The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-14
4 Along the Kansas Nile

The town OF Troy. after a violent scene
In the council, has decided to tax the
jointists so a month each.
In the history of Kansas the state has
Rad no year when the oats crop equaled
that of the present season.
TriIby, the negro who was hanged by
a mob at Alma, Is getting better, and
will recover. He probably was glad he
was cut down in his youth.
By the way of putting coppers on the
eye-lids Of the story that he is going TO
remove to Kansas City, Major Hood IL
improving his Emporia home.
Ada Patterson, the best known woman
newspaper writer Of New York, IL not
from Kansas. but the next thing 20 II.
She comes from Riverton. Nebraska
The kissing bug has reached Kansas.
and the jokes about 1t will cease. No
man who has been bitten by one Of these
venomous little insects will write a joke
about II.
There are q good many straight old Re-
publicans in Kansas who believe that the
newspapers which publish John J. ingalls,
Republican speeches should head the col
urnn with a skull and cross-bones
Albert Lenze OF Abilene took passage
on Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse at New
York, July 4. On July 10 he was in Ger
many, having participated In one OF the
quickest runs ever made across the At
lantic.
The Missouri sheriff who visited Shaw
nee in the Jester matter. when he re-
turned home told the people that Shaw
nee was an awful tough place and that
all the officers OF the law paraded around
with guns strapped on them.
The story that CT Leland trembied IKE
a hunk Of jelly In q thunder storm when
he heard that Joe Hudson was 20 get
back on the Topeka Capital, IL too beau
tiful 70 be lost. A jeweler should set t.
in ring and present IL to Leland.
ingalls, thinks the war in the Philip
pines l. foolish and extrRvagant, but that
II cannot be criticised with impunity. The
war in the Philippines Is all right. and the
men who are roaring about Il VII be
hunting explanations a year hence.
State Auditor Cole Is a gentleman who
is not afraid Haskell. The state architect.
put In q bill for 80 for part payment
Of his services for drawing the plans %
| a $500 chemical building at Lawrence
Cole took his pancake ladel and turned
the bill down
A Kansas editor, OF Moundrfdge. whose
breakfast didn't digest, has written an
| appeal 20 the FfIipinos TO joip this and
of freedom. where. among other things
we have IN congress q man With three
1 for having two wives
The platform adopted By the Republi-
| cans OF Atchiscn county IL a. follows:
| We are for President Mckinley and the
| Republican party whose policies aTs -
| identified with the history and progress
q tnts nation as 20 require neither sx-
pianatSon nor apology"
johnson Jordan. the vicious negro On
| whose evidence. helped out By xeosa tiOnaI
| newspapers. John Collins vas convicted.
- probably implicated iu the crime for
| y hleh q negro was lyDcae5 a. Alma The
| r+sro Who vas iynchsI arh cut esSn.
! confess and charges Jordan with being
1 In the plan
Emporia Is % have q carnival. ard along
with THAI q carnival buttoa- Some OF
/ the notices for thts eufton sugEested
, are as fOIiSws: ''Dsd you say Esnporta p
old EupcTy's It a Warn Baby. ="
''Anti-RuSt Association" Prosperity =
Prosperity pnsh far \ prosperity tONn- ="
| ''We1eedA Carnival"
| Kansas Is emphatic7ily 3 lay yo1s
| way state. The idea of s1SscTibiaE Al
Immense amount Of money g bring The
Kansas regfmenf hone On . sFssiz1 tfaia
has fAllsa down TIE boys wfl pay theis
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