The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-16
Along the Kansas Nile.


lodge of the Ancient and Frost-bitten Or
der of Rabbit-scalpers.
Tom Anderson says that II the marshal
| ship should come to him ne would take 1t.
| But he will not ask for ii.
Entomologists say that bed-bugs, once
| numerous in Kansas, are becoming eX-
tinct here just Ike the buffalo.
There will never be another boom in Kan
sas of the kind that will entitle men 10
call water tank and a tool box, town.
S. F.. Canterbury, president of the Bank
of Hutchinson, pleaded guilty to receiving
deposits when ne knew the bank was in a
falling condition and was fined $500.
Master Mechanic Gavitt of the Santa Fe
at Newton, is thorough Shakespearean
scholar and can give instructions for the
wiping of an engine in blank verse.
The real mission of Cy Leland in Wash
ington is to get Major Tom Anderson, Of
Topeka, appointed United States marshal,
instead of Sterne, Bakers candidate.
Despite stories to the contrary, Major In
man has received nothing from his new
book yet. But he will receive something
His royalties are amounting up to $500 a
week.
divorce for his daughter. Mrs. Nora
McCarty, aged seventeen years, wants a
divorce from her husband and her father,
]. NJ. Sackett, brings the suit.
Annie Diggs says that the first thing an
extra session of the legislature should do
should be to repeal the Metropolitan po-
lice law. Times are improving. II is no
longer heretical TO jump on that law.
Coburn is being doomed by the Kansas
City papers for governor. The reason for
this is that Coburn allows the Kansas City
papers an advantage over Kansas papers
in publishing statistics from his office.
The claim that Cy Leland never goes
back on a promise is not true. Leland in
his time has said: 'IH see you in min
ute" about twenty thousand times, and
has never lived up TO any one OF them
On tie Ilth of November, 1856, eighteen
inches OF snow fell in Atchison. and re-
mained or the ground until the following
February. The winter was very cold
Atchison then had about five hundred peo-
pie.
lola Register: BY the way. talking about
honest journalism, have you seen an ad-
mission in any Populist paper that il was
mistaken when Il declared last year that
the price Of silver -egulated the price o.
wheat?
A letter was recently received q, King
fisher for J. II. Parker. In the place OF
the word "K.ngfsher' was a drawing OF
a bird, attempting to represent a king
fisher. Mr.. Parker should take club and
visit that correspondent
In the state penitsntiary James Colean.
convicted banker Of Fort Scott, is clerk
II the general Offices; SO Is c. E Wright
man. another banker OF Tribune George
Taylor, banker from Wyandotte, is clerk
in the store house.
Fred Bznn OF Conway Springs last week
moved a barn. HIS dogs killed I75 rats
Which had taken refuge under the barn.
The presence OF the rats - conclusive sy-
i6ence that there VII BE- large crops next
year. Before q crop failure the rats pun
cut
There are many little Christmas sszsoa
Joys which are too great privately and too
unlnterestiug publicly 70 be published. Tbs
week Widow Mitchell OF Ccrbtn. Sumner
county, was surprised Sy the homecoming
from California of her son she had not
seen hira tor twenty years
IN The welHgzcn jail young fellow
named Bixler Who vas arrested fc< steal
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