The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-29
SLAPS AT WICHITA.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Wichita society is in the throes Of type
writer scandal.
From the Kansas City Journal
Wichita girl OF Is years recently rode forty
miles in one day on her bicycle.
From the Wellington Mil.
\ picnic 10 be given BY Wichita people adj
vertlses Refreshments OF ali kinds" And
this in Kansas.
From the Peabody Graphic.
The worst alteration of imagination 10 foat
TO the surface In a long time Is that OF a
Wichita man who believes he has s., 10000
sweetheart in the strip.
From the Mt Hope Mentor.
Wichita is SUCH busy, rushing place that
even the cows don't take time To lie down
when they die. An old COW was found stand
ing up dead there this week.
From the 'opes,s, Breeze
They have called an election in Wichita
TO vote bonds for the purpose Of digging for
oil and gas. 1t looks a If Wichita was begir-
ming 10 fiirt with another boom.
From the Coldyater Enterprise.
In fiaring headlines the Wichita EAGLE an
nounces that Frendergast has gone 10 ioin
the angels" If that is so. we know a mum Der
OF good people who want nothing TO do with
the angels.
nom the Harper Sentinel
The citizens OF Anthony made up a sub
scriptiOn for another rain by the Wichita
rainmakers. The contract called for work TO
begin on the 18th and continue five days. No
rain, no pas.
From the Wellington Mail.
The Wichita ranmakers, after spending
several days in Kiowa in futile efforts 10
coax a shower for Anthony, packed up their
apparatus and left in dtsgust-and the next
day it rained.
Prom the Florence Bulletin.
The big golden eagle that watches over the
popular daily of Wichita screamed three
times when little Mrs. Digs waited up on
the platform at Topeka and called Mary Ellen
a liar Just like man.
From the Mt. Hope aIento-.
That story of the man in Wichita selling
2 lemons Chicago during
strike at an advance of 500 per boz turns out
to be fish story. His lemons came in the
other day pretty well fatigued.
From the Mt. Hope Mentor.
1t is now in order for some popgun to as
sumo that the yellow color of the paper on
which the Wichita EAGLE is printed is
caused by the jaundiced articles from Marsh
Murdock's pen-that the political biliousness
of the editor affects the paper.
From the Peabody Graphic.
\ Wichita minister toyed with the subject:
what is the Matter With Wichita Sunday
evening. The breadth of the subject caused
the good brother to make il a serial story and
the older people are now bemOaning the fact
that they VIII not live long enough 10 hear
the last chapter.
From the south Gaven New Era
The Wichita EAGLE has at last expressed
conviction that Providence and not the -ain-
makers is responsible for our rains. 1t is en-
cOuraging To know that Murdoch is willing
To give Providence credit for something, IL 10
Is nothing more than liberal supply OF
water, for which a Wichita man holds as little
esteem as any other one thing ia the world.
From the Salina Republican.
Captain Jack Crawford, the "pOet scout"
has hunted up the original Buffalo Bill tWil-
liam MathewsOnl al Wichita and will write
book to prove that Bill Cody * pretender-
as much 80 as Bill Shakespeare who. by the
grace of 1gnatius Donuelly. Was noth hing but
an humble actor of Stratford-On-AvOn. This
original Buffalo Bill entity is likely to b.
come as much of a ghost as the Lost
Dauphin."