The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-13
Along the Kansas Nile.

Along the Kansas Nile.
| Jerre Botkin's friends claim that by hi
| speeches in the last campaign he mad
| seven votes for the Populists.
Senator ingalls, called on Mckinley tn
| other day and intimated several appoint
ments which would please him.
The old Santa Fe depot at winfield which
| has been replaced by a new one, will b,
| there.
The Santa Fe, II is SAID, will make q
clean sweep of conductors on its south
| ern Kansas roads within the next few
weeks.
Adjutant General Allen Is in Hutchinson
| investigating the local militia company. II
is charged that the company took part in
local political parade.
Out in Pratt county the two Populists
who were beaten last week for office mar
ried girls in Reno county instead of pat
ronizng home industry.
In southern Kansas on many trains there
are as many baggage cars as passenger
coaches. The extra baggage cars are need
ed to carry commercial mems trunks.
Tom Johnson walked into the county
clerks office at Wellington Wednesday
and presented 81 rabbit scalps, for which
he received a bounty of three cents each.
The worst enemy southern Kansas has is
the man who, living down here, trades
at Kansas City. Kansas C.ty has ruined
eastern Kansas by stealing her best retail
trade.
Two tramps were found in a refr;gera-
tor car at Wellington, wherein they had
been locked for hours. They said, On be-
ing liberated, that Klondike would have
been picnic.
Jerry Simpson is giving out to his friends
that there is one object in his life now
greater than the desire to fight Tom Reed
and that is to drive Judge Mckay off
the surface of the earth.
A travelling faker struck Wellington the
other day bilking the people with a patent
lamp-lighter. He had no license and
Harry Woods. city attorney, took out after
him. But the villain escaped.
Some of the papers are quoting the Eagle
as saying that three million dollars was
borrowed on Kansas land in October last
AS a matter of fact that money was bor-
rowed on raw Kansas land in October
1887.
Prohibition is queer thing. It has be-
come so common to break the law that the
whole community uses the possessive pro-
noun in speaking of a liquor seller. For
instance, an item from Conway Springs
reads: ''Our jo:ntst. Doc TarbiIl, was
fined $50 this week"
L. D. Chaddon, of Wellington. was jus
of ba Ia fStt in,
Chicago. While he was gone the Populists
made an affidavit that he had left the
state permanently and Governor Leedy ap-
pointed his successor. Now Chaddon's
friends refuse to surrender his books.
The delicate way in which a Kansas ed
itor will touch on local tragedies is
enough to bring tears to the eyes of
Swapping turtle. This week the Pratt Re
born in this city last Monday and no mar
riage ceremony has ever given legality TO
its existence. Poor kid"
Wellington has a number of fresh young
men VINO guy the actresses in every theat-
rical company which comes along. The
other night they tried it on young wo-
man who stepped to the front of the stage
and roasted them to a fare-ye-weM. The
city marshal viii throw them out.
The brewers of the west held a meeting
at Kansas City Wednesday for the purpose
of proving TO the next Kansas legislature
What fraud the prohibitory law is. They
claim that they sell as much beer In Kan
sas as in any other state, but that they
are compelled TO put up more money for
campaign purposes than in all the other
,r1
gouged by all the politicians, from the big
ones down the line, and that the money
which the politicians make by these sand
bag methods goes into improper channels,
whereas If there were no prohibitory law
it would go 10 the school and other legiti-
mate funds.
Seven years ago Henry Ewing, coIored
man, now % years of age. left the city OF
Lawrence and located near the kttle town
of Loring, twenty miles east OF Lawrence,
on the Missouri Pacific road. He rented
farm and put all the money ne had In seed
potatoes. He sold his crop the first year
for enough TO purchase and pay for sew
enty acres OF ground. Since that time he
has rented and purchased additional lands,
growing better of each year. This sum-
mer he sold 5000 bushels Of potatoes at an
average of 50 cents a bushel, the total cos;
of production being little less than $500
leaving him a profit OF about sl3.0oe- He
has just returned from Minnesota. where
ne purchased I5,ooo bushels OF Northern
grown potatoes at ~ cents These VIII be
shipped 10 his storehoUses and this wtnte<
be carefully stored. As many Of them ss
are needed Will be used and sod for seed
next spring the balance being put OF
the place or on the market