The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-02
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The Abilene Mortgage company has gone
out of business.
Preston B. Plumb is becoming the
Samuel J. Randall of the Republican
party.
Arkansas City has a living chicken that
fiops around continually with its head OF.
But Atchison can beat that.
A young woman of Topeka is taving 8
diamond set between two of her teeth.
The ought to be charming girl She will
always have something bright and spark
ling at her tongues end
Judge Peters lit into the Farmers ALI
house Wednesday. 1t is plain that if Mr..
Peters is seeking any position at this
time. it is an appointiye one.
How some of the Kansas free trade
journals who have had their arguments
held up TO scorn by precise logical pro-
cess in the Atchison Champion, would like
to get hold of the back files of that paper.
There probably isn't enough water in
the Missouri at Atchison to float the A.
L. Mason, but there Is undoubtedly a
plenty to drown what protection ideas
remain in the newspapers of that town.
Here is Indiana again. jim Hallowell,
the Republican nominee for congress in
this district, came to Kansas from Indi-
ana But that was twenty-one years ago,
before Indiana was SO intensely Benjamin
Harrison.
This is the time of year when news items
grow very scarce and the newspaper man
who is not all opinion is rescued from fill
ing his editorial page with base ball bio
graphical plate matter by the kind Kansas
man who OPPORTUNITY find snakes with
legs. rabbits with horns and three-eyed
calves.
Corn is now about forty cents. The
farmer who burnt corn last winter, threw
away three dozen eggs or two pounds of
butter every time he dumped a bushel of
that grain in the fire. There is no telling
what we could expect if the cows and hens
of the farm yard were capable OF passing
resolutions.
Douglas county shows a decrease in pop
ulatiOn OF over thousand. This cuts the
salaries of the officials down and saves the
county So 900 year The most fault the
Lawrence Journal Tribune finds with this,
just now, will be the regret that the post
masters are not included in the roll of
county officers.
Jerre Simpson didn't agree with the
platform adopted by the Seventh district
alliance convention that nominated him,
and it had to be amended to suit him. The
idea of the Farmers Alliance seems to be
not only for the office to seek the man,
but for the platform to hustle around and
locate him, also.
Harrison Kelley in the house recently
proclaimed that when the original pack
age bill passed, prohibition Kansas would
jubilantly fire off cannon and ring church
bells We haven't heard any church bells
yet, but the Kansas papers have been
busily wringing the hypocrisy and deceit
out of a prohibition Campbell.
A paper of our acquaintance of good in
tent and better purposes remarks that
what Kansas needs is for zone of them
there shooting meters to fall and hit
Farmer Funston The suggestion is
good one The meter wouldn't neces-
sarily have to shoot though The mere
connection with anything poetical seems
sufficient to defeat a man in the Second
district.
There is dog in Topeka which attends
every funeral which takes place in that
city His owner lives on the road leading
to the cemetery, and whenever a funeral
passes the house the dog joins the process
sion and trOts along beside the hearse The
most important part of this item is that it
suggests that the Topeka papers are steal
ing the journalistic style of the Atchison
Globe.
The Winfield on-COnformist rails at
De Witt Talmage and his methods. But
the purposes for which the article was
probably written-to attract the attention
of the divine to the writer-willfa fail. Mrs.
Talmage goes through all her husbands
mail and destroys that part that contains
unpleasant critiques before Mr.. Talmage
sees it. and it is not liable that she will
allow an article to slip in under the Latin
designation for general kicker"