The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-24
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

All the candidates in Kansas are Saving
wood, " and it is unusually full of knots.
! How many men in the state know the
name of the third party Prohibltion1sts
candidate for governor?
Jerry Simpson doesn't stand on his war
record. If he did, he would probably have
| the Humane society after him.
The Methodist church and the Kansas
press are both anxiously waiting TO see
where J. Leeford Brady will bob up.
An anti-lottery paper has been started
in Louisiana. Some of these days we may
expect to see an anti-train robbery organ
in Missouri.
The fight against Webb McNan up in
the Sixth district is almost as exciting as
the Kansas City Times sensations on
Senator Ingalls,.
The Democratic editors of the state meet
at Topeka next Monday. 1t is conjectured
that it is a preconcerted plan TO strike Jim
Troutman on washday.
When it was announced that Senator
ingalls, was coming home, it is said that
eight different individuals at AtchiSon en-
gagged nags and buckboards.
1t has been suggested that the unen-
thusiastic Republican organs of the First
district do not love Case Broderick less,
but are subject to lunar attraction.
The new color which adorns the Santa
Fe cars is called Tuscan red" From
this on, it will be possible to distinguish a
Santa F'e train in a sunf1ower patch.
At the state fair the first premium for
the best five consecutive numbers of a
weekly newspapers published in Kansas
was awarded to the Garden City I'M
print.
John Peter st. John could get along a
great deal more successfully in his Michi-
gan campaign, if fewer Kansas people had
relations there with whom they CORES
pond.
Editor Rosewater's opinion of prohibi-
ton in this state is that the next time he
comes down to Kansas to investigate pro-
hibition joints, he will bring his flask
along.
1t is generally hoped that the amateur
photographer of AtchIson will be on hand
with his Kodak" the first time Luther
Challis meets Senator Ingalls, on the
street.
al Trovatore" will be presented at
AtchisOn tomorrow night. "Misereri'
will probably be sung a second time at
the request of the ardent admirers of W.
w. Guthrie.
Barnum is coming to Kansas this fall
He probably hasn't been notified of the
in the way of political three
ring affair he will have to buck against in
Kansas this year.
Mrs. Lew Hanback, has been appointed
one of the worlds fair commissioners of
Kansas. Several Kansas papers have al
ready furnished the information that
Mrs. Hanback's husband is an ex-con-
gresham"
At an Alliance picnic out in western
Kansas the other day rainbow appeared
in the clear blue sky when there wasn't
one cloud above the horizon, and there
wasn't any purified politics lying around
loose either.
The Kansas cyclone of course is a thing
Of the past, but TO see town taken pos
session of by the new patent medicine
sets one TO doubling whether the
departure of the twister is cause fo- con-
graduation or not.
A mysterious parsonage with fancy vest
aud diamond embellishments struck New
5on the other day. 1t was the concensus
Of opinion Of the majority of the citizens
hat he was an English lord or a retired
patent medicine man in disguise. People
who are aware, however, that J. r. Bur
on is speaking in the district. look wise
and say nothing.