The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-14
ABOUT KANSAS.

West Atchison is under a chicken pc,
ban. but denies that it is SCARED bit.
This is Kansas week at the worlds fair
Farris wheel. Sol Miller will tell yol
why.
The sweet potato crop in Finney county
is good one, and the Imprint says thu
farmers engaged in this industry viii
have several Thousand bushels to dispose
Of at digging time.
The farmers up there claim that the dry
weather was having no effect upon the
corn in Atkinson county. They boast that
they will have an excellent corn crop if it
gets no more rain this season. Good
enough.
Hon. Chester I. Long received nearly q
car load OF fish, Wednesday, from the
United States aquarium as Quincy, Ills.
They Were bass, croppies and speckled cat,
and have been planted in the waters OF
Barber county.
Lawrence is revelng in postoffice SEN
sation. One or the letter carriers was sus-
pected of robbing letters of their money
contents, n trap was set for him and he
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amount to something like 500, the Gazette
thinks.
"We notice." Says the Jewell County
News, that some newspapers publish the
! birth of calves" The most that can be
said in criticism of the practice is in the
discrimination against the other species
of quadruped, including the long-eared
and tailed varieties.
Tho very cute and extra-discriminativ
Kansas City Star asserts that the recent
death of Lord Scully will modify the nee
essity of an alien land law in Kansas.
That implies n restricted alien ownership
of land in this state. The only regret is
that the statement is not true.
On last Friday S. W. X. Field received
from Revenue Collector Morris the ap.
pointment of sugar Inspector for Medicine
Lodge, a position heretofore held by Frank
Holmes The Cresset says the appoint
ment WAS great surprise to the fusion
Democracy, who thought they had that
Office 'coppered."
The dog. poisoning mania seems to have
seized upon certain element of leathery
habitue of Newton, and the vigilance COM
mittee has offered a reward Of SIS for the
arrest and conviction of those who have
been guilty of the crime. No more cow
ardly act could be perpetrated than to
take revenge upon a defenseless dumb
brute.
The Odd Fellows of Kansas will go to
the worlds fair by the thousands this
month. The last week OF this month is
Odd Fellows week, and John A. Bright
of Topeka, the grand secretary of the
grand lodge of Kansas, Is getting up, to-
gether with the other officers of the lodge,
a grand excursion. It is expected that
1900 Odd Fellows will 90. They are to
start Sept. %.
1t was reported that a couple of Salinians
who went with an excursion party from
that town to Kansas City over-the-line
the first of the week were shot. The Re-
publican virtually acknowledges the
truthfulness of the report, but ayers that
neither of the victims were hurt-both are
veterans in the shooting business and
have brass lined swallows and copper
bottom stomachs.
A good many counties in the state will
be on the real estate market for time at
least, the result of the act of the legisla.
ture reducing the rate per cent of tax sales
from "a to Is. 1t will work temporary
hardship to the individual taxpayers, but
in the end it will make up to them their
losses: the counties will get the penalties
where the property is redeemed, and where
1t is not they get the proceeds Of the sale
thereof.
Harpster Dice, the Newton boy that was
run over by Missouri Pacific engine in
that place last Saturday, told his father
before lie died that he was not trying to
get on or off the train when the accident
occurred; that he was crossing the track
in front of the train and his foot caught
and he fell and before he could get loose
the cars ran over him. This statement
will probably prompt suit for damages
against the railroad.
Warden Chase Of the Kansas peniten-
tiary says that the number Of prisoners is
rapidly decreasing. He went into the
Office on May and the number is 100 less
than at that time and is failing off at the
rate Of 40 month. This is lower than it
has been in many years He does Tot think
there is any special reason for this. He says
that crimes in was and that in short
time the penitentiary will probably fill up
again. He says that the penitentiary is
now turning out 5000 bushels OF coal
mouth, which is the full capacity Of the
mine.
George B. Neptune OF Finrey county
last week threshed the seed from eigh,
acres of alfalfa and had a crop of seventy
two bushels of clean seed, an average of
nine bushels per acre. worth when thresh-
ed 81 80 per bushel-or production OF
81, so per acre for single crop. Tie I'm
priut says he will her al least one, il
not two, hay crop from the same land Z
D. Meas, living just east OF the city,
shreshed bis alfalfa crop from five ncres
last wednesday, receiving from the ma
chine forty nine bushels of seed THIS
crop was grown wisaoaS the application
of water except such as came Naturally
from the clouds in rain.
OF q sort.
From the Lawrence formal