The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-10
Along the Kansas Nile.

| Dr. Plcher accuses COlOnei JacQufnS o.
Cowley county of interfering with his pri-
vate business.
| Lawrence is the Athens Of Kansas but
! education is going too far when the Law
renee World uses maps of Alaska for wrap
ping paper.
According to Dick Howard Of Arkansas
| City, the Santa F'e has asked permission of
| Senator PETER to try their new weed-burner
on his whiskers.
Mike Sutton, Cy Leland and Sterne and
Lambert are known as the big -Four"
Milt Brown and Tom Anderson as the
Gigantic Two"
With one accord the country correspond
ents in the Kansas weekies are now blam-
ing the towns for not giving better Fourth
of July celebrations.
PETER is at last violently sane. He says
there will be fusion in Kansas for many
years to come. No one who knows the
appetite for office doubts that.
The old soldiers of Kansas are circulating
petitions to make Tom Anderson governor
If Tom Anderson didn't I've in Topeka he
would make daisy governor.
Seeley dinners are not in 1t with the Hut
Crimson hose parties-where the girls get
out in the back yard, strip and drench
themselves in waterworks fluid.
Years ago in Missouri when Dave Leahy
could talk nothing but Gaelic he sold am
mun:tion to the James and Younger boys
over the counter of little grocery store.
1t is fact that western Kansas is full of
tramps when they are reeded most. They
will not work and 1t aggravates the far
mers to see them standing around idle.
Perhaps Mark Hanna has hired the
tranps 10 work in Kansas harvest fields in
order to get the farmers out of the notion
that there is a great army of unemployed.
Tom Morgan of Eureka has criticism on
the war against tramps in western Kan
sas. He says that tramp would be no
good in a harvest field. He is right about
that.
Mr. Munger of Greenwood county is one
Of the leading PopuIists of the state. And
this week he is being visited by Mrs
Martha Munger-Purdy of Chicago. Get
on to that plutocratic hyphen.
Caldwell is one of the best known towns
in the west. At Caldwell people Will go
without food in order 20 set into the theater
and see the heroine work her toes on the
neck OF the william in the last act.
''Say?' cried two farmers in Winfield
simultaneously yesterday. Then both to-
gether again: DO you want to work in
the harvest feld?'' Then both together
again: II am hunting for men myself"
Hereafter on the Santa Fe branches in
western Kansas conductors must wear full
uniforms. Ii has been the practice OF con-
ductors on the branches 10 wear siouch
hats and negl:se shirts and tramp-terrify-
ing expression of countenance.
a tramp watched a Christian Endeavor
train sail by the other day few min
utes later the Santa Fe's new weedburner
came sizzling and snorting along. Great |
Scott" cried the tramp. There goes the I
Christian Endeavorers and somebody has |
shipped he'll out after en-
Extract from new Pop history OF the Unit |
ed States: AT this time Grant was elect \
ed president He was an accompi;ce in |
the crime OF 1873. and for his services. New |
York City which Is owned by England re- /
Gently erected q monument 70 him. Gran, |
was succeeded by Hayes who. etc.
South Haven New Era: Anderson Gray,
made famous through connection with the i
n-Mcporald killing serape. and the
charge Of hypnotism n the trial. was IL
town Monday looking hale and hearty and
ss fun OF iite as ever. he came Up with his
son from his claim near Blackwell. the lat
ter having agreed 10 assist j. J. Ferris and
Fred Bra1n n cutting their wheat just cas-;
of town M Gray Informed US tina; he |
Sas preparing 20 give the mortgage COM
,zay that foreclosed OF his fine farm near
Conway Springs during his iaearcerat,oa
II the penisent.ary. ore Of the worst less.
.ruboings thaS was ever received by corn-
sany o< the kind He seems confident OF |
eng able 10 recover his land and make the
company pay damages besides BE says
hat worthless rezlerz have been n charge
II the farm. SEsch was one Of t1s best In
proved places IN the county. and that every
hing has been badly wrecked. Gray : n
nan OF strong passions. iatom.faeie Will |
Ind an eternal Halter when once iacenSei
lie possesses ne energy Of haif a dozen
men and a physical make ~ 20
nssch t. /; Is said re : fas, frsere 70 |
hose lie likes q;