The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-15
SUNFLOwER SIMMER

| VIII the Democrats endorse Farmers
Alliance Willets? That is the question.
Jake Stotler: II care not who makes
the laws of Kansas, if they let me print
| them"
| There is reason to believe that the stats
| timber inspector is lost somewhere in &
sunflower patch.
1t was fortunate that that rain came
when it did. The sunfowers were be
ginning to look badly.
To one who reads the paper personally
every item in Sol Miller's Chief is printed
! in more sense than one.
The Peoples party convention was
most noticeable for the thing it didn't dc
nominate Ex-Governor Robinson.
1t is said that within six weeks after the
katydid first begins to sing the first frost
will occur. So far the katydoesn't sing.
The Peoples convention denounced the
Blair bill. This was mistake. 1t be-
comes no man TO strike a corpse when it is
down.
Governor Humphrey has recognized
September the first as Labor day in Kan
sas. Probably interested in what it will
bring forth, Ell?
True enough, there seems to be a sena-
torial boom for Judge Pfeffer in existence,
but 1t doesn't appear able to hitch itself to
any considerable convention.
Nearly seventy counties have held con-
ventions and selected delegates to thestate
Republican convention All but four have
endorsed Senator John j. ingalls,.
l. Z L Il
next congressional meeting in Kansas. 1t
occurs at Clay Center, August q, and er
son of the district will no doubt be elected
The editor of the Lawrence Journal
Tribune has had his picture displayed in
the Western Journalist" This is liable
to be misleading. Editor Finch is news
paper man.
The Kansas fish commissioner is going
to stock Kansas streams with perch, black
bass and croppy this fall. Our cat fish
must be fed even if it is at the expense of
the government.
D. r. Anthony pretends to know that
there are over sixty licensed saloons in
Atchison, and Colonel Anthony isn't a
man who spends much of his time loafng
around Atchison either.
J. G. Otis, the nominee of the Peoples
party in the Fourth district, against Har
rison Kelley, is dairyman. 1t seems to
be impossible to nominate man in that
district without weakness for spouts.
A report says that Farmer Funston is
afraid of Speaker Reed. This may be so.
But it is supposed that the congressman
from the Second district values the post
office department and its chief as friends
more than anybody else in Washington.
Now, the st. Louis Republic has it that
General Rice is training for Senator
ingalls, place in the senate. This is CAPT
tai. This suggestion might put a bug in
the generals ear He might as well run
for one place as the other. Nothing fails
like failure.
Rev. B. F. Foster, of Topeka, is the Peo
pies party's candidate for state auditor.
Brother Foster is a colored gentleman.
If John Waller is nominated on the Re-
publican ticket for auditor, the several
other sixty candidates for the nomination
will watch the fight with more interest
than ever
The Abilene Reflector gives story from
the lips of ex-Congressman Hanback, about
Judge Pfeffer and the Alliance The point
is very cute, but it would have been much
sharper were it original The original
story of General Malone and the colored
voter is much more interesting told in the
negro dialect.
Frank NJ. Gates and Warren J. Harris,
and Mrs. +. kingman, three of the mis-
sionaries from Kansas to the Soudan, died
of African fever, the first two July 9, and
the latter July II. These people were sent
out by the Y NJ. C.. A of Kansas. Charles
Miss Jennie Dick and NJ. f.
Kingman are the only Kansas people now
left with the party.