The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-12
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| Senator Perkins has three children, two
girls and boy The boy is the youngest
of the three, being is.
All Senator Plumb's effects, consisting
of box upon box Of valuable documents
and letters, have been shi sped to Mrs.
Plumb at Emporia
The way they are referred to in the AL
lance papers: PETER and Perkins. The
way they are referred to III Republican
papers: Perkins and PETER
a cool man is the citizen of Stevens
county who upon the slightest noise, at
present, will not throw his hand back IN
der his coat tail and commence to dodge.
Most Kansas men have yearning to do
something startling and original. a Phil
lipsburg editor has hoisted the name of
Ben Harrison for the Republican nominee
for president.
The greatest argument for Republican
success in Kansas is the statement that
the sale OF red ink in Kansas in 1891 far
to cancel mortgages.
Society is all torn up in Hiawatha. A
girl hung up her stocking with the prom
lse from her best fellow that he would fill
| it. This ungallant wag hired her little
brother to put cedar lead pencil in it,
TIE Stevens county trouble is directly
| the result Of getting patriotic Kansans
worked up to a shooting point with ru-
mors of war with Chill and then let it
drop again without any martial action.
| The extreme quiet relgning in po itical
circles in Kansas just at present, may be
| due to the fact that the politicians are all
studying over the problem of over what
railroad it will be possible to get passes to
Minneapolis
The druggist who patched I'D Russell
Sage after the bomb explosion sent in his
| bill for SIS the other day, and has received
| check in payment. 1t is understood that
Sage will draw upon the dynamiter's
parents for that amount.
| Ellsworth ingalls,. son of John J., says
he was visiting Judge Botkin in the court
room at Springfield one day, when the
| judge suddenly pulled off his coat, excused
himself, went out into the street and
whipped three men who had been talk
ing" about him.
"A Wichita man has story on his little
son which he considers pretty good. The
young mans recent trip to Washington
was his first experience in travelling for
any considerable distance and be grows
very enthusiastic in talking about "At
night" he told friend, 1--WE were in the
sleeping car and in the morning we got on
to the waking car"
Lawyer-You say you knew this man
before you in Stevens county,
Witness-I think 1 recognize him, but
he don't seem to appear natural. If / had
a gun
Lawyer-If you had gun,
Witne>s-Yes; if I had gun could
kind of hold it up and look at him over
the barrel 1t might make him look nat
ural. That's the way l knew him in
Stevens county.
Albert Bigelow Paine of Fort Scott re-
Gently had story IN Harper's Weekly
called "a Romance of Circus" 1t is a
pretty sketch of how a canvas man, drawn
from his farm home by the gilt and tinsel
of circus, falls in love with a French
woman who performs on the trapeze
Paine describes the circus rings and the
feeling with which we all watch the mot
ley colors of the play.
In one ring japanese juggler is throw |
ing knives; in another pair of contortion-
lists are twisting themselves into astonish- |
ing combinations. Directly in front and |
above me, large, handsome woman in |
tights is walking wire. There is some |
thing about her face that attracts me. !
say to myself that she is made up, and |
nearer view would probably show her to |
be coarse, dissipated- looking and ill-favor-
L A.
a different look from the others. Another
is watching her too. II is one of the |
white slaves" of which there are num-
Der hurrying bilher and thither respend-
in greasy red uniforms. He is standing a
little to one side gazing up at her intently.
The Alliance crowd at Washington have
secured position for Rev. B. F. Foster,
the Alliance orator who ran for state audi
tor on that ticket last fall. The Alliance
crowd could do nothing, so they called ON
Livingstone of Georgia. Livingstone
urged to Crisp that the Alliance people
were only Democrats under another name, !
but Crisp was 10th to do anything. Final
ly the speaker said he would give them
one place but no more. Accordingly Eos
ter was appointed sweeper and spittoon
cleaner of the west corridor of Representa-
tive hall. Oh, Kansas! Last year, the
polished ingalls, filling the senate galleries
with Demosthenic eloquence; today, Fos-
ter on his knees before Il dirty cuspidore-
guardian over the filthy spittle of con-
gress.
There is an inclination to joke the mill
tary now encamped in Stevens county.
The young men have been brought up in
warm rooms IN the daytime and feather
beds at night, and the change to the raw
prairies of western Kansas is pretty Sc
we're. The Stevens county pioneer has a
great contempt for the Kansas militiaman
which recalls the esteem in
which some western Kansas Indians held
the army. Early in the seventies these
Indians made application to the govern
nent for supply of arms. Not by a i
ong shot, replied Uncle Sam; you want {
guns TO kill our soldiers with" 'No, no"
Indignantly answered the Indian delega- /
ion, Indians kill soldiers with a stick
want guns to kill cowboys" =
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