The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-03
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

The sub-treasury scheme seems TO be
sub-weather.
The New York World calls John j.
ingalls, ''tonguey."
The Thomas County Cat has an edi-
torial on ''boot-jacks' last week.
1t would be just like ingalls, to attack
the Alliance in his coming speech
The Kansas Alliance legislature con
venes at high noon, with apologies to Mr..
Mckinley.
The governor of Missouri is very much
worried over the report that Dan Anthony
will move into that state.
A Kansas man has published book of
poems on sex" The color of the binding
is as near a plush as he could get it.
A caucus of Alliance members has been
called for the night before the meeting OF
the legislature This is week from next
Monday.
Senator Plumb once had the smallpox.
1t is the only case where that diminutive
has ever been correctly applied to the
junior senator.
The Kansas Dairymen will hold their
annual meeting on the fifteenth and SIX
teenth of this month at Topeka This will
be John OTIS chance.
When Jerry Simpson was told that his
picture had been published by Harper
Weekly. he wanted to know whether 1t
was the Sentinel or the Graphic.
Judge Brewer lives in the house in Wash
ington formerly occupied by Senator
Thurman and his study is in the room
in which the celebrated Tilden ELECTORAL
commission met.
Gen. Rice has now leveled his ambition
to the state Partnership At the final out
come, Gen. Rice will probably have to
be content to follow the band wagon as
one of the rabble
Tom Osborne is talking down in Texas.
If there Is one place better than other
where a Kansas Republican can talk with
impunity at present, it is the state with a
a 100000 Democratic majority.
A waiter in a southern hotel offered
Simpson napkin with the great gusto
common TO swell walters, and Jerry took
him down notch or two: Look here,
young Teller" he said, ''none of your
pranks with me; I've got a handkerchief. u
Frank Doster, the most probable sue
cessor of Ingalls,, once appeared before the
supreme court at Washington without a
necktie on. 1t nearly paralyZed the chief
justice and his associates. He had a two
or three hours argument to make, and be
coming heated he tore open his shirt
bosom and exposed his manly breast. The
black gowns liked to have never got over 1t.
A good deal is said in the newspapers
about Stanley, the explorer, and Milt Rey-
nolds sleeping under the same bed-cover in
an early day in Kansas. People who
knew them at that time thought Reynolds
was man who would make his mark.
But Reynolds studied Bulmer and Addison
TO improve his literary style, while Stanley
was feeling around for preferments and
letting the literary style take care of itself.
Stanley wasn't literary Ito hurt" and be
went ahead.
Butler county had a big hunt the first
part of the week. The captains of the re-
spective sides chose their men several days
ago and notified them of the fact. Early
in the morning each individual started to
hunt where he pleased and on his own &C
count. The territory hunted over was
that north and east of FL Dorado within a
distance of ten or fifteen miles. In the
evening all assembled at the Kimball
school house and counted the game, each
bird or animal counted so many points;
for instance, mouse counted one point, "a
rabbit five points, wolf 100 points and so
on. There were thirteen on one side and
twenty five on the other. Captain Will
Jams company made 1,733 and Captain
Beal's company 4,492 points. The total Of
each kind of game brought in was. 237
quails, 525 rabbits. thirty-five jack rabbits,
sixteen prairie chickens, forty squirrels,
five skunks, forty hawks, one possum, one
wolf, twenty-siX mice, five owls, and
fifteen yellow hammers. But one accident
occurred. One hunter was shot in the arm,
but not seriously, by the accidental dis
charge of gun.