The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-19
Along the Kansas Nile.

| Smith has decided TO make fight on Lee
| land.
| The auditor of the state confesses thai
ne can not make the coal OIL inspector
| make monthly reports.
Governor Leedy's brave stand agains,
| home rule may have been intended as sort
! of requiem TO the o. N. B.
If all the present Populist officers are re-
| nominated Boyle is going to be the hard
! est man for the Republicans 10 defeat.
The Kansas Republican papers are now
| demanding to know Of the Populists II
| the legislature reduced the rate of interest.
Some of the Kansas Populists are CON-
| sidering how ii would sound 10 claim that
there is a shortage in gate receipts in
| India.
A national bank is said 10 be advancing
| State Treasurer Hefflebower money until
| the Kansas treasury can be filled up
| again.
ALLOW me-" said Jerre Botkin in one OF
| his recent speeches. ito call the audience S
| attention TO the fact that he has dropped
| his handkerchief"
Bryan might say this: It's this way.
| The rich are $3.50 richer and the poor are
| % cents poorer. Now there isn't anything
WRONG ABOUT tudl.
Judge j. D. McCleverty of Fort Scott,
| Kansas Democrat who wore good
| clothes and whom Populism repudiated
because of that, is very Ill.
The Republicans of the state refuse to
| get excited about land office quarrel up
| in Wakeeny. What does this Wakeeny
land office amount to, anyway?
There are indications that Newton is get
| ting ready to fight Topeka. This is emf
nently proper. The town should have
been fighting Topeka years ago.
After a good deal of thought there is no
Populist in Kansas today prepared &c deny
that under Mckinley the crop Of cheerful
| words has PASSED all previous years.
Mrs. Lease threatens. that if a brass
band attempts to drown her out again she
| will stop talking and begin TO sing with
it. This has frightened the band out and
it has sued for peace.
Lawrence journal: A Philadelphia scen-
tist declares there is nothing in the theory
that whisky will cure a snake bite. But
he dasn't come to Kansas or Oklahoma
and announce that doctrine.
Tilton, the editor whom Senator Baker
recommended for the Wakeeny land office,
and was turned down by 10. Bristow and
Cy. Leland, is splitting terribly at the
point of his pen and should be caulked at
once.
Leavenworth Times: Reverend Bernard
Kelley, when he was in the city during
the reunion. took occasion TO deny the
report that he had had any communication
with Colonel Cooke about the chaplaincy
at the Soldiers Home. He had not seen
Col. Cooke nor had any conversation on
a chaplaincy in the regular army.
II is difficult TO believe that a Kansas
boy who assaulted the alluvial soil of
Kansas with a rusty plow-share in Allen
county, is today strutting up and down
the streets OF Cuban town with a sword
strapped 10 him that makes him walk lop-
sided. and big cigar. ordering a few
hundred Spanish soldiers 10 be taken out
in the backyard and thrown over an en-
bankment. But that is what Lieutenant
Colonel Frederick G. Funston is doing.
Statements from about one-fourth OF the
Kansas state banks under the call for
October 8 have been received by the state
bank commissioner, and some comparisons
are being made. II the same average Of
increase in deposits is kept up. the deposits
in Kansas banks will aggregate about
So 500, CO., This Will be an increase OF over
100000 during the past three months.
while it will also be a record-breaker in
the amount OF deposits. The largest figure
the deposits ever reached before in the
history OF the state was s30,0o0,o0o.
At FL Dorado, Butler county farmer
went TO bank Saturday and told the
cashier that he wanted TO pay of a sl.509
mortgage on his farm. The cashier looked
up the mortgage and finding that 1. was
drawing per cent interest and was not
due until next February, he told the farm
er that it would have TO run 10 that
date. The farmer laid the 400 on the
counter, pulled out a bulldog revolver. laid
it beside the money. and said he was going
10 pay that mortgage The cashier deliy-
cred up the document and took the money.
Ex-senator PETER ia strongly opposed 70
a further fusion between the Populists
and Democrats. Speaking % the latter jhs
e-ssnstor declares in his paper that Nj
Bryan is nearer 10 Us than he IS 70 h.s
OWE party. so far as his private opinions
are concerned. but he would 10; bew.lLug
20 so declare" Which necessarily means
that Mr.. Bryan Is a Popuiist, but hopes
20 establish detection. This places NJ.
Bryan in the attitude OF political trick
ster instead OF a wise counselor or safe
leader. ~ the same time ex-senator PEI
FER boasts tha; re voted last year 20.
Bran and reform.
The country just now + mildly insane
c. puzzles In few days Il IS expected
some Kansas paper viii offer three CO The
rnost valuable claims in kiondiEs g TIE
person first solving these names There
j. concealed in each one % these name.
the name az some prominent Kansas poll
,Ie.sn; TIA; :, the letters ot "a E-si and
second nam are all there.
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