The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-20
Scandals on
Peerless Princess

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Kansas City Star Wichita may not be
/ able to get Just the kind of freight rates
| it wants. but it feels more kindly toward
the railroads. since George Gould named
his private car Wichita
Hutchinson Bee: The Wichita hotels
should have one kind word from Hutchin-
son, for they use to much salt in every
thing. The rest of the town is decidedly
| fresh
Anthony Republican: There was a light
musical program: The Grassland fiend
of this paper only heard two bands. one
from Marion and one from Wichita. The
two together equaled about half OF the
Anthony band, but could not touch it for
music One must go away from home
and hear other bands 10 really appreciate
the magnificent organization that is the
pride OF and contributes so much to the
pleasure of the whole town.
Hutchinson Bee: When the Marion
band arrived at Wichita it was something
like the missionaries going to convert the
heather. From the good Sunday school
town of Marion to the scene of the wild
revelries of the Soiled Princess is a far
cry. When the band struck up Onward
Christian Soldier" the Wichitaans asked
if that was Hiawatha.
Hutchinson News: A Wichita judge has
ruled against the plain people by deciding
that diamond rings are not subject TO ex-
emption as a wearing apparel.
Hutchinson Bee: a man walking on the
business street in Wichita yesterday said:
This town seems to have lots of under
taking establishments" And he had
overlooked the Eagle office. where the
corpse of the machine lay in state-a very
bad state of decomposition.
Ed Howe. in Atchison Globe: We like
Vic Murdoch, but old Marsh. his father.
suits Us pretty well. too, Vic Murdock
and Dave Leahy are both in Washington,
but the Wichita Eagle is still an unusual
paper
Leavenworth Times: Wichita will hard
" be able to get another convention soon.
There are several reasons why. In the
first place the convention hall is a fire
trap Then Wichita takes advantage
of having the convention and shoves for
ward too many candidates. The Eagle
which has always stood for the right. has
lost its nerpe since it got into politics for
one OF the family
lola Register: 1t is charged by an Ar
kansas City paper that one of the Wichita
men who eIectioneered for Harbaugh for
railroad commissioner had been eating on /
ions. He made up to the Cowley county
crowd but got never a vote.
Kansas City World: The people in re-
motekections who thought last week that (.
a regular old-fashioned dust Storm was /
prevailing were simply mistaken. It was !
that r epublican state convention at I
Wichita. /
Kansas City Journal: a gentleman al (
Wichita. husband Of less than a year. /
has gone into court with suit for d. {
vorce. alleging that his wife is too swift .
for his own steady gait. He says in his +
petltlon mat ne Sl1pEileu heT WIN money
enough for all reasonable expenses. but /
that she ran large bills at the stores for
fine wearing apparel without his consent, +
and that she borrowed s1.-p0 from the
local banks without his knowledge to go +
travelling. He says he had 20 pay the
81 POO to keep scandal from touching tho
family name. yet he intin1ates that he
could have forgiven al this but for
falsehood she told him. one day she came
To him breathlessy and said her parents
back in Pennsylvania were very sick. re
sent her home 10 comfort the old people
only TO find out later that they were not
sick at all and that she had been having
a gay time.