The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-11
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Mr.. Tracy is unable TO aid the ''ladys,"
as Kansas is outside his jurisdiction.
There is only one crop larger than the
the fish stories.
DIR. Ingalls,, Senator ingalls, brother
president of the Drury college, Spring
field, Ill, is in i'll health and viii leave for
Europe shortly.
The fifth annual report of the state
board of health has been issued, but it
didn't say anything about the mortgages
that have been paid off.
Governor Humphrey has appointed
Thomas W. Folsom, of S34 Broadway, New
York, a commissioner of deeds for Kansas
in the state of New York.
Horace Speed, the attorney general of
Oklahoma. is the law partner of William
Hackney. This is about the nearest any
Kansas man came to being appointed.
The Kansas homeopathists want an in
sane asylum in central Kansas, under
homeopathic profession. People don't
speak of little pills" like they used to.
In the long interim in which he waits
congressional action, it might be deemed
sympathetic to ask Senator Plumbs
Leavenworth protege, if his scalp hurts
him.
The Topeka Capital has discovered
another old settler Of Shawnee county. He
came there in 1887 and is different from the
other old settlers He has never used to-
bacco or whisky.
The Lawrence Tribune thinks when the
Atckison Champion gets brave enough to
attack Senator Ingalls, directly and quits
referring TO him as ''some people, y it may
prepare its hide for nice little tanning.
H r. Bossler, of Manhattan, has just
finished planting 1900 tube roses. cover
ing over an acre of ground. There is
money in Kansas soil and it produces
more than things that are just good to
eat.
Captain Curtis Benton, an extensive
grain dealer at Effingham, tells the Atch
ison Patriot that the great trouble with
farmers is that they refuse to sell when the
prices of things are going up, and always
sell when prices are on the down grade
Professor Steele, a teacher in Fort
Scott school, was arrested on the charge Of
whipping little girl He was fined 500
and costs. The pedagogue is losing his
legendary characteristics. Teaching forms
an important part in the qualifications Of
the modern school professor.
The Motz damage case against the Uni
ted States will be argued before Judge
Foster, at Topeka on Monday. This Is
the first case of the kind brought in the
United Ststes, being brought under a
special act recently passed, which permits
a creditor of the government to sue in the
United States court.
T. /. Barnhisel, of Newton, reports the
presence on his premises, of the first wood
pecker he has ever seen in Kansas. This
is strange. Mr. Barnhisel some bright
afternoon should pick out any convenient
telegraph pole and experience the delight
full sensation of catching a woodpecker in
his hole and closing down on him with his
hand.
The regents of the Kansas university
has decided to eXpend s. 900 in repairing
the foundations of the main buildings
The Russian peasantry have way of saw
ing both leather and buildings by remoy-
ing their shoes at the entrance of public
buildings. Here is a chance for the Law
renee students to prove themselves public
benefactors.
Arkansas City has a man named Chris
tian who knew the late Senator Beck when
he was a journeyman rope-maker. This
probably the nearest an Arkansas City
man ever got to the United States senate.
Ex-Governor Click is reported again TO
have joined the Alliance. If his attempts
are as frequent as the rumors, there is not
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become a farmer than he is
Sol Miller: We met Governor Denver in
Washington last week He looks quite
aged but still straight, and walks with
firm step. He is one of the long caravan
of Kansas territorial governors who failed
because they were unable TO reconcile op-
posites. The free state people regarded
them as enemies, because they were ap-
pointed by the Democratic administra-
tons; and the Democrats were dissatisfied
with them because they were unable 90
accomplish an impossibility by making
Kansas a Democratic and slave-holding
state.
Kansas City Star: United States Mar
shall Tracy has received A communication
from no less a source than the ''ladys of
Heplar," Kan, which at once denotes
their prohibition tendencies and demon
strates that even a Kansan may be Hit
crate The letter reads as follows:
'HEPLAR, Crawford Coz, kansas.-U. s.
Kansas City thare Is 4 Man
Richards by name in Heplar that is selling
Whiskey in slider and considerbel with ont
slider and cossing \ CRATE deel of trouble
come down rite away and attend TO him
for witnesses l Will give L + Porter and
Jud Churchill Fred Stevens bud Richard
and you will oblige the Ladys of Heplar"