The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-29
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fair play A Wichita gambling house
was robbed of $3.50.
Guthrie Capital: Sundays Wichita
Eagle had twenty pages; the biggest and
| best paper ever printed in Kansas.
Topeka Capital: Wichita has had so
many burglaries within few days That
many people are sitting UP all night
Ell Dorado Republican: To be strictly
down-to-date girl, in Wichita, 1t is neces-
sary for her 10 kick the chandelier on the
least Drovocation.
Ell Dorado Republican: Wichita has
gotten to be q. real lace town, so that
nothing went there on Christmas that did
not have some of the real IN II.
Ell Dorado Republican: One of the
most discriminating gentlemen of Wichita
says Miss Jessie Lewellfng is one OF the
brightest and most charming girls IN that
town
Topeka Mail and Breeze: The Wichita
Star dominates w. E. Stanley for United
States senator. If Wichita is to furnish
the man the Mail and Breeze wants either
Marsh Murdoch or Tiger Bill
Perry Enterprise: The Wichita Eagle
says: 1.-The country at large has never
thoroughly understood Kansas No, and
it never VIII, Kansas is an inscrutable
enigma, an unknowable quantity.
Hutchinson Interior: The convention of
delegates from cities of the first-class, at
Wichita, last week, resolved against the
metropolitan police law by a vote Of ~
10 g. 1t IS a wonder it was not unani-
NOUS
Kansas Mail and Breeze: The Wichita
Eagle says there are but few editors in
Kansas who do not take an occasional
drink In the bright lexicon of Wichita
occasional means whenever the occa-
sion presents itself.
Newkirk Republican; The Wichita
Eagle Of last Sunday was great in many
ways: In the business patronage II shows,
the extent Of the general news given, and
the scope and general good sense of the
editorial department
Lawrence Journal: It saddens our heart
this glad Christmas time to notice that
the Wichita Eagle has dropped into the
habit of remarking in an absent-minded
way that the interests of the classes are
against the Masses
Topeka Mail and Breeze: That wich-
tia gambling house rs evidently not pre-
sided over by dead-game sports. or they
would never have squealed so hard over
being robbed of $3.50. 1t Is part Of thieves
etiquette never to squeal when they get
the worst of their own game.
Kansas City Gazette: We infer from
the record of the bore at Wichita that
there are three subterranean streams IN
der that city. The third one down is at a
depth OF 500 feet, is between six and eight
feet deep, and is stronger impregnaded
with salt than the one at Hutchinson.
Ashland Journal: Evangelist Miller at
Wichita finds fault with modern Chris
tEan.ty with the criticism that you don't
know nowadays when you go to church
whether you will get religion or an oyster
supper. EITHER one Is worth going to
church for and we don't see any use in
roaring.
Wellington Mail: We understand that
Dave Leahy, of the Wichita Eagle. has
organized a COMPANY of Irish volunteers
to lick the stuffin' GU o. the English spal-
poems. That is pretty good for 'Dyna-
mite Dave but we should think he would
work on the suppos!t.on that the pen
is mightier than the sword
Wilson County Citizen: Marshal Murat
Murdock's clarion voice IS for war-rigor-
Gus, ripping. red-handed war i1nbued with
the heroic days Of the autumn of "a, when
the Santa Fe battalion, under the lead OF
editor-colonel covered itself with glory
by charging away from the serene shores
OK r-i+z la +af ba or,lr he
and sending Pap Price and his corn-fed
horde kting toward Arkansas. never
more to return.
Topeka Journal: Wichita is one of those
towns whose population in the main
agreed with Governor Morrill, that the
prohibitory law cannot be enforced where
public sentiment is against 1t. The re-
suits which have been attained there re-
Gently prove either that Wichita and
Governor Morrill, were wrong or that there
has been a mistake made regarding public
sentiment at the Peerless Princess. Many
more saloons have been closed than there
are left.
Topeka Capital: As we understand
Governor Morrill,, prohibition cannot be
enforced where what is styled public
sentiment is against il. But we violate
no confidence in saying that the governor
will continue enforcing the law in Wichita
just the same Some thirty places have
been closed in that town and about a
dozen convictions secured from juries.
The state had just about come 20 the con-
clusion that the governor was making a
success of St
Sedgwtck Paragraph: The Wichita
Daily Eagle of last Sunday morning was
one of the best papers ever published in
the state OF Kansas. When you come to
consider 1t there IS only one man who
stands at the head of the editorial pro-
fession of Kansas today, and that man is
Marsh Murdoch. He is head and Shout
ders above the whole gang. especially
when It comes TO twisting the British
hons tail. The Eagle is a credit TO the
great state OF Kansas
Cheney Sentinel: The Sunday edition
of the Wichita Daily Eagle was one Of
the largest, as well as one of the best pa
pers ever issued in Kansas. II contained
more original and readable articles, as
well as the largest number OF handsome
advertisements ever seen in a paper west
OF the Mississippi river. II is clearly
demonstrated by the business men that
the Eagle is the beS; advertising medium
use a common phrase. the Eagle is strict