The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-03
Along the Kansas Nile,

Ed. Howe has this idea OF expansion;
| We have paid Spain twenty million for 4
rabbit, and We must catch it.
Grant Gillett kept his books in his head
| and his bank in his pocket. He carried
1 both away when he left the country.
| AS usual in murder cases. the attorney
1 for the state in the Collins trial at To-
! peka is primarily striving TO make a rec
ord, the conviction of Collins being Sec
ondary.
Louis c. Hird OF Emporia. a very young
man, was a sailor on the Baltimore in the
Dewey fight at Manila. lie used to jim
my around the yards in Emporia and is
known 10 the railroad men,
Tom Morgan OF Eureka, the biggest
Democrat in Kansas is against expansion
and quotes the first Napoleon: Empires
generally die of indigestion, through swal-
lowing too much territory
The day following his Inauguration.
Governor John y. Martin announced a
majority of his appointments. Tha poll
ticians did not like it. but the state gem
orally thought the action wise.
The private funds in the state treasur-
er's office which were taken by some one
recently, it is said. were appropriated BY
some of the employees IN the building for
Gnlett, with all his money. was occa-
sionally bled. II is said that ne mad an
ambition TO go 70 the Kansas legislature
and had himself written up with that in
v-ew by local paper which charged him
for the write-up.
Brigadier General Joseph Hudson. who
IS back from the war. and whose sword
has been turned into a hoe and MS helmet
into a soup tureen, says that most Of ths
complaints IN the camp arose from pan,
old. wet-eyed home sickness.
The last thing Gillett did before leaving
Kansas city and the United States was 20
borrow $1,000 from d business man and
put up as security his personal check on
a bank wherein n. had no money. Gl-
lett. be Il remembered. was a Popui.st and
talked about the scarcity OF money.
Providence seems - Be taking up ths
Kansas men individually and isooTlousiy
teaching each that there IS nothing f. pol
tics. The number of men who viii let
county offlcs slide. that - the prospects of
il. FOR the mere sake Of expressing q POS
s.bly unpopular personal opinion, IS on
the increase.
n Y. Marley. prominent citizen %
Dodge City. died this week He was a
very devout Christian. Before The civil
war be was scepDcal. but on enlistinz re
made the vow TIA; Z h-s lie was spared
he would become a. ire close % ne var
an active Christian and continue - Until
the end lie kept the VOW
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this week a. Preston Il Pratt county. A
boot-leEzer felI OF the ice AID broke
'.pisto.-" The contents ran from his h-p-
pocket into one % his boots. lie stspped
inside q drug store. e1np;-sd tie whisky
from the boot into smaller bott.e ans
sold the liquor few ulugies later 20 .
farmer.
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fancy farm fdsa srs trying 20 regreEAfe
the assets q - sunny SioPe farm from
the oanks assets. TIE farm - 70 be sold. &
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