The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-07
sUNFLoWER SKINNER.

Speaking of taking the lawyers from the
bench, the State Journal mentions remov-
ing the farmer from the farm.
The shortest surname in the state is that
| Of Councilman Ow, of FL Dorado, and the
gentleman is not an Englishman, either.
G. ". Click hasn't been nominated for
| anything for more than week now.
| Democracy in Kansas is surely acting
strangely.
Cy Leland has been mentioned as Nor
| rilIs successor. Mr. Leland is internal
revenue collector at present. Is Mr.. Le-
land ''evoluting?"
The Salina Republican issued boom
| paper on Wednesday. 1t is safe to an
nounce now that the Brady baby has
| learned TO say new word.
The fact that four more missionaries
| left for the Dark continent recently from
Kansas, Enthusiastically shows that corn
! fed missionaries are getting TO be in great
demand among the savages.
| Charlie Gleed wrote the literary" por-
ton of the Topeka Directory; but as
Directory literature is not usually the
| most inviting domain to the man OF letters
he probably does not want anything said
about it.
An Atchison man was offered the ap-
pointment of census enumerator and de-
clined. Some men in Kansas are getting
SO down on the administration that they
wouldn't take an Office if it was offered to
them.
One of Topeka's high school girls grad
uating essay was on the care of streets.
This is a great deal better than giving an
audience glimpse of the golden thorough
fare to fame. All this Topeka girl wants
now is to transfer her care" to the
kitchen
The farmers of Ellis county had picnic
the other day and as they didn't have any
thing else to do petitioned the president to
remove Webster McNall from the land
office hecause he was running for congress.
The Alliance can not be accused of not
exercising scrutiny. 1t always does some
thing.
\ few days ago while Congressman Per
kins was making a speech in which he
scored some of the members of the house
for saying that Kansas was hopelessly in
debt, a Jayhawker in the the gallery forgot
the proprieties of the occasion and place,
and yelled at the. top of his altitudinous
voice: Bully for Kansas"
1t is said that Ex-Governor Harvey has
oiled up his old buggy and harness and
started on tour up and down the creeks
of the Fifth district after a somewhat pro-
longed visit i'll the east and afflicted with
rheumatism as he is. Governor Harvey
should write to Senator ingalls, and get
some pointers on how to ride on buck
board.
4 southwestern Kansas farmer recently
amused the depot population of Kansas
City by allowing his wife to sit on his lap
in the waiting room. The first thing the
writer ever saw in the state OF
Missouri was woman holding a pillow
and driving two cows. And this was not
five miles out of Kansas City. The adj
vantages the fair sex of Missouri hold
over their sisters in Kansas are indefinite
and somewhat mixed.
4 story is going the rounds of the pa
pers that as soon as John j. Ingalls, OF
Massachusetts, was admitted to the bar he
started to Kansas with so in his inside
pocket. he opened an office near Atchi-
son. His law library was made up of three
books, and the whole of his furniture was
a chair and table His first client was
carpenter and his fee was paid in kind.
He got table and high desk for his legal
and this desk (painted green) is
kept in the Ingalls, family today as one Of
its most precious pieces of furniture. 1t
belongs to Ingalls, son Ellsworth, who
carried it with him to college and who
probably now uses it as q part of his Office
furniture in the starting Of his law practice.
As yet, the Kansas City Times has not
been informed whether one Of those three
volumes was a massilgon or not.