The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-09
Along the Kansas Nile.


The smallpox scare has just reached
Dickinson county.
The Santa Fe will build its own light
plant in Newton for the shops, offices
and station.
Dickinson county has contributed 1000
bushels Of corn and $3.50 In cash for the
relief of famine sufferers in India.
Hint to his neighbors, from Governor
Eskridge: Deaf and dumb married folks
should certainly be unspeakably happy"
fort Scott paid only $3.50 for the Popu-
list convention. This is one honor Fort
Scott viii not allow to go empty for at
least two days.
Arkansas City has been so busy strang-
ling smallpox rumors that the people
there have just reached the public libra
ry proposition.
The Commercial club Of Hutchinson has
undertaken TO give congress a few point
ers on why that town ought 10 be given
a federal building.
Charlie Scott will open his campaign
at Coffeyville February %, by fattening
a thirteen-inch shell on the recent history
of Populism in Kansas.
The prohibitionists of Belle PLANE have
at last found a way to close up the Joints
OF the town legally and in fact as well
They simply report a case Of smallpox
in the place and the board Of health does
the rest.
A Lakin man, without a hint as to
what suggested the remark at this time,
says that he can see no sense or pro-
priety in scientists talking about the
wonder OF an eel living eighteen days
without water, when the Democratic par
" has lived one hundred and eighteen
years the same way.
It was twelve years ago Tuesday, Janu-
airy Z, 1857, that Kansas had the worst
blizzard the state has ever seen. On the
night Of the 9Th the sky was clear and
the weather calm. The next morning
ths air was thick with sharp snow, 80
fine that the fierce wind from the north
drove II right through an ordinary over
coat. II was 50 oppressively dark al day
that only z few, even Of the 0ld-timers,
ventured awsy from the house TO do the
ordinary cheres Of q winter day, and
n many cases tnose who got any dis
lance away from home were lost IL the
storm and either froze to death or lost
a foot or hand.
a Hutchinson man who has two s1ns
II the Philippines has received a letter
from one OF the boys. IL which ne says.
when We get home we VII eat you out
q house and home. We are growing 50
Ike greyhounds that imagine we WI
&c able 70 catch Any jackrzbbit f. kan
sas. We have an occasional feast. though
I an now 4 stable orderly ard they give
ne salt for TIE horses manage some
times 20 slip half . sack cf sslf 70 =
and he sells Il any buys chickens ard
eggs with The money. Tntn rs feast
j. IS a good 'rushsr.' you know tilat.
aeon ana hs-d-tack for shout 10 days
has about starved Is out We have got
enough OF soldering"
saana Union jesse Perry, a young
farmer living in ihs wic58ity q Noon [
HFht- Dickinson eounty. was n the city
today. Ar. Pe-rT lives within a few
uf,-s of the place where ths Fire Brzads /.
created 80 much excitement AZ their r.
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