The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-10
suNFLowER SKINNER.
1t has been just one year since John


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Martin died
Nobody has discovered yet that Con
gresham Kilgore is skillful at battle-dore.
DR.. Philip Krohn is going east. A great
many worse men are remaining IN this
| state.
| The nearest thing to a boom Atchison
ever experiences is when Senator ingalls,
comes home.
Kansas mortgaged Indebtedness is go
ing down now almost as fast as the price
Of corn went up six months ago.
Arkansas City has restauranteur by
the name Of Ledgebeer. He must be sort
Of the McGinty of the malt family.
There is one Fort Scott man who is not
training after congressional hOnors-Al-
bert Bigelow Paine. He writes poetry.
The Marion Record has been bought by
Messrs. Kuhn and Foote. A Kuhn-Foote
editorial ought to spread over great deal
of ground.
Mrs. Diggs says Willis is incapable of
duplicity. Mrs. Diggs evidently UNDER
stands her audience "Duplicity" is one
of r. K Fox's words
Atchison has circle of Pre-Adamires.
it is this, probably, that caused lilly Clay s
leg show TO break in on its regular circuit
long enough TO stop at Atchison.
Tom Ryan will have TO be responsible
for a stupendous amount of gratitude on
the part of the people of Kansas today to-
wards the man who superlntends all for
eign appointments.
Old man Rice speaks in Atchison tomor-
row evening. With the Champion throw
ing its blasts of sarcasms in his teeth also.
Senator Ingalls, is having knock re den
tai time of it sure enough.
The Topeka Capital publishes cut of
Ira Collins. He wears his beard and mus
tache like Napoleon III. He is the kind
of looking man the communist, Jerry
Simpson, would like 70 fight.
Dan Anthony's religion is obedience TO
natures laws" That is all right. Love
is one of natures laws. Here is where
Governor Humphrey, Jim Legate and
Billy Buchan stumble, apparently.
Fairly and squarely, the strongest argu
ment Miss Minerva Walker can produce in
her controversy with Madame Lease is
that she is pretty and only IS years Of age.
Logic or. eloquence can't beat that.
Lige Halford will be center of attrac-
tion to large number of people today. He
is to President Harrison what several as
piring young men in Kansas hope some
day to be to President Ingalls, or Plumb.
Bishop Perkins after a long absence,
opened the campaign at Cherryvale We'd
nesday, and from this on will dispel an
opinion that the opposition has set going
that the Third district of Kansas was
Cloverdom.
President Harrison bought new hat be-
fore starting on his western trip. Mr..
Harrison must have a poor opinion of
Kansas if he thinks our bands would play
that old chestnut or even be so rude. Be
sides there is a curiosity to see his grand
fathers hat in this state that is most cul-
pable
Congressman Morrill, will take the stump
in the interest of Case BrOderick. This
looks like reciprocity, but there are a great
many people in the First district who will
always believe that the withdrawal of
Morrill, and the nomination of Broderick
was free trade.
Luther Challis' "reminiscences: H. II.
Wentworth, the Missouri Pacific fiagman
at the Thirteenth street crossing, in Atch-
isOn, who has been allowed back govern
ment claim of $1,000, is nearly 80 years of
age. He came to Kansas in the sos and
settled on the present site of Topeka. He
was the first nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor of the territory on the free state
ticket. but declined to run. The first or
ganization of the Republican party in the
territory took place at his house in To
peka, the organization being managed by
Jim Lane, Charles Robinson, Senator
Pomeroy, Mark Parrott, and others. Mr..
Wentworth was known to the pro-slavery
party as "Old Ironsides."