The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-07
Some lDfIue1s@s''
in Kansas

Conway Springs Star: A measurement
OF the Wichita race track having been
MADE. proves it 10 be one foot more than
mile.
Sedgwick Paragraph: From latest re-
turns it appears that the famous y. X.
{. G. railroad has gone to join Ceyes' in
/ terurban.
Ell Dorado Republican: The parties who
took the nozzle off my hose Hailowe en-
will save trouble by returning the same
at once. o. R. Cline.
Fort Scott Monitor: The time has now
arrived when the builders OF good roads
can sit around and talk their project
without fear of a demand being made for
action.
grandson of General Grant says the Uni
ted States should lick Canada and then
annex it. Mr.. Sartoris probably voices
the sentiment of good many people
besides himself and the Wichita Eagle.
Leavenworth Times: 1t took over one
hundred police to keep order in Topeka.
Halloween night. and even then there
was a great amount of disturbance. To-
peka is fast crowding Kansas City for
being the wickedest town on earth.
that Kansas more than comes up to his
most extravagant expectations. II never
expected to live to see the day" he says,
when money would be freely lent at
per cent, or that ordinary farming land
would bring So an acre
Wellington News: If every time man
sends away from home for an article,
his neighbor would buy the same mer-
chandise at home and careful account
kept, at the end of a year the man who
bought at home would be found to have
much the best of it.
Topeka Herald: The Eagle speaks of it
as "Wichita's coal problem Wichita is
trying to hog matters. The coal prob
lem is no more the property of Wichita
than it is Of all other Kansans, save
those few unregenerate deceased Jay
hawkers who have gone TO the super
heated hence where the coal famine COM
eth not.
Lawrence Gazette: a Philadelphia paper
publishes long editorial with the title,
"A Thousand Wives Wanted" The ed
itorial says they are wanted in Kansas,
but in justice to Kansas men it ought
to be understood that one man doesn't
want all of them. Kansas young men
are wise, but there are no Solomons
among them.
Topeka Capital: Kansas is the greatest
Roosevelt state in the union. Now comes
J. r. Swisher. of Saline county, who re-
ports the birth of the twentieth child al
his home-eight by his first wife and
twelve by his second. All the children,
eleven boys and nine girls were born in
Kansas. and all are now alive and we'll
Wonderful year for crops in Kansas.
Burns Citizen: A young man looking
for job yesterday morning said it was
the first time in four years that he did
not have any work. But he was "hnan-
cially embarrassed" AS he had been
out Of a job only three days. it is evil
dent that he had not saved any of his
earnings. Say boys. if you want to
make any kind Of success, you'll have TO
learn to save now.
. Arkansas City Traveller: II Ed Hoch
does run for governor he will find it a
hard proposition to live down that white
hen story which he recently started in
his paper. AS he tells it, the hen is II
years old and was originally as black
as coal. without a white feather upon
her. Gradually she began to change.
every year increasing the proportion of
white. Now the feathers are almost all
white, not more than half dozen black
feathers remaining. She is beautiful
fowl and as lively as a spring chicken.