The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-18
SLICK SLABS AND SLIM SLAMS.


Of Mrs. T. F. Hensley.
SLICK sLAPS AND SLIM SLAMS.
Burns Citizen: Some of wichita,s peo.
pie are talking of starting paper TO do
, up the Eagle. They had better not try
! that. The Eagle is slayer.
Salina Republican: The Wichita Eagle
has nominated F. B. Dawes for governor.
Holy smoke, Kansas has too much rep
utation for wind storms now!
Minneapolis Messenger: Marsh Muir
| dock, editor of the Wichita Eagle. has
nominated Attorney General Dawes for
| governor. II would be windy in Kansas
then, wouldn't il?
/ Kansas City Journal: wichita' h-s
refrigerated to a point where the Eagle
| refers. to a baseball game soon 10 be
played there as a contest wherein the
| opposing clubs will 'cross bats"
Kansas City Journal: The Wichita pa
| perS may say all the hard things of Cover
nor Morrill, now that their wrath calls
| for. The governor will be too busy when
he comes home to look over the files.
| Norman Transcript: Colonel Murdoch.
of the Wichita Eagle. no doubt feels fiat
tered at Mrs. Mary Ellen Leases late in
dorsement of him. She says he is a great
and good man, even If he is red-headed.
Lawrence Journal: The Wichita Eagle
! demands that the country "call halt on
! butchery'' Are we 10 understand from
this that Colonel Murdoch does not mean
| 10 carry his prohibition war to that ex-
| tent?
| Kansas Chief: There Is wild rumor
afioat that Marsh Murdoch is going TO quit
| Wichita and locate at Galveston, Tex.
Murdoch away from Wichita, would be
| like Hamlet's fathers skull with all the
brains left out.
| Kansas City Journal: The assistant
| attorney general at Wichita announces
that he will enforce the law or know
the reason why The Wihcita people
will cheerfully assist him in discovering
/ the reason why.
Marsh Murdoch has Deen o1eered 800. 900
! to move the Eagle to Galveston. If he
| should accept the offer II would be worth
pretty near a years residence down there
to watch the circus.
| Alva Republican: The Wichita Eagle
! is a great newspaper. shut its fight on the
| Topeka papers and Governor Morrill, does
not interest the people of Oklahoma. Bet
| of the country, colonel
Kansas City Gazette: The Wichita
| Eagle expresses a willingness at last to
tackle something easy. 1t says that
while the state capital may not be moved
west, the United States senatorship OF
| Kansas will certainly be.
Leavenworth Times: 4 brood Of spies
! is now busily at work in Wichita black
are employed by the 'alw and order
| league and some are not. but they are
all getting their dirty work in.
! Arkansas City Reporter: The key
| joints have resumed sway in Wichita and
| the business men of that burg now each
| have a small dog chain hitched TO them
| selves so the weight Of the keys will not
| wear out their trousers pockets.
| Emporia Republican,: The city council
| of Wichita has amended the vagrant ordi-
| nances so as to embarrass the assistant
attorney general in his efforts to enforce
the prohibitory law. Wichita is behav-
ing very much like spoiled baby.
Ell Dorado Republican,: It Is our Col
sstant a attorney general Of MRehits and
he says he is going to make that town so
dry that the old soakS will have to eat
watermelon to get the frogs out Of their
threats.
Atchison Globe: The Wichita councils
latest move is to reduce the levy, and
thus cut off the new police commission
ers' salaries. Some meddlers started to
raise a row in Wichita, and the city coun-
Gil proposes to keep ii up until the people
are sick of it.
Arkansas City Reporter: Vic Murdoch
went to hear Little Essie" Whitman sing
column rhapsody. fit in Sundays Eagle.
one sentence of which contained $50
words. But still he didn't go TO the
mourners bench.
Douglass Tribune: The Wichita Eagle
wants vote taken 10 decide whether
Wichita shall obey the constitution or
not. If not, the efforts to require obed-
fence to be abated. The editor of the
Eagle is great man to be aspiring to
be governor of the state.
Kansas City Gazette: The Wichita
Eagle thinks Attorney General Dawes IS
planning to succeed Morrill,. and that he
deliberately got the old woman into the
prohibtory scrape for the purpose of do
ing, her up. Dawes SENS to be rather
violent in enforcing the law.
Abilene Reflector; The result Of the
Wichita prohibitory war will be about
great fuss for a while, lot of bad feel
ing and at last settling down to about
the same condition as before.
Atchison Globe: The Wichita Eagle
General Dawes is colored a beautiful
brown. Mr.. Dawes carried water on
both shoulders during the recent prohi-
bition trouble in Wichita. The Eagle
Morrill, unpopular. with view Of be-
coming governor himself.
Guthrie Capital: The Wichita Eagle
says that the variegated, white, pink and
Oklahoma is not so beautiful as the mere
cold fact that cotton can be grown In
Oklahoma The Eagle is quite correct.
and nothing will be so beautiful TO the
farmers eye as the beautiful color of the
round silver dollar that the cotton Will
drop into his jeans.
FL Dorado Republican,: A Wichita man,
after the closing of the saloons. took 10
hard drinking Of hard cider and kept 1t
up until he had a stomach on him as big !
as a barrel. The doctors were called in !
and they pronounced it tumor. After |
a. consultation they put the old bloat to |
sleep and cut him open and took out two |
candy buckets of vinegar mother" The
patient VIII recover.
Newkirk Republican: A trip 70 WITCH |
tia last week impressed US as usual. that |
IL is destined to be the distributing point |
for the southwest-more in the future |
than in the past. II is a we'll bull. city |
of homes and schools ard churches and |
peace and plenty. but il seemed 10 be out |
come Wichita will regain 20 many for;u- |
nate ones the millions lost TO the multi /
tude after IS wild boom fever
Leavenworth Times: The Wichita |
Eagle in the course Of a trerchant article |
says that wichita IS no more in rebellion /
against the state OF Kansas than is the /
state IN rebellion against the United 1
States which greater authority permits |
in Kansas jus, what Kansas prohibits /
So hong as the Saioon-keerer can hang up /
his license granted by the federal govern /
ment 10 sell drinks the prohibitory law 1
OF the state Is Illogical and indefens,ble-
Leavenworth Times: The unhappy re-
volt az Wichita against the new sttemp. 1
10 force upon IL the prohoi;ory law has /
reached another stage The city council \
before repealed all its ordinances concern
ing the liquor traffic: and the new con-
commissioners were compelled 10 arrest
1ointists under the vaera1ey ordinance
The council has now gone further and |
the vaxrancy oriir ance, leaving |
the police board in a deadlock VIVA. /
VIII the end be7 And What good vii /
have been accomplished,
Lawrence journal: When orders wen.
our for the closing of saloons n Wichita
The city council promptly repealed ali
ordinances tha; prescribed puntshrner. for
offenders against the prohihatory ia< |