The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-26
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The New York Tribune -dys Atchison is
the Mecca of Mugwumps."
The Mayor of FL Dorado has vetoed an
ordinance to cut down his salary.
Kansas corn will make a crop but there
will be no miniature mountains in the
farmers back yard, this year.
Nobody has proposed sending the editor
of the Topeka Democrat up in balloon
| for the inducement of rainfall.
Senator Rush better pull the string of
his little anti-Ingalls jumping jack boom
again. People have about forgotten its
! presence.
| The Emporia Republican says there is
| still time enough for Senator Ingalls, to
withdraw. We should say so. Some seven
| years yet.
| Since those primaries a great many peo-
| pie have dropped the idea that it would
take a tape-measure TO find the length of
| Charlie Scott's fall.
! Commissioner of Indian Affairs Nor
gan seems TO think tina Massachus etts
man ought to hold political Office in
Kansas and be smiled upon.
Bill Higgins IS at Geuda Springs. Moth
! ing invigorates man like Geuda water,
and the price of corn will probably exper-
| fence another boost Immediately.
If the balloon dynamite gets into motion
and the insurance liabilities increase, some
of the insurance companies won't like
Jerry Rusk any better than they do Web
| Wilder.
Notwithstanding its opposition if any
paper should credit Leavenworth as Sen
ator Ingalls, home, in all probability the
Atchison Champion would come out and
Indignantly correct it.
Most papers of the Second district have
been lead to believe that Farmer Funston
was living life of awful apprehension in
Washington. 1t begins to look now like
the opinion mOlding isn't what it has been
in the Second district.
Kansas men are crowding into the can
didacies for the Oklahoma legislature, and
the people from the other states are doing
the voting. Kansans, as rule, are always
ready to allow people to exercise that
grand privilege of suffrage.
Frank Gillette, of Kingman, has been
mentioned as a congressional possibility at
the Dodge City convention next Wednes-
day. The value of mention" in the face
of so many open announcements in the big
Seventh is strictly complimentary.
The Leon paper regrets that the stores
in that town don't generally observe the
Sabbath day. Leon seems to be troubled
some with that species of men who would
rather hold communion with the smell of
strong cheese and sugar-fed flies than to
be comfortably seated in pew and lulled
to sleep by soft words.
John Elwell, of Linn, last year procured
few bushels of Egyptian oats; these were
sown at the same time and On adjoining
ground with the common Oat, but the
difference Is remarkable. The common
oat is already harvested, while the Egypt
ian is still green and, in spite of the dry
weather, bids fair to be grand crop. The
reason of this is evident; that the land in
Egypt gets its moisture from the overflow
ing of the Nile, the water subsiding the
oat is sOwn and receives no more water,
except as drawn from the ground, until it
is harvested.
William Baldwin, Atchison's famous
prisoner, is in excellent health, says the
Atchison Globe, and the guards say he is
in excellent spirits. They seem to be of
the opinion that he will be pardoned, and
they say Baldwin shares in their opinion.
They look for the document at any time,
and base their belief that he will be set
free on the ground that the evidence was
insufficient. Some of them believe him to
be innocent Baldwin is an excellent pris-
oner, and his conduct is always creditable
During the cooler seasons of the year
school is conducted, and Baldwin is one of
the teachers. His proficiency in this line
has made him friends. He was employed
in the tailor shop long time, but was re
moved to the furniture department some
time ago. This work is heavier, but suits |
him better, having been an experienced .
man in wood work before going to the |
penitentiary. Baldwin is one of the very
few prisoners who is permitted to wear a |
mOUstache. Baldwin Is very neat in APP |
pearance, and d picture of Mary Baldwin |
occupies one of the walls of his neat cell. |