The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-06
SHOOTING PROHIBITED
INSIDE THESE LIMITS.

The next day the sign had been pune
tured by cowboys.
Almost all the windows Of the town were
/ also shot out as a mark of disrespect.
Finally a cowboy was secured, red-hand-
/ ed, who had been in the proof-reading
and punctuating business, and the peo-
/ pie made a cold and disagreeable example
Of him.
/ Wichita is the largest city in Kansas.
but does not care to have anything said
about it. Electric street-cars run clear
away out TO the sIaughter-house and on
into the forest primeval. so that sports
men frequently go by street-car into the
haunts Of the pheasant and the bear
It is not uncommon TO see an Eastern
capitalist returning at night, after a
good days sport, with a dozen grouse
and two good-sized building lots.
Kansas is said to be the most remark
able grain-growing state. Her soil is
rich and black, her people fun Of hope
and good victuals. Corn is low at the
present time but there is enough for food
and fuel for the winter the crop being
unusually large. The man who said that
by the light of his burning corn the Kan
sas farmer was enabled to read the mort
gre on his farm was a pessimist with a
tendency towards uxoricide. Out Of the
LABOR and anguish of war. drought and
pestilence in Kansas was born a beauti-
full state, and within her borders dwell
a proud, prosperous and Prohibition peo-
pie
Corn grows TO a great height. and 50 do
the pleasing anecdotes regarding the pro-
ductive soil Of Kansas. 7 saw an ear Of
corn two feet long the other day, and
stalks Of corn twenty feet high Also the
unrufied remains Of n grasshopper four
feet long. / do not know how they were
constructed, but they looked first-rate
Kansas is one Of the most healthful
states I'm the Union. People live 50 long
here that they get tired of life. The
death rate is only to every 900 people.
the mortality being almost as low as it
IS among French duellists.
The Arkansas valley is now called "the
American Nile All the rich alluial and
such things as that have been borne down
from the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains and spread over this fertile
plain. For six thousand years it was the
pasture OF the buffalo, the deer and the
antelope. and while awaiting its destiny
as n great agricultural hotbed it has
been watered by the dews Of heaven and
enriched by the decaying aristocracy of
the Usage and Wichita Indians. The
dust Of preadamite man. vatered by the
tears Of the more modern and rensis-
sance grassbopper sufferer. has laid the
foundation for the granaries of the world +
and stimulated the bright-eyed prevari- +.
Gator 70 do honor to his state
Emporia is more quiet city. with (
fewer reading notices than Wichita. but
thriving business and good prospects. (
Prohibition NAV stin be found in kan
sas. leading its victims on down 10 the I
Prohihitiouists' grave saw quite .
number Of people who were just begin +
ming 20 fool with II. little thinking what
g hold it would one day have on them.
At Lawrence 7 visited the university.
and wish especially to return thanks 10
Prof. snow. of Sucw Hail. Tor q delight
ful hour among his fossil batrachians
and giant stra6dle bugs he had a good
collection Of Kansas people who dourissva
at an early date ard who r,ede foot
rriDA~ sc 80 ys nds OF TINE which have
oeen hauled down 20 posterity in the
limestone of our day. lie has a lower saw
of mammoth. with blue porcelain teeth, /,
which for many years stood in the mid
de OF o small stream. 50 that when the
water vas low the bows used u stand
on This monsters chin and FISH. little
knowing what q treasure il would be
to the savant and the scholar OF future
years. one day a sportsman stopped 70
spit or his bsit and glancing down at
the huge stone decided that 81 was bone.
lie got help 60 roll it over. and To-. Il was
The maxinary works of a great coarse
beast that could eat a hardware store
ike dish of oatmeal and use the rag
ng main FOR a dish Of oatmeal.
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