The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-12
Along the Kansas Nile,

After election day, w. E. Stanley will
| hear a great many times that I'VE Demo
Gratis did it," But Leedy will hear ii
more than Stanley.
! Miss Withers, the Fort Scott young
! lady who came to Wichita TO elope with
an Emporia salesman, is not good look
! ing. 1t pays to be fair.
| The city marshal of Abilene announces
| that all compilations look alike to him
and he will arrest all girls who ride their
bicycles on the sidewalks.
! In some Kansas towns when a circus
visits the place the proprietors always
! leave a little money to repair bridges
| which they have damaged.
| There will be an extra crop of grass
| in Kansas this year. If the big circuses
| had half lick of sense they would come
| to southern Kansas 10 winter.
| w. E. Stanley rode on the Fast Mail
| the other day. He ought 10 keep of that
train. A fast mail wreck is worse "a
good deal than a fractions colt.
Long and Simpson met on the same
platform at a Barber county picnic the
other day. Simpson criticized the con-
duct Of the war. Long defended II.
A great many people viii never cease
to believe that the reason Kansas had
rain this year was because sweet heaven
had grown tired OF rebuking the rain
makers.
Kansas editor in spelling Il 'chlg-
gers instead of "chegres," as Webster's
dictionary has II, says he ought to know
how to spell it. as he has had EN- and
Webster never did.
The Populists say that McKlnley's ad-
mirable conduct of the war will not help
Stanleys candidacy at all. II he had
made a lot OF egregious blunders 81 would
not have helped Leedy at all. OF course
not.
The Curtis Mercantile company OF Wei
lington has failed. The mortgages take
it, John Stewart OF Wellington getting in
the first claim. The firm was one OF the
oldest mercantile houses IN southern Kan
sas.
That scheme OF taking gold out OF the
waters % the ocean turned out 10 be
a con" game There vas just as much
sense in claiming that a wad II Kansas
sunset could be placed IN q crueibie and
gold pestled out OF it.
Leedy and BOYLE are liable 20 get into
a racket soon. Leedy didn't ike the way
Boyle coquetted with the nomination FOR
governor and he does not Ike the way
Dave Leahy and his following insist per
pe;uauy that Boyle viii lead ths ticket
Five white men have been let out ss
brakerneu OF the Santa Re % make room
for five colored men This axes LeeGy
again. he Is playing for the coioTed vote
and Il he ind0rses this he offsn1s the
railroad brakenen- II ne condemns the
action Of the corporation be uses the
three colored men in Kansas Eho are
going 70 vote for him
Judge A n. Horton - IN Hartford. +
Conn. investigating the actions q p. .. 4
NcCray. Z -. Tsieuau. Rankin Mason. /
z G. Foots and others VINO az sunerY
times have investigated ;as condition of
eastern Insurance companies ard charged
them FOR their services he notified Nc
$su 2 few days ago that he %ould take 4
dispositions a. Hartford Thursday. AZ New
York Friday. ard a. PhllaGe. PA August
L McNzu could rot 20 east hlnse.f. but
employed Rankin Mason. formerly a.
ssstant United States district attorney teE
Kansas % Represent hin
A hard story Is being ted on ths sol-i
egs~s % TIE zsy-secen6 Kaaa&s Il -
charged that whsle srcsa1psc a. Bill RBa
some - ire soldiers cane upoa tie IT,
marked grave % Naisr T , Duke Ala
hama. c z A ]; - charged fazf theyi
g-e-ef re gave. dag - re body. cut
81 .he shoulder straps. oult8 oct TIE
rod flied teeth ard broke "a skgI %
places. Passing around tie b4;s ar re
-nen,ees. ss-aS @ toe Kansas raezraers
1t,seefeS ar1 the 6esecrassrn are szsd -
hzve r@oIs3. Hell WHAT'S tie d.zs--E
eace7 Where = BE rowT Tae-s - ter.
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