The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
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The original package houses in Topeka
have been enjoyed and enjoined.
Tom Ryan, in light of the troubles in
the several congressional districts, proba-
| bly, values his Mexican appointment more
| than ever.
| Before the census goes on and the ques-
! ton Of 'have you any chronic disease?"
comes up in Kansas let somebody find out
what the Latin for kicking" is.
Click is for Tom Fenlon for governor
and Tom Fenlon is for Click for governor
| This is the unique position of the Demo
| cratic party in Kansas at present.
Lawrence is coming to the front as a
strawberry center, yet you don't see any
more children marked" there than in any
other town Of the same size and style.
| Senator ingalls, says that the manuscript
| of his novel was destroyed by a fire. There
is many and many a novelist who wishes
he could have had Senator Ingalls, luck.
Mr.. Craig will not leave the Emporia
Republican, and next to the sunset the
| most brilliant thing in Emporia in the even
ing viii be the editorial page of that paper.
Governor Robinson is one Kansas man
at least who would be safe in Texas. If
he denounced anybody 1t would be Jim
Lane. The Texans would not object to
that.
The John c. Tomlinson who denied
that he had any congressional aspirations
yesterday should not be confounded with
William p. Tomlinson of the Topeka
Democrat.
Mr.. f. W. Hook, of the Marion Record,
in his refusal to go back TO the lower
house, 50 far, it seems, stands alone. But
then standing alone with 2 conviction Of
right is highly commendable.
The First district will not have its nomi-
nation convention until September the
tenth. This is seven days after the Re
publican State convention. There seems
to be an attempt to get together.
The ex-governors of Kansas do not disap-
pear so rapidly as the chief executives of
these United States after they have held
that office. There are Governors Robinson,
Harvey, Crawford Click, St. John, etc.
r. B. Hays viii be at the Chatauqua
assembly at Ottawa in June and talk to
the old soldiers, but there is more than
one young spring chicken that feels how
much of the success Of the trip depends
upon him.
The Kansas editors are back from Texas
and Texas fleas. There are a good many
good points about the mnch abused Kan
sas house-fy and gnats, but you have to
study the insects of other states before you
can see them.
Frank MacLennan asserts that 70, 33S
yards of null and swiss have been made
int dracSaC in, EoDCaC
within the last three weeks, but Just at
present neither null nor swiss is occupy
ing MacLennan's mind half so much as
faille silk.
Senator Ingalls, was recently asked when
his novel would be published. He said
that he did not ever expect to see it in
print, because the nearly completed man
uscript was entirely consumed when his
house in Atchison was destroyed by fire q
year ago, and he did not think he would
ever have time to rewrite it. The novel
was called 1.-The Great Choctaw Claim"
and was founded upon fact, the incidents
for the story being found in the history of
the claim of the Choctaw Indians against
the government for payment for the lands
left by them in Georgia and North Caro-
lima when they were removed to the Indian
territory. This claim was pending in con-
gress for quarter of century, and was
only settled a couple of years ago. Many
lobbyists were engaged from time to time
in the prosecution Of the case who were to
receive contingent fees if they secured its
payment, but they all dropped out discour-
aged from time to time, and left a man by
the name of Mckee to fight it through
alone. When the bill was finally passed,
and the money paid by the treasury, Mr..
Mckee took 100000, representing his %
per cent contingent fee, and started for
Canada with it in a satchel, so as to escape
the clutches of the other lobbyists, who
demanded a share of the plumber.