Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-27
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If the railroad board and lodged the FOL
lowing complaint with Commissions
Greene:
''Our laws must be lame,
Or some one to blame.
When Il bushel Of corn
BUYS one drink OF the same"
If it isn't too late,
wish here TO state
That the times now demand
An emergency rate.
It will strengthen the use,
And will make times Tuore loose,
To have an emergency
Rate on the juice.
Counterfeit nickels are in extensive cir,
culation in Fort Scott. This Is the WIG
that blows shekels to the dentist.
Henry Jetmore has been appointed pri
vate secretary TO Justice d. j. Brewer
and his brother, Aaron, was recsntly MADE
his son-in-iaw.
The new Methodist church at Lawrence,
costing $4,000, is nearly completed. II
will seat 1900 people. A pipe organ ana
| chimes are also acquisitions.
On last Sunday the Baptists of Oxford
dedicated their new church with an elo-
auent sermon and fine ceremonies. The
church is a fine structure costing 5000
The Emporia News Democrat advise:
| the local street car company strike a syn
dictate If il wants TO unload. y syndicate
will buy anything from yellow dog to a
circus.
A man was found wandering about ainl-
lessly aud despondentiy IN the western part
OF the state, lately. 1t is supposed that be
was hunting for the benefit derived from
the emergency rate.
| Atchison is far more concerned about
] cat rlpt IS
about the reelection. Past dev -lopments
demonstrate that the senator IS able TO
| take care of himself.
Kansans who have friends in Chicago,
| between now and the time OF the world ;
! fair will discover their city friends grad
ually estranging themselves and the pros
| pect of a visit at that important time.
| The citizens of Cheney contemplate sink
| ing prospect hole for salt. They wish
/ estimates for boring Il hole from eO0 10
| 1900 feet in depth. All estimates should
| be directed TO a. +. Sweet, cashier Clti-
| zens' bank. Cheney.
! 1t is told of a prominent Clergyman, at
! present holding federal Office in Kansas,
that in delivering a sermon recently to the
convicts at the penitentlary at Lansing be
| introduced his discourse by saying: My
| friends. am glad to see you all here"
| 1t has been determined that the best ele-
vator for the corn Is the hog. and the I'M.
migration Of flock of those Arkansaw
canares-raZor-ba back hogS-is talked Of
The slop and corn life OF the Kansas hog
would be paradise to the forlorn swine OF
Arkansas.
1t is claimed by man who pretends to
know what he is talking about that there
| are forty-eight horses in Arkansas City
that could be sold for more than $4,000
AT Arkansas City they 90 more on the an
NAL and less on the saddle, spurs ana SOM
brero than they did twelve years ago.
Washburn college has fossil alligator
gar" 1t Is specimen of the ganoid
group, that appeared in the palaezoic
period, and illustrates the crude, undiffer-
entiated expression of the fish and the
amphibia. For timid people who contem-
plate visiting the capital, we will state
that they keep it tied up oyer night.
1t has been reported that there is secret
society in Kansas called the ''F. G. l. b. -
confined exclusively to colored people,
which has for its object the peopling of
Oklahoma with colored people. IL the re-
port is true the society has not been very
successful in its object. The humber of
colored people in Oklahoma is variously
stated by uniformed exchanges at from
% 900 to G0,000, when in reality there is at
the most uot over 5000 negroes in Okla
homa. Tkey mostly occupy one section,
the black jack country" and are not
found i'll any great numbers in the towns.
OF the nine men who represent Kansas
in congress not OF e OF them was born upon
Kansas soil or the seven members in the
lower house, four of them, Funston. Peters,
Perkins and Kelley. were born IL Ohio;
two of them Anderson and Turner, were
born in Pennsylvania, and the other, Ma
jor Morrill,. was born in Maine. Ohio also
claims Senator Plumb, and Massachusetts
Senator Ingalls,. The youngest man in the
delegation is Erastus J. Turner who will
be ii next December, and the oldest man
is Major Morrill,. who will be % next Feb
ruary and who beats Mr.. Anderson about
four months. ingalls, is a college gradu-
ate, while Plumb had only common
school education. In the delegation there
is one banker, Major Morrill,, two farmers,
Mr.. Funston and Mr.. Kelley, three law
yers, Peters, Turner and Perkins, and one
minister, Mr.. Anderson.
The following story is told on Charles
Martin, of Sslina, who has clerical posi-
ton in the house at Washlngton He was
entrusted with the duty of carrying some
papers from the house TO senate. He made
his appearance in the main aisle, with the
bills III his hand, and was recognized by
Vice President Morton. Then he becBme
somewhat confused at his new surround
ings, and, instead of making his little
speech just as he had rehearsed 1t, SAID:
mir President, the speaker OF the house
has passed the following bills In which !
am directed TO ask the concurrence OF the
senate" Senator Plumb, whose desk is
next TO the aisle. and whose constituent
Mr. Martin is, first discovered the awful
break and then Mr.. Martin discovere It.
He grew very red, and while the Sc majors
and many people in the galleries, appreci-
ating the point in his slip OF the tongue,
laughed heartily, Mr. Martin corrected
himself and informed the senate that the
house, not the speaker. had passed the
bits. Then. as the embarrassed official
bowed himself out Of the chamber, he was
followed by Mr. Plumb, who shook his
hand and congratulated him on having
stated the real facts in the case.