The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-04
Along the Kansas Nile.

The Free Silver club at Arkansas City
is fighting the re-appointment OF Dr. Pill
cher.
1t is claimed that Cy Leland is the bearer
of an important message from Mckinley to
some kansan.
Kansas did not rise up on Kansas day
and smite the Union. Perhaps the Union
looked so awfully big.
Some of the schol teachers who entered
the Populist party have come out we'll Har
ryLandis went in as a school teacher.
The judiciary committee of the senate has
favorably reported the bill which makes IL
necessary for county attorneys to be law
yers.
When Miss Yaw meets a final and real
death she should have a monument read
ing: Greatness is made by advertising,
not born"
Fred Funston in the Cuban army has
been promoted to major. He thinks he has
a show of becoming colonel and getting a
pension later.
a Fort Scott man is having his stomach
investigated by the Y rays. The stomach
troubles him and he wants to find out
where the flaw Is.
ne legislature may ABOLISH tns lneNFOpOl-
itan police law. Leedy is fighting against
its repeal but the legislature may have more
sense than Leedy.
Mrs. Lease has got her picture IN an
eastern magazine again. Mrs. Lease is the
best advertiser Kansas has ever produced
or will ever produce.
Salina woman Miss Phillips. wants the
Americans 10 organize a society in which
each member will pledge himself TO buy
only American made goods.
Senator Harris is the only Populist ever
elected TO anything who can drink cham
payne without wanting 70 sneeze. That
man Harris is an aristocrat.
1t IS not true that when Cy Leland call
ed on Major Mckinley the latter asked;
''Mr Leland does any one in Kansas want
anything" and Leland said: NO"
The telegraph companies are never heard
from in a legislature. But they are always
watching things. Just now Il is impossible
TO get e quorum OF the telegraph commit
tees together.
The Bradley-Mar;in ball was to have
cost 500. 90. But then Mrs. Lease attacked
1t and Mrs. Martin sad: since il has BE-
come 50 prominent ~e must not let il be a
failure. We viii make Il cost Ec9,0lo'
The Kansas legislature vii no, Instruct
the Kansas delegation in Washington .
vote for free silver. A former Kansas Pc
publican legislature once DID that ard most
OF the Republicans OF the state lived TO re-
gTe1 a.
Grant County Republican: The tir-hea5
statesman who represents Stevens county
in the Legislature has introduced a bill 20
prevent anyone from playing penny ante = 1
the court house except county 0fficsrs- VIC /
protest against such class legislation ard I
don't want 10 be barred BY any such Re
strictionE-
4 banker az Topeka has prepared a. TIE
request % eastern parties. statement %
the pu5ilc inde5;ea1ess q Kansas. mean
ing the indebtedness % the state. coun-
ties. cites. townships AID school districts
The statement shows an Aggregate .ncebt-
es5-szs on Jun. -. 80. G - 51Bzs. TIE
tsxsbIs properly q Kansas. a. hIei ~ -.
state board O. equalization fgr ne yes-
er6sng June > Tss- i E@1-ssss1s- Kansss
property : ASSESSED AZ from = q = E<-
cent o. its real value. ArrsptiEz fz& az
- szr7isnf % Is5S a. srae value. the F-ssI-
indebtedness % AsEsss - - - psr cszs
o. - tsxssis prp=sy- On basis 0. re-
ASSESSMENT h<snx - 90 IS tT9e value fhs
per cen; a. ssanss- insestesasss MI s4zzI
1S7 per csns of trus yz4ge.