The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-18
Along the Kansas Nile,

Reports from the Lick Observatory say
that the Kansas corn Is tasseling out.
Jim Simpson OF Mcpherson county has
come out for Stanley for senator to sue
coed Baker.
This world" says the Severance News
els full OF howiing eight-hour men and
patient fourteen-hour women"
It makes the Leland followers mad for
anyone to intimate that Leland Is afraid
Of the influence of John J. ingalls,.
Governor Stanley has gone to Colorado
to select a place to spend the summer.
Governor Stanley's itinerary Is a little
heavy.
No one has ever seen such corn IN Kan
sas. A whole lot Of people think they
have seen bigger corn. They have simply
forgotten.
At oxford, Freddie Norris was playing
outside the barn when a pitch-fork fell
and went through his eye-lid without in
juring his eye-ball
It is said that forty-five counties in
Kansas. nearly half. have no poor houses
and that in thirty-seven counties there
are no criminal cases on the docket.
The Republicans Of one ward IN Fort
Scott have met in caucus and demanded
the enforcement OF the Cubbison law pro-
hibiting corrupt practices at primary e.ec-
tons.
There Is some uneasiness about the
news from the Philippines. II Is said
that the letters from Kansas boys are
being held back by this government. be-
cause OF the doleful tales they contain.
DR.. Gill. the belligerent ex-secretary OF
the Board of Health. who would not leave
the office when his successor was select
ed. but camped around in the chairs and
slept on the table. has finally given In.
How the man must have loved the Job.
The state generally doubts the insistent
special dispatches from Topeka that Gov
ernor Stanley. cy Leland and everybody
in politics Is afraid Of Fred Funstons
return home. But the newspapers keep
the cry up so obstinate.y there may be
something IN II.
Nearly every Kansas man who sits out
on the back porch and watches q thun-
derstorm with the ragged lightning tear
ing the air all around him. believes that
II he Is going to be struck he VIII be
struck and that's an end to 81. Kan
sans are fatalists.
II Fred Funston could hear the way
the Journal and World Of New York are
demanding that Mckinley recall the gen
erals at present at Manila and put compe-
tent men In their places. he would ine
up the old Twentieth and take Gotham a.
soon as he arrived
The surprise party IN Kansas is dying
out. but dying slowly. The surprise par
" was a social function whose chief o.
jet was 20 relieve the hostess OF the
responsibility OF invitations. an arrange
ment wherein she was not held 20 blame
by the people who we're not asked 70 al
tend
A travelling man paraiyzed . western
kznsan the other day who attempted 70
work OF On him the old joke 81 eating
OF the peaches they raised what they
cSn. ana what We can't eat We ca1-
IT'S the same way In our business"
said the travelling man. I'VE sell an or
De- when ne can sell u and when Es
can't sen g we cancel t."
A dispatch from LeAven~orfh says:
Frank 0Gflfksn Of Santa Re has defined
the appointment of census supervisor for
the Sevenfh Kansas district and seaafes
Baker has decided % recommend J. g
o. NorEs % HutchinSsE for the place.
Word cane THIS morning thar MEIiIks1
cd ret care - spare sse tif1e froza ether
business - take - TIE esnszs wSEk~