The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-16
Along the Kansas Nile.

In one ward in Lawrence on election
day but two straight tickets were voted.
A Kansas axiom from the Florence Bull
letin: "All the flies flock to the bob-tailed
cow"
Cherryvale is paving some Of its prin-
cipal streets with vitrified brick of its
own manufacture.
Apparently Judge Hook is having
knotty time of It trying to decide wheth-
er the court Of visitation IS or isn't.
Miss Schletzbaum. the Republican elect
ed county clerk of Doniphan county, led
all the other candidates. receiving ISL ma
jority.
Charles Moreau Harger Of Abilene has
put out the first prediction for next year.
He thinks Mckinley will carry Kansas
by 900
In almost all the larger towns OF Kan
sas arrangements were made this week
to blow whistles to wake the people TO
witness the meteoric shower.
Tom Ryan believes that Curtis and
Bailey should quit quarreling and that
Bailey should return as congressman at
large and Curtis as congressman from
the First district.
Investigation shows that the election
last week in Kansas was errauc. Butler
and Sedgwick are adjoining counties. In
Butler the Republicans made their big
gains in the country; in Sedgwick IN the
towns.
The Populist leaders believe that big
corn crop next year viii help them
nightly in Kansas. The country vi!
an I'D with farm hands, they say. and
increase the Populist vote IN the rural
districts. heavily.
The Fort Scott Lantern wants law
compelling all candidates TO keep nome
from the day Of their nomination until
the day of election. The Lanterns idea
is 10 turn the flank Of the "bleeders."
and wipe EN- of the face OF the earth.
Harvey county town went dry last
week without the aid OF the Law and
order league. The druggist went away
an visit and forgot 10 leave the receipt
FOR making whisky with his clerk. and
the second day the supply on hand ran
out.
The old soldiers in Marion county
.,,--ed n and turned down the Repubh-
,an nominee for sheriff and the Repubh-
ean ring in the county has taken up the
old soldiers challenge and threatens 20
rsoou.nate the same man for shsTih two
years hence.
Doufver of Iowa says that Kansas f.
the greatest state l7 the Union sa9 owes
Ffs rsac-Iiiar tenn permanent 10 IL New Esia-
g,aad origin He says IT'S newspapers
are exceptionally brsgat and rs people
He khinks VIII White writes better boy
stories than Hi7irg.
II Eiu interest Admiral Dewey = learn
that asst Saturday Rock Island train
u4irea into Caldwell with q yoUug maj
rtea couple OF board. lie huESea heT
ard she Rugged him A Big crowd zzth-
cred inside and outside IRE car and gsysd
the couple. but neither bTlde nor groom
cared.
Andrew Chrzcton. q solder writing
I home 10 HutehE1sol from I1a3. says
1T = not a. rot acre zs people aEtBk
we are about eleven degrees fr5rn re
,oust7r. but wa get a Gne SEA breeze
nearly al ire lime Take s. Al i1 al
I tnis = rot as Rot as Cd Cslrksg1 a1Ea-
as far ss / have been. ard not as a7t -
2 have sseu Il IL Kansas during lie snz-
Eler uout1s
Topeka Capital: a hrs sale t7si i O.
reE a Wichita is ressitlEg r. q rapras1Lle-
tg7n q e 1iraife4 sac = TIE VAN tine
I il the % toEz Whsz re street fasT sa4
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height q course Z - tae womea VS.
are nxhtfaz for sTat place st ias cagz-
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