The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-03
RIPPING UP WICHITA.

From the Kansas City star.
Wichita boasts Of the fact that Coronado
stopped there in iS4o. wells all right. ana mes
dead too.
From the Enid Wave.
The Pop county convention at Wicnita
has met. rasped ltzelf and everything else ana
then adjourned.
From the Wellington Nail.
ought to succeed. Wichita ought to succeed
in making anything weep.
From the kansas City star.
When An FL Dorado boy comes back nom
trip to Wichita it is considered great Joke 70
slap his coat where the bottle ought to De.
From the Peabody Graphic.
A marriage license was issued q wichita
last week to Mr.. w. w. Long and Miss Alice
Pole They will never lack for persimmous.
From the Topeka journal.
Mr.. Lease wept when talked to Of his wife's
illness and said he would go to her but Couldn't
leave the children. The mother Instinct Is
ever strong.
From the Fit scote Monitor.
There is not hing extravasant about Wich-
tia people. They intend to have their COM
mencement exercises the day after Decoration
Day In order to use the flowers On both occa-
siOns.
From the Topeka Breeze.
The mysterious masked woman OF Wichita
probably wasn't a woman at all Inc chances
are 1t was Dave Leahy In disguise. trying TO
caucus.
From the Kansas Newspaperdom.
The city editor of the Wichita Eagle Is q
bloody Irishman known as Dynamite Dave.
Dave Lcshy is his name. ana ne KNOWS every
man, woman and child in a radius OF loo
miles of his town.
From the Eureka herald.
Ii is now known that wichita's yelled wo-
man doesn't live east of Main street and that
her name doesn't begin with either OF the
l,ha haf'c ter
Brownses aud Jonses.
From the Kansas CIty star.
Wichita is entertaining the Travelling Mems
association. There is one thing about Wich-
feel at home. All the Wichita girls know the
handkerchief Irritation.
From the Pratt Times
The Wichita Eagle tells Of Colonel Tay-
lor" who poured oil on the troubled waters at
the POpulist county convention down there
last week. Surely this must be our Colonel
G. A., formerly OF Pratt.
from the Oh cago Tribune.
A cemetery In the neighborhood Of Wichita
| was visited the other night by cyclone which
otherwise disported itself In an irrevei ant and
unseemiy manner. Death does not end all
at least not in Kansas.
From the Geuda Springs Herald
At the High school graduation exercise In
Wichita this year there were twenty-five ora
lions on the program. We would like TO see
an audience after twenty-five High school ora
| tons had been fired into 1t. II would certain
| " be reduced to a state of 'inocuous desue-
tude.'
From the Fort Scott Monitor
The High school of wichita has twenty-five
graduates this year and each one is down on
| the program for an '.oration." This no doubt
| is peaceful way of settling the contest for
honors among the class. but how about the
people who are expected To appland the TWEEN
| ty-ffth Grafton?
| From the Eureka Messenger.
Two ladies entered a street car in Wichita
recently and found all the sitting room occu-
pied. A gentleman at once got up and with
grave courtesy remarked: Ladies. allow me
| TO offer my seat 10 the elder OF you" The
| fact that neither of the ladies would take the
| seat is considered pretty good anti-sutrage
argument.
From the Kansas City Times
A Wichita rainmaker, who il described a.
''solid and successful business man." has Of
fered to wager any amount that be can pro-
duce clouds and other rain Indications in
forty minutes. the rain presumably TO follow
later, or on the placing OF a second BET. Here
is an opportunity OF financially ruin Ing .
fraud or, II not Il at, OF helping thirsty Kan
sans to a good rain. Yet no one has enough
love of truth, justice and the human race In
his heart to call the bluff.