The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-04
Along the Kansas Nile,

As a boy, Colonel Fred Funston was
/ known as Jimmy, by his friends.
| Kansas has had thirty snow-storrns this
winter. And the winter is still on.
! G. w. Toothaker has been appointed
| local coal oil inspector at Wyandotte.
| Saturday Governor Stanley cabled Fred
Funston: Kansas honors you and your
| brave men"
! T. E. Ballinger has been appointed by
Governor Stanley third director Of the
| penitentiary.
| 10 Bristow, viii IS back from Cuba, says
that the general public there is friendly
to the United States.
Some Of the Kansas papers came out
with colored Easter covers, among them
the Lyons Republican.
| Recently the heirs of W. F. Hague Of
Ness City had his safe opened and found
! 81 200 in cash, 1920 of it in gold.
The farmers of Pratt county have killed
! 2 coyotes since last November. and have
| received 81 apiece for their scalps.
The fame Of the Lnsborg Messiah" IS
reaching out. The Chicago Tribune Of
| Sunday devotes a quarter of a page to
| it.
| The poor boy who was dragged down 20
Topeka to attend a political contest and
! left to freeze on the street. is dead. Oh
| politics.
NJ NJ. Beck Of the Holton Recorder. is
| bowling at Stanley because he did not
/ appoint ex-Congressman Case BrodeTick
district judge.
In a quiet way ex-Congressman Fun
ston IS having more cubic. gold-welght en-
! joyment out OF the situation than any
other man in the world.
Mrs. Lease IS for German for president
Most people will regard this az joke. but
it is surprising how many Kansas Demo
Gratis are Of the same mind
Only two Marches in thirty-two years
in Kansas have had 50 low a mean tenn
perature and 50 low and mean a tempers-
ture as the last enc. bad cess 70 IL
Governor Lewering yesterday ceased %
be railroad commissioner, and Is 10 longer
state senator He favors Jerry Simpson
as the next Populist nominee for COVER
nor.
In course OF an article and 70 sustain
himself Ed. Hocn, OF the Marion Record.
quotes in his own favor the Biblical pas
sage: Thou shalt not suffer = witch 70
live"
The first railroad commission was made
I'D OF Henry Hopkins and I. l. Turner,
Republicans. and James Humphrey. q
Democrat This commission was appoint
ed in ISS3.
Patrick Bolton. of Marion county, who
was driven insane from MS heavy Losses
fl the Gillette failure, haT been placed n
the Topeka Insane asylum lie thinks he
IS Governor Roosevelt
All the fayoTite Kansas weather pToph-
ets predict unusual and mysterious COS
mic stons ch-sches next November. and
Professor ka1b OF Vienna says taat the
universe Is gong % explode.
Governor Stanley and Auditor Cole have
checked up the state treasurer and found
his books a. right Tasy Lad demanded
II afm that he must show eaca in01ih
che actual cash hs says he has o. hard
TEls via take Il cut q ToDsss's Banks
Harper Sentinel TIE Il ard 3 ard TIE
Rock Island are ~qults." las Ws1nssszzg
ire Il and :. wanted q load q clndsrs
az re sat works. and TIE Rock Islzr6
wanted them. too. Tee Il ard : ggt
there frs ard COZ the clr6srs. bat ~asn
Ihey started back taey f0Ezd the track.
watch belonged % TIE EoeE Island. tori
W 80 they lad o u or down 20 Wlcassa
across 20 EInCrnan and back ar - Eutc1-
iusou zsth tEe3r cEndsrs- Iaen fAe =
ard : t-sw made W = train q fTezEt
cars TuE ths train On the Rock Es5s11
rack uea- .Ee dsp1s ard left &. .ocxaz ca
the 1racE. A18 zgN t1ey 6oE'i SPEAK -
shgy pass D. sd tze Il and ;. 11ss ss9s-
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