The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
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A mountain lion was captured in Usage
county last week
Senator Plumbs favorite quotation is
said TO have been: Fools make feasts and
wise men eat them"
There are only two Smiths in congress.
But this will be different when Kansas
gets larger delegation.
Plumb worked as hard in his sleep as
when awake. His brain was ever working
He was an incessant and coherent talker
in his sleep.
The only apparent change in PETER is
that it is now the senior senator from
Kansas that is rafting in his chair, aud
not the junior.
The state politicians have already begun
to pour into Topeka. The Topeka hotel
keepers are the first in Kansas to cease to
mourn Plumb
a poultry authority has discovered that
Kansas is no good for bantam chickens.
They grow so big that nobody will believe
they are tantams.
The score of men who are after Plumb's
place, with one or two exceptions, proba-
bly, feel their ability to fill the bill. Their
motto is: Nothing Succeeds Like Sue
cessor."
Dan Anthony has great deal of infu
ence with Governor Humphrey. If George
Anthony or J. K. Hudson gets the sena-
torial appointment Anthony's opposition
should be given due credit.
Billy Buchan and ingalls, are now out
for the same place. ingalls, looks upon
Buchan as having mismanaged his sena-
torlal contest last winter. and Buchan
looks upon Ingalls, as very difficult man
TO manage at all.
Speaker Csisp has no use for jerry Simp-
son. 1t is inside gossip that Simpson, on
the death of Senator Plumb, sought out
Crisp and asked to be put on the commit
tee to accompany the body west, and Crisp
refused him point blank.
1t has been observed that among the
last things Senator Plumb did was to
write to so-and-so in such and-such town
in Kansas. There are scores and scores of
such instances He must have sent out at
least 200 letters the day before he died.
Mrs Helen Gilmore, the venerable
mother of j. S. Gilmore of the Wilson
County Citizen, died of la grippe, at her
sons residence in Fredonia, last Tuesday.
Mrs Gilmore was in her SOth year, and
had been a resident of Kansas since 1857.
When Jim Lane shot himself Governor
Crawford was in much the same perplex-
ity that Governor Humphrey is at present.
He was besieged by crowd of politicians
for the senatorship, and his waking hours
were made miserable. Finally he brushed
aside all possibilities and probabilities and
wrote to Ed Ross, who was working on
Speer's Tribune at Lawrence. Ross came
to Topeka, and was dumbfounded when
Crawford handed him the senatorial COM
mission. Ross was getting SO week at
the time.
There is some magic in the exchange Ia
bic of a newspaper office. Go into any
office and ask for q certain paper. The
editor Will turn to pile of papers in wrap
pers and pick out the paper desired He
does not tear it open. You may ask him
how he could tell which was the right one
He can only tell you he knows. He can
not turn his back and describe the wrap
per, but there is something peculiar about
every wrapper and while they all appear
alike to a stranger, the man who handles
them often knows them as well as the
couDtenances of his nearest friends. Is 1t
the individuality of the mailing clerk
showing through his work? There Is not
a newspaper man in the state who can not,
at this instant, shut his eyes and see how
the Atchison Globe looks in its wrapper,
or the Kansas City Gazette, or Sol. Mil
ler's Chief.
1t is a common story in Washington
that the first day Funston was in congress
he made great blunder. He had been on
the floor of the house and had been intro
duced to three thousand men, more or
less. He had grown idto the habit Of say
ing, as he shook the new acquaintance's
hand, Funston of Kansas; what state
did you say you're from" He repeated
this all day, and he was tolerably worn
out when he boarded horse-car for his
rooms. He had relaxed into an abstract
air, when an austere lady seated opposite
in the crowded car held out her car-fare
for him to put in the box. Funston stared
at her blankly for a moment, and then,
grasping and shaking the outstretched
hand, exclaimed: Glad to meet you. Fun
ston of Kansas. What state did you say
you were from"