The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-31
Along the Kansas Nile.

The Santa Fe's round house at Arkansas
City will be enlarged from ten stalls 70
twenty-five.
Wheat keeps going up and bicycles
keep coming down." SAID the Kansas far
mer. Things are coming my way from
both directions.
The Latin meaning of the word "atten-
ton is ''stretching-to." 1t will be seen
from this that rubber-necking is not or
iginal with Kansas.
In the last two months deposits in Kan
sas banks have Increased only slightly.
People are investing their money. Kansas
is just now in a home-buying era.
The Populists of Emporia are in full re-
treat before the billowy tide of prosperity
evidenced in that town by the recent white
washing of the stock yards there.
-it Pratt this week a dog sneaked under
a bank building and could not get out. The
bank people had finally TO hire a carpenter
TO cut the canine away to liberty.
The friends of Storson Ogglesdorfson of
Mcpherson county, the new candidate for
Congress, insists that it is time that the
Swedes IN this district had some recegni-
ton.
A good many of the candidates against
Chester Long are going to be in the con-
d:tion of the man who enters game of
whist with no other knowledge OF the game
than third hand high"
Among Earl Underwood's wedding ex-
penses at Arkansas City is $50 bill which
he owes to Mr.. Squires with whom he bet
tnat he would be married later than
Squires. to whom he lost.
F. P. Metzger. a department clerk IN
Washington, viii soon be made chief clerk
of the general land office. Metzger is from
Greensburg, Kansas. ana has been in
Washington a number of years.
The Abilene Reflector tells OF an Abb
lene man who went to Chicago last week
and was offered $3.50 job. which he re-
fused. 1t is criminal libel in an item Ike
this, not to give the mans name.
Attorney General Boyle. the purest ray
IN the Leeiy administration, says ne Will
rot appoint any assistant attorney gen
erals, and that the legislature should meet
and repeal the metropolitan police law.
The unprecedented reticenoe OF Professor
Dyche IS due 10 thefact that he Is making
a four-poiated wesrher-vane. On each
point is the letter SO. He VIII stick this
vane on the North Pole when ne gets
there
Judge Foster says that Byron Gilbert.
the Atchison infant lawyer. should be n a
kinder garten instead OF at the bar. He
thinks a great injustice is being done the
boy in making him believe that he is
lawyer.
William Riggs. a Sumner county polstf-
clan, has gone crazy over some domestic
subject" The jury which tired him Offered
rot 20 find him insane II ne would 20 OF
10 a hospital The newspapers refuse -
explain what the domestic subject Il.
L Is probably unpnntabie-
Chief Clerk Upton of the penite1tla-y
saws that the reason bankers zes soft snaps
(cferkshipsl in i5e institution. IS because
they sre the only competent ones That is
a reasonable and satisfactory exPlaBstson
Of a charge which was f0oESaiy nAda
against Warden Lands.
Sau Jackson a Santa Re enE.nss- q.
Newton. Is under arrest for whipping sis
wife The Santa Fe should fire him Even
: man travelling On a pass Scuid Boi iEse
20 trust MS life IL the hzl1s Of a r7a1
whose courage IS % weak ths; 4 voui1
re-.ust hin 10 strike as wife
David Dodsoa a painter az Fort Sco<t.
has a shining s,,le;to rhsca he Gains xas
taken from NaPoIeOa after the battle o,
Waterloo. This : cc-rec.- Dave L=ahys
great great g-zD5fatseV th-eE SaPos@oc
down whiis Ire Duke Of wssl.agloz Eea-
through MS clothes and took vAsk Sapsy
ole boy aad-