The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-13
Along the Kansas Nile.

The Osborne county oPpulsts have NOM
| mated banker for representative.
At Eldorado one OF the fashionable gtIrs
rating. This is McNalrs home county.
! A tramp with smallpox turned up at
| Parsons the other day and Parsons Is
having a panic.
A Marion county man advertises eight
| cows for sale. He intends TO start a
| bank with the proceeds.
| A Marion county man sold SIS 5000 worth
| of cattle last week. A Butler county man
! has 5000 head that he wants to sell.
| Judging from the reports that are now
coming in, there will be a whooping mig
| acreage of fail wheat put in this year.
Nobody cares whether Little outranks
| Funston or Funston outranpks Little
| Nothing can make the row any worse.
| Topeka, which. it would seem. has
enough else to make it ridiculous. is to
have a protracted meeting of spiritual
! lists.
The announcement Is going the rounds
that there is more building in the country
! in Kansas this year than in any two
| years before.
For fear the advertising won't last long
enough, Topeka has dug up forty-one new
witnesses in the Collins case, making a
total of sixty-six for the state.
The Smith Center Pioneer offers a years
subscription to any person who will pro-
| duce an insurance agent who does not
base his fire premiums on the Clarkson
Miss Anne Rose OF Hoki, Sandwich Is
lands, has been selected as Topeka's car
nival queen. Her trip to Topeka will be
a pleasant experience. and she Is In luck
Ex-Congressman JEFF Hudson wanted 10
go to the state legislature, but the Will
son county Pops wouldn't have It that
way and gave the nomination TO another
man.
Hodgeman county man has some hogs
which he says are so fat that unless he
can manage to graft some rubber In their
hides he is afraid their covers viii
crack.
No two politicians study the same
arithmetic. In Kansas an audience of 200
looks like 400 to the candidate and Is TO
the reporter on the opposition news
paper.
Rev. H. D. Fisher 10 conducting re-
vivals IN Nortonville. IN connection with
eploixting the fact that ne was oncs In
the Quantrell raid, and got rolled out In
a carpet.
The Hutchinson News says there are
only two girls in Kansas who desire %
kiss Colonel Funston and Lieutenant Co
lionel Little when they come home. and
they are their mothers
An Usage LITTLE girl while prs wing one
night recently remembered her soldier
brother and wound up this way: And.
dear Lord. pray that Ael don't get
shot: but II he's got 20 get shot lei him
get shot in the leg. Amen"
Independence has = cracker factory and
the cracker trust is after It. Atchison
had one once. but tbs trus; offered 20
pay the owner SIS a month II be would
quit. which he did and Il e said that
he "a SIN drawing that sum monthly.
gave smelling party Each guest was
expected to smell OF dozen Or more
things and condiments and name as ma
ny OF thsm as he could one Young fellow
was hcoted because he could recognize
only the unitarian perfume az raT
onion.
About the only result ~ tie schsrns %
the Harvey county farmer to have 70.
farmers Of this state donate Joe Letter
a cen; a bushsl CT ol ;heir wheat crop
was the nice amount q advertising re-
ce.ved b. Mack CretcEe-'s esq wick Pan
tasraph.
A Bourbon county man WHO osTsrs1 -
ward for The names q TIE boys wno bad
ral6s5 his watermelon pstca found ogt
that his yogrzsst sci Wa 0rs q rs
crowd ~ = certain age g = ziu0si In
possible 70 impress upon ne End - Sny
boy. q high u ioE degree. ihat Z -
wrSug % raid a neon pztc5.
TAls Is Eoos year for lDg rpElinEs. re-
g1l0as. plcnlcs. harvest hsrze tssslsss. {
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fhe people q c1ancs 20 sr4oy i5s-3ss SEES.
The toiI y ne people has his Tsar hesa
rewarded E1ts Sod bard -sorsT. au1 a &
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