The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-30
Along the Kansas Nile,

Emporia's registration is 2,2Se. In 1856
it was 1897.
The registration at salina this year Is
1871 which is 80 per cent greater than
| in 1896
Atchisons registration of male voters
This year is $500. The registration in 1886
was 3,165.
The increased registration in all Kan
sas cities over 1896 is causing a Repub-
ncan smile.
Pat Coney of Topeka is out in letter
saving that after much thought he viii
support Mckinley.
In Kansas in 1895, Bryan carried 81
counties and Mckinley IS. In 1898 Stan
ley carried rs counties and Leedy %.
Most of the articles on domestic econ
omy which appear in eastern weeklies
are written by an Emporia woman, Mrs.
E. Canday.
The fellows who figure ahead say that
from 1900 to 1910 Kansas will have the
biggest decade IN point of increased pop
ulation in her history.
Opie Read says that 1895 was a hard
year with him. It was that year he drop
ped the initial "P" out of his name. He
couldn't afford the ink.
]. M Hagaman, the well-known ed
itor of Concordia, who went to Nome,
was shot and robbed at Seattle as he
was returning. He IS seventy years old
colored man twenty years of age
wanted TO register at Atchison. but they
told him ne was too young. Why" he
said with an injured air, I've been mar
ried a. year"
Opie Read made the hit OF the cam
paign with his speeches in Kansas last
week and the committee IS trying 10 get
l-s .
know it all, and the people like him.
Tom Fenion Of Leavenworth, who 5
supporting Mckinley. says that he WI
again vote the Democratic ticket when
il IS led by a Hewitt, a Wheeler, car
Isle. a Villas. instead Of a Tillmsn, an
AItgeld a George Fred Williams or a
Webster Davis.
A party OF Missourians en- route to Ok
lahoma passed through Peabody the other
day. They had three wagons and IN one
Of them were six cofTins, containing the
bodies Of departed relatives VINO had
been exhunlsd in Missouri. 70 he re-
buried st the new home in Oklahoma
which the party might select
The diversity Of oratorical material the
Republicans Of Kansas have had this
year has been effective. Everybody has
been permitted u talk end he public
mas Eeril dLLEaLlNE anu IlsdHt4 t@4lE %
the best speakers before the people Is
Professor Vernon, the colored man. lie
Is said to make a straight talk which
holds every man in the audience 70 hls
conclusion.
At a spiritualist meeting N Pratt c0un-
t., recently. the spirit Of Elijah CroEser
was called for. Elijah Crosser had del
there IN an early day, bot was rernem-
bered for his immense stature. : feet 5
inches. A voice n the darkness SAID h
vas Eu5sh. Are you n heaven" asked
an ol5-iiner. Yes" came the answer
Are you an angel, T&Ee2" YES" The
ouestioue- paused. evidently having ex-
hauSted his fund Of QUESTIONS and then
suddenly inquired: what do you meas
ure from tip 20 tip. T4zeT"
a seusstHs7 was created n Marion
county politics this week. says the Pea
body News by Sheriff y i Mansfield
announcing that ~ vii support rhe Re
publican tfcket Nr. Mansfield Aas fssl
a lifelong Democrat and e p-~hablF
The most popular man IL ire uouufF
year aE7 be VAS elected saerIG ~ q ~
ssorlst ard received Z nbce maori =. y
u one ~ the faw Dsrnoe-sts ever essct-
"a IN cGsca ~ Marion county Hs o.
lieves 81 q the 6gty - eserT ioFal -
zen 20 sta1H sy MS ec1ntrE .1 tf1h ~
war. TrEz 4. re lssge that ea9se4 ai-n
20 change Re has 10 s.ztsnCe Ska TIE
tax that w4 sHui8 aHi0 d9En f2e fig
ard r1u. sssa Ike Sheriff sianE8ei8 az
heartily we.come-