The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06
ABOUT KANSAS.

| The oil mill at Fredonia paid 80 cents
per bushel for fax this week.
Tie grand lodge of the Turnverein will
meet in Newton next Saturday.
Thirty hogs were killed by single
stroke of lightning near Mcpherson last
week.
The annual meeting of the Kansas Swine
Breeders association will be held at To-
peka, Thursday, Oct. ).
Ex-Railroad Commissioner A. r. Greene
was hurt at Lecompton last Saturday
night by falling tent.
Ninety cars of live stock were trans
ferred from the Frisco to the Santa Fe at
Fredonia during last month.
The Mccormick people have extended
for one year all their notes in western
Kansas given for agricultural machinery.
Unless you write or have printed upon
envelopes the number of days you want
them held, the postmaster will hereafter,
by new ruling, hold the letters thirty
days instead of ten.
Three counties, outside of Shawnee, are
represented in the horticultural display
at the Topeka fair. IL is but fair 10 state
that this circumstance gives them a show
of right to call it state fair.
1t having been reported that parties in
the state are using explosives to kill fish,
State Fish Commissioner Wampler has
given warning that he will enforce the
penalties of the law against anyone caught
Indulging in that practice.
Eugene and Cora-Zook Smith, late pub.
fishers of the Topeka Lance. have begun
the publication of local paper, the Cour-
Ter, at Fairyiew, Brown county. The
Courier is modelled after the Lance except
its head and the tint of the paper used.
Lakin Index: Fifty bushels of wheat at
50 cents a bushel only brings the farmer
So load, but fifty bushels of alfalfa seed
at $50 per bushel realizes the snug sum
of s225. The=above figures explain the rea-
sou why our farmers raise alfalfa instead
of wheat.
With characteristic Frank-ness the To-
peka Journal drops this significant hint
to the parties in interest: "rhe crooks
who came over on the fair circuit from
St. Joe, may enjoy seeing one of their
number adorn a Sixth street telegraph
pole. It's way we have"
Last month was big one for business in
police court in Arkansas City. The Tray
eler says the fines collected amounted TO
s., 903, the largest sum ever collected Iy
the city; there were over go arrests made,
and if all prisoners had paid out the fines
wonld have reached fully 5000. 1t was
the city's great and last opportunity for
working the boomers, and it made the
most Of it.
The district court for Cowley adjourned,
Saturday, until Oct. Il. On the last day
four men were sentenced to terms IN
states prison of from one TO SIX years.
Rusker, the man who killed Scott Osborn
twenty years ago, WAS given a six months
iail sentence, in consideration OF his good
record as peaceabIe citizen since the
killing.
The Ministerial association Of Atchison
has employed two Chicago evangelisGs %
come TO thai place and make war on
Satan. The Champion admits that there
IS room there for an extra amount of work
along this line. isn't that something OF a
reflection on the Ministerial association
What have they been doing all summer,
In a seif-sbregatory sort of war the
Msdicine Lodge Cresses says: Barber
is the only county in kausas that we
know of where 4 populiss went off aud
i.tt an Office. We have three eases, yet our
climate is just as salubrioas. oar society
Just as recherche. our soil i2st as produc-