The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
KANSAS KALEIDOSCOPE


The commencement exercises OF the
State Agricultural college at Manhattan
commence On June 9Th and continue to the
18th.
An average Of about fifty Kansans a day
register at Sunfower headquarters at the
worlds fair The number will increase
/ from now on.
The Kansas sheriffs held their regular
annual nesting in Topeka yesterday.
I Most OF the sheriffs throughout sthe state
we're present.
1t is announced that the one way fare TO
/ Chicago will be reduced by the Santa fe
to 50 p next Saturday. to conform with
/ the reduction Of round trip tickets.
Last season St. Francis, out in Chey-
/ enne county, shipped more broom corn
! than any other city in the United States,
and it is going to keep up that lick this
! year.
| One of the most honored and infuen-
tial citizens of Emporia passed suddenly
away on Tuesday evening. Captain :. b.
| Warren has gone to meet his old friend
and partner. p. b. Plumb.
The farmers have their corn in the best
shape possible. being clean and well Guilt
waited and the good corn weather OF last
few days leads many to predict large
crop.-Winfeld Courier.
Governor Smith of the Soldiers hons
has forbidden the Leavenworth Times to
be delivered at that institution. But Col
oneI Dan Anthony has the assurance to go
right on Issuing the Times every morning,
just the same.
The present visible stock of grain in
Kansas is estimated at 81, 00O,0 900 bushels
of corn oud 100000 bushels OF wheat. aud
from the way the latter is pouring into
market it is evident that there Is fully that
much on hand.
. Mr. George Pierce of Horton, Kan, for
whom Pierce Junction was named, died
suddenly of heart disease a few days ago.
Mr.. Pierce was prominent IN the knights
of Pythias, which organization attended
the funeral Obsequies.
Professor Vernon L. Kellogg will ac-
cept the chair offered him IN the Leland
Stanford university and will leave Law
renee next September. Young Mr.. hel-
logg is Kansas product, being gradu-
ate of the university.
Kansas City packers the past week
slaughtered only 26,3S4 hogs, against
Il, 500 year ago. Top hog prices May 80
were: Chicago, 81 40; Indianapolis, 7.40;
Buffalo. s. 60; Omaha, So %; Sioux City.
$705; Kansas City, $40; st. Louis, 1925.
Woman's Suffrage Republican clubs are
forming all over the state. The members
pledge themselves to support only suffrag
NJ; I al, p
boycott will have the effect of il boomer
ang. Political prescription don't go.
Koontz Bros, of Finney county are put
tug in over 100 acres of broom corn this
year, and the Garden City Herald says il
the season is at all favorable they will
make small fortune off the brush. Broom
corn is the best paying crop in western
Kansas and farmers plant plenty of it,
Mrs Eugene Ware of Fort Scott is one
of the Kansas women who has been hon
ored with an invitation to give an address
at the woman's congress in the Chicago
exposition. The subject chosen by her is
what Kansas Women are Doing With
Higher Education" To be given il ly Il,
coming.
Amos Walton succeeds Wagner Broth
ers IN the editorial control and manage
ment of the Arkansas City Dispatch. Mt
Walton is no novice as writer and all
round newspaper man. and With his Dem
ocratic propensties and Populistic lean
ings he will no doubt make the Dispatch
Just as erratic, politically, as his immedi-
ate predecessors did.
a Topeka evangelist who claims to have
had a vision OF heaven says there are not
many people there, and that there is room
for lots more. He says the people are
piled up three deep in the other place and
are still .a-comin' Evidently that preach
er wants to rival Sam Jones for sensation
alism, but he is experimenting in a
mighty poor place, here IN Kansas, talk.
ing that sort of stuff.
This is the original and unique way the
Sterling Bulletin and Gazette has of not
ing local society incident
There's a very fiuc man in our town,
With a very fine wife. It's sad,
But he made a mistake
When he stayed out too late,
And forgot to 20