The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25
Along the Kansas Nile.

A large part of the Arkansas river bec
blew away in Sumner county the othel
day.
lives at Arkansas City, saw Queen Vic
toria crowned.
The water is very low in Cowley county
and the Winfield Courier advises the boil
ing of all well water.
Asked TO givea definition of success John
J. ingalls, recently said: THE only way
to be successful so far as know is tc
succeed
Hitherto Topeka has been the ''holier
than thou section of Kansas. Now west
ern Kansas puts up a claim of being the
holy section.
Ten years of timber-growing in western
Kansas viii this year make it possible for
the western Kansan to bring in Yule log
that is not twig.
Dick Howard OF Arkansas City is calling
wildly to see that man who has raised a
horse from colthood up, who has not man.
aged to get him "blemished.
General and Mrs. j. II. Rice, OF Fort
Scott, long in the newspaper business, will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary OF their
wedding in Fort Scott, December I.
Kansas politicians have a good deal TO
learn. Since he was admitted to the bar,
Bryan has made more money practicing
politics than any Kansas man ever made.
The Emporia Republican claims that
Daniel DeFoe is buried in ST. Giles church.
London. The Salina Republican disputes
this, saying he is buried in Bunhill Fields,
City Road, London.
The business men of Kansas City who
are trying to steal retail trade from south
ern Kansas are learning that southern
Kansas is no more a part of Kansas City's
territory than the Sandwich Islands are.
Mrs. Lease attended New York's horse
show and called It blending of masculine
egotisGn, feminine vanity and equine IN
telhgsnce. New York would forget the En-
glish language existed II II were not for
Kansas Lease and ingalls,.
Speaking OF vigorous foreign policy"
Ona Melton. the Kansas boy, sad he could
tell when Mckinley was saying something
to Spain because 6hat morning in the
Spanish prison the guards shot down one
man instead of three or four.
New England's blood in Kansas is COM
ing 20 the surface again kansans are
getting TO be great dickerers. Up In
Hutchinson hardly man applies for mar
ge license without trying 10 squeeze the
probate judge down a quarter or so.
The first death has taken place IN the
State Reformatory az Hutchinson which
has been running two years. George
Lackey, young man from Frankl.n
county, who was a bright, winning boy
DESPITE his past record, died OF TYPHOID
fever
Ona Melton says that when he was sen
tencea % die he knew the sentence would
not be carried out. because z meant that
the United States would make war o.
Spain + Il was That's the Kansas man
all ever. ne would willingly de j9s1 for
the fun Of ir,eg gining the way his country
would whale ias offender for killing an. |
Garden City Imprint: one of our re-
rez tly-ssecteS officials rsce!v4. lstte- this |
week eoagr2tuiatnz him on hAs success. I!
sai speaking a good word for Kansas Ger /
having SoEaed Popul.sn and rs.ns,stInE /
But the sSz-titag part q 1
this letter e as follows: BY the way
there Is 4 nznz he-e who = tzk.7z of 4
.rzs.ng some Iaza n this county far 1
zrze tract OF lard n TIE county yGs, /
south os ycurs, ard he understands ga:
her. .s lake n the county KEEP, ful % i
water from ire RIVER * nfiee away; that /
.ass lake covers sa.ps acres % lz.a: 4, = /
,rozs a. 20 - Zee. 3eSp, also that Ire = /
{. L II & 7. raslrusz5 IS building .aroasA /
ne county now aE1 VIII De .conpi.;es
.ooz-- X seems 20 IS iszt TIE azxks. /
sour:y peosle have kept mighty stsI AboaI
her t-g lake and 5s~ rzi,-oz1- i