The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-14
Along the Kansas Nile.

! AS far east as Topeka men wear red
white and blue neckties with perfect i'm
punity.
Kansas will get right into the midst of
it early. There is no doubt she will dis
tinguish herself.
The maddest man in this world Is the
Kansas farmer who has been drawn on
a jury with wheat nearly 81 a busheI
The people should arise and demand OF
every candidate this fall why he did not
volunteer. unless the candidate is an old
soldier.
If Sampson keeps up his lick. by 1899
the Kansas volunteers will be back in
Kansas marching up the middle aisle 10
the altar.
Tom Morgan of Eureka. who usually
chases facts to their holes. says the fight
ing will not be on in full until the first
frost Of autumn.
Topeka is a goddess town. Our soldiers
went there to prepare to wipe out Span
iards and the Topekans came mighty near
wiplng the soldiers out.
w. ]. Squire Of Sterling sent boy,
Harry. to war, and told him on parting
that II he came back with shoulder straps
he would give him a check for $500.
Somebody reports that over fifty Pop
ulist papers in Kansas have dropped the
candidacy of Mr.. Bryan. Il would be a
mighty hard job for any man to name
them.
While Fred Funston was In Washington
he took an assumed name to keep news
paper reporters from following him up.
The name he assumed was the fictitious
one Of Ed. Little.
Editor Hodgson Of the Rice County Ea-
gle wants the United States to do just
one more thing and he will be satisfied.
IRE one more thing is a declaration OF
financial independence 10 the world.
Ed. Little has actually gone to war. II
is a good thing. He will make good
soldier. His chin has just the right hitch
and in case of great extremity he would
be daring just for the sake Of being dra-
matte.
Reverend Broadhurst OF Nulvane and
Mrs Mary E. Mann Of Arkansas City
have been married. Mr.. Broadhurst Is
the gentleman whose wife threw torpedoes
at him last year and caused much IN
pleasant notoriety.
H E F Kuehne OF Winfield. having
heard that the women of New York are
preparing to boycott French goods on &C
count OF the war. comes out in the Win
field Courier and says IL Is wrong. The
matter is not serious. Let Mr.. Kuehne
hunt Winfield over to find a woman who
would not accept Virot or Worth
hls
Camp Leedy correspondence in the
Hutchinson News: There IS beginning
e be noticed the camp odor-the sour odor
OF wet canvas, the aecaying vegetation.
the refuse Of the camp. the odor % the
smoke. II is decided but not unpleasant
The boys are getting tanned. They cay
they can stand marching very wei. and
are expecting 20 stand camp LIE al right
No enc has been sick-not even any
code
Kansas City Gazette: Champ Clark. %
Missouri. came uear being 3 citizen x
Kansas lie lived IN Wichita f5F aeaTlS
q year. about ISIS. and tried % practice
law Clients were few and far between
and Champ .stg1ned "a Missouri and be-
came q country editor. II ISIS rs wss
elected % the legislature from PIKE county
and IL Is2 vas elected 70 congress IN
Gss+ he was reacufnatsd. rut suffered O.
fest a. TIE polls. n IS &c ~ss again DcT-
!rate3 and elected As Re had 10 opDo-
si,lon in rs Gan party his aoElinatlsn
for ih.rd tern - conceded y Is ass
r-cTe than hkcsy that re VIII ne re-eisct-
ed