The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-19
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P. 2. Elder says he will not listen to fu
SION Elder is mad and shows his teeth
The fact that they are false teeth is imma.
| terial
A constituent wrote 70 Ben Glover anC
asked him to send him his address a
week later he received half dozer
speeches.
The successful farm implement dealer il
| Kansas is the man who finds out what hi.
patrons politics are before he says any
thing himself.
Prof. Snow says that out of l. $50 expert
ments in Kansas, Colorado and Missouri
with his method of destroying chinch bugs
800 have been successful
What there is left of the Leavenworth
pontoon bridge is being torn up. 1t lost
money steadily after the saloons were re-
opened on theiKansas side.
WHO was that man you just threw out
of the window spring poetf" NO. u
| said the editor, that was the humorist
who makes jokes on the spring poet"
The fight against Funston seems to have
gone glimmering. 1t is to be hoped that
| in some such affiuent measure, the other
| districts will second the Second district
vigor.
| Everybody in Kansas is tightening his
grasp On his pocketbook and declaring
what a shame it is that Kansas will not
have creditable display at the world 5
fair.
1T is wicked to kill people," said Con-
gresham Baker in congress Saturday. To
an unenlightened and plodding world this
startling statement will come like clap
of thunder from clear sky.
Congressman Simpson denies that be is
opposing the opening Of the Cherokee
strip. He says that he is the only man in
congress that wants it opened. The pub
lie will watch the struggle between Mr..
Simpson and the other 324 representatives
with unvarying interest.
Congressman Baker joins Senator In
gals and Jerry Simpson in a protest
against navy. 1t is quite plain that Kan
sas is against much of navy until the
enemy get guns that will shoot from the
Pacific ocean to the eastern borders of
Kansas.
Mrs. Augustus Wilson of Parsons, press
manager for the state lady managers of
the worlds fair, once wrote a history of
Parsons" to which was appended history
of the state of Kansas, the United States
OF America and the present rulers OF the
world.
A Western Kansas man is experiment.
ing with cross in chickens that produces
breed that cannot destroy garden. He
crosses long-legged Shanghais with short
legged bantams and the result is bird
with one long and one short leg, which
when it tries to scratch falls down and
gives up the job.
Politics in Kansas is getting wild, wooliy
wild. It is said that the agent of Sells
Brothers circus has had advances from
certain candidate for state office, asking
for the privilege of accompanying the cir
Gus through Kansas and speaking to the
assembled crowds after the show.
81 am an Alliance man and high pro-
tectionist BECAUSE Senator PETER is" said
one man.
II am an Alliance man and for absolute
free trade because Jerry Simpson is" said
his companion.
Thereupon the two partisans fell into
each others arms.
Easter morning a little Wichita girl,
who had been dying easter eggs all morn
Ing, went to church with her mamma 1t
so happened that she sat directly behind
Senator o. II. Bentley and she studied his
sleek bald pate long and seriously. Finally
she couldn't remain quiet any longer and /!
she tugged at her mothers sleeve and whis-
pered audibly, 'Oh mamma, wouldn't his |
head color perfectly lovely.
Ralph ingalls, the son of his father, was |
admitted 10 the bar Saturday morning at !
Atchison. 1t is customary fer the clerk to |
charge a dollar for writing a certificate. |
but some of ingalls, friends put up job |
IN him, and when lie asked for his bill the !
clerk told him it was S25 Young Ingalls, |
'taggard but reached for his pocketbook. |
when the bystanders laughed. The clerk
only got 81.
A few days ago number of the friends
If Ex-Governor Robinson urged him to
cad the fight for a combination with the
Alliance. It was thought that he, being
himself member of the Farmers alliance.
vas in better position to lead
han any other man in the state,
lie positively refused to take the initia-
i've. stating that in his judgment it would
)e better for Democratic success to have
younger men for Offices and younger men
o lead its movements. He pronounced
himself, however, in favor Of fusion.
A weather-beaten American citizen stood
n the platform of a railroad coach while
he train was speeding along at the rate of
fifty miles per hour. Cant stand on the
- cbon%.l h.. asX |
n hades are platforms for, anyhow
sked the man. platforms are not made
D stand on; they are made to get in on
eplied the conductor. This is the story
nth which Representative Allen of Mis-
ssippi illustrates the frailty of the politi- I
al platforms.
The Kansas State Sunday school asso- ,
iation will convene in Topeka May 10
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