The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-08
sUNFLoWER SKINNER.
Ben Clover's best side is his subside

Ben Clover's best side is his subside.
Emma Abbott sold her life for a song.
An item that is growing in kansas
Another coaldealer suicided today"
Jerry Simpson thinks it will only take
one day TO elect United States senator.
Jim Hamilton resumes farming in King
man county and the Alliance men all
smile.
It is now understood why Mrs. Lease
likes Frank Doster. He looks like Robes
pierre.
1t was the Emporia Republican that
called Gov. Humphrey, man OF hide
pendence.
Attorney General Kellogg will practice
law at Emporia and watch original pack
age stores.
Jerry Simpson is said to have always
liked biscuits until he found out how it
was spelled.
There seems TO be any number of mem
bers of the new legislature who are weary
of the Chase.
The Kansas City Star has an opinion
that every day will be Friday with Sen
ator ingalls,, by and by.
A Gray county man is attending school
with his two sons. One of the boys Is IN
the class above the old man.
Jerry Simpson once ran a livery stable
at Holton, but he wasn't as successful as
when he ran Jim Hallowell.
Congressman Morrill, is one of a large
sized crowd in Kansas who are looking
forward to 1892 and back to $780, too
Funston is "Out" for Harrison for re
election and in all probability Harrison is
in for Funston for governor of Kansas.
Now that Farmer Funston has been
credited with bright remark, somebody
will credit ingalls, with saying something
stupid.
1t will be convenient for the new legis-
lature to convene. Three dollars a day
will make quite patch in the family ex-
penses.
John Willis ought to give some proof
that he will represent his state, if he is
elected, better than he did his father :
estate
Senator Plumb is a great devOtee OF
mince pies. He has a strong stomach and
never found a bit of the ''iridescent dream
about them.
With blizzard moving down on them
from the north and Benjamin Harrison
pressing up from the south, the Indians
are anywhere but between two fires.
T Salina Republican credits the ALI
ance with an animus. Mrs. Anna Digs
and Mrs. Lease are on the best of terms or
it might be interpreted TO be an Anna
muss.
The Republican senators at Washing
ton have fallen into a habit, lately, of bet
ting with one another on which way Sen
ator Plumb will vote on the bills that
come up.
A man named Elder was elected speaker
of the house of the Nebraska legislature.
p. p. Elder will probably be the speaker
in Kansas. Where are the Younger
brothers?
Senator Ingalls, experienced a rude
shock the other day while he was sitting
alone 1t all at once struck him that he
had never asked Billy Buchan if he would
vote for him.
FOghorn Funston attended the white
house reception on New Years day, and
after shaking hands with the chief eXecu-
tive in the blue-room wandered into the
big east room and there paused to eXclaim:
Wonder if there is a stove anywhere
about. Shaking hands with Harrison has
given me chill"
The new Kansas congressman have hit
upon a great plan They will all go in to-
gether and secure a big house in Wash
ington to live in. They will call it their
soup house. Jerry Simpson says: You
see Farmer Glover, Parson Baker, John
Davis, Brother Otis and myself will all
live together in a house we propose TO rent
and run on an economical basis, as granger
representatives should do If the other
fellows want to come in with US, all well
and good, but our main object will be to
show what kind of stuff Kansas grangers
are made Of"
Judge Frank DOster counts for young
man, though lie is OLD enough TO have
served in an Indiana cavalry regiment dur
ing the war. says the kansae City Star
He has a pale, beardless face, with very
marked and distinctive features, some
thing like Robespierre's. He affects, or
naturally possesses, great gravity of ap-
pearance. He believes in no God, and is
strongly inclined to socialism. He has
acquired great hold on he people of his
district, which comprises the counties Of
McPhe son, Marion and Chase. The last
tine be ran an attempt was made 70 beat
him with Matt Simpson, of Mcpherson, a
very good man, with the prestige Of the
regular Republican nomination, but Dos
ter, as an Independent candidate, mopped