The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-24
JOTTINGS ABOUT KANSAS.

Senator Martin has been ir Emporia for
several days.
The state board of charities does not
meet again until January.
The twenty-one attendants at the state
insane asylum are only paid SIS a month,
but their expenses are paid.
The Farmers Elevator company OF Sum
merfield, with "A capital of $3.50, has been
chartered by the secretary Of state.
| Cowley county is close second to Sum-
ner ia the amount of taxes it will receive
from its railroads this year. being S54 952
| Freeman Foster, well-to-do farmer of
| Topeka township, Shawnee county, has
voted at every election but one for thirty
seven years.
Cowley county cast nearly 1000 ballots
| at the last election, and only about seventy
| five were returned to the county clerk
spoiled. Good record.
The Concordia Blade, Populist, says that
Mrs. Lease is freak of nature, a monstros-
ity, political termagant. Now listen for
the snip OF Mary Ellen's scissory tongue as
it cuts back.
The Fort Leavenworth people are jubil-
ant, as are also those of the city, over the
reconstruction OF the Rapid Transit line
and the proposed plan of putting on cleo
trio cars between the city and the fort.
A Kansas man has invented a cure for
the liquor and tobacco habit and has form
ed a company for the purpose of introduc-
ing it. 1t is called the Columbus Special
Cure company and has capital of $500.
The discriminating Emporaps denom-
mate lagrippe as tn worlds fair dis
temper That shows the Porian distem-
per towards the fair. Fact is, the what-is-
1t? had its grip on the country months and
years before the fair did.
The crop report of the agricultural bu-
reau for October will be issued this week.
The principal thing of interest in it is the
number OF apple trees that are reported IN
bloom. In Lyon, Coffee and Usage coun-
ties blossoms on apple trees have been
common sights this fall.
Poles are being set for new telephone
line between Kansas City and Atchison.
There are forty men at work and the line
will be completed by the first of Deem
Ter. 1t will be metallic current, with
No. y standard copper wire:
Referring to the staleness of the grass
hopper jokes on Kansas, the Fort Scott
Monitor says: ut makes us shlver to
think that in quarter OF a century from
now in the east we will hear jokes about
the Populists being bad in Kansas"
Storms, storms everywhere, say the dis
patches, raging from the gulf to the Brit
ish possessions and from tue Rockies to
the Alleghanies." And yet here IN Kan
sas the winds blow softly from the south
land, the bluegrass and the birds sing in
gladness, with only a slight demi-semi-
quaver of frost-chill in their notes.
State Printer Shows wife makes some
very serious charges against her husband
in response to the divorce papers filed by
him. She charges him with supporting
another woman in Topeka, and with
imaking a trip to California with her
while neglecting his wife. lie Sn- what's
the use talking about so light'and tran
sent subject as that misnamed person?
Lawrence Gazette: Newton is breaking
away from old social customs. Six dress
suits having appeared at a recent club hop,
it is safe to assume that the costume that
includes a sack coat with half inch braid
and four inch roll collar, spring-bottom
violet trousers, red necktie and horse
shoe shirt pin, will not be considered en-
regal at future functions in the town
where the Santa Fe's trail branches off.