The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-22
ALONG the KANSAS NILE.

Paint is a sure sign of prosperity. Red
paint applied to the town is in the same
class.
Black diptheria has nearly wiped out a
family near Emporia- Seven children have
died.
David Evans. of Lawrence, is dead. He
was a resident of that city for forty
years.
Ice comes higher at Topeka this year
but If you drink tit warm there will
be less foam.
The drill has reached depth of 12s5
feet at Arkansas City. LOO feet is the
limit per hole.
The Baker girls beat the Ottawa girls
in basket ball. The victory is laid 10 the
Methodist coaching.
The Topeka Capital has started another
machine fight" fairy tale. News must
be scarce In that dry town.
Every town in Kansas that has a band
should have Sunday concerts Nothing is
more elevating than good sacred music.
Kingman county has ghouls. but they're
of the ancient order. Recently they rob
bed the bones OF a grave, many years old.
The boy with the bean-shooter has al
ready commenced his depredations. a lit
tie girl at Wellington was hit in the
head.
A trunk line of telephones is to be built
in the northern part of the state. Cen
trsl viii have 10000 people TO keep wait
ing then.
Those soldiers at Leavenworth are not
holding up the honor OF the army very
we'll. One tried TO burn the cavalry barn
the other day.
A Republican at Concordia is contest
ing the Populist mayor. Some people will
take a great deal OF pains TO be martyrs
so you'll find.
The state employment agent estimates
that 1000 harvest hands will have 20 be
imported this season. With GVloeel Blaine
yet TO hear from.
The Hutchinson Bee says that the Off
GERS think that a woman, who claims
Pratt as her home. must be crazy. Is
that slam at Pratt?
A refrigerator thief such as is operat-
ing In Hutchinson must have a good deal
Of nerve. Imagine putting your hand in
to a refrigerator onto cold potatoes
The Kansas City-Leavenworth electric
line has failed to file it's annual report.
and the state railway assessors are
threatening 10 sne 1t and preparing a suit
at the same time 10 collect the fine
Emporia Gazette: No matter what his
station in life may be. a man is never
backward about telling IL ne has slept
in the stable and worked on a farm for
SIS a month and board, but a woman
would sooner have the fact discovered
that she had a hole in the toe 81 her
stocking than that she had worked out
Topeka Capital. Col. Ike Busby. the
Typographical tourist. draws n pension u
IS a month. He used TO get 81. but Hoks
Smith cut him down. Busby was IN the
First Kansas 7 was earning more than
a hundred dollars 4 month. working for
old John Speer, in Lawrence. when I en-
listed as a private az 81 n month, says /
Rusby yet once "a a while hear from !
some damned skunk who doesn't believe /
IN pensions. who wants 20 know u the
government didn't pay me for al I dc !
y hile I was IN the service.
ClaHin Clarion. Another Claain young /
man has had the wet blanket thrown /
around his matrimonial ambitions. and = |
happened this way As be vas going 1
home one night . woman lodged cut be
tween two buildings and grabbing him D. /
the coat collar. said j thought al M i
while that you were spending your even
ings lounging around these Joints. ard i
now I've caught you-T know IL When
she discovered her mistake. she rneekly
sp0logized by Fernsrkins, or. thought
you were ray husband. The voUaE man
has taken q pledge % remain IN h!s single
blessedne.s and i Is 20 Be hoped that this
female Will take a pledge tbs, n future
she viii spend her evenings az hone and
KEEP the handle OF her hssd-qiece out q
other peoples Affairs.
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