The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-05
Along the Kansas Nile.


E A Benjamin of Saina has painted
twelve farm houses in the last two
months.
William Price a colored minister ar
Topeka. has married Anna Pate, a Is
year-old white girl
Dr.. Leech. the kissological preacher OF
Atchison, has consented 10 g. transfer 10
an eastern pastorate
Joe Brsrow will unreel his arms and
make speeches al Council Grove and En-
poria during the campaign.
There is a tremendous lot OF men IN
this campaign who are talking with
don't use my name" string.
A cooperative cooking club has been
formed al Wellington WITH Dewey
Boarding Company for a name
Within a. few days Governor I-eedy will
appoint commissioners 10 take the votes
Of the Kansas soldiers who are abroad.
Monday night az Dodge City Senator Ba-
ker and Jerry Simpson had rISai meet
ings The audiences were about the
same size
The Kansas supreme court for the first
time in years is up with the docket This
IS the resubU Of the establishment of The
courts of appeal.
The Populst state committee Is accused
of not sending out a single page Of So
cialsUic literature. for which the state
committee Is certainly TO be commended,
After seeing Rose OF Hilo. Governor
Leedy said that If he ever visited the
canniba1 islands and had to be eaten be
would prefer Ethat Rose take the nrst
bite.
Clark. the Hutchinson lawyer who has
been sent to the penitenuary for FIVE
s-ad ~ Is,pe ~
uewspa pers on the universal brotherhood
Of man.
In the treasures vault at Topeka IS
stack of 1000 silver dollars weighing l25
pounds. When Rose of Hilo was shown
it the assistant treasurer told her he
would buy her the finest hat in Topeka
If she could lift IT. She lifted It.
Governor Smith, according 10 the Atoh-
ison Gobe Is a victim OF politics his
troubles beginning when he was brought
from Maine and given a position which
Plumb and his followers believed should
have gone 70 Kansas man
Kansas people rub reform in on cam
paigns in order to scare politicians. There
Is nothing a politician likes better. Kan
sas peope also use pennyroyal 20 frighten
a way mosquitoes and there Is nothing
except blood that 4 mosquito hikes SO
we'll
Jim Simpson OF Mcpherson has terri
BILE fight on his hands. His friends now
claim for him that there IS Il scent Of
new mown hay on his clothes. His enc
mics Indignantly deny II. Farmer Smith
is the only new mown hay expert IN
Mcpherson county.
Brigadier General Houston Is now in
command of the Second brigade Of the
Second division of the Fourth army corps,
now at Huntsville, Ala. Brigadier Gen
eral Hall commanding the Second divis-
ion, has been granted leave OF absence
and this gives the command of the Sec
ond division to Genera Houston. During
Genera Ayers recent visit to the camps
of Huntsville. General SternGerg, VINO,
by the way, is son of the late Rev.
DR.. Stern berg, of Fort Harker, Kansas,
pronounced the brigade hospital of Gem
eral Hudson's brigade one of the best in
cleanliness. order and system that had
come under his observation
Atchison Gobe: Speaking OF the sane
tity OF law and sworn testimony an Atch-
ison man lately came home from Kansas
City with a sprained foot. lie said he
had been injured while stepping of cable
car A lawyer friend wrote ID the man
ager of the cable company demanding
damages, -whereupon the attorney for the
cable company sent back the aftidaeits
of six witnesses to the effect that the
Atchison man had stepped off the car
backward, and that the company was in
no wise to blame. One of the affidav!ts
was signed by a formerly # Atchison
woman who knew the Atchtson man well.
The injured man afterwards confessed
that that he had not been on a cable car
at ALL and that he sprained MS foot in
saloon, while wrestling with the bar
keeper He had to tell a STORY to eX-
plain his injury, and laid it on the cable
company.