head Icing slightly broader than
usual
t1a -
lican candidate to succeed Y. H. Grinstead
as Judge Of the Thirty-third judicial dis
trlct has been called to meet at Scott City,
Wednesday, June II The Ness County
News accuses the district committee OF
gross unfairness in making the apportion-
ment OF delegates from the counties COM
posing the dis riot, and threatens to ight
the nominee Of the convention.
Thomas II. Seward, late of Winfield,
who was department commander of the
Kansas G. a. Il. before Henry Booth, has
just been elected department comm; .uer
of the q. \. r. Of Oklahoma. He form
erly lived at Winfield, but during the last
four years has been at Guthrie Kansas
men seem to run the G. \. Il, in Okla
homa. Previous to Soward's election, Dan
Wyatt, formerly of Topeka, was depart
ment commander.
VIII L. Bolton, the 315 pound cyclist Of
Greensburg, is in Chicago for few days.
About the middle of July Mr.. Bolton
along with Thomas Shaw of Wichita,
l25 pound wheelman, Will head a body
of 100 cyclists, who, starting from Green's
burg, will ride to Chicago to attend the
bicycle races of the international tourna-
ment. Mr.. Bolton is now in Chicago
getting constructed especially for himself
a bicycle that will carry his one-seventh
of long ton Of avoirdupois over the
rough roads in safety. He says Mr..
Shaw's wheel does not differ from any
other. Mr.. Shaw and himself Will ride
at the head of the procession and they
anticipate making quite sensation on
their way to Chicago.
September l. to 10 inclusive will be Kan
saS week at the worlds fair. In writing
about it to the Atchison Champion Tom
Anderson says: I'VE will have an exhibit
that no citizen of Kansas need be ashamed
of. We expect the entire population to be
at Chicago during Kansas week and
'whoop it up for the sunfower state" He
concludes with the opening stanza of the
Kansas cantanta, to be sung by the Mo-
docs at the worlds fair.
we hail from a country located ont west.
\ garden of Eden, the best of the best,
O'crtlowing with honey, by sunshine carcSsed,
1t really hasn't its mate.
The thrftiest state since Dame Nature was
born,
Where everything grows but the thistle and
thorn,
And everything goes but the Juice of the corn,
In the beautiful ''SunhOwer state''