The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-31
Along the Kansas Nile.

! In the announcement Of commencement
classes in Kansas the girls, as usual. out
number the boys.
| The Benham ranch in Barber county
| consisting of 500 acres. has been traded t
| an Iowa man for an hotel
Alfred Anderson of Kiowa with two grey
| hounds caught seventy-eight rabbits in De
| cember, January and February.
| Jerry Simpson is doing more talking ir
| congress than he ever did before. Jerry 1:
now going in to make a record.
The Arkansas City Traveller is against
| the Tom johnson lieutenant-governor boom
The Traveller is not in the push.
In his biography furnished the congress
ionai directory, Harris the Pop senator
dwells on the fact that he was a Confede-
rate.
The Newton Kansan has come out in IA
vor of few divorce marches as the wed
ding march business has been overdone
slightly.
To read the weekly newspapers il would
seem that about every other man In South
ern Kansas was thrown from his buggy
last week.
Tom Anderson OF Topeka studied the noe
declared it was merely Venus which IS now
an evening star.
Things have changed about some in re-
cent years. The other day western Kan
sas man received from Kansas City friends
a present OF a live deer.
This has been a hard week on the Popu-
lists. John Sherman was the author Of the
antitrust bill which has just knocked out
the railroad combinations.
The editor of the Salina Republican. who
reads history. for recreation. notes that
Martin Van Buren, was president when
Queen Victoria began to reign.
Mrs Frank Doster, who has just gone %
Topeka, is artistic. She should make her
husband take down those Old portraits
which ruin the supreme court room
Judge Chase johnson IN the state audi
tors office accuses Harris Of bad faith and
other things for declaring that a maximum
freight rate law would be unconstitutional
Kansans are stin troop,ns down % Port
Arthur TO be feeced. Il j. 50 easy 20 De
humbugged az home that f seems a waste
OF railroad fare 10 make the trip to Port
Arthur.
In Cleveland and Cincinnati WI wE.ts's
DOCK is outSsul1Z all others ~ DH111z
Real Issue Is selling fast Only four books
are selling faster: Quo Va6ss. Artie, Cheek
eFs and Margaret Olgivy.
A conservative Newspaper nan who has
attended every Kansas legislature FOR
twenty years says 70 his positive knowledge
that more Doodle changed hands during the
recent session than II al ire twenty years
previous.
The Populis: bos-d CT HaTpsr county con-
niss5oners vii hire an attorney a. az sX-
rense % SSJ 20 undertake. 70 collect thc
taxes q the Fr.soo road. WHAT an axtc--
rey car 20 that county can 1oi NIL Be 81
interesting development.
Al Arkansas City a zaz- came upon
small Bog crying because another boy had
taken rs bike ard ssle1 away. TIE MAJ
in tas buggy took the boy n and started n
pursuit TIE thief vsih ire bike furre5
suddenly around TIRE hs-<e sn5et s-d SPIT
both occupants ost- Ties ths fHisf got |
away again he vas aasly caught
Co.onel LSnte was a Selizhtfgl r.r:ie- !.
man as a. ofhcsr All private cittEez- Ths 4
business manager % ms PzDsr spent aea-- /
b AZ ne lzst year O, hfs AIRY service E.rz /
TIE coiozsi acting rsEfzs-sal hszixr
s-d hs cs7es for % IKE = scz. zs Ee were 4
7aiy yozEz s-T-7L-z a the arss AE1 nses- /
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xays s77.ec-assS