The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-25
ALONG the Kansas Nile.

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Among the thinking politicians o: Kan
sas il is getting 10 be a bye-word that
the day of re-elections are gone for a long
| interval.
Rudyard Kipling is writing railroad sto-
r!es. the best ever written. His dialogues
new sound Ike the railroad column In the
Newton Republican.
When Mrs. Lease FIRST appeared, she Eel.
| criticism keeniy. The first time she was
attacked brutality in a newspaper she cried
| and wanted Mr.. Lease 10 Hex the editor,
Bernard Kelly. who Is slated for chap
| ls'rcy in the army, is a me prayer, his
| voice having reach of four octaves be
ginning with the second b fiat below mid
! die c.
| Jerry Simpson once told a friend tina.
| when it was his ambition to dress well.
that good clothes were as much stImu-
lus 10 happiness as drink OF very pure
and old whisky
There is one explanation for the circum-
stance that the Kansas farmer raised o
big crop of wheat and the price OF wheat
| is advancing. Hanna is so busy with the
campaign in Ohio that he doesn't know
Il.
! Kansas has not surrendered one iota of
| its privilege to growl and grumbie. The
naked truth is that most OF the bowling
| in Kansas comes not from an empty sicm-
ach. but from dyspepsia. caused by over
eating.
! Mr.. Johnson IN Summer county with a
large domain on the Arkansas river.
! recently threw open his plum patch 10 ey-
! erybody. The people in the neighborhood
! relieved him OF one thousand bushels OF
pIums.
Kansas is drifting away from the finan-
cial question rapidly. Yesterday an old
time finance agitator said: Il tell you
what-if that Klondyke business keeps up
it will result in the demone-what-you-call
/ it of gold.
| Topeka is TO have a carnival button. A
committee will select the prettiest girl in
| town who will have her photograph taken
! while she is masked and her face will adorn
! the button. Then a guessing contest will
| be instituted.
Captain Payne. the original Oklahoma
| boomer. is buried in Prairie Lawn ceme-
| terry at Wellington. His grave is marked
by a plain soldiers Maidstone furnished
/ by the government. Payne has been dead
/ thirteen years.
/ Much fine ridicule has gone out and
aloft over Ed. Littie's proposition TO run
Leedy for president, but there Is no ques-
/ ton that Kansas has never had gov
ernor who did not believe he would make
| a better president.
/ The Wichita Herold says with its usual
! fearlessness: Der neue Pensionagent in
1 topeka. Herr Cyrus Leland. wird das
unit etwa Cnfangs September sntreten."
/ Tom Anderson endorses every word of this
/ body blow at bossism.
| In speaking of Logan, George r. Peck
| said: He took this hour from the cal
, endar as mis- own" This is exaggerati ton.
No man ever took a minute from the call
endar. Time is common property. and
no man. not even Napoleon, could pick up
a minute and put il in his pocket and
walk off with il.
When VIII White was in Washington
recently the presidents private secretary
saw him coming up the front walk. and
passed the word. Quickly Mckinley ran
to a refrigerator and held both hands on
| chunk of ice. A moment later White
srasped the presidents hand and confirm
ed the opinion he formed OF the president
when he called on him in Canton last
winter.
George Frease is the editor of the best
newspaper at Canton. He has been an in
tim1te friend of McKinley's for years He
often sat on McKinley's front porch and
smoked Mckinley's cigars. When the
Hutchinson postoffice matter came up
freese went TO Mckinley and said: u want
10 ask only one thing of your administra-
tion-the appointment of Mrs. Brown post
mistress at Hutchinson" But Baker
would not endorse her and neither would
Chester Long, and Frease was turned
down.
Among the fourth-class postmasters ap-
pointed recently by 10 Bristow Is A. II.
Hall, at Trading Post, Lyon county. When
Cuantrelrs band raided the little settle
ment at Trading POST all the leading citi-
Zens, some dozen or more men in number.
were captured bound and stood up In q
row and shot down. Hall was standing in
that rank and he was the only man who
escaped instant death. Instead OF being
fatally shot, as the murderers SUPPOSED
he was slightly injured and played pos
sum" by which he escaped.
Topeka Capital: County Attorney Jet
more yesterday informed A. II. Vance. rep
reseniing the Temperance Committee OF
Seventeen, that he was ready 10 proceed
against Chief of oPlice Henry Steele in the
proposed suit 10 GUST him from office Nr
Jetmore has been for several days looking
up the law on the subject. and id not re-
port 20 Mr.. Vance until he was convinced
that the supreme court would sustain him
in the action. There is no doubt In Mr..
Jetmore's mind on that point now. He
has found a number OF decisions In supper,
OF the proposed suit. A quo warranto pro-
ceeding will be fled in the supreme court
today to compel Steele 10 show why he
does not discharge the duties of chief OF
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utes. Three allegations will be made against
Steele. as follows: That he permits the
viola ton OF the prohibitory law for the pur-
pose Of swelling the revenues of the police
department; that he uses his influence 10
have the police court dismiss cases against
persons arrested for selling liquor; that ne
has evidence OF the violation OF the prOfi-
bitory law and refuses 20 use H. Ny
Vance completed the amended petition In
the case last night and turned X over &c
Nr. Jetmore.
FL Dorado Republicans defense % grease.
The eagle that scars. the Hon that roars
the knocking bird that sings. lives on meat
Patti eats half-pound of FrsnkfnTtsr dab
sausage at breakfast; Grant ate bacon and /
fried his hard tack in The grease. when he
had z big iigat or. Shakespeare ate nut !
ton chop and drank Scotch whisky. Byron T,
wrote bes, on ham and Holland gIn. While +
Mckinley and Tom Reed eat meat. or fish, :
three times a day ingalls, would have Z
gone back 70 the senate ha1 he 10. lived 4
on oatmeal baked apples END bind rob .
bins \ vegetable Diet woman i as cal .
and cismny and uniovsble a. a turnip. II /
you wish 20 put roses in the caseis u your i
girls. vitality il their motion al5 5-sl8s r. .
th4ir heads. feed them meat. TIE xo-,s 4
Is full of CrankS vac are always getting
Up some new FAD abou; hay sonp o. corr