The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-06
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John J. ingalls, and his mouth have
agreed to a "cloture" rule
The last tender tomato vine has sue
cuned to the frost in Kansas.
Kansas will soon see its thirtieth Jan
uary, the thirtieth as a state
The Alliance legislative committee has
prepared sixteen bills-a sweet sixteen!
At this day it comes as a sordid insinua-
ton that Sitting Bull' was opposed to
infant damnation.
As for his tolerance, the public has it,
/ from the best of evidence that Jerry Simp-
son will bare anything.
The baker who can make loaf of bread
with more than two heels" has fortune
awaiting him at Topeka this winter.
! The most remarkable thing about the
relationship of Senator Ingalls, and Grover
! Cleveland is that Ingalls, does not deny it.
! Sol Miller says that Fay Templeton is
| % years old; that he knows it, but doesn't
want anyone to ask him how he knows it.
! Pence, the new president Of the Kansas
Teachers association, has no hands. He
writes with the stumps and is a fine pen
man.
Farmer Funston deserves the distinction
of being the first man of his kind ever
elected 10 congress from Kansas with
socks
Senator Plumb is going to make speech
against the force bill that will make VOL
colts effort seem like a Sunday school
document
Alex. Butts believes that 1891 will be the
best year in the history of Kansas. Butts
is one of those fellows who feels things
in their bones.
1t IS matter of congratulation that the
Alliance leaders allow most of the Inter
viewing" to be carried on with old ring
Republican politicians.
Senator Ingalls, antipathy to Friday
would be somewhat allayed if he should
be reelected to the senate on that day, Of
which there is possibility
Now that the consanguinty of Ingalls,
and Cleveland is settled, somebody will
probably discover than Dan Anthony is
related to Governor Humphrey.
The Kansas church societies ought to
put their missionaries to work on the
state capitol building. It is just as sure
as trip into Africa and it costs less.
An intimate friend of Billy Buchan has
already exhausted two algebras and a big
logarithms trying to figure out Senator
Ingalls, reelection from Buchans pre-
mise
When Senator Irby was young man he
came to Columbus, Kan, and hardened
himself on Kansas whisky. Then. he went
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to the senate.
The proximity of Alliance legislation
does not prevent the Alliance stores from
collapslng The men who get the least
fun out of the Alliance movement are the
fellows who run these stores.
\ Kansas man who has travelled in Ger
many says one of John Davis oratoricaI
efforts is good deal like some of Wag-
ner's Niebelungen operas The whole
thing holds ont three or four nights, and
the last night the audience has TO be car
ried home on stretchers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Strong, Of Ottawa.
Kan, had arranged to celebrate the fifty
first anniversary of their marriage on Sat
urday last and relatives We're present from
various parts of the state to partipate in
the festivities. In the morning Mr. Strong
died and in the afternoon Mrs. Strong
passed away.
Mrs. Lease and the Alliance ring" are
making faces at each other She says: a |
huge combination intended to cover every
Office of any note at the disposal Of the |
coming legislature, dehantly lifts its head /.
in the new movement" There is some dan |
ger that Mrs. Lease viii be crowded into /
joining Gen. Rices third party movement. /
Jerry Simpson went the rounds of the /
big elevators at Kansas City. the other /
afternoon. He was greatly impressed with /
their magnitude Late in the evening.
as he was starting to bed, the hotel clerk |
asked him If he wouldn't take an elevator /
to his room" Jerry thanked him and /
then slipped of into a remote part of the /
building and walked crack TO see if /
he hadn't taken one glass TOO many.
Senator Plumb Is greatly troubled with .
the play called The Senator Of which .
he is said to be the prototype About .
every third man l meet. be said TO me the
other night asks me five seen The Seua-
tor. and then tries TO quiz me about II.
In truth, suppose in general way, / was
taken as the type of The Senator but he
departs very far from reality when in one
act he puts on a stovepipe hat. for ] have
never worn one in my life The incident
of the old claim has also a basis OF fact in
some Mexican war claims which l put
through, but without the romantic and
sentimental attachments which the play
wright has grouped around IT,"