The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-10
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Tom Norton, the Kansas City Journals
correspondent at Topeka, is lying serious
| ~ i'll at Arkalon.
Writ Adams, "a Larned lad, is page IN
the senate. 1t WAS about the last position
Senator Plumb secured.
| Clay Center has an ordinance prohibit
| ing billiard halls. It took effect Friday
and the authorities declare they will en-
| force 1t.
Governor Humphreys action inAselect-
ing an Ohio man as Senator Plumb's sue
cessor Is not so strange. All of the appli-
! cants were Ohio men.
John j. ingalls,: We have in Kansas
magical landscape The elements OF ro-
nance may be found in every prairie
cabin. by every reluctant stream.
Judge Botkin refers to Sheriff Dunn as
his tried friend. 1t would not do for the
judge to refer to Brennan as his tried
friend. He wasn't tried. They couldn't
get jury.
Apropos of Senator PETERS bill asking
the United States to 10 III 81 SOC. COO 10 the
farmers of Indiana, it has Ut last been dis
covered why he wears SO much beard on
his face. 1t is to hide his cheek.
Each congressman is allowed twenty
seven copies Of the Congressional Record
Word comes from Oswego that thrifty
Ben Clover has disposed of his share to
several suD-Allances at IS apiece, netting
hinl SILT.
It has been discovered recently, greatly
to the disgust of sober folk, that Kansas
hac fo- .sD:;S suoE nc pIi1Yob
Perkins, Peck and PETER, and also for
BIS. Still there remains as the most
important letter in Kansas politics tx"
1t is a matter of general remark that the
mistake in the Stevens and Seward county
troubles was that those counties were ever
organized at all Governor Martin organ
lied them. 1t was his ambition to see
every county in the state organized while
he was governor.
There are very few people in this world
with proper names so unusual that there
is not somewhere person with the iden-
tical cognomen. The tallest soldier in the
Army of the Potomac, by the name of
John j. Ingalls, Handy, died at ripe old
age last week in East Wilton, n. H.
In Montgomery county they are grind
ing corn by wind mill power. An average
south wind will grind twelve bushels an
hour. Speaking of this, it is noted that
the Kansas wind is a pretty good traveller.
Last year it went 1874 547 miles, an average
of 1884, 2 miles per day, or 1876 miles per
hour.
What wonderful state Kansas would
have been if all the people who have lived
here had remained When man strikes
fame just put it down that he once lived
in Kansas. DR.. Graves, who has been
convicted of murder in Denver. lived for a
short time in the early seventies in Chey-
enne county, Kansas.
The son Of prominent Alliance politi-
clan who attends school at Wichita was one
day asked what the motto of Kansas was.
It was poser. and us the little fellow
gazed about the room hopelessly his eye
felt upon the great seal of Kansas chalked
down on the blackboard His face lighted
up instantly. II know" he yelled, Il
know: It's 'Ad astra per capita"
He vas young lawyer and had gone out
into well-known district in western Kan
sas to grow up with the country. On the
day fixed for his examination for the bar
he found the committee composed of three
woolly and brown pioneers. The first one
sized up the applicant for admission to the
bar and remarked, Got your gum"
''Got my gun? Why, no."
The three men looked in blank astonish-
ment. Here said the first speaker,
take mine. Now, see that woodpeck er
hole in that stump across the street. Take
aim and fire."
"Why, 1 didn't come here for target
practice Pm lawyer, not marksman
You don't call this legal examination"
''Of course we do"
aren't you going to ask me about the
bill of rights? or how to apply for a writ
of habeas corpus? or what is an oyer and
terminer court?"
Young man." said the long-haired saw
age, who is conducting this examina- |
ton, any way? Now, if you want to get |
to practice before this bar, hold this gun |
up and hit that hole in jiffy."
There was blaze AMI a whirr.
Gone clean over it," said the frontiers |
man, with supreme sneer. Look here, /
young man, you've failed in the first re-
quirement."
But was considered good lawyer in
New York"
THAT may be, young man, hut New |
York amt here. In the interest of human
ity advise you to leave this district. You
would starve. Go back to New York, |
young man. There is no patronage out
here for lawyer that can't knock the
Adams apple off the prosecuting attorney
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