The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-03
Along the Kansas Nile.

The government should also put on a fas
beer train out of Kansas City.
Sheriff Hopkins Of Butler county has @
contract to put up $500 tons Of hay for the
Kansas City stock yards.
Major Morrill, is in Boston where his wife
| Is very i'll. Some OF their children are
| also present at her bedside.
General Caldwell might better have his
clothes lined with ammonia pipes before
he takes that Costa Rica job.
| It is estimated It costs the government;
just five cents copy for every Kansas
City paper 1t expedites into Kansas.
The cry that is going up over Kansas:
Don't feed tramps. There is plenty OF
work to be had" must pain Lewelling.
The Emporia Republican laughs at the
| fast mail. It says II should be discon-
| tinued as 1t is OF no benefit to the business
men at all.
The plan of Kansas City Il TO nail Kansas
to Kansas City and cinch the nail. The
| fast mail train ought to be known as the
| nailed fast train.
j. r. Harrison. mail agent on the Missouri
| Pacific from Salina to Pueblo, has been
| appointed postmaster general. 10 Bristow
| did the work in the case.
The fast mail train from Kansas City.
| the bastard squirt. stops at Newton. II
| does not make any other connections It
| is fake pure and simple.
The Santa Fe Is fixing things up at Hun
| newell. II is probably watching the Mis-
souri, Pacific which is apt TO build south
| into the Territory to the Blackwell vicinity.
Nearly every Kansas weekly paper you
may pick up contains an item to the effect
that the city scales are being repaired
They are bracing the old things for the big
crops.
When c. ]. Brown left the clerks ONCE
OF the supreme court Thursday he had sery-
ed continuously for eighteen years. He is
the most affabie man ever in public life in
Kansas.
Dean Bodey, an Episcopal minister at
Topeka has resigned for diocesan and
parochial and muxxymuxxy reasons. The
real reason il that his Pensioners DO not
come forward with his salary.
Dignity is not legal tender In Kansas
General Caldwell OF Topeka has had more
than any other man in Kansas except
George T. Anthony, and neither one ever
succeeded In casding II in for anything Ike
rs true value.
Last Sunday In Oklahoma . minister could
not preach because he was so tired with
working all day Sunday in the wheat aeid.
Many a minister did the came thing in
Kansas. But in Kansas that kind OF
thing is fooAshly concealed.
Empor;a Republican: 1, appears that
the postmaster general bad =; his disposal
the tail end Of an appropriation BY ngress
OF about $500. He has been prevailed
upon 10 use il 10 promote the interests o:
three morning papers, against the interest
OF about a dozen or SO afternoon papers.
This discrimination against so many papers
in the intsres; Of such 4 small number.
shows q lack OF Judgment IN the malage-
ulent Of appropriations that would bank
rupt the government il . fe~ years. No
wonder there Is always a shortage in the
postal department. There was no demand
OUTSIDE OF the parties interested and 10
necessity for tie expenditure Of this large |
sum OF money in this way II u1igat tust |
as well have been thrown to the winds. a. |
IL VII positively do more harm than good |
The idea o. fast mas train from Kansas |
City 20 Newton Is absurd. II The business |
of the department; Is as reckIsssiy done al, |
over the country. ne new tariff Law VII /
nos produce revenue enough 20 run even 4
ike postal branch Of the government The /
people OF the towns between Kansas City /
and Newton should give these three morn 4
Ing papers The shake so- prevailing upon /
the postmaster general 70 Go such thing
This useless expenditure Of the pubic non
ey = rot calculated 20 give assurance that
anything can Be done % enable re govern
rrens TO NEE, Is expenses The arrange
men, Is only temporary. II All iass 70
longer than The amour; Oh bad I'll las: |
and then q collapse vii take place. and the
OF ,nose oApers si.i Dc se;s 70
hold The sack