The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-30
Along the Kansas Nile.

| Colorado has got to give us back oul
Arkansas river or there will be trouble
In Atchison in 1895 and 1896 there were
/ 14o boys arrested, most of them for steal
| ing. Twenty-Five were arrested more than
| once.
81 knew Ed. Little when he was boy, ~
| said a man yesterday. He was very pre-
cocious." "Precocious," cried by-stand-
! er, why. Little was born an adult
A new G. A. r. post at Topeka is to be
organized. It's members will be exclusively
those who served at least three years in
actual war. DID it take more bravery to
fight ten battles than it did one?
The Southwest Teachers association,
which met at Winfield last week, de-
nounced Stryker's uniformity of text
books as failure. Only two OF those
present upheld It.
Frank Simpson, Jerry's brother at Medl.
cine Lodge, It is said, was the first man
to show Jerry that the sock story was
undigniied and persuade Jerry to dis
countenance il.
If II. G.. Toler is nominated and elected
governor he announces that there will be
but one governors room. and that il will
always be open TO the public: that ne will
-
Attorney General Boyle insists tha.
Leedy must drop McNan and his insurance
policy. Leedy says: "Nit" If It comes
to an actual contest Leedy may prove
that he has a stronger backbone than
Boyle.
The recent resubrn.ssion movement isn't
booming 10 any great extent. A resubrnis-
sion movement thrives best on July 5. after
ing with the refreshments OF the great
Fourth.
The most prosperous men an the world
81 the present time are those of southern
Kansas and Oklahoma. But they must
stand together and prevent Kansas City
from stealing their silk and satin trade
and leaving them the pin customers.
Much OF the abuse that Is heaped on
Populist papers in Kansas is undeserved.
There are thousands OF individual Popu-
lists In Kansa who maintain That times
are no better than they were last year
To their credit be it said that there Is not
a single Kansas Populists newspaper
which makes such an assertion.
The fines; sermon ever preached IN Kan
sas was by cowboy. comrace sad:
When 1 look al those stars and thirk
they are all revolving IL certain oros;s
and doing II with regularity and system,
the whole universe seems 20 ne 70 Be a
mighty engine" Yes" said the cowboy,
And who ever heard OF an eEgsne without
az engineer"
Recently Chester Longs enemies. in or
der 20 worry him announced that George
Getty OF western Kansas was a candidate
for congress. After some delay some %
Longs friends interviewed Getty and he
said that re. was n fast tor Long for
congress. TIE funny pzrt abou; al ms
Is that. there Is no such man as George
Getty. He : a myth
Conway Springs Star: As the evening
freight was coming from Wichita we6-ss-
day the passengers experienced quite
.aaianenp. yrst before TIE irzln arrived
a, Csearxater. II parted near the ntsd..
without the knowledge OF the engineer ar
when ne stopped lie front sec;loa Scs
Clearwater the rear end I'D 10; stop ussfl
the two sections came together. and taeE
there was . very sudden stop The pa
seagers were tuEbiee over tie sAts AT
considerably shaken up. but sooocy wss
seriously hurt