The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-21
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

Assistant Auditor Of State Richard
Sanders was once a bootblack.
About the only discouraging word Kan
sas has this year is that oats are light. q"
The state penitentiary binding twine
plant viii turn out $l,25o,o00 pounds this
year.
The jury at Topeka allowed Barbara's
Tauer's claim of $4,000 against the Sells
estate.
In wax-works show in the Buffalo
exposition there is a figure labeled, Car
rie Nation"
Friends Of Burton think ne viii land
George Findlay into something good be-
fore the internal revenue coIlectorshlp is
vacant
Lightning struck the barn Of c. NJ
Johnston. three miles west OF Caldwell.
Wednesday, and killed six valuable
horses.
President Mckinley has given high
places TO the two Kansas men he served
with in congress-Tom Ryan and Sam
Peters.
With all challenged votes put aside
Hughes and Parker. candidates for mayor
in Topeka, are a tie. They may have 20
draw straws.
The street. commissioner at Lawrence IS
reb6Ildiug the road 10 the cemetery and
the World says It IS important 20 have
the work completed soon 1t doesn't say
why.
A trusty who recently escaped from the
Kansas penitentary was captured at the
home Of his mother, in Oklahoma His
defense for escaping was that he was
homesick.
The Kansas papers are at last awalSing
to the fact that the greatest springs in
Al. a.
nothing IN Europe or America 20 com
pare with them.
In q dispatch to the Topeka Capital Il
IS shown that che csnteen law Is a fall
ure; that there is more drunkenness at
Fort Riley now than there was before the
canteen was closed.
II IS not true that the farmers of this
part Of the state can not get into their
fields because of heavy rains. In isolated
spots that may be the case. but generally
The harvest weather is IDEAL
y. C. Hargis of Winfield. SAYS that "a
1899 he discovered John II. Watkins in his
bank about 70 Kill himself Hargis dis
suaded him. The other DAY Watkins did
XIII himself in the bank AT Dexter.
Mrs. John Jones. G Emporia. who
hadn't spoken above a whisper FOR two
years, attended a Free Methodist meet
ing and got her voice back She IS now
speaking n. public and her voice carries
two blocks.
I'd Howe notices that while druggists
ard doctors know that q drcp ~ prss-
sic acid will cause death instantly ard
painlessly, doctors and druggists. in com
hitting suicide take csrtolic acid. which
is equal % burning alive.
A good many people believe that ac-
cuitta1s and convictions 60 lr waves pre-
Valiing alternately all over the country.
Just now there is conviction wave on
ard these theorists think thai On that
account Jessie Morrison VIII be found
guilty.
when the fnger-bowl was passed
around az q Kansas CITY hotel re1enfly.
TIE PROBATE Judge % Lawrence called
for come soap The waiter, as a. .eEe.
brought him q piece and he proceeded ~
wash his hands Acd TaHrence la
university t6rn, toc.
IRE hCEness men % sallns ga~e $50
bonus q get q wholeeeie ErocerT house
there. me new err Opened up vita
reception. and ths saifna people were
knocked CT fEeF alTcta when the res
company Informed TIE crowd that g
RcsId zot accert she pc11r.
Jessie Norr.soa thi1ss 1frr. Renne1y's
conviction ar F-arsaa Cltr was st E1
this c7l1ectic1 FAz at 1e1 EaTe
more sympathy fc- wcusc trar ucue-
have for a wo-1an 2feu have more Egu-
rafhv Tor woman ttsn rhsT navs fcr
lran in trcurle. Ri rle1 are mere uerci-
III even g men thsn Ho-1ea zFe -
zomz1
Georrs r Fsck- The Cd so.aer Eeore
tirad ~ tie years ircrsase, az1 - bears
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