The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-28
Along the Kansas Nile.


Bounties are paid for rabbit scalps in
Pratt county, but that county is not over
run as Sumner county is.
The Republican says that Chester Long
will have the delegation from Pratt coun-
ty, and will have it easy.
lola has done what ever Kansas Popu-
list has learned to do-electrified the ma
ton by letter to the newspapers
Lieutenant Peary is being chaperoned
over the state by Lewis Dyche, the Kan
sas plum pudding North Pole expert.
Theodosius Botkin is making a fight on
the pension rulings of Evans, the Ten
nessee man who is now in charge of the
department
L. D. Mckinley has been appointed one
of the physicians at the Ossawatomie
asylum. He is cousin of the president.
He is also a Populist.
In the contract with which the New
York Life hired Mrs. Lease as agent.
there is no stipulation that Mrs. Lease
shall not make anti-coropration speeches.
All the joints at Hutchinson have been
closed. Those at Wellington and Caldwell
are tight It is the annual wave, which
the July drouth for beer will easily break
down
The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
company will not compromise the Hill
mon case. as the other insurance comp
anie have DONE but will fight it out
| through the courts.
Mrs. Brock. on her way to California
some time ago, was thrown into the aisle
! of a Pullman sleeper while the train was
! at Hutchinson. She died from her inju-
! ries and now her husband is after the
| railroad for $4,000.
! About one hundred people in a circle
| hunt near Pratt last week surrounded a
! big coyote. The coyote was 50 scared
/ that he fed from the scene and left sew
! eral people holding blindly to yellow
/ streak in the atmosphere
/ Jerry Simpsons friends say they vii
/ run Judge Mckay out of Kansas Nc
! Kay was easily the leader of southwest
! ern Kansas Populism until Bob Hamil
/ ton beat him in Harper county. Tha
! knocked his power lop-sided-
J. Mack Love of Cowley county says th'
| Democrats must be given psEces on th'
| state ticket or there viii be no fusion
| There VIII be fusion, no matter what IN
/ Populists do. In the state they have th'
| Democrats loaded with log-chains-
Charles Scott Of lola says that Gearg
Anthony vas the greatest governor Ran
sas ever had. Anthony snubbed more peo
pie than any man who ever lived in Kan
sas. FriEidity is not greatness. or Ice
land would furnish all the leaders
Dad Hughes OF Hutchinson has bee
socked into fail for sixty days for vio
Iating a law which in other parts Of Kan
sas Is openly disregardsd- Il Is danger
I Gus for man 70 violate the prchioitio'
law in Kansas Il he doesn't exercise car
III choosing his locality.
There Is paper published at To7ek
known as the American PopulLst It's ed
tor the other day demanded Il the PoP
uIfsr state officials that they ThacE q
I've dollars apiece 10 him AL agreed hu
secretary OF state Bush. who said Not
The next day the editor called on Bus
with the idea OF licking him, but backe
out
Arkansas City Travsier:-Aftsr rsEc
. rsareuverfns. Congressman Jerry Botkl
succeeded in getting ore minute an
twenty seconds OF Jerry simpson Tx
! IN which 10 make his maiden speech D
for TIE house OF representative he o
= euoie4 most OF that in reading the q
| tsr plank IN GAe St Louis platform
: | There viii surely be 10 further troao
4 over the Cuban affairs