The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-26
Along the Kansas Nile.

Topeka has just received its first chain
less bicycle. They are old in Southern
Kansas.
| Justice Allen, of the Kansas supreme
| court is pedestrian. He walks several
| miles day.
| When Jerre Botkin was elected congress
mana t-large from Kansas he did not nave
single cent.
II PETER is to be president he will have
| 10 get hustle on himself. He is sixty
six years old.
| According to VIII White most of the girls
| in Emror:a wear number nine shoes and
No. stockings.
| At Abilene a whole house of heirs are
| fighting over an estate that reaches the
| gigantic figure Of s725.
| Two thousand turkeys were slaughtered
| in Pratt last week. The revenue 10 the
| town from them was something like 81, 100
In Washington this winter Congressman
| Ridgeley of the Third district who IS a
| bachelor. will live in Washington with
Je-Te Botkin.
The PopuEsts have offended the Ger
man vote again. The Germans say that
the appointment of Mrs. Diggs was bid
for the female suffrage vote.
Thomas Gill of Winfield has got four
years in the pen for robbing a joint. Did
they prove It was joint? And II a joint
is Illegal in Kansas, can man rob IL?
A Kansas man feels like he is getting
musically educated when he can detect by
The music two seconds before IT stops that
the band is about to conclude the tune.
\ report that David Scott, a prominent
ton, had been arrested for boot-legging is
Indignantly denied by Pastor Watt He
SAYS Scott hasn't been In the church for
years.
The Republican papers of Kansas are
still scooping the Popuhst papers with
the announcement that Senator Harris
called upon President Mckinley and con-
graduated him on his method Of d3sposinS
OF the Union Pacific
Lane johnson, son OF Mrs Anna Lane
Johnson. the grandson OF Jim Lane, is rap
Idly coming TO the front in Boston. He IS
a dead ringer for Jim Lane, has his man
ner and his brain. and IS very proud Of his
iIlustrious grandfather.
A large par, Of sincere Populism In Kan
sas is made up OF men who have met per-
sonai reverses, and have become embii-
tered thereby Only when prosperity mas
come which has made every man. woman
aud child in Kansas personally prosperous
viii Popul.sm die
II tie Republicans of Kansas know what |
they're about they viii rent four or five |
thousand graphophones. reproduce Lew |
eliing's testimony with cross-questions II 4
the legislative investigation and set a |
graphophone up IN every Kansas town- Il
Hcu'd prove a sockdolageT.
There was a day when socialism was up
held by part OF the Popul.st leaders Tia,
day is gone The average Kansas Populist
Is getting Just as material. practical ard /
sensible as any other partisan Al hope
OF socialism disappeared IN Kansas when
the Populiss tenet OF The office seeking the
man was relegated.
lola Register: Some weary wazgles
slipped UP 10 carriage hitched near the
Santa Fe depot yesterday ard ''nlppei''
bundle lying on the seat He was probably
labor1ng under the impression that Il wss
an overcoat. clothing or underwear. for
vhscH be could find q use. and when hts |
eyes fell upon q gertler1ans robe de |
mutt his facial expression Sas doubtless
a sigh, To behold
Hutchinson News: A young man wen, |
through ever III. Santa Fe today or h..
zeS6ing tip. He lad . beautiful younz
rife and appeared 70 be very happy. There
rss one sad feature no.1ceabss- TIE yozzz
wife was deaf mute n mar wao Ezs
the young couple s.gh-l heavily
Very sad." suggested News reporter 70
ne man Yes said che maj the resi-
u Is are greatly 70 be ptt.sd. Blu; then"
- cort.nued there Is 10; 6ezs Hute.
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