The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-03
SUNFLOwER SIMMER.

The latest thing in Kansas is drop a
quarter in the slot and get an original
package or drop in yourself.
The supreme court decision on liquor
| transportation will be likely to run down
| the stock in the Missouri river pontoon
bridges.
Speaking Of original packages, it is said
that TO Fort Scott man who wants beer
| the Missouri line appears about twice as
far away as formerly.
! 1t is about time for the annual appear
ance of Walt Mason's prose poem about
the chinch bug chinching-but then, the
chinch bug is gone now.
| The Wilson County Citizen is twenty
| years old and yet anybody wouldn't think
by just looking at him that Johnny Gil
more was the father of that paper.
Frank McLennan denies the report that
he is to be married this month. But he
doesn't deny it in his paper. He is wait
ing, apparently, on Alex Butts and Del
Valentine.
The chicken raisers of Atchison county
| think it should be penitentiary offense TO
steal chickens. Now is the time for the
people who have tried TO raise garden to
go for the poultry fiends.
1t is not known whether Emile Firman
saved enough of the 5000 to see him
through the worlds fair at Chicago If
he has any more of those French pam
phlets they should be distributed.
A man has Just been discharged from
the Crawford county Jail after serving a
term of three months for keeping a filthy
hog pen. The fellow who has the rotten
cabbage field, however, is still running at
large.
The only difference in the the Emporia
Republican now that the people of En-
pOria read the slaps on ingalls, on cold
meat and tea instead of beefsteak and
coffee as hitherto. And, seriously, it
makes great difference. The readers can
sleep the effect off.
In answer to the question, what has be-
come of the German carp planted in the
Kansas streams? Secretary Graham of the
State Agricultural college says the less
said about the carp the better. An
authority on piscatOrial features says the
catfish look wise and say nothing.
John Gilmore, of the Fredonla Citizen,
had fist fight with an Alliance man at
Fredonia the other day and wiped up Viii
son county with him. 1t seems that the
day is almost past when Dan Anthony was
the only editor in the state that would
rather fight than bluff.
A Kansan youth was so deeply smitten
with a pretty Kentucky girl that he
walked 800 miles to kiss her. Unknowing
ones would construe this. as slap at the
Kansas girl. But the fact of the case is
that the youthful pedestrian probably
drank whisky and couldn't get any girl in
Kansas to kiss him.
John Legate and wife were arrested at
Parsons on the charge Of allowing their
chickens to run at large. Legate dis
claimed ownership of the chickens. The
complaint was amended and Mrs Legate
will stand trial on the charge. She was
fined S1720. This way some men have
of making heroines of their wives.
Senator Plumb, Jacob Stotler, of the
Wellington Press; Alex Butts, of the Kan
sas City Star; Frank MacLenlan, of the
Topeka Journal; Albert Phenis, of the
Kansas City Times; Johnny Gilmore, of
the Fredonia Citizen and Vernon Kellogg,
of the Lawrence Journal, all received a
portion OF lrJournahStlcI learning IN the
old Emporia News Office.
Philip Reade, an army captain, who
achieved fame by marrying Minnie Beale,
a Kansas girl, who afterwards met a
mysterious fate in Europe, is now sort
of drillmaster for the Wisconsin militia.
He is still in the army, but the government
uses him for odd jobs of no consequence.
Years ago Minnie Beale was an orphan
girl of Topeka who at an early age de-
veloped a wonderful voice. Reade, an
army officer, and, it is said, a nephew to
Ben Butler, fell in love with her. mar
ried her and took her to Europe for vocal
cultivation. There are those who say that
she left her husband there and joined an
operate concern, while others claim that
she died on the continent and her body was
brought back to this country. This was
in the early portion of the seventies.