The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-05
Along the Kansas Nile,

Along the Kansas Nile,
The Atchison Globe calls the author of
| Quo Vadis Henry Stinkywitz.
! Tom Anderson has taken charge Of John
! Seatons headquarters at Topeka.
! The Prohibitionfsts deny that there is
not a breath of suspicion against John
| Seaton.
The cake-walk at Emporia was fail
ure The colored people of the city OPP
posed it bitterly.
! Every week somewhere in western Kan
sas there is wolf hunt and without ex-
ception in each hunt the wolf is a myth.
Among all the published interviews with
Mrs Walkup- Ketcham, the line: Il shall
never marry again." has not appeared.
Suggestion for campaign song: Sing
a song of six-pence, pocket full of rye,
Edwards and the coyotes are after the
pie"
When the chinch-bug craze was on, ex-
| ira clerks had to be hired in the Law
renee postoffice to handle the boxes of
| bugs sent to Professor Snow to be inoc-
ulated.
John Seaton says that lots of Prohibi-
tionists believe him to be drunkard.
| Not that 1t is a positive regret among
the Prohibition cranks that he is not
drunkard. Z
If the Prohibitionsts have their way
at the next Republican state convention,
the candidates for governor will be set up
| in a row and the breath of each chemical
! ly analysed.
! There is a portrait of Mrs. Anna Diggs
| travelling around the country which
makes her look like she had been run
through a threshing machine with tub
! full of unhulled walnuts.
The most bitter factional feeling among
Republicans in Kansas is that in Marion
county, between J. S. Dean and j. W.
Moore, who both want the county dele
gates to the congressional convention.
There is not going to be any great
amount of enthusiasm in the next state
campaign in Kansas. It is going TO be
bitter contest with lots of ammunition go
| ing while the whites of the eyes in both
| lines are visible.
The Arkansas City Traveller, Eckert's
paper. and the Winfield Courier, Ed
| Greer's paper. are always fighting. The
! last blast is from Greer, who says: The
existence of such a man as Eckert is
sublime example of the mercy of God, but
| a sad commentary on the laws of our
country"
/ The Troy Times tells a story or little
! boy who was reading in Sunday school
paper the story of a missionary having
been eaten by cannibals. Papa" he ask
ed. will the missionary go to Heaven
yes, my SON. replied the father. And
will the cannibals go there, too?' queried
the youthful student. NO was the re-
ply After thinking the matter over for
some time the little fellow exclaimed:
We'll 1 don't see how the missionary can
go to Heaven if the cannibals don't, when
he's inside the cannibals."
Arkansas City Traveller: Hon. ". z.
Stanley of Wichita has announced that
he is a candidate for the Republican NOM
nation of governor. Mr.. Stanley is well
and favorabIy known in this city. He
is an able lawyer, one of the staunchest
Republicans in the state, and a good cam
paigner. He is pure, honorable and con-
scientious IN his dealings with his fellow
men. Should he be so fortunate as TO
secure the nomination he would make one
of the most intelligent campaigns that
was ever made in the state"
| Young Edison was once in Kansas and
this is what the Arkansas City Traveller
says Of him; The newspapers for some
time have been telling OF the wonderful
inventions OF young Edison. son Of Thorn
as a Edison. Sometime ago young Edi-
son. through the newspapers. claimed he
claimed he could harness the sea waves
and now he has an airshiP- Every tinne
we see something wonderful this young
man has accomplished we wonder II he
is the same young Edison who was here
a short time since working for the Santa
Fe. II Il IS, We believe none OF the news
paper stories. he smoked too many e.
garettes-'
Hot shot from country correspondent fl
Winfield Courier: '-Zekes neighbors saw
TO pay no attention 20 him. as what he
says is as tiakling cymoais ard sound
ing brass We Go not know abou: The
tinkling cymbsl. but We know he mas
the brass ali right We are In
formed that Len Kennedy is prscIicang
with the view Of travelling with Ringing
Bros next year That IS ali right. Len
Geo Compton says there was a
home rule party north Of him win the
vfad-brsak attachment II II Is repeated
George viii put n couple OF dozen
scrambled eggs TO be sympathetic
One OF The tramp visitors II WindSor
left ks coffee POT and cane II rhe school
house Saturday night he left the Schoei
house locked and fastened like be found
Il; lie NRs kind enough 70 sweep and
bring II coal for the teacher"