The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-31
ABOUT KANSAS,

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exhibit for the worlds fair. 1t will be
shipped inside of two weeks.
Colonies of Ohio farmers continue to
settle in the counties of the happy valley
of the Arkansas. and all are we'll fixed.
Seventeen children from the Northern
Indiana Orphans Home, are being placed
with families near Larned, for adoption.
Rev. DR.. A Beatty, once the pastor of
Trinity church, Lawrence, will commence
his rectorship at Newton on Easter Sun
day.
A 700 acre farm has just been sold in
Butler county for 10000. Talk of wheat
failure arouses no fears in the state of
Butler"
A car load of Kansas horses was shipped
to johnson. VT. this week. This is the
second car load shipped from this state to
the point named since last fall.
Nearly everybody except the lady her.
self considers the candidacy of Mrs,
Potter Of Kansas City, as a great joke.
The joke would be on the city if she should
be elected.
Senator PETER has appointed his daugh-
ter Nellie clerk of the senate committee of
which he is chairman This is the first
time woman has been appointed clerk OF
Il senate committee.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche: Before
the people of Kansas City, Kan, elect a
lady mayor they ought to require her to
announce her platform OH the hoopskirt,
or her hoopskirt on tine platform, as it
were.
h. IL, 4 ho cfo{o
urer this month have been tie largest in
the history of the Office. The disburse-
ments will reach about $500, 900. $3.50, 600 of
which was the payment OF the semi-anuual
school fund.
L. w. Yaggy of Chicogo has $40 acres in
Reno county planted in cataipa trees. He
calculates upon a rich harvest in fence
posts and railro al ties in a ie oFeais. for
which purposes the catalpa Is said 10 be
superior to all other trees.
The Minneapolis Messenger says that
all junction City people are divided into
two classes: Those who enjoy rat catching
contests and those who like fast horses"
The women that belong to either are all
members of the latter society.
A young Republican of Atcbison took
his girl to register on last Friday evening,
and when the clerk asked her age she re-
piled twenty" It almost took away the
young mans breath, but he reserved his
tears until he reached the street.
A. G. Stacey says "the Kansas maxi
mum freight bill was drawn up by men
who couldn't distinguish the difference
between hand Car and rotary snow
oh nf ha
moustrosity would have saddled it onto
the state if they could.
James Billingslea will be released. Ar
rapgements have been made to restore al
the money he withheld while assistant in
surance commissioner under ID. w. Wilder.
The amount is Sc, 500 and was paid over to
the state Wednesday. Attorney General
Little will make a motion to dismiss the
case.
The friends of Charles Dunlap, genera
superintendent of all lines of the Rock
Island west of the Missouri river, will be
pleased to learn that he has been promot-
ed to the Office of general superintendent
of the whole system. His headquarters
will be in Chicago. This is the same office
as that occupied by H. Il. Nickerson of
the Santa Fe.
The new state live stock sanitary COM
mission met Tuesday in Topeka and ef-
fected an organization. j. I. White of
Ada. p. Z. Hall of Eureka, L. \. Turner
of Maryviile and George G. Pritchard OF
Topeka were present. mir. White was
chosen chairman of the board and DR..
Pritchard was chosen secretary.
This item that is found in the New York
Sun, calls to mind the old saw OF go from
home to learn the news" Kansas has an
attractive, unmarried young woman
preacher OF the Universalist faith. She Is
a regularly ordained minister aad al eio-
ouent apostle of the larger hope.
Here is an item of Record that is worth
noting: Mrs. Cleveland has declared that
she prefers hair cloth to crinoline. and a
New York mon cornered the market i'm
mediately and sent hair cloth up from is
to 35 cents 1t takes more than one New
York man, however, to ge, "A corner" in
Kansas, and the Lawrence woman who
saved her bair cloth ''sofy" is laughing in
her leg O. mutton sleeves.