The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-24
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE

Cy. Leland is buying one hundred load:
Of corn a day.
John Breidenthal personally does not be
lieve ne can be beaten for the United
States senate.
The Chicago Times-Herald speaks Of
Billy White as 1.-The noted editor OF the
Wichita Gazette"
One of the most important places in tn.
United States treasury will, under Mckin.
| ley, come to Kansas.
John Seaton's name is on every step II
the state house. They are of iron and
John made them all in his foundry.
In Sedgwick county Lewelling and tn.
other Pop legislators will not ask re
nomination if they fail to get Wichita 9
Normal school.
At Topeka the National hotel is swell
the Dutton house is not. But scores OF
Pops put up at the cheap Dutton house
and get their letters addressed in care o,
the National.
According to the Courier, Winfield i.
solid for Cuban recognition. so unanimous
IN fact. that lecturer created prolonged
applause by standing up against Spain the
other evening.
Cy. Leland is the peer of all Kansas
politicians. He is the peer of the Populis,
bosses even when he is defeated. They
like to know what Leland thinks about
their plans and appointments.
Jerry Simpson says the people of Kan
sas are with Grover Cleveland on the Gu
ban question. Jerry may be right When
he said a majority Of the people of the
Seventh district were for absolute free
trade We disputed him and were turned
down.
enworth girl gets an engagement ring she
takes it to a 'jeweler TO get the set tight
ened and asks incidentally: How much
does a stone like that COST" That has
happened hundred times, outside of
Leavenworth, too.
AA.Iudge Beekman Of Arkansas City strolled
into Topeka court the other day, and
the judge presiding appointed him to de-
fend the boy charged with picking pock-
cts. The judge made a splendid appeal 10
the jury and the boy was convicted. This
little story ends so unusually that it is
good.
Ed. ]. Bussey, a travelling man. was
tried In Butler county the other day fo.'
enticing two girls away from their homes
IN Augusta and taking them to Kansas
City. The evidence was shocking. The
jury failed to agree, one man hanging It.
The case was continued to the March term
and Bussey put under 5000 bond. Bussey,
It is said, will never come to trial again.
The patrons of the Amazon ditch viii
meet at Garden City on Saturday 10 con-
slider the threatened water famine. The
Garden City Imprint says of the prospect:
I'VE have been shown a recent letter from
headquarters, regarding the future of the
Amazon ditch for the season of 1897. in
which there is nothing in the least hopeful
for the patrons Of that ditch. AS the case
now stands, water will not be turned into
the ditch unless prompt action is taken by
the farmers. This ditch traverses the best
farming districts of Kearney and Finney
counties, and the farmers along its course
are among the most enterprising and ener-
getic to be found, but without water their
energy, enterprise and thrift are of no
avail. We regret that the situation is as
stated. and It is useless for the farmers to
sit still and wait the acton OF the COM
pany, for disappointment VIII be the irevi-
table result-no water will be sent down
the Amazon in 1897 from that source. If
the farmers want water they must get
move on themselves. For the past several
days water sufficient TO water every acre
Of alfalfa under that ditch has passed by
this place on the way to the gulf.