The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-14
SUNFLOWER SIMMER.

Senator Plumb's favorite drink is cham
pagne-when, of course, he can't get Kan
sas water.
Hold up, Daniel Anthony and quit boss
ing Governor Humphrey. That's Bar
nard Kelley's job.
Ben Clover lives at Hutchinson. There
seems to be an attempt to give the Seventh
district two congressman and of course the
Seventh won't object.
Senator Plumb's presidential boom, to
be sure, is not in seven league boots. but it
is not lying down and going to sleep by
the wayside.
The new marshal of Leavenworth is 20
| years Of age and not able TO walk erect
This is immaterial Does he assume a
comfortable position in sleeping!
There is more corn than the reports give
| account of. The corn has been scandalized.
1t is pretty hard to get the better of Kan
sas corn by lying about it, in prosperous or
drouthy seasons
The Boston Advertiser says that
Farmer" Hallowell was nominated by
the Farmers Alliance. The Advertiser
is off. He is going to be voted for by the
Farmers Alliance, however.
J. r. Graham will start a paper in EN-
poria. Mr.. Graham is the man who
thinks that the principal cause of lack of
progress among the farmers is the absence
OF attention and study on the farm.
Senator ingalls, himself probably knows
whom his opponents will be in the next
fight better than any other man. He
knows disappointed Office seekers. when
he sees them, and Democrats, by instinct.
Mr.. Tomlinson, of the Topeka Democrat,
says: ''If we get downed again this year l
am free to say that l shall leave the state
for good" The Importance of this state
ment depends on whom Mr.. TomGnson
means by I'VE"
VIII Rice publishes all the compli
mentary notices of himself in the Fort
Scott Monitor, but leaves the old mans
out. The time has gone by when Willie
would go out and cut stick for the old
general to lick him with.
Daniel Anthony, the Leavenworth police
commissioner, should not be so hard on
people who can't enforce the prohibition
law Everybody is not capable of spying
out the joints like Colonel Anthony. In
fact, everybody hasn't nose like Colonel
Anthony.
On the day of the Farmers Alliance con-
vention in Emporia the Republican con-
tanned the account of rural hen that laid
double egg. Notwithstanding this argu-
ment the Republican members of the
Farmers Alliance still remain unani-
nous for Ingalls,
There is great amount of palaver be-
cause Topeka did not send its brass band
to the Boston encampment. 1t is claimed
that it would have advertised the state.
1t is wrong to expect so much of Topeka.
The fact that Topeka is capital of Kansas
is enough to expect from 1t.
1t is told that Farmer" Otis of the
Fourth district met Farmer Kelley of
the same, one morning. Good morning,
Farmer Otis" says Kelley, what have
you in your wagon?" ''Those are Polled-
Angus porkers," said Farmer" Otis
proudly, and what, Farmer Kelley, have
you in those barrels?' JEFF Davis
apples" responded the congressman from
the Fourth district, cheerfully, and the
two farmers cracked their whips and
drove on.
Prairie fires are raging in the western
counties of Kansas and are spreading in |
spite of the efforts of the people to check |
them. In Ford and Edwards counties the !
fires appear to break out from spontane-
GUS combustion and sweep over large |
tracks of country, leaving nothing but the |
bare ground in the track. In the northern |
portion of Ford county, a track twenty |
miles square was burned over inside two |
hours The corn fields are like so much |
finder and when the fire strikes one edge |
of the field, it passes through it with the |
quickness of flash of lightning.