The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-16
Along the Kansas Nile.

! All HtCuiSOH man VINO was troubled with
insomnia Went 10 doctor and the doc
tor prescribed Je--e Botk;n.
Jerre Botkin spoke TO less than hum
| dred people IN Atchison, and the Pops call
1t an out-pouring of the people
Farmers in western Kansas are renewing
| their seed wheat The varieties they have
been sowing are losing their vitality.
Still, there is no fear or talk of fear in
| Kansas over a hard winter Kansas Is
: prosperous. but it hasn't awakened TO the
| fact yet.
| The Whitewater Independent is the spe-
| cal champion of Bryan in Butler county,
and continually speaks Of him as Mr.. J.
3. Bryan.
| 1t is binding on the schools of Kansas
to use those Populist school books, which
IS an outrage In fact, the binding itself
! is an outrage.
| difference: Under Cleveland his letters
| read: please remit" Under Mckinley
/ they read: Enclosed please find"
| AT Oxford, Sumner county, the other day.
| in trial of a jointist the citizens walked
| up. one after another. and swore they got
malt beer, not beer. The jointist was
| cleared.
! In all the counties unusual attention is
| being paid to the race for register of
| deeds. Another boom in Kansas is scented
| and the politicians know it as well as
| anybody.
There is only one trouble with the b.
| cycle" said a farmer as he bowled along
| on his new wheel and met a man on
| horseback. "On a bike can not take up
| the whole road
They are talking again about holding
Southern Kansas mail IN order 10 let the
fast mail catch up with il at Newton
The business men of Southern Kansas
should write the department.
The Caldwell council has decided to give
a prize of SO TO the first fire company
throwing water on a fire, and s. prize TO
the second. Some one is mean enough to
say that this will increase the number of
small fires.
The Populists are going back to the fiat
paper money idea in droves. Nothing can
stop them. and the Populist office-seekers
are having hard time trying not to Of
fend Populists by approaching them with
a free silver greeting.
Howard Courant: The Chautauoua coun-
ty Republican central committee offer to
pay all Of Congressman R:dgeley's ex-
penses if ne will come to Sedan and make
precisely the same speech he made last
year. He won't accept the offer
While it is true that some of the money!
lenders are smiling, there are others who
are waiting eagerly the hour when all their
leans will be paid back. They will then
buy draft, grab their families and shoot
hR46-lOnpy Syo.
The richest town of its size in the west
is Emporia- The banks there have sew
eral hundred thousand dollars of time de-
posits-that is, money put in by private
citizens TO be used by the bank. with an
interest to be paid to the citizens depos-
iting it.
Gould it be possible that governor of
Kansas could be so cruel as 20 hin: ct
hanging men in the penItentiary with the
idea of getting their relatives TO support
the Populist ticket?' asks a correspond
ent. No. This would mean an Increase
Of Populist votes not over hundred and
Leedy. crank that he is, is not as little
as that.
The Atchison Globe tells a new Kansas
story: "a citizen of Willis decided 10 go
TO Maine and get his fathers body and
bury it in Kansas. Father mad died two
years previously, at the age of 81. When
the body arrived in Kansas, the coffin
was opened; the Kansas air got a chance
at the body, and the old man got up and
went out 10 help with the chores
During the hard times in western Kan
sas il took scheming to enjoy yourself.
Some years ago circus came 10 Dodge
A man had large family and wanted 70
take them He had no money. He had
credit at grocery store He went and
bought several sacks OF -four on credit
sold them, took the money and bought
circus tickets and the whole outfit saw the
elephant.
Salina Republican: "Poor old Ignatius
Donneily is reported to be assidiously urg-
ing Populists throughout the United States
TO forward him contributions Of ten cents
each with which 70 pay off the mortgage
on Madame Leases Wichita home. which
has already been sold a price for which
Mrs. Lease AYERS she could purchase
much better ana more commodious home.
Somebody should write 10 Ignatius 10
keep the money already collected and say
nothing more about il.
Love not only laughs a. locksniths. but
on occasion i may also smile al quaraI-
tine regulations. Charles o. Bgymer, OF
New Orleans, and Miss Myra l. Smith. OF
Marion county. Kan, had fixed their we'd
ding day for October J. AS the date ap-
preached Mr.. BUyuler found himself de-
tanned i Louisiana by the yellow Fever
quarantine. He ran the blockade IN the
dead OF night and arrived in Kansas OF
time though he viii not return % Louis
lana with his bride until danger from the
-
long been prominent teacher II the
Florence schools.
Atchisou Globe: How do The free silver
ard free trade theorists who are charging
up TIE advance i wheat % the shortage
abroad account for The advance Il a.
ether farm products. corn. rye. beef, pork.
wool cattle. horses. sheep. hops. tobacco, !
and potatoes? The fact IS that 3; : due
&c he increased consumption a. home.
People who earn EctIe eoonomizs n sat- !
ing: those whose earnings are Increased !
spend far more FOR f0od and get nat q !
better quality. When the working peo- 4
ne % the United States are employed a. I
good wages hey buy more 1o0i and cloth !
ing than when unemployed OF working fo- I
half pay 7: 5 protective taz.G that does /.
ire business.
Tre Republicans OF Rush county have /
stolen ali Ire thunder % tassE Popullst 4
sdve.sar.es- The Republican county cor 4
ven;.ca last week adopted resolutions i
p.eds -g the county officers net % ri1s OF I
railroad passes. and pis6g1ug the ao-H-nes 4
TO- district judge rot u oeco-ne -lsno== 1
&C any corporation The Popoitst co7vsl-
log I'D rot dare pass similar resolutions. (
as their -oaairse for Judge. J. z Andrews, 4
= member % .xo banking corporations. !
ard ;Ae.r county officers lave already - 4
den or passes V Il GGnxsa1. re Re-