The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-08
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! The Mulvane Record has absorbed the
MuivaDe Graphic and now the only paper
( il Mulvane is the Record.
! The annual delegate convention of the
/ Republican leagues of the state of Kansas
| has been called for March 10 at Topeka.
/ s w. Chase, the new warden at the
state penitentiary, will not take charge OF
the keys of the big boarding house until
! May |.
The commissioners of Harper county
have purchased a half-section of land near
Anthony upon which to establish poor
farm.
Thornton Cooke, the young man who
won first prize in the state oratorical con-
test, is a son of Hon. Sidney G. Cooke, O.
Harrington, Dickinson county.
It will have cost Topeka S1,s57,475 to
pave its streets and build its sewers, when
its bonds to that amount shall have been
paid. Aud yet her public improvements
are not finished, by q dam site.
The new elevator at Conway Springs is
almost completed and it is well built
and substantial structure. The Star
claims that Conway now has one OF the
very best elevators in the country.
The Atchison Champion thinks the pop
ulists will come to regret sitting down
upon Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Mrs. Diggs, as
they are too sharp to be sat upon with
comfort. That point has been raised be
fore
The Lawrence university Cooke solved
that institutions Riddle and is now the
orator-laureate thereof, instead of the lat
ter who acknowledged the KEPT of others
brain pabulum IN the makeup of his prize
Grafton.
According to Professor Shows record,
there was less precipitation Of snow and
rain last month than in any other January
for twenty-five years, the period during
which records have been mede. The
months mean temperature was also the
lowest. Still, it wasn't half as mean here
as it was north and east.
What kind of a spell is this that has
come over the spirit of the dreams of
Atchison's young men! 1t was but a short
time since young Waggener captured for
his bride one Of the bellies of Tennessee,
and now it is announced that Ellsworth
Ingalls, will shortly do likewise, i. e., go
q
Not to be outdone by the bellies of Con-
way Springs, who use sugar water to give
their hair woolly appearance, the society
girls of Pratt have inaugurated the fad of
wearing miniature bells fastened to their
garters. The effect produced by bevy
passing along the street is said to be quite
like the jingle of sleigh bells in the dis
tance. Anything is better than hoops
under the skirts.
Kansas will unquestionably show a list
of the biggest freaks exhibited at the
worlds fair this year. The biggest OK, the
biggest hog and the biggest stick of timber
have been secured, the products of Kan
sas, and now the largest man known on
the continent, Louis Wilkins. the Pao!a
giant, is preparing to go to Chicago to APP
pear in the great show. He is 20years old,
stand seven feet eight inches high aud
wears number twenty-one shoe.
The report circulated yesterday that
Justin Smith and family, who live four or
five miles north of Topeka, were frozen to
death, is found TO be untrue. Sheriff VIII.
son is acquainted with Mr.. Smith, ana
said that he saw him in the city late Fri
day afternoon. The fake monger at TOpe-
ka must be hard to satisfy that he can't
fud enough of the sensational about the
state house.
The latest in the loan business was the
sudden refusal of an eastern life insurance
company to place a good loan on Geary
county farm. The loan had been approx
ed and the papers were signed and ready
for the money. After the Populist rump
house at Topeka had been III session seven
days a note came from the house bearing
the intelligence that they were not making
any more investments in the Hawaiian
Islands or Kansas. Comment is unneces-
sary