The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-04
ALONG TIE KANSAS nILE

Chester I. Long is adding little TO the
FIBRE Of Cuba himself.
N the next state convention Of the Re
pubIicans il viii take SIS votes 10 nomi-
nate
Tom Morgan. OF Ottawa. can be tn
fusion candidate for governor. II be
wants IT,
Cyrus Leland. who went out II the pen
son Office last Saturday. vii ccn -inEe 10
reside in Topeka
y Leayenworth dispatch SAYS that 2frs.
James, @ Hessian- aged 81. and john Cor
nelson. aged II. have eioped.
The authorities az Lcavenworth arc
hunting Tor an escaped illl-tird who has
the SMALLPOX. but tlsy are rot hsnrins
ver.- hard.
on March % the .oung Republicans ~
Cloud county wll slFe salgact ana
ask I'll the Reublic52 asplra1ts ger gov
ernor 10 he their guests.
More members Of the Twentieth kan
sas plUcked commissions liz s7e gular
army than members Of arg other re8i-
ment during the Spanish war
Some one in EmpoEia IS talking that
VIII S. hire mas = brain affection. az
course. he hasn't. HIS brain IS 81 right.
The trouble with him IS Qvel work.
Miller. Of the Fourth congressional dis
trict. viii De reuominated. The fgAt
against him has fatlened oat. Every
Kansas CONGRESSMAN Vii be renomiuated.
Hay IN southern Kansas Is worth Fl
cents a bale. ana unless spring hump,
along. seine of the folks wiz have 20 rip
~ their parloT carpets 70 set feed cor
the family horse.
y prophet at Topeka says that Bailey
viii not be nominated because BIS in
itials. ". j. B., are 2 hoodoo. re. points
out that that was what allied William
Jennings Bryan.
AS soon as March came in with a
snort and tug and a switch and a
Whip and larrup. the Kansas papers al
once began 10 have more 10 say about the
style Of skirts this spring
Three old soldiers on the Brown county
delegation have written 10 Harry Rich
ter that they are for him. as this viii
probably be their last chance 10 vote tor
an old soldier FOR governor. Richter is
the only Old soldier IN the race.
Church White. Of Atchison. has not
gone 70 school for over thirty years hut
SAYS he still feels a vague dread in his
breast when he hears the school bell ring
IL the same way many people who are
grown feel a relief every afternoon at
AS.
Eva Fay. the spiritnalist. was asked
by a man III the audience in Topeka the
other night who would he the next gov
ernor of Kansas. She wrote out the
now charging that a Bailey man asked
the question.
The Kansas City Journal prints the
following story: Twenty miles north Of
Topeka, on the Pottawatomie Indian res
eTVaJiOn, a member OF Great Britains
royal family teaches an indian school.
The teacher Is Fred ". Ernst. and he
is a first cousin, once removed, Of King
Edward VII. The father Of the school
teacher came TO America early in the
last century, from Germany. He was a
son OF the Duke of -Coburg-AlJen
burg. by his first wife Princess Louise
and his brother was Prince Albert. Queen
Nictorias husband. The brother who
came 20 America did so. ii is said be-
cause Of a quarrel with his brother. the
prince. The nature of the quarrel is uu-
known as the brother vas very reticent
on the subject. But IL is understood that
the brothers disagreed over religion. The
brother who came 10 America disguised
himself by taking the family name OF
Ernst, and taking as his given name
George Washington. He came TO Kansas
when the state was young, and settled on
the farm Ia Jefferson township Jackson
where the family still lives He
died several years ago. His widow and
five chiidycn live on the old farm. Pred
Ernst was taken out of school 10 help
with the farm work when he was still
young, and was given but little chance
t. obtain an education. He studied At
home in the evenings until ne had adj
vanced far enough TO be able 20 pass the
county examination for a teacher GER
tiicate He has Just completed his first
term as a teacher The members Of the
family refuse TO discuss their relation
ship 10 Englands royal family. and so
well have they concealed the story that
il became known only within the past few
weeks