The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-29
Along the Kansas Nile.

| Colonel Fitch's horse has quit lodging
every time his rider draws his sword.
The password which makes the Kan
sans heart gangrene is: THE corn is
| beginning 10 fire"
The undertakers of Kansas will ask the
legislature for the right to use the title
| professor"
Shawnee county has 1s2 colored volun-
teers; Sedgwick county, IS; Douglass
county is next with A.
1t is said that Pratt county Is the only
| county in Kansas which did not furnish
a volunteer to the present war.
| The Kansas City man failed to buy the
Emporia Republican and VIII White will
now buy it and consolidate it with his
Gazette.
The opera house" at Topeka is to have
a portocochere. This is a rain shed. but
as the French word costs nothing, Topeka
will use it.
General Miles took two army physicians
with him TO Porto Rico, Doctor Biddle
and Doctor Armstrong. He found them
in the Kansas regiments
Peddlers are out in Kansas with rugs
in which the face Of Dewey is woven
As Deweys nose is ultra-marine and his
while his nose is purple. not many OF the
rugs are being sold.
A lot of Colorado grasshoppers swooped
down on J. c. Baird's alfalfa field near
Dodge City the other day, and ate thereof.
The alfalfa acted on their kidneys and
killed them. 1t will kill COW or an ele-
plant the same way.
James A Young, a Kansas volunteer
at San Francisco, has been arrested and
wifi be court-martialed by Fred Funston.
Young is ehaged with taking government
-four, trading Il for tobacco. and then
selling the tobacco to enlisted men.
That big, black storm OF Wednesday
evening was a curiosity. At Atchlson
1t rained pitch-forks. Two drops and a
tear fell at Topeka. while at wichita the
black clowd swept by with a breath OF
hot wind that made things dryer than
ever.
IL Dorado Republican,: Grasshoppers
are from four 70 six inches deep on the
ground in some places in Colorado
friend writes that they are 50 thick al
Colorado Springs that the electric cars
have 10 stop and shovel them from the
track.
WEBB McNau says he would hate 70
think that the administration at Wash
4EELQl WONG cell the AGEsHs Lbso ~
the front al the solicitation OF telegraph
ing politicians. There is something in
that Washington knows is business a
this war,
Another gas well. with capacity Of
about q ~. go cubic 1set OF gas daily.
vas struck Just east OF lola, yesterday.
The gas Stli De used By the Cherokee
Lanyon SpeIter company. WHO viii az once
begin the erection OF an immense zinc sPel-
ter plant near the vel.
None Of the Kansas troops has moved
ret The Kansas boys who were smart
went . other states and enlisted wichita
has three boys at Manila AID TIC p Cura,
while three are on thsir way % Porto
Rico and TWO have already been z land
battles AID two y sea agnts-
TIE srrartsst thi1g TIE PopziiEts q kan
saS have doze for years u Ire respectful
bearing towzF6 Mckinley tasy maintain
ms instant McEiuisyfs popularity -
strictly Bipartisan. and ors word q
abuse would drive hundreds q Pcp14.ass /
from ,hegr county ard STATE tickets
A Missouri woman wrote eop1&sa- Z
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