The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-03
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Kansas, the once great railroad boomer,
built little less than two miles of track
in 1891.
The politicians will now return to SEN
sibleview of it-that is. that Plumb was
more important than Plumb's place.
The stingiest, closest man in Wichita is
said to have waited until few days after
Christmas so that he could buy tree
| cheap.
With Senator Perkins Kansas will not
be represented in the United States senate
merely by ingalls, successor and Plumb's
successor.
Speaking of jubilant hilarity, it should
not be overlooked that the Republican
| postmasters of Perkins district feel at
this moment decidedly comfortable.
A Kansas City shoe store announces:
! ''Our fancy dancing slippers for young
/ ladies are simply immense" And still
the firm can't see why its trade is drop
ping off.
! Children get some queer logical ideas.
/ 4 little boy out in Pratt county saw some
flowers which, it was explained to him,
were artificial His next question was if
artificial rain would make the artificial
| flowers grow.
! If any OF the disappointed senatorial as
| pirants are too sore to endure the pres
| sure, they might scrape up technical
point by declaring Senator Perkins ap-
| pointment invalid because it was made on
legal holiday.
Mrs. Lease announces that after the
middle of January her speeches for indus
trial unions will be given free. She has
! quit politics and now has a soft snap as
general agent OF the Arena magazine for
the United States.
The Kansans in Washington are IN
easy. Their old champion is dead and
they may lose their hold. Over 400 Kan
sas men and women hold cIerkships in
| Washington, secured through the infu-
ence of Senator Plumb.
1t is claimed that an Alliance man who
had just been elected justice of the peace
got off this rigmarole at his first marriage
service: II pronounce you man and wife,
now, henceforth and forever; and you will
stand committed until the costs are paid,
so help you, Cod
"Ahp' cried the Wagner enthusiast, as
fearful tumble of discords broke on the
ear. what beautiful harmony
Yes" said his ironical companion. "It
reminds me of the harmony among the
Republicans who were after Plumb's
seat"
The newspaper man is on top in Kan
sas. Ingalls, wrote for the Atchison Cham
pion before his senatorial career. Plumb
of of Z ha Daft
fer was the editor of the Kansas Farmer.
and Perkins edited the Oswego Register
in 1S71-72, and so got his start Do you
want better illustration than that of the
potency of the press?
ingalls, is picturesque to the last. If
ingalls, could have wealth with oblivion or
poverty with national parade, he would
take poverty without hesitation. Every
thing he does is picturesque, startling,
sensational His vitriolic speeches; his
epigrammatic interviews and his chame-
leon politics are all so. His last corusca-
ton IS negative, but none the less a corus-
cation. The people all over the country,
and a majority of them here at home ex-
pected ingalls, to take Plumb's place. He
was trained in the work; he had the pres
renown. 1t was natural conclusion that
he was to be the new senator. And ingalls,
did the most picturesque thing-the unex-
pected. He didn't go.
''he Alliance crowd of congressman at
Washington have become pretty well &C
qualnted and flock together in first rate
shape. They all board at the same house
and 20 sight seeing in groups. Baker
affects to be the scholar of the lot, and oc-
casionally uses Latin phrase in a mild
way. He also claims to have high ap-
probation and delicate ear for music.
Simpson, Clover and Baker stopped in
front of grind-organ man in the street
the other day and listened attentively to
his repertoire. Finally he struck up
piece that pleased the trio.
''That's what I call pretty!" exclaimed
Clover.
''lt is sweet" added Baker, critically.
Very pretty" said Jerry. do you
know what the piece isl"
NO" said Baker, II can't say that do
1t sounds familiar"
Then Jerry and Clover gave away in
broad grin, and since Baker has relia-
Quished his claim to musical ear.
1t was Home, Sweet Home"
4. H. Barnes of Oxford township Sum
ner county, had been missing wheat from
his bins in large amounts but was unable |
to detect the miscreants, until lately. A
bright idea struck him. He visited the |
local job office; carried away small |
package, spent couple of hours alone in !
his bins In some mysterious employment |
The next morning more wheat had been |
stolen. Last Friday morning a colored !
man named Jones sold a load of sacked |
wheat at Winfield. AS they were unload |
ing it in the dump, the purchaser caught |
sight of small white slip of paper and |
reading it, captured the thief. Barnes had |
thousand slips of small paper /
through his wheat, like this:
%-''.'''.s' .-..''..-..'..-.sE
Wheat /