The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-15
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

The Chicago Tribune says that Senator
| Tillmsn is 10 be the next man william
aHenwhited.
Colonel Hughes, Of Topeka, spent 500
on lawyers trying 10 prove that he was
mayor of Topeka
Senator Harris says there viii be no
serious trouble in the confirmation Of
General Metcalf as pension agent.
General Metcalf says that ne does not
consider Cyrus Leland IN any way re-
sponsible for the fight on his confrma-
ton.
Professor Lantz. OF the Agricultural
College. Manhattan, puts the prairia dog
town area of Kansas at two million
acres.
a test case will be brought at Topeka
to determine whether the compulsory
reading OF the Bible in the public schools
is legal
IN some portions Of northeastern Kan
sas wheat looks so poorly that the
farmers are already saying that this is
a corn year.
The Kansas City Star is trying to find
what became OF Reverend James, who
fell heir to an ancestral estate and
things in England.
Captain Boltwood is making a personal
fight on Metcalfs confirmation. and re-
vived the story that Metcalf shot a de-
fenseless Filipino.
Mrs. s. F. Cravens. OF Ottawa. a music
teacher. has been selected by a St. Louis
fair committee as the most beautiful
woman IN Kansas.
President Roosevelt, It is said. is con-
sidering making David Mulvane secre-
tary of the interior. Hitchcocks friends
say that Hitchcock viii not resign.
The war department formerly investi-
gated the charges against General Met
calf and found that ne was IN no way
identified With the shooting Of defense
less Fihpinos.
Fred Funston thinks that an army Of
1880 men VIII be required IN the Phil
ippines for some years 20 come. He re-
CARDS the Fihpinos as a treacheTOus, I'M
trustworthy lot.
Leavenworth has story to the effect
that Pat Coney viii be appointed United
States marshal. Liz Crum name was 70
have gone 10 the senate Monday. Some
thing is holding IL NJ.
When Funston-s confirmation was up
one az the opposition senator's asked.
What has Funston ever doae1' Quick
IS = fash Senator Harris replied. 'lIe
saw Opportunity face; we can all see
her back.
The dlsquieting report f. abroad that
Louis Dyche, OF the Kansas University,
believes that the Garden Of Eden was
located It the North Pole. Wei. ~ this
tire Baldwin. another Kansas man. has
pre-empted 81.
General 1fetcalf says that the charges
made against him 10 prevent his con-
frTnation-that Re shot dcfenseless PHI
pinos-are old and threadbare. and were
invented nv personal enemies IA the
Twentieth Kansas.
John Wleeau's name fer postmaster az
Emporia has been gent 70 che senate
President Roosevelt says that unless il
receives better support D. VIII name
postmaster selected hy pubic petition.
and 80 EupoTia people have sent pe-
tiuon on for living, the present pest
master
A Young woInln was walking along q
street il Philadelphia recently. when
io- n urcails began ~ cry ~ her
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