The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-15
sUNFLoWER SKINNER.

There is a new party in Topeka but the
old politicians are there, too.
The census enumerator says he could
get along all right if people wouldn't be
funny.
A large block of lola marble is being
prepared for the Kansas exhibit at the
Boston encampment.
An exchange wants TO know if the sec
ond initial of Senator ingalls, name
stands for ''Jimdandy."
When Senator Ingalls, comes home again
he will find some things to ride more of
fensive than buckboards.
This is the time of year that the farm
ers recognize that they should have built
a shed for their machinery last fall
1t is gossip that Republican syndicate
will buy the Atchison Patriot for the pur-
pose of making an ingalls, paper out OF 1t.
The Atchison Champion has given ''Our
Reasons" for fighting ingalls,, but it
doesn't say anything about the postoffice.
Harrison Kelly, it is said, has a chance
to go back. This remark ought to please
both the Emporia and the FL Dorado Re
publican.
Mr.. Morrill, has been mentioned for gov
ernor in 1892. This is putting it good
way off, but then, he may not be retired"
at that distant date.
People at larger places may not have
noticed it. but this is height of tempera-
ture in small villages at which the town
pump gets out of "whack"
Sixteen Kansas counties bear Indian
names, thirty-seven counties were christ
ened after Kansas men, while only one,
Barton, was named for woman.
Alex Butts says the first thing the groc-
ers of Emporia do after the Normal shuts
down for the summer is to close out the
prunes they have left over at cost.
The Fort Scott Monitor recently made
light of Judge Foster and enclosed in the
same issue was a printed handbill adver-
tisement The Monitor had better proceed
with strategy.
Funston preserves a dignifed silence
while the papers throughout the district
are flashing him. But reticence as a cure
for political ills seems to have its virtues
in Kansas this spring.
We don't know much about bugs or de-
grees, but we can inform Vernon Kellogg
that if he will do away with the chigger
and the fly the people of Kansas will at
tach the whole alphabet to his name.
The Alliance of Haven are to give bas-
ket picnic next Thursday. The part that
distinguishes this from other actions of
the Alliance is that you don't have to be-
long to the Alliance to get to the picnic.
The county commissioners of Sumner
county have decided that the court house
officials must either buy their own ice this
summer or drink warm water This will
save the handsome sum of 50 year to the
Over-burdened taxpayers of the county.
A delegation of Grand Army men in the
First congressional district will call on
recall his declnation to be candidate for
reelection. There are one or two of our
who, if they thought they
would get such request, would resign in
a jiffy.
AT Manhattan the postoffice has been re-
moved one block from where it was located
for twenty years. Now the postmaster is
to be punished by the purchase of stamps
out of town. This Furnishes the town by
lowering the grade of the postoffice. There
is apt to be use for that florists immense
bed of tube roses.
Recently a number of inmates of the
state institution for the blind were oper-
ated upon, and sight was reganed by sev-
eral. Among others was William Hop
kins, of Leroy, Kansas, who was born and
remained blind up to two weeks ago
twenty-siX years. Assisted by DR.. Lee,
DR., KimbalI cut his eyeball open and took
out a dead lens, giving him sight He
went home, saying Il would rather see
my mothers face than anything on earth"
Sol Miller, who saw f. n. Morrill, recent
ly says Mr.. Morrill, is out of the congress
sional race to stay. After Mr.. Morrill, in
his liberal pension measure in
the house he received about 1900 abusive
and indecent letters purporting to come
from old soldiers of the country. The adj
jutant of an Ohio post wrote him officially
that his post had considered the bill and
wished it in hell and its author with it,
Another adjutant wrote an obscene letter,
the language of which is too coarse to
print. From Kansas Mr. Morrill, received
l 800 postal cards, all printed in the same
form but signed in ink by different sol
diers throughout the state Morrill, was
hurt and says he would retire from public
life rather than be misunderstood by those
whom he sought to befriend.