The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-22
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.


Butler county has 2,721 acres of rye
Only that in acreage has been computed
Butler county ranks fourth in swine
Shawnee county. IL is forecasHd. VIII De
first. judging from the number OF the
breed it feeds at the states expense
Wellington is drying up One by one
the jointists are taking the midnight
trains
The Wellington News dubs the missing
county attorney IS the county attorney at
large OF Kansas. and the dispensers as
the jointists in stew
1t was lo6 in the shade at Liberal one
day last week. Lioeral isn't 10 he beat.
even by the devil.
A Sunday school was organized in west
ern Kansas in the 'second week IN July:
an importune time. With the thermome-
ter at loo, hell itself can hold few terrors
for the youth
One train alone took go passengers to
Geuda Springs Sunday. The star that
Geuda is hitched 10 must have twin
screws
Ten Nights in Bar Room was given
at Arkansas City. Monday night Some
of the audience declare that ten are not
--alf as bad as one such night without
sleeping powders.
The sand OF the river at Arkansas City
is to be shipped out by the car load
sand il can muster up.
An Arkansas City man has been an in
suranee agent for ten weeks, and has had
two losses in that time. If his luck keeps
up, in a few years he won't have more
tuan enough to purchase an automobile
factory
An Arkansas City man returning from
Havana says a man with money can
make money there. With the addition OF
natural sense, he can do the same any
where.
Some Newton fellows tried to act peace
makers in an Arkansas City scrap. and
are now fully pursuaded that there are
some things more blessed than peace
makers
Next TO the crop reports, the most i'm
portant thing in western Kansas this
summer is the Dodge City fair. 1t hap
pens in August.
The new county attorney of Sumner, ].
A Burnette, is creating nearly as much
commotion as the exit of his predecessor.
The saloonkeepers have never had an OPP
portnuity TO study his character
Sunday baseball has been prohibited at
Caldwell. This means a decreased at
tendance at church; there's less cause for
repentance.
Broomcorn crops. declares the McPher-
son Republican, will be 40 per cent lower
than last year. And yet the crash of the
crisis is not discernible.
VIII Whites Jersey cow has given
birth TO another bull calf. And so the
gods avenge Buttons wrongs.
FL Dorado Republican: Referring to
General Miles riding ninety miles horse
back in one day, reminds us that "B"
company. Ninth Kansas cavalry. rode 40
miles in nineteen days. and none of them
changed horses either
Emporia Gazette: Emporia usually
comes in somewhere. Here is where it
gets in on the pope news. Last winter
an Emporia girl saw the pope at the
vatican. and came home and told her
friends she didn't think he possibly could
live through the summer, he looked so
feeble. Emporia girls are always right.
Ottawa Herald: AS soon as the To-
Deka Capital finds time TO announce that
IT has donated to the food sufferers its
bin for publishing the laws passed at
the last special session the Herald will be
glad to publish the news.
Atchison Globe: An Atchison bride
complains to her mother that her hus-
band wants her to sit in his lap every
evening, and that she doesn't like TO,
but he is offended when she refuses The
mother has taken until September l TO
look up authorities before rendering a de-
cisiOn