The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

The street car drivers of Topeka are kick
ing. They have eight-hours, but they
have them twice day.
The Argonia Clipper has new dress
The Clipper is one of those papers where
you never see mention of hard times
Jim Legate, of Leavenworth, will not go
TO Oklahoma. President Harrison evil
IDENTIFY does not think Kansas could spare
him.
The Press says the postoffice at Caldwell
has grown so hot that the nOrth-siders
come to Wellington TO buy their postage
stamps.
Preston Ralph Plumb is going right
ahead. He has been caricatured by the ar
fist, Mast. Mast, as an artist, has degen-
Grated, and this last slam at our junior
senator is Nasty"
Papers that are taking note that Bill
Hackney was not in the list Of appoint
ments for Oklahoma must not forget that
Oklahoma is to be represented at Wash
ington by a delegate
There was only one Kansas man in the
Oklahoma appointments, but there were
more fellows in Kansas who enjoyed the
sensation of being mentioned for them than
there were in Indiana.
Ward Burlingame is back from Wash
lngton for time looking over Kansas and
shaking hands with other old timers. He
is superintendent Of the dead letter de-
partment at Washington.
A Rice county farmer recently took a
load of wheat to Raymond on Sunday
! morning under the impression that it was
| Saturday. That one day is the only thing
he has lost in Kansas this year.
Suppose" says the Topeka Journal,
'all the farmers in the Mississippi valley
refuse to plant any wheat, what would be
the result?" That's easy to answer. a
large crop of rye, corn, oats. etc.
About half the people in this state who
! coast of being authors" base that claim
on being connected with the compilation
of city directory or on the contribution
of news item to some New York paper.
There are as many Democrats who want
to be one of the commissioners to the
worlds fair as there are Republicans.
| Then, to think of the immense Republican
majority in this state, it almost licenses
one to accuse somebody of modesty.
The state agricultural department finds,
otter careful figuring, that at the present
price of corn, it costs 81, 100000 more to
raise the Kansas crop than it came to and
according to this what the Kansas farmer
wants to do is to sit still and wait for the
corn crop to come back.
One of the South Dakota towns requires
$25 license for photographer to take
picture of its artesian well. A Kansas
nh hpF for
taking it. Jus to look at a map one
wouldn't think there was much difference
between Kansas and Dakota.
A marvelously small Topeka baby is
creating boom for a Denver museum.
Kansas furnishes the surrounding states
with a great many of her products, but it
has scarce established itself as freak sup
ply depot as yet. However, it can stand
the draw and supply the demand.
Yes" remarked the tall man with the
SLOUGH hat, and the pewter shield on his
coat, Il was three months in Jacksonville
during the yellow fever epidemic"
and didn't you catch it?' inquired a
by-stander.
Catch it? No, indeed Tam deputy
sheriff of Doniphau county, Kan."-Ex-
change.
At the meeting of the board of regents
of the state university this week, Vernon
l.. Kellogg, of the class of 1899, was elected
assistant professor of the department of
national history in charge of entomology.
Vernon Kellogg is one of the editors of the
Lawrence Journal, and it is not often that
as good a newspaper man as Mr.. kellogg
is associated with bugs.
A new $4,000 bridge over the Kansas
river at Fort Riley is nearly completed
This bridge spans the river few rods
south of the confluence of the Smoky Hill
and Republican rivers. 1t opens up
beautiful level tract of land containing
about 400 acres which will be used for
drill ground. The bridge reaches from the
high bank on the north, thirty feet above
the Union Pacific railway track to point
across on the bottom 40 feet distant; 1t
has one span 250 feet, the longest in the
state.