The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-30
sUNFLowER sHADowNGs.

A Conway Springs man lost sixty dol
lars playing craps" last week This
shows that Conway Springs is not all
sugar.
The Methodist minister Of Leavenworth
SAYS that one million nineteen thousand
and two hundred dollars is spent in that
place year for drink.
Fl Dorado claims TO have more literary
people than any city in the state, and it is
a place where people wear their hair
moderately short, too.
There is only one daily paper in EN-
poria now This demonstrates that the
community, at some time or another,
must become conclllated
Down at Winfield when two pretty
tough and irritable characters get into a
braEI, the papers, all discretion, announce
that they were both probably to blame.
The Atchison county wire-worm is a
myth The story was probably started by
somebody who wanted TO make Chancel-
lOr Snow dissatisfied with his new post,
The St John Weekly News is another
Kansas paper whose enterprise and zeal
for its town would not permit it to pass
the spring by without issuing boom edi-
ton.
Fort Scott claims to have the finest look
ing council in the state. This, however,
doesn't rob great many Kansas towns of
the distinction OF having the best feel
ers."
The Emporia News-Democrat said that
sat present ingalls, is the sayOry mOrsel
that Father Eskridge tries TO roll about
under his tongue" and the next day
Eskridge bought the paper out.
They say that a quarrel over a dog
caused the removal of General Merritt 5
L i l. 70
St. Louis. And an investigation adds to
the hnmiliation-the dog was feminine.
A smelling committee will investigate
the Soldiers home at Leavenworth. The
committee, if their smellers are in good
condition will notice a strong Odoriferous
draught hanging over the pontoOn bridge.
The Kansas Farmer says that there are
1900, 600 members in the Farmers Alli-
ance As there is phrenolOgist doing the
state at present, ii might be beneficial for
the editor of the Farmer to have him look
at his head.
Tom Ryan was not present at the Next
can flower feast, Sunday. There Is one
thing certain if the MeXicans want the
United States minister to participate,
they will have to postpone the feast till
the sunfOwers are in bloom.
The Farmers Alliance of Phillips
county is undergoing a severe attack of en-
largement of the gall. They demand that
the county printing be let to the lowest
bidder, which is usually nothing, and then
demand that the editor be compelled TO
furnish a copy of his paper 10 every tax
payer free.
Sumner county has 1914 school districts,
which is thirty-fOur more than any other
county in the state If all the counties
were as prosperous as Sumner in this
respect, the price of white null in Kansas
in the graduating season, couldn't be
reached with anything but Kansas corn
stalk.
A Leavenworth Democrat says he knows
of his personal knowledge that Senator
ingalls, is badly scared, and that the sena-
tor has appealed to a number of Demo
Gratis who have been favored by him for
help 1t is probably due to the fault of
history that we haven't record of Alex
ander the Great applying 70 Diogenes for
aid.
A writer in the Western Sportsman
says: In 1915. vegetables could not be
grown at Topeka; in 1870 they could not
be grown at Newton; in 1872 they could
not be grown at Larned, and i'm 1919 at
tempts at gardening in Dodge City were
pronounced failures. but at present az fine
gardens can be shown at nearly all these
places, as grown anywhere in the cast.
The State Journal thinks it would be in
teresting to know who it was that under
took gardening at Topeka in 1915.