The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-01-05
WHRILS WITH WICHITA.


wHRILS WITH WICHITA.
Kansas City World: The German pop
ulation in Ell;nwood has organized one OF
Wichita's secret anti-prohsbition societies.
Kansas Mail and Breeze: Tiger Bill''
of Wichita, was in Topeka Oh New Years
Day whetting his claws at the state house.
Hutchinson News: There are six thou
sand church members in Wichita, but
some of them don't work at the trade
very much.
Kansas Mail and Breeze: Considering g
the size Of the town in which it is pub
ished, the Eagle is probably the best daily
paper in the United States.
Kansas City Gazette: Tiger Bill
Campbell viii hold his job as assistant at
torney- general at Wichita He made a
journey to Topeka and was reassured.
Newton Herald: The first announce
ment made that Kate Field was in Wich-
ita was in the telegraphic dispatches this
morning that she was singing in the leper
colony.
Lawrence Journal: A new brand of
cigars has been named Mrs. Lease" The
idea was probably suggested by the fact
that Mrs. Lease makes a man smoke when
she gets after him.
Minneapolis Messenger: Colonel Muir
dock would beware of the Greeks, bear
ing gifts" Cy Leiand's suggestion that
the next state convention be held at Wich-
ita, meets with a cold sneer from the
colonel.
Kansas City Star: Since Tiger Bill
closed the Wichita joints the hello girls
have had patience and energy taxed to
the limit by telephone subscribers. Every
subscriber now rings an average of nine
times a day.
Kansas City Journal: Wichita is per-
fectly willing to pose as a horrible ex-
ample and thus back up Governor Nor
rill's position that prohibition doesn't pro-
hibft, but the governor somehow doesn't
catch on worth a cent.
Emporia Republican: The Wichita
Eagle thinks campaign in Kansas with
out prohibition would be delightfully."- re-
freshing. So it would, but there IS no
chance Of getting 1t, so long as Wichita
has place on the Kansas map.
Kansas City Gazette: The Wichita Eagle
predicts that the prohibitory question is
going to be the one uppermost in the
coming campaign in Kansas, Lord, how
this people would like to get away from
that chestnut and talk about something
else.
Lawrence Journal: Tiger Bill, who has
been 'eating up men, in Wichita, was in
Topeka on exhibition yesterday. and when
he left announced that he was going home
TO celebrate the new year by closing up a
joint. Tiger Bits interviews had led
people to believe that there were no joints
in Wichita.
Atchison Globe: Tiger Bill Campbell
has been in Topeka for the past few days,
TO get his courage screwed up tighter, and
announces that the first thing he does
when he returns to Wichita will be to
seize a joint, and raise more hell than
ever. Wichita is poor, patient old thing
for putting up so long with this cheap
mischief-maker. Leavenworth wouldn't
stand it; Leayenworth has chased many
a better man than Tiger Bill Campbell out
of town.
Salina Republican,: The editor of the
Wichita Eagle, in his memories of David
Josiah Brewer. goes back to the dawn of
David'S creation, when he (the Eagle edi-
tori stood on a par with his great friend.
He tells how at a three-forked divergence
of the road, David went to the supreme
bench, Plumb to the senate and he to the
dark and cavernous regions of obscur-
ity. Marsh IS very modest. He may be
governor some day, and to be governor
Of Kansas is to be greater than a king!
Kansas Troy Chief; Isn't it barely pos
sible that the Wichita Eagle is attaching
too much Importance to the wrangle over
whisky in that city? The state at large
is not nearly as much torn up over II
as the Eagle imagines, and the result
of the election, next fall, viii hardly turn
upon the Wichita liquor traffic. About
the only thing the Eagle accomplished by
its screaming campaign last fall was the
defeat of its candidate for judge, whose
election the Eagle demanded as an In
dorsement Of It's fight The Eagles in
discriminate pitching into everybody.
whether they had anything TO do with
Wichita's woes or not, is not even good
gall. Next fall, the Republicans of all
the other counties in Kansas Will line up
on general issues. regardless of who are
police commissioners of Wichita, or of the
daily doingS OF Tiger Bill