The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-27
SUNFLOWER SILHOULETTES.

to make both ends meet.
Mrs Lease has another precedent. A
woman was elected road 0verseer In Clay
county.
Revivals are going on in every Kansas
town except Topeka. Topeka tried hers
last spring.
The farmers have fine wheat outlook to
he thankful for. Not in many years has
the crop gone into winter in better shape.
The Arkansas Valley Land and Irriga-
ton company will break from 5000 to
1900 acres of their land in Hodgman
county during the present year.
The farmers OF Kansas can swallow
Almost anything, but the Topeka Journal
says ''they draw the line at Jerry Simpson
in swallow-tail coat" Since whens
The First National bank of Cherryvale
has received six new 44-calibre Winchester
rifles. to be prepared for robbers. Another
case of locking the barn after the horse is
stolen.
W. NJ. Rice, formerly editor Of the Fort
Scott Monitor, is now Stationed at Kansas
City as collector Of customs. Beating his
way back towards the Fort against the
An OF Mafcn, meDDe.
The total vote cast in Kansas was 326 900.
Six weeks before the election Chairman
Bridenthal, of the Peoples party, said it
would be 324 900. This is the closest guess
on record Guess work is as good as any,
when it hits.
A circular has been issued announcing a
conference of Sunday scaool people and
frianAc IF ho Sunday School
Union, including tie Kansas missionaries
and officers of the union, to be held in To-
peka, December 10 to Is inclusive.
About so per cent of the county superin-
tendents-elect are Republicans. The state
Observation-Disclosures will be aSPopulist.
Under Superintendent Winan's admins
tration fewer than half OF the county su-
perintendents were Republicans.
Fifteen or twenty hunting parties have
gone from Topeka to the Indian territory,
Oklahoma and southwest Kansas in the
past ten days. and al! the trains in that
direction are filled with sportsmen. Game
is reported to be plenty all through the
territory.
Charles Pardee Butler, son OF the late
Rev. Pardes Butler, says in column
article in the Champion that ''if the Re-
publican party docs not stand by Prohi-
bition it can count him out" And if it
does it will continue to be counted out.
And there you are.
Topeka is the best paying post office in the
state, with salary OF s., 300 year. Then
comes Wichita with a salary of s. 900. and
Atchison with a salary of $500. Kansas
City, the metropolis(O comes in further
down the list of twenty cities in the state
with salaries of S., 600 and over.
The Holton Signal says the speech of
Jerry Simpson at the Holtou ratification
Saturday night was as eloquent as George
r. Peck or John J. Ingalls, ever were. 1t
is hoped that this very extravaganza esti-
mate may be indicative Of purpose on
Mr.. Simpsons part to quit playing the
zany and get down to business.
The chorister of Washburn college, To-
peka, who is a Democrat. the morning
after election announced that the services
would begin by singing "Joy to the World,
the Lord is Come" A Republican profess
sor got even with him by reading the selec-
ton from the Psalms, Have mercy on US,
Oh Lord, in the hour Of our affection"
OF Senator PETER as cross-examner in
committee Investigations it is written:
"By the time be reaches the end Of ques-
ton both the stenographer and witness are
laundering in an abyss of uncertainty,
which is finally bridged by the chairman,
who smoothes out the wrinkles OF speech
and saves the witness from mental as
The World says that there is man in
Lawrence that has been scared to death
ever since lie heard the Beila's comet was
coming this way. He has been working
digging cave into which he will crawl
tonight and remain there until it is known
for sure that the comet has gone by. He
thinks that he will get birthstone enough
by and By without having any now.
The state board OF railroad commissions
ers have decided that the railroads run
ming through Kansas shall have the prjvi-
lege of running their fast trains through
this state without stopping az every way
station. The citizens of Formosa, Jewell
county, complained that OF the four pas
senger trains which pass through that
place daily only one stops for passengers,
and the request was made that the other
trains be ordered to stop. The commits
sioners decided that the one train is saifi-
Gent for the business Of the place, and In
the interest of through traffic and fast
trains the request Is denied.
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