The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-01
Along the Kansas Nile.

Kansas real estate has no value, of
course. H. C. Haskins has sold his farm
near Kellogg, Cowley county. for 5000.
An Oklahoma boy makes a living by
going to Kiowa, Kansas, and selling white
rats. for which he receives 25 cents a
pair.
A question that is bothering good ma
ny Hood men is whether John Seaton's
candidacy was an accident or the result
of treachery by outsiders.
st. Johns experience is what hundreds
of other Kansas men have gone through.
First a pronounced Prohibitionist and
then a denounced Prohibitionist.
Hood and Seaton are supposed to be
acting in unison, but before they get
through they will be dashing at each 9TH
er like a bevel-geared egg-beater.
Governor Leedy is set on the special
session plan. To those legislators who
ignored his first letters asking them to
indorse his railroad bill, he has written
again
Thomas Edison has devised a way to
work a gold mine out in New Mexico
without water. 1t will relieve Colorado
if Edison can find a way to run a Kansas
farm without water.
ing the Maine excitement. The rest of
the nation has been as bold as the two
of a quartette of lovers who sit on the
front seat of the wagon.
Fred. Funston is now as little mention
ed as Miss Cfsneros. 1t doesn't pay a
man to 90 down TO Cuba and saturate
himself in notoriety and then come back
TO this country dripping with it. 1t dries
out too soon.
Billy Edwards says he doesn't want a
prohibition plank in the state platform
this year but that if he is elected COVER
nor he will enforce all the laws equally
and impartially. What he means is that
he will try to-
In a debate in congress the other day
man forced jerry Simpson to confess
that he would like to be a millionaire.
Simpson is faithless TO the Populist cause,
as no other Kansas Populist would like
to be a millionaire.
Hartford Herald: I'VE were invited to
Mrs. Willard Smiths card party Thurs
day evening and attended. But as We
were invited not for our company's sake,
but for a write-up. we will let the matter
pass with this brief item.
Those Kansans who are filed with
per is, the more likely it is to tell the
truth. are just now buying New York pa
pers and reading the scare-heads in order
TO so on q mental drunk.
Postmaster Nichols Of Kiowa has built
him a cycave near his house and connect
ed Herewith a slanting tunnel, nicely
smoothed out. When the festive cyclone
approaches all Nichols has 10 do IS TO
jump into the tube and go beIly-buster
into safety
The most prominent Methodist minister
in Topeka, according 10 3 dispatch. is in
trouble. having betrayed his servant girl.
a beautiful octoroon. who afterwsrd died
as result Of an operation. The minis
ters name is not given, SO the dispatch
Is probably a fake.
This work said the book agent. gIibly.
SIS not only a valuable one. but / beg
you 20 look at the binding See the beau
tiful covers neatly embossed En-
bossed? >" said the man. Yes. sir" smiled
the book agent Wei, don't want it.
I'm a Baker man ard agin Leland IN
everything
\ New York playwright says there are
only thirty-slx possible dramatic situa-
tons But wait until the free silver
drama. The Curse % Gold" gets on the
stage and a Kansas PoPuiist in whtsks-s
yeIls "Gesoldf'' at a Britisher and places
his foot on the blasted foreigners neck
as he dies OF heart disease
As an example Of the bitter aninos.ty |
existing between states which viii en-
courage Spain into the belief that she win /
dght divided country. the following Is F..
given from an Ohio poet:
Full many fool. the pursst jay serene.
The Wild. uzcuItured plains OF Kansas 4
bear;
Full many a statesman born 70 howl IN /
seen.
And wave lis whsskers in The desert az. /