The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-08-20
Along the Kansas Nile.

| Wheat is above eighty. silver at forty
| and Popul;sm about IT,
| There is every indicat ton that the handle
| bars of Mike Sutton's self-esteem are pitch.
| ed to high.
John ]. ingalls, last poem is about as
| melodicus as an insane man playing the
| oboe in the dark.
Wheat cannot keep IT up very long un-
til Kansas real estate will begin to 20 up
five dollars an acre by jumps
Andy Richards OF Wellington has lust
dubbed r. T. Simmons of Caldwell on the
back Of the neck with a column explana-
ton.
Governor Leedy is on another vacation,
Leedy's administration has been made up
largely of vacations and interviews. He Is
row in Ohio.
In fair. square fight in Kansas H. G..
Toler. the Democratic candidate for sover-
nor, can carry the votes of the horsemen
and telepathists practically solid.
According to the Russell Journal. SIS. 900
had already been paid to Russell farmers
for their wheat up to August 8. "and the
crop has barely started to move"
Bill Morgan Of Hutchinson. who has seen
Dave Leahy's coat-of-arms, has let the
cat out OF the bag. He says that it is
Tyre rampant on a field Of emerald.
Jim Orr. big Democrat. is trying to
scare the Populists into Democratic fusion
by declaring that things are getting ripe
for a io,o00 Republican majority in Kansas
next fall
A sepuIchral sound from the bosky un-
derbrush OF PETERS whiskers bears the
gentle tidings that there will be no fu-
sion next year in Kansas, as the Populists
will be able to go II alone.
There is something radically wrong with
our monetary system when a Kansas farm
er who last year mortgaged his farm for
q, 900 bushels OF wheat Is now able 10 pay
the mortgage off with loco bushels
Junkin in the Sterling Bulletin says that
the newspapers In poking fun At Jordan
DO Mr.. Brinkerhoff of Lyons an injustice
Brtnkerhon can not stand a Ettle fun, he
better keep his head out Of politics all his
lifetime.
II Is a peculiar fact that most OF the
rejoicing over the price OF wheat is IN
the towns and among men who have no
wheat Too many of the farmers are look
ing slum and declaring that they are
getting their rights at last
Mr.. Ewing has at last been recommend
ed for postmaster at Emporia by Senator
Baker and the other candidates will now
go ahead and stir up deep purple grade
OF rebellion without fear OF God. man or
the devil or the postmaster general In their
souls.
They may rot know IL, but Il Is the gen
eral opinion over the state that al the girls
at Harper who have resolved not to 20 |
with young men who drink. swear or /
smoke. are so honely mat they have to ge. |
UP II the middle OF the night to rest their /
faces
Abilene Reflector: Who says a rexspa- |
per man Is necessarily poor? David Leahy.
who vas city editor OF The Wichita Eagle.
and Is TOW Topeka correspondent of the
Kansas City Times. owns three residences
N Wichita, besides a block OF stores and
l fine sedswick county farm.
II many Of the front yards O, Kansas
farms are built. large open arbors- Here |
n the cool OF The evening. the supper ia |
1ies are set and the family sits down and
ats il perfect quiet and comfort There
: nothing more picturesque o. indicative
u more happiness along he Pc. n tAs
2henish valleys or IN the basin OF the
'.ue Danube.
VIII White should le; up o. the Use O.
apiials- AT stem in MS paper has this ap-
eA-auee. l. - ,.e opinion of the GA
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,efo-e. ana as IRE GAZETTE vi always
MAINTAIN. ,HEt TIE readers o. ths Ga.
ETTE should be entitled % al the aezs
oas;ng 70 tie GAZETTE. TIE GAZETTE
vi continue 20 pGbish the news"
jim Bot;s. the 5rsy-a,aa ot tAs city.
Tss ez6,y hurt yesterday. his eft leg 5s-
e smashed. The iarx= ches. % cui-Fszs-
Ech = Dzv.6 L@alys pride. saiis beng !
e-rovet .roE on@ Q. IA. large re.ceaces ;
ere fell OF NJ BotIs. ~iia re above - :
c,t Fortunately Doza % tie precsoizs ,
are sas Injured The collection 3 ysils.t {
: *. %, an3 Z the fEsss single y-ivz;S {
olsot:oa west os CAIsaeln creek