The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-17
SPEAKING OF WICHITA.

Hutchinson Interior Herald: The Eagle
never let's up saying nice and improbable
things about Wichita
Kansas City Gazette: When the Wich-
ita saloons closed, Major Cole, the evan
gelist, closed his labors at that town.
Johnson City Journal: Lewelling has
learned that most any man can mix but
ter with a pair of gum boots and long
handle hoe.
Peabody Graphic: Miss Gas is working
for the Standard Oil company at Wichita,
and if the customers kick on the oil they
can compromise with Gass.
Peabody Graphic: Trotter is the name
of a Wichita horseman who went a heat
against the Grim Reaper this week and
was shut out dwell, consider where he
lived.
Pratt Republican: The Wichita Eagle
is sometimes considered little cranky
in its editorial department but its
screechin' good newspaper. in spite OF the
fact that it is machine-made.
Peabody Graphic: In Athens, Diogenes
hunted for good man and couldn't find
one In Wichita they appoint whole COM
nittees to look for bad men. Now, is
Wichita worse than Athens was?
Kansas City Star: a church rattle was
stopped in Wichita by the Cubbison anti
gambling law. About the only thing left
for Wichita people is guessing how long
il will be before a street car comes.
Lawrence Journal: The story that
comes from Wichita TO the effect that the
saloons are all closed there, is sent by the
same man who tells the tales about coy
otes chasing and eating women in south
western Kansas.
no
disapproves of the appointment OF Sam
uel T. Howe TO a place on the state rail-
road. Everybody else, outside OF little
coterie in Topeka, arrives at about the
same conclusion.
Lawrence Journal: patriotic paper
down at Wichita declares that its town
lis filling up" Unless somebody has been
lying about Wichita, the place has been
full ever since it became intoxicated with
boom excitement.
Topeka Journal: Wichita seems to
think that the I7,735.50 collected from her
saloons last year was just clear gain
But after all most of it came out of Wich-
ita people who might as well have paid
ii in any other way.
Anthony Republican: The Wichita Ea-
gle came out Tuesday with half coli
umn editorial apologizing for not hav-
be hoped that the excellency OF MI
Grounding viii accept the apology.
Blackwell Record The cold at Wichita
is intense and IL is all due. no doubt, to
the Eagle ignoring the grounding. Such
trifies might be overlooked In country
paper, but for a great metropolitan daily
TO overlook such an important event is
preposterous and objectionable.
Muivane Record: wichita has again
won her freight rates. That same Trims
has happened about as often as the Unit
ed States rnarshals used 10 surround the
Cook gang This is good time, however.
to win freight rates, as the weather Is
cold and other business a little slow.
Kansas Breeze: Marsh Murdock, who
is a great believer in signs and oTnenz.
Is fearing for the worst now. For twenty
years without missing q year he has
printed a nice editorial about ground
hog day" but this year the occasion came
and went without a thought OF IL coming
into his heaG-a worse hoOdoo 70 a Kansas
Murdoek than meeting a Midnight cat II
a black graveyard
Hutchinson News: The lawyers Of
WIGHT are having a great quarrel among
themselves and Judge Reed had 70 zp-
poirt a committee to investigats the r.
port as TO where and upon whom the
blame lies that the whole bar may not be
dragged into the mire % professional
and rottsnness- Hard times have been
too much for the Wichita lawyers powers
Of resistance ard some OF them have o-en
unIavfully grabbing the root Of all Ell
Kildare Journal The wichita EaSie
sprzn2 g surprise On its exchanges l2st
Sunday II TIE shape OF 4 sample OF Work
done b. a lergeathzler machine with
which IL Is printed. done uo IN wedding
envelope and addressed 10 the publisher.
with q circular containing short state
ment Of the great success the kzsls Vas
meeting with and the rapidly % The ma
chine N setting and casting the type.
making the Eagle the fc-sEnos. paper
Nest OF the Mlsslssfrll r1ve-.