The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-12
ALONG lie KANsAs ~.

Wellington is going after oil ard gas
in earnest 1t is probably in the belt.
At Emporia the railroad men have the
OIL and gas fever and Will put down a
well
Treasurer-elect Tom Kelly viii make
his appointments Christmas day as a sort
of Santa Claus.
Harry Bone has not yet decided to take
the private secretaryship offered him by
/ Governor Bailey.
Next. month upon the retirement OF
Judge Doster. Judge w. A. Johnston be-
comes chief justice.
Winfield has just lost 200 feet of cas-
ing in her gas well. The drillers are now
trying to fish the stuff out.
Up in Lawrence they believe that
Barker will be elected TO the speakership
o. the Kansas legislature.
Chester l. Long arrived In Topeka yes
+ terday and viii remain ia Kansas until
4 the senatorial election IS over.
Wednesday passed in Topeka without
/ Charley Curtis reiterating his statement
that he intends to take no part ia the or
+ -znization OF the house.
The Sixth district working politicians
all dropped into the Copeland the other
| day and just looked around for while.
/ il is not known what was. done at their
! conference.
Baneys majority was the biggest ever
gwen a governor of Kansas. In ISIS Ly-
nan l. Humphrey had 5000 plurality.
hut only 3l,0S majority. This year Bal
+ ley's majority was 3l3l6.
/ Governor Bailey viii have more places
/ to fiji than ordinarily falls % the Dot II
! q governor. Nearly all terms expire un-
! 6eI his administration. rs a great number
+ OF Governor STANLEY appointments were
+ made in vacation.
The kcrs Of eastern kaSsas IN a
( meeting ln Leavenw0rth the other day
resolved against the Topeka bank clnch
or state fpnds and favored the state s
surplus being loaned out % banks over
the state az the highest rate ~ interest
offered
The Kansas state Temperance union
proposes TO get law through congress
PROVIDING that government hcerHe shall
not be iss-sd 20 q hguoF seller unless he
has complied with the laws ~ his own
state. Every question Is Supposed o. have
two sides This IS the s7i5th side The
Prohibition 1uesticn has
Topeka Capital. Politics g. The recre-
alton. the hobby. II yuu please. ~ Cyrus
Leland \ littie incident which occ'rrsd
recently at the Copeland hotel VIII u
lustrate this fsct a number ~ 7oilfieians
were sitting lro1r8 taiEirg lAoHt what
CioVeTnor-elect W. Bailey wquid do
with the executive mansion. Iie ought -
start "a Bachelors EaL suggested ane.
There Dave Hanna and q lot ~ other
fellows who would 20 in win him
But protested another -thEt belong
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