The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-09
sUNFLowER SIMMER.

AOhAhS'
Senator Plumb never fails to vote right
the last time.
Mrs. Lease is a queer woman. She does
not believe in rings.
\ man who has given $50 away and tells
you about it, always writes it 5000
Judge PETERS movements are getting to
resemble ghost dance more and more
every day.
The senatorial situation is rather COM
plicated. but there is not one man who
can Turner.
After all Funston is the best friend
Senator ingalls, has in the Kansas delega-
ton at Washington.
In all probability Senator ingalls, super
stition IS so strong that he would not de-
liver roast" on Friday.
The Alliance lines are broken and quar-
reling among themselves. True to its
purposes, it better reform.
Bill Hackney can sit on the top Of red
hot stove, when he is talking about war
with England, and never feel 1t.
Attorney General kellogg deserves
credit for his originality by not retiring
from politics and going to farming.
IL - a 6OOd lllll5 ClleiG NOIS ACooAiieaA III
ner wrote his letter after he was polite
ally dead or it might have killed him.
1t is getting to be more common in
Washington every day to refer to them as
eastern and western Republican senators.
Mrs John J. Ingalls, firmly believes that
her husband will be returned to the sen
ate. A woman always believes what she
hopes.
When a Kansas politician retires from
politics now he takes up the shovel and
the hoe William Sims will retire to his
! farm IN Shawnee county next week.
None of the Sioux boys and girls at
! Haskell institute is in any way related to
the belligerents in the Bad Lands. They
come from the more intelligent Iankton
/ Sioux.
4 Winfield man has set up a cotton gin
at that place and charges ten cents apiece
for people to see it. He is also thinking
of introducing threshing machine among
the Esquimaux
All the Alliance men are anxious for
their particular candidate to succeed in
the senatorial contest, and the men whom
the lightning does not strike viii be sure
to catch thunder.
The Republican members of the Mis-
souri, legislature are going to get together
and vote for John j. Ingalls, for senator.
This will about undo all the good work
that Grover Cleveland Ackers letter had
accomplished.
Ex-Mayor Metsker, of Topeka, says In
gals will be defeated He blames this on
the Unsatisfactory appointments during
the last two years. This Is virtually
charging Senator Ingalls, defeat up to
President Harrison.
In one of the far western counties of the
state was seen this fall the advance of a
procession eastward bound. 1t consisted
of an an ancient wagon so worn and weary
that the wheels in their slow circuit
I lurched out back and sideways and threat
ened at times to escape from the aXles and
lie down to die The wagon cover was
patched with honorably discharged pants
and overalls and the corners stuffed with
prairie feathers. The horses wobbled and
waved as badly as the wagon. and were
mere skeletons with sorry looking hides
plentifully garnished with cookie burs
streaked over them. But the lowest depth
! of forlorness was not yet reached. Be
hind the wagon came calf, so much more
emanciated and enfeebled than the horses
that it was unable to keep up with their
: funeral pace, and hung back at every step
/ at the apparent risk of the dislocation or
dragging off of its miserable neck. A by
/ stauder halted the prOcession-not a diff
I cult thing to accomplish, and the follow
/ ing colloquy occurred:
! Leaving, eh:"
"Yawp."
Comm back''
"Nowp."
sold out2"
Traded an eighty fur that there calf"
What did you do with the other
eghty2'
Wall, YOU see, stranger" and the hol-
/ low-eyed emigrant crept little nearer his
/ interlocutor, and in "A tone of deep conf
dence, answered: Wall. you see he was a
| K nd of ignorant Teller. like, and l threw
/ the other eighty into the deed without his
/ KNOWN it."
/ Mrs John J. Ingalls,, ITO me my hus-
/ band has always been "A hero. Like him, |
/ was born in New England, and still cher
! ish reverence and affection for the ideas
which belong 10 New England culture.
/ Ny father came to Kansas from Massa-
/ chusetts in the days Of John Brown, of
/ Osawattomie. and the midst of the
great struggle TO make Kansas "A
! free state. Singular as it may seem, l
! first became acquainted with my husband
when he was a candidate for the senate
against my own father, and in that con-
/ test Senator ingalls, was elected and my
/ father defeated. But they soon became
} intimate friends and have been ever since.
/ THAT Senator Ingalls, is fitted for public
/ life has never been denied by his bittereSt
/ foes He regards politics as Secretary
Seward said, as the sum Of ali science
/ To him il overshadOws every other Occu-
patton in life and be has practically
abandoned his profession as a lawyer in
/ favor of his duties as public man. No
man is more laborious or conscientious in
the discharge Of his senatorial duties than
Mr. ingalls, He is eminentlv a domestic
man. and when not engaged in senatorial
/ lsbOrs devotes much OF his time 10 current
( literature. He has written a novel which
/ have always prophesied would be a
/ great success in American literature, but
the manuscript Of which was unfortun-
ately destroyed when orr home was burn
ed at Atchison Kan. He Is even now
iaboriously devotinC himself 10 the effort
Of reproducing this story. lie has had
many fatJering offers from eastern pub
fishers. but has not s. yet decided when
lie VIII publish the story.
"
4 VIGOROUS COMPLAINT AND PRO
TEST FROM KINGFISEER.
KINGFTsHER. O. T., Jan. 8. 1891.
10 the Editor 81 the Fagls-