The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-07
AIono the Kansas Nile.

Mrs. Lease. who is 10 preach in a New
York pulpit soon, hasn't been home since
last October.
Some farmers in Sumner county make
enough out of rabbit scalps to pay their
taxes, and had the fun of hunting and
rabbit meat besides.
Judge Simpson has decided that the Sal
walton Army has a right to parade the
streets of Hutchinson and bound the bass
drum as hard as they can.
The Hillmon case is to come up again
in Topeka. The Hillmon case will last
forever. Kansas is simply trying to throw
Jarndyce vs.. Jarndyce in the shade.
Ry order of the county commissioners,
the rabbit bounty in Sumner county ceases
January 20. The farmers wanted it, but
the commissioners grew tired of it.
Some of the Kansas papers which are
great friends to ingalls, refuse to publish
his attack on Cy Leland. They believe II
is beneath ingalls, usual style and discre-
ton.
Billy Sterne has been appointed marshal
and at last Topeka is recognized by the
national administration. So far has a
town which used to wallow in the whole
trough, fallen.
Sternes troubles began early. He want
ed to appoint Mr.. Burge deputy for his
office in Topeka. Judge Foster. who has
the power to remove Sterne's deputies.
told Sterne he would not tolerate Burge' s
appointment.
In a recent article in an eastern maga-
zine, PETER says that the Populist party
is passing away. Ingalls, thought the
same thing of the Republican party when
he failed to make connections with the
United States senate.
The New York Life Insurance company
was fighting McNall. Suddenly It stopped.
It was understood that II had satisfied Mr..
McNaI in some way. Boyle, who doesn't
like McNall, now starts in TO throw the
company out Of the state.
Charles Moreau Harflger has a poem in
an eastern paper in which this occurs:
Fierce the race for power and gain,
Business bringeth US all sigh"
Think of Kansas man saying Business
bringeth"-even in poetry.
Cleveland (Ohio) Leader: ". P. Hack
ney. the lurid Populist from Kansas,
! comes 20 thief ront as the latest eulogist
of Mayor McKisson. That is one of the
nosegays which the mayor has earned by
his part in taking some thirty or forty Of
| fees from his party and giving them 70
| Popocrats.
II the Populist party puts Resubnissior
| in its platform. * will simply be vote
/ getting experiment, Just as female SUI
| frage was The Populist party has prin'
/ cioles. but il always subordinates them
! 10 some bid for votes The party never
/ believed In female suffrage Il does not
particularly believe in Rssubmission- II
/ did not believe In maximum freight rates
/ The Popuhst party monkeys too much
| Politicians brains frequently rlIscue
| rysaav wants a special session OF the legis
4 la,ure. believing that the legislature xii
/ have 70 take the scoring in the next cam
4 raign ard not isedys administration
I II IS strange that Les6y cannot see that
the public WILL regard the legislature a.
mart OF his administration. and that y
I viii De impossible for the people 20 rs'
| buke a legislature without rebukizE him
Atchisou Globe: The greatest liars &
/ the world are the men who tel storis.
| about the vast heards ct bu-zlo that for
merry roz-n.a over Western ksrsEs- ".
! regret 20 notice that Major In1an. IN his
! new book. The Old SsE:a Fe -rzn.
/ takes the talk of these fellows seriously
! He makes The statement that IL the Ok
/ davs Il was possible - walk an day with
/ out stepping on a buffalo slaughtered D,
sssn hunters. Think cf tie ahszrdity o
/ the statement, Now tha: ths buffalo az
gone the Old timers ca=.no. rests. II
temptation 20 lie about them