Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-23
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It is now safe to announce that Richard
L. Walker will not resign and go to Utah.
patent medicine orator to strike Kansas.
From the present outlook, the majority
of graduating essays of 1880 will be on the
grip"
Frank McLenan says out in Central
Kansas they call Lost in London" heavy
acting"
Friday, January "a, is Kansas day. It is
the anniversary of Kansas admission into
the union.
1t is reported that W. NJ Rice, Of Fort
Scott, is likely TO go to congress from the
second district.
The hotel registers of Topeka are rapidly
filling up since Treasurer Hamilton an
nounced he would resign.
"A little pot soon gets hot" and some of
the aspirants TO Mr.. Peters place had bet
ter cool off and measure their capacity.
Atchison Globe: When a man gets
ready to sit down and be comfortable his
wife gets ready to sweep out the room.
Political Kansas is full of surprises this
year 1t is now reported that Dan An
thony will not be candidate for governor
next fall.
A wild cat concern has come to Kansas
with scheme to anchor houses and barns
to the ground by wire cables rs a protec-
ton against cyclones.
George William Childs ought always to
be on time. He owns 20 clocks. One OF
them cost him 81 100. This country has
never had an opportunity TO ask u. W..
Childs to come TO time.
President Marvel reports the Santa Fe
to be in more than fair condition" Ii
that Santa Fe official lived in, Kansas and
Spelt his name lie" he would nave SAID
fair to middling."
The State Journal truthful states that
''the irrigatlng companies of the great arid
west will have an unprecedented boom
when all that snow in the Rockies begins
to melt. All the streams and bitches will
run full for months"
James Fortner, the defaulting treasurer,
is starving himself to death. This is rare
in Kansas When kansan wants to die,
there is the pistol, knife and prussic acid,
but starving himself. never. His form
isn't fashioned that way.
About the worst collapse some of the
promising politicians in the seventh
district could be subjected to,
would be for Mr.. Peters to fall heir to
enough to enable him to keep up appear
ances at Washing for another term.
A paper says that "Fortner, the default
ing Riley county treasurer. started on bis
downward career by beating minister on
a horse trade" 1t wasn't the deed so much
as the confidence it gave him of the COM
potency of his rascality that finally work
ed Mr.. Fortner his woe.
Superintendent Walker of the state deaf
and dumb asylum some time ago was ac-
cused publicly of having cruelty treated
deaf and dumb pupil. An Investigation
has resulted in proving the charge to have
been malicious and unfounded. 1t was
made by an employe who had been dis
charged.
western men and young women are
coming to the front in scholarly New Eng
land" remarked Mr. Henry Wollman yes
terday. Henry l.. Dewey has just been
appointed chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee of the Massachusetts legislature.
Dewey is lawyer formerly of Leaven-
worth, Kan, and is not more than 30 years
of age He graduated from the Leaven-
worth high school and then went to Dart
mouth"
Winfield Courier: The first thing the
Wichita immigration convention did after
attending to preliminaries was to pass a
resolution authorizing one paper III each
county to print l 900 papers each month as
"boom edition" to be sent east to adver-
tise the county in which it is printed
There are two things in which kansans
have an abiding faith. The first is in the
goodness of God, and next to that comes
their confidence in printers ink.
Garden City Sentinel: Alfalfa seed be-
ing worth 81 per bushel here and corn 10
cents bushel in eastern Kansas, the price
of bushel of alfalfa seed is worth a forty
bushel load of corn. A farmer recently
brought to this market fifty bushel load
of alfalfa seed and received 500 for it. To
obtain the same amount of money an east
ern Kansas farmer would have to deliyer
1000 bushels of corn, which means much
hard work and no profit.