The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
Scandals on
Peerless Princess

/ Peerless Princess
Topeka Journal: Gas buttons can be
seen all over Wichita. Gas in every nook
and corner is nothing new down there.
Wichita Eagle: The city should provide
places TO scratch matches.
Topeka Herald: What's the matter with
the conventional, classic and ever-pres-
ent place upon which one is supposed TO
scratch matches:
FL Dorado Republicans: Wichita can not
scratch a match on the seat of its pants
rot because il is build that way-but
because it has, in its sweet. young life.
absorbed so much dust of the desert.
so much alkali or gyp water in its in
wards that no amount of scratching viii
produce the necessary friction to ignite
the match. But then there are recon-
penses. That windy metropolis of dust
and gyp requires no grave yard A few
years of flooding its lower levels with its
peculiar kind of gyp water which is too
thick for irrigating and not thick enough
10 plow, so impregnates its system that
the mummified remains of a gone hence
citizen is put out on the desert without
molestation by bird or beast, by time
eternity, Gabriels horn the smell OF
birthstone. Wichita has no match Of its
own to scratch; and when it borrows one
from its neighbor. it is given to scratch
ing it on the ordinary, natural and prop
er place-the only place recognized by po-
To- f,,1 y,la tO tah
of other people, it should not kick
about it.
Kingman Journal: There are two things
the Wichitalkers are everlastinsly proud
Of: the ancient and dilapidated pile of
scrap iron bridging the Arkansas river
on Douglas avenue, and that gloomy.
overgrown cowshed they dignity with the
name of auditorium And for down
right civic pride they are just a notch
ahead of both the Coffey villains and the
Pittsburglars.
Caldwell Advance: The invitation to
wellington to dig up a $4,000 bonus for
the Interlrban Electric railway, shows
why the first talk was so strong for Dali |
ton If Wellington will dig up bonus
for us of half that sum We'll start an au- ,
tonobile livery there-which will do them
Just as much good
Atchison Globe: The telegraph story
that a Wichita school teacher owns a
piece of radium proves. beyond all ar
gument that the statement that radium !
is of inestimable value, is without foun- |
dation.
Topeka Capital: The Wichita Eagle tells I
story of negro woman in that town I
who has just died at the ripe age of 125 I
years, having been born in 1l79 in Mary
land. \ strange and incredible feature of
the story is the Eagles statement that !
"she never saw George Washington"
Such a confession violating all, the sacred |
traditions and precedents seems TO mark /
the story as Wichita pipe dream.
Topeka Herald: Friends university at /
Wichita has cut OUT football on the |
ground that it takes too much Of a stud !
ent players time. Emporia college is /
said TO be contemplating a similar move. !
Kansas City Star At the dinner Of the /
Kansas colony in Washington this week !
Representative Murdock said the provi- (
sion for taking care Of the three kinds Of 4
Kansans IS excellent Some want jobs. /
and Tom Ryan can take care of them;
others want postoffices and Joe Bristow /
can take care of them: the rest want !
of them.
Ell Dorado Republican: Cousin Bill /
Ijams, formerly OF Marietta. Ohio but for !
many years a resident of Indianapolis. /
Indiana presided AZ the meeting in Chi /
cago of the American Trotting Associa- I
ton. which decided that Cresceus did not {
trot a mile in :597. at Wichita as claimed !
last fall. The Wichita Eagle should have 1
a better stand-in with its Cousin Bill"
The Eagle man should jack him up for |
going back on his kin.
FL Dorado Republican: The Wichita |
Commercial club. when not playing high /
five or stud poker. Is piping gas of build
ing interurban railways into that town. \ I
new gas piping company has been char
tered and this time the gas has got TO /
come
Lawrence Gazette: The Wichita Eagle /
claims that its town has from 1000 20 I
so. coo more people than it had four years 4
ago That was written and published be-
fore the decision was made barring
Cresceus from his Wichita record.
Wichita feels quite little smaller since |
then.
Clearwater Echo: Wichita thinks she /
is up-to-date now. that she has had Red
ium within her limits for a few days.
They had a piece so small that you could 1
not see it with the naked eye, yet il was
worth $3.50 Wonderful amt it.
FL Dorado Republican: An '-artist"
struck Wichita town herd the first Of the
week. and told the young man in charge
that he would give him s5.69 for the priv
ilege Of painting II. This was accepted
and when the COWS got home that even
ing each one bore the legend very aTtis
tically painted or its broad side: Buy
Pillgarlick's s Breakfast Food.
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Bunch Of Scotch Stories.
(Frorn Geikie's Scottish REM iniscences')