The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-24

up quick it VIII lose the aforesaid shops.
Wichita is getting ready 10 put up. y
sucker is born every minute.
Cheney Sentinel: When Cheney gets
her interurban line. those Wichitauks,
who want to do business here. can do so
and keep house at the other end. Wiob
tia abounds with residence sites. which,
with the money made in business at Chen
ey could be made beautiful and home
like.
Ed Dorado Republican: Wichita viii
sell $3.50 buttons at one dollar each, the
money TO be used TO sink an oil well.
Doubtless a highball goes with each but
ton.
Newton Journal: Wonder if Mr. Urban.
of Wichita, is a cousin of InterUrban, of
Hutchinson.
Eldorado Republican: The hack from
the Missouri Pacific IL o'clock train from
Wichita was full and a drummer. who
was also full, had to climb UP with the
driver, Greedy. Noticing basket by his
side, he said ii looked like something to
eat, so he raYnmed his hand in under the
paper and pulled out what he thought was
a doughnYt. After puttingSt In his mouth
he said it was So full of booze that he
did not know what 1t was. The driver
said the basket contained Wichita mush-
rooms. But a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet. -
Kansas City Journal: Discussing the
proposed amendment to the constitution
through which the state printer will be-
come an elective officer, the Wichita Eagle
SAYS il can do the state printing for half
what it costs now, and for one-third Of
what it viii cost under the proposed sys-
TEN. However. it is remembered that the
Eagle once thought that the country
could DO made prosperous by the adoption
of free silver-that it has signs and
lunches and omens which are not always
reliable.
Lawrence Gazette: The city council of
Wichita has just passed an ordinance pro-
hibiting people from riding bicycles on
the sidewalks. Wichita may be little
SLOW, Dul eNeAluSiiiy SiiS 0i'4'NS 60 49,
destination
Topeka Journal: a sleepy-headed
Sedgwick county man has planted a dog
wood tree so that its bark will wake him
up mornings.
Topeka Capital: 4 wellington man who
was a delegate to the late Democratic
of his watch and pocketbook containing
$50. From this it appears that the price
in Kansas has been greatly overestimat-
ed.
Anthony Daily Bulletin: Wichita is
the button town of Kansas. Every time
they want to secure. a new enterprise
they start out selling buttons at so much
per. 1t is an-unwritten Jaw that every
body must buy a, button. The latest thing
in that line is Il buxton to secure gas for
the town. And the cry. Will soon be-
please buy a button. Button. Button,
whose got the;rblftton."1 Perhaps We
ought not TO butt in. :-a
FL Dorado Republican,: Those who at
tended the Pars.fal concert at Wichita I
Were delighted with the musical treat. |
DR.. Damrosch. his orchestra and soIoists |
are artists of the highest type and carry
the audience with them in their rendi- /
ton of the beautiful and harmonious !
music of Wagner's great drama Mr.. !
Toler is certainly to be congratulated /
for the feast he gave the people of |
Wichita and surrounding towns, although |
= 10 Chi inv
metal as a result.
Sterling Journal: The old rivalry be- |
tween Hutchinson and Wichita is begin |
ming TO sizzle again. Hutchinson is drill |
ling for gas and oil; Wichita is drilling |
for salt And now, to cap the whole bust |
ness. a Hutchinson crowd is trying TO /
locate a moonshine still and its product. |
said to have been buried within the pres |
ent city limits some % years ago.
Sterling Journal: Wichita proposed to |
drop 81. coo into a little holt in the ground 1
which it is hoped Will be oiled from the /
bottom end-if the people of the town
viii donate the money for buttons at 81
per which includes one dollars worth of
stock in the hole.
Topeka Herald II the editorials in the
Wichita Eagle concerning Kansas City
get much more violent Colonel Murdoch
Will wake up some fine morning and
discover that ais educational journal has
been barred from the mails.
Kansas City World: II is predicted
that Mr. Golightly. who was married AT
Wichita recently, viii have to moderate
his gait a little if he wants to keep in
good standing at home
Anthony Bulletin: We have row added
IN ice plant. packing house. a gas
well. q foundry. and a street railway
10 the industries Of Anthony. Some may
say that they have not seen these things.
as yet. but that doesn't matter. Just
think you have them and you've got
them Look al w,chita
Topeka Journal: \ colored Wichita
has removed has c0Tns from
under his laGd.ady's table. but Re left
his board bili as a consolation prize
Cheney Sentinel; n urging al women
to wear poke bonnets OF hats the E.ldor-
ado Republican declares that even .
Wichita girl looks well IN a sun-banne,-'
Bent Murdoch attended the recen, Re
when The Salvation army vas on parade
Frank jarreII's Trim.