The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-14
KANSAS CURRENTS

The talk for Dick Blue for pension
commissioner is strong. Colonel Blue al
| ways was a forceful speaker.
| An old horse stepped on a weak plat
form covering a well at Conway Springs
| Wednesday and later was pulled out OF
six feet of mud X seems that the report
that Conway Springs is putting every
| thing she has in wells is not without
! foundation
Ed Howe assaults the sunfower. The
next thing, he will be finding fault with
/ the Japs.
| Bookwalter. of the Halstead Independ-
| eDt, had two fingers mashed in a job
/ pfess this week. Bookwalter has only
/ been in the business twenty years.
| Senator FindlsC has applied to the war
department fo: two cannons- Now, let
the chigger, chintz bug and cInder beetle
beware.
Last night John Junkin heaved one last
great sigh. AS secretary of the associ-
alton. he got the editors started toward
St. Louis.
Sterling's band that goes to ST. Louis
today with the editors is reinforced by
eight musicians from Lindsborg and Nc
Pherson.
The weather signals are given by a
steam whistle at Topeka, and Sterling
thinks that it is a pretty good scheme for
all country towns ard will probably take
il up.
The stockmen of Lyons county are urg
ing George Plumb, of Emporia. 70 run
for the legislature. He will meet with
his friends this afternoon and decide the
matter.
The Advance reports that there's moth
ing doing in/Boyville at the time Of going
to press but says. however. that the
boys are out with air guns.
The FIatt-Kyte case was up before
Justice at Salina. Thursday. Being
scrap over a small sum Of money. both
gentlemen are likely to ind il az dead a
weight as Professor Langley's aero
plane.
4 section of school land in Ford county.
last week brought $500. It isn't only the
rivers that are booming in the short grass
country.
Two men at Ashland voluntarily put VI
two and one dollar respectively for the
Fourth OF July celebration. a boy could
celebrate three Fourths with such an
amount
Some one has raised the question as TO
where Hoch is going 70 celebrate the
Fourth They seem % have forgotten
that he shot OF all his hre-crackerz early
in March.
-Four horse traders forced q boy IN Har-
vey county TO give up a fine animal for
stack % skin and bones. and in Jess time
than II takes 20 tell the average Rus
sian name. they were surrounded ~ two
dozen armed farmers. They viii Srpba-
bly, keep better posted or the stssdlng q I
the =. II. T. As after this
Openings are being given az Hntchinson /.
for REX buildings sam Forslss's rev
office structure VIII furnish the occasion +
for the hczors this afternoon.
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MIX sutton sid "a Mz6ison ~s.e law
partners at Dodge city NsdLscn f5o~ .
sudrel, vas Invited To deliver Decorz-
ton dsy address al Stafford. arr scceSf-
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