The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-11
Along the Kansas Nile,


well TO smear a little more brain on their
speeches.
General Joe Hudsons creditors are now
| trying to get all his four years salary as
brigadier general
/ One wild Wichita colt gave W. E. Stan
! ley more trouble than a convention from
the whole state of Kansas.
Now that the convention is over, Il may
be said that Stanley's most dangerous OPP
ponent at Hutchinson was Edward II.
Funston.
81 notice." said Mckinley as he finished
reading a dispatch from Santiago, that
/ Kansas has just nominated an Ohio ma
! tive for governor"
/ Bill White. Charley Gleed and the lit
/ erary crowd of Kansas sat on the stage
at Hutchinson and pretending they were
/ interested in the proceedings.
/ There is entirely too much posing on the
part of the politicians in Kansas. Their
followers are ceasing to admire the pos
! lures and are beginning &c ridicule them.
Most Of the oratory at Hutchinson re-
vealed the unhappy circumstance that
Kansas speakers are daft on the subject
Of tlub-dub phraseolOgy, and benumbed to
almost all thought
The set Of Hessin's jaw lost him at
least seventy votes In that convention.
There is a Yale clamp to Hessin's teeth
when they come together which sets hui
man. frail mankind to parting at the
knee joints.
Cy. Leland understands that ne is on
dangerous grounds. He has reached the.
point where after every fight his lieu
tenants begin TO deponstr ate where Le-
land did il under cover. The precipice
is few feet farther on.
II statistics on the subject are kept,
II viii be found at the end of the year
that an astonishing number OF people IN
Kansas are committing suicide. Notices
OF suicides are getting too common TO be
sensational in the weekly papers.
The next time Wichita has to beat men
in a convention II viii notify Billy Ed
wards, John Seaton and Calvin Hood and
Farmer Funston not 10 be candidates.
There was not a man IN the Wichita
forces who did not personally ike and ex-
toll all these men.
Politics deadens horse sense. Isedy
could make a tremendous demonstration
in favor Of himself just now BY abolish
ing the police commissions. But he will
not do IL Years 10 come he viii sit on a
wagon tongue in Leroy and tell the boys
that he should have done it.
State Superintendent STRIKER has Joined
a movement "a coin q new word. That
word Is dewy, and rs definition Is intend
ed 10 be Ito annihilate: 70 destroy; 70
wipe out" The object IN cionIng II IL 70 /
pay a compliment 10 Admiral Dewey. The Z
movement was started BY J. s. Dougherty 4
Of Houston, Texas. Publishers Of elcti0n- (
aries are being flooded with letters from /
leading educa tors OF the country re-
guessing them to print the word dewey
Ia their next editions, together with the &
deflultion given above The educators al 4
over the country are promising &c intro &
duce ne word in their schools.
Letter from ChickansagA IN Tarusd Il
EagIe-Optic: Las1 Sunday Captain .
Smith received q BOX containing pocket .
companions. containing thread needles i
buttons. etc, that the ladies u LArBed .
had made and kindly sent . Us Thanks .
TO them Their kindness viii long be re-
mern5ered. The boys are As proud q their
pocket companions az x they'd fallen helr
% a fortune TIE boys are vsry bzzsy DOW 1
and 6oz'i 6n3 much time % play. Sorae j
OF them are OF guard. some On water 4
detail. some chopptHg ard TastliHg wood. 4
While Others are drilling Oar supPsy has I
been very RhCrt. and -s Save had TRADE 4
r. getting enough wafer - cock VIA AID 4
drink. but VII have plenty Il a few Gays. 4
as they are putting d0Ea wells as rapidly 4
as possible