The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-27

And as a marx of excellence
On natures brow were bound.
! Kansas, with a radiance bright.
| Would from the very topmost height,
Eclipse the light Of all.
| "A. II. Horton.
The law against shooting prairie chicken:
| having expired the. quail and snip,
and pluver will have rest.
| The Modoc club of Topeka sang at the
| dedication of the Kansas worlds fair
building in Chicago last Saturday.
The Kansas wheat will go into winter
quarters in splendid shape. It is getting
ready to break the record next season.
Hon. Thomas Ryan, minister to Mexico
has agreed to speak at Liudsborg Nov. 5
He will fill one other appointments which
is still open.
An early rise in the Missouri river is an
ticipated at Atchison-the colored Baptist
church there began a revival meeting the
first of this week.
Mrs. c. B. Butner, while temporarily in
| sane, left her home in Peabody last week
and up to Saturday. the Graphic says, nc
trace of her had been discovered.
A man who grew $50 bushels of sweet
potatoes on an acre of Douglas county soil
divided the agricultural honors with
Farmer" Smith at Lawrence the other
day.
The Medicine Lodge Index favors law
which shall compel registration in every
precinct in the state. The law now only
applies to cities of the first and second
class.
Atchson has ten miles of street railways
and it takes about half day to travel
that far oyer them. 1t is this last fact that
has given impetus to the electric system
now under way
Four persons were sent to the pen from
Parsons last week, all for burglary. The
folks up that way are waking up to the
necessity OF nipping Daltonism in this bud
A proper caper.
Atchison has got scheme on foot to
organize \ permanent carnival organiza-
ton for the purpose of having an enter
tainment in that city every fall, after the
fashion of Mardi Gras, Yelled Prophets,
etc.
The Lawrence Journal does not conceal
its disappointment over the inability of ex
Senator Ingalls, to speak there on the 10Th,
as announced. 1t seems to think he ought
to have spoken there despite his physi.
clans admonition not to.
According to the Troy Times, whose
editor ought to know, the yarn published
few days ago about a Leavenworth man
drinking eighteen glasses of whisky and it
killing him, is met with a chorus of jeers
from the Kansas press. who boot at the
idea that any amount of whisky would
kill Leavenworth man.
Upon the advice of his physician Mr.. In
gals cancelled his engagement to speak in
Chicago Tuesday night, and it is thought
that this will, in part at least reconcile
Lawrence for the disappointment expert
epced at the ex-senator's failure to speak
there last week according to appointment,
The Border Bulletin of Arkansas City,
put on the habiliments of mourning
turned it's column rules on its first page
over the announcement OF the death of
Mrs. Harrison; the only paper il the state
that gave such expression.
The first stanZa Of the campaign song
Stand Up For Kansas" which appeared
in the EAGLE some days ago, became I'M
coupled somehow or other from the bal
xnce of the poem and is going it alone.
standing up for Kansas on its own hook
OR somebody else's.
An exchange in this district in speak
ing of Republican rally in its town at
which Hon. Chester /. Long was the chief
speaker, says that Chester Long then
proceeded to undress Jerry Simpson be-
fore the audience Of over 1000, and did the
job completely" That was a rather
unique way of saying that Chester
knocked the sox off Of Jerry, which is the
plain English of it.
The bank deposits of Greenwood county,
as shown by the sworn statements of the
FIVE banks, aggregate over $3.50, 600 That
wouiu make an average OF $50 for every
man. woman and Child in the county.
Greenwood county doesn't boast OF any
big capitalists and has TO big towns, but it
has its full quota of big farmers. Aud
the Republican majorI;y over there wiz
be OF the same size.