The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-12
Along the Kansas Nile.

| The big rain in Kansas Monday didn't
save anything unless it was the Kansas
| temper
Ed Howe observes that the ordinary
writing desk shakes when a fly walks
across it.
| Roosevelt the latter part of this month
will make twenty-six speeches in Kan
sas in two days.
| Across from Atchison, in Missouri,
most of the fences are rail. Some Of
them are fifty years old, and still In
serviceable shape.
If Breidenthal should become governor
he would be the first Topeka man to
occupy the place since the Prohibition
law went into effect.
In England where Kansas wheat is at
tracing attention, it Is called Kansas
corn" Our corn is unknown, but when
spoken Of is called maize.
]. V. Randolph. of Emporia Is dead
He went to Emporia in 1851 and pre-
empted a homestead southeast Of En-
poria, now part of the city.
There was a Barney" Kelly among
the dead at Galveston. OF course this
was not the Kansas Bernard Kelly. but
the sameness in names is a curious
thing.
Newt Try Of Fort Scott has been
placed al the head of twelve appraisers
under the Dawes commission and has
made connection with a 5000 a year
salary.
Dick Olney is so cold that a Topeka
man who once called on him offered him
flask Of whisky ana olney took an
ice-pick and hacked off a lump or two
and ate It.
Recently. at Abilene, a vote on the
most popular book in the library was
taken among the young people AMI
"Old sleuth" got oct votes and the New
Testament L
The Republicans Of Arkansas City have
raised a campaign pole, and announce
that II the Democrats put up another
which Is taller, they viii build theirs W
from the bottom
James Livingston. a Cofeyvllle boy.
has become a barber at Manila ard &
making SIS 2 month. He writes home
that ne cut General MacArthur's hair
recently and Macarthur gave hiEa dol
lar.
George P. Guernsey took a poll OF
Santa Fe train loaded with western
Kansas and Colorado people. The result
was: Mckinley, 50; Bryan. 9: Prohibit on
ist. 2: undecided. 5 Tais included seven
Colorado women who ar polisd for
Bryan
The Democrats IN th.s congressional
district are merely making the dght the
Republicans make IN Alabama. hoping
TIA; thelr presidential candidate VII be
elected and they can Est 70 federal PIE
No fusioaist 10 the district hopes 20 see
Long defeated
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