The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-30
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

Slang is not punishable by fine, but Rev
erend Embree, of Leayenworth, had to pay
$50 for a dog gone.
Prohibition Campbell will probably teal
next weeks Troy Chief open with more
avidity than usual
1t has been suggested that several men
in Kansas who are throwing stones had
better pull down the blinds.
Log rolling" is not very popular in
Kansas this summer and fall. The logs
have shown unmistakable evideaces OF
voluntary action.
Atchison has a preacher called John
| Doe He ought to write to tie ex-temper-
ance union president at Topeka, thanking
him for his discrimination in favor of the
| family name.
The Emporia Republican is defending
Farmer Funston with the fronds and feS-
| toons of victory. These decorations would
have been much prettier if they had come
before those primaries.
A Missouri printer refers to the candi-
date for state printer as Jake ''Slotter -
This looks like an attempt to intimate
that the editor of the Press candidacy is a
sort of drop nickel in the =, etc"
If the item tom Moonlight will prob
ably be candidate for congress in the
First district" could vote, there is no
doubt but that that gentleman would be
elected by a great majority.
The papers that have been importuning
the senator from Butler county have prob
ably caught on by this time that it is not
etiquette TO ask and in that doubt the
naturalness of the complexion of his vote.
The sun Will set behind a cloud to some
body in the west tonight. Tom Hubbard,
Judge Botkin, Colonel Lewis, John Jones,
Buffalo Jones and James Hallowell have
their lanees leveled today, at Dodge City.
Mr.. Dunlap, of New York, is one of the
sufferers from the Alliance, also. The
plug hat in Kansas politics has been super
coded by jaunty straw one with shoe
string attachment. The one gallus is ex-
pected soon.
There is lawyer out at Larned who can
lie on the bosom of the salt lake near that
town for half an hour without moving
hand or foot Geuda Springs can beat
that, however 1t has a lawyer who can
lie on the bosom of Juniata for half an
hour without moving hand or foot, besides
having similar control over his mouth.
If you will notice closely you will dis
cover that the fellows in Kansas who
speak deprecatingly of Eugene Ware, with
such phrases as: This is an uncommonly
poor year for poets in politics." and the
like, are generally literary thingumbObs
who have tried to write poetry themselves
and failed. They are also individuals who
usually plume themselves on their literary
style and their Chautauqua erudition.
The Norton county soldiers reunion will
be held at Norton, September IS, 70 and
90 An effort will be made to have Sena-
tor Ingalls, present one day at the reunion.
AprOpOs of this, it must be apparent to the
organs that the popularity of
our senior senator as a speaker of assem-
blieS in his own state has been increasing
right along. But we don't expect them to
see it. The editors of the EmpOria Repub
lican and Atchison Champion are both de
cidedly optimistic individuals, and it must
be uncomfortable for them to accept more
proof of the worth of a man
whom, from some evil impulse, they have
started out to defeat.