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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Usage Trust Lands.

We give below the text of the bill
introduced iuto Congress by Hon.
Thomas Ryan, for the relief of actual
settlers oh the Usage Indian trust an d
diminished reserve lands:
BE IL enacted, ETC., That all per-
sons who have entered upon and actu-
ally occupy lands within the limits of
the Usage Indian trdst and diminished
reserve in the State of Kansas may
pay one-fourth of the price of the
same in six months after this act takes
effect, aud the remainder in three
equal annual payments; but such per-
son shall be required to comply with
ali laws not in conflict herewith, here
tofore in force, in relation TO the set
| Element and purchase of said lands:
Procfded, That nothing herein shall
be construed to prevent any such per-
son from making payment at any ear
lier date Of the whole, or any portion
of the purchase money.
SEC. 2. Ii any such person shall
fail To pay any such miscellaneous
when the same shall be due aud pay
able, his or her claim shall therefore
be forfeited; and the lands upon
which such default shall be made
shall, under the direction OF the Sec
rotary of the Interior. be sold for cash
to the highest bidder, a; no. less than
one dollar and twenty-five cents per
acre, in quantities not exceeding enc
hundred and sixty acres to any one
individual.
SEC. 8. That hing in this act or
any other of the United States shall
be SO construed as to prevent said
lands from being faxed under the
laws of the State of Kansas, as other
land. are or may be taxed in said
State, from and after the first pay
ment is made Oh said lands according
to the provisions of this act
SEC. 4. That the Secretary OF the
Interior is hereby directed to offer for
sale, for twelve months after the pas
sage OF this act, all lauds unsold and
not actually occupied when this act
takes effect, within the limits of the
said Usage Indian trust aud dimin-
ished reserve lands within the State
of Kansas, and lying east OF the sixth
principal meridian, in quantities not
exceeding six hundred and forty acres
to any one individual, at one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre, cash,
TO persons residing upon and having
a fee simple title TO lands contiguous
thereto; and all of said unoccupicd
lands remaining unsold at the expira-
ten of said twelve months shall be
sold, under the direction of the Sec
| rotary of the Interior, for cash, to the
| highest bidder, at not less than one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,
in quantities not exceeding six hun
| dred and forty acres to any one per-
son.
SEC. 5. That the Secretary Of the
Interior shall make all rules and reg
| ulations necessary to carry into effect
The provisions of this act.
SEC. 6. The actual settlers upon
said lands, who have net made entry
thereof as required by law, or whose
entries have expired, may make entry
of the same within three months af-
ter the passage of this act.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Tho Situation.

Senator Plumb, in the course of a
private letter TO the editor of the To-
peka Commonwealth concerning the
difference existing between the 1tepub-
lican party aud the President concern
ing the latter's Southern policy, has
the following to say:
There is a fair prospect of har-
msny in the party-on the basis, part
~ of mutual concession and partly on
the basis of the admission Of the mis-
take made in believing that the South
would properly respond to concilitory
measures. Still nothing has been lost.
The party North will bestronger with
out the old alliances, and the party in
the South was already gone for prac-
teal purposes. have deemed it my
duty to work for harmony rather than
to widen the breach and if the party
go into the next Congress united it
can carry the country.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Alfred Gray.

If our Congressional delegation car
secure the appointment OF Hon. A.
fred Gray, Secretaryof the State Board
of Agriculture, as one of the CHIEF
commissioners to the Paris Exposition
its action will not only be approved
by all Kansas, but by the country gen.
orally. Mr.. Gray's agricultural re.
ports have given him national repu.
tation.-Emporia News.
If Alfred Gray wants TO go to Paris
he ought to be sent. There is not o
man in the United States better quail.
fed for this position. He would see
more while there, learn more that
would be of use to the people of this
country, and tell about what he saw
and learned in more graphic language,
than any man in the countrv.-Atcht'
son Champion.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
The President Versus Facts.

1t was the great merit of the act Of
March, 1869, that in strengthening the
public credit it removed all doubt a:
TO the purpose of the United States to
pay their bonded debt i'll coin.-Iht
Presidents Message.
Yes: bat "coin" don't mean gold
To show that gold alone was not in
tended by the act alluded to by the
President, it is only necessary TO quot,
IT,:
The faith of the United States is sol
EMMY pledged TO the payment in coin
or its equivalent, of all the obligations
of the United States, except in case:
where the law authorizing the issue o.
any such obligations has expressly pro
vided that the same may be paid il
lawful money or other currency thar
gold and silrer.
The fact is Wall street is beat at ev
cry turn-by the law, by the constitu
ton, and by the contract. The people
say so and So will Congress if Wall
street don't buy up the national as
sembly within sixty days. Senator
Ingalls,, of this State, was indeed wise
when, last week, he urged the Senate
to fix the matter before adjourning fol
the holidays.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Of His Foot.

The Rev. Talmage, great preacher
in New York, supported by the gold
gamblers and bondholders of that city
of Twseds, Connellys, Ralls, and so on,
last Sunday week raised his voice and
declared that it is ''rascally, thieving
business to pay the national debt i'll
silver, when it 10 promised to be paid
in gold" Mr.. Talmage is either igno-
rant or rogue. Nobody ever prom
iced TO pay the national debt in gold.
Neither the law, the bonds themselves
or any resolution Congress ever pass
ed, stipulates gold" but Oh the con-
trary every act, and every bond SAYS
coin. When the bonds were issued sill
yer was standard coin and legal
tender in any amount for all debts pri-
vate and public, and continued 10 be
so until Talmage's fellows in Wall
street, backed by London bankers, de-
menetized it-by trick. That piece
Of scoundrelism the new act proposes
to beat, and if Mr.. Talmage don't
want honest men to think him knave
or fool or both, he had better eat his
words, for silver viii be made money
again even though Wall street and all
her tools go down never TO be heard of
again. Stand from under.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
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Tia European Situation Interesting.

Since the surrender of Osman Pasha
the bris.les of the British lion have
fallen, and his fail is between his legs
II is very plain that he has q flea in
each ear. Ii can hardly be longer
doubted that an understanding has all
along prevailed between Austria, Rus
sia and Germany, and that Servia':
declaration Of war was based upon
that understanding. France can dc
nothing and England dare not. In
truth, Russia has never for moment
shown any uneasiness over England's
bullying attitude, but went right on
with her work Of crushing the Otto
man Empire, and the sick man will
have to give up the ghost. All things
point to such an understanding be-
tween the powers named, otherwise
England would not have allowed, MOI
weuld the Russian Empire dared such
war as has been carried on for the
past year. Ii such an understanding
or agreement does not exist, then
what does England's inactivity mean
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Was 1t a Duel I?

From the proceedings in Congress
last Friday il is evident that some
thing of a very serious character oc-
Cured between Senators Conkling
and Gordon. The whole matter was
amicably arranged in executive ses-
sion and all talk shut up. The die
patches the next day say:
at seems the official entry made in
the Senate proceedings regarding the
affair between Senators Conkling and
Gordon, is the first entry Of the kind
which has been made since like ac-
ton was taken in regard TO the cele'
brated affair between Senators Poiu'
dexter and Forsyth. which was SINH.
Iarly arranged by the agency of Henry
Clay over forty years ago.
Senators Conkling aud Gordon hay,
declined 10 converse on the subject
No communication, oral or scriptal
has passed between them. Certain
Senators Immediately after the occur
renee, began the business of adjust
pent, aud Senators Ilanlin and RAN
son were especially judicious in ar
ranging the matter. Senator'S Cor
don and Conkling were not in th,
Senate chamber when the settlement
was reported.
What was the character of tho mis-
| understanding !
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

After an all nights fight over the
matter in the United States Senate, OF
the night of November 31st, Kellogg
OF Louisiana, Republican, and Butler
of South Carolina, Democrat, were
sworn in Wichita Eagle.
The above occurred Oh the 1st OF
December And then we had an idea
that there are only thirty days in No.
vember. If any of the 'small fry" pa
pers had made such all error, it would
have been pardonable, but, coming
from such sheet as the immaculate
EAGLE, it should not be overlooked.
Hurley County Ne,cs.
If the 31st day of November amt
the 1st day of December, then, infer
entially, there is no such day: if no
such day, then 10 such disgraceful
incident. What more could the NerS
ask than to be assured that no such
thing ever occurred as the admission
of Butler.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Peter Cooper Sane By Turns.

Honest old Peter Cooper has beer
interviewed OH the silver question by
the New York Tribune, which report,
him thus: Gle was in favor of re-
menetizing silver, and paying off tht
debt of the Nation with it. Such al
act would cause bonds TO depreciatt
slightly. No injustice would be done
the bondholder, he thought. The
Government had already paid tht
bondholder interest equal the face Of
thc bonds. The reconciliation OF
silver-that is it's restoration to The
old basis-would swell the volume oil
currency, and thereby improve the
monetary condition of the country
while, at the same time, it would save
so much to the Treasury or the peo.
pie in paying the Nations debt. Lie
held, however, that the greenback
was superior TO gold or silver as s
circulating medium, and as the basis
of National finance
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
This Rio Gralde.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Represent.
alive Mills this morning received the
follow ing dispatch, dated last night
from Governor Hubbard, of Texas
''The sheriff of Ell Paso county tele-
graphs Tonight that our State troops
are surrounded, and will all be mas
sacred unless relief can be had az
once. Ask the Secretary of War to
please to order the troops in New
Mexico to make forced marches for
their relief. They are American citi-
zens. Answer"
Representative Mills was at the War
Department this morning, and by the
authority of the Secretary of War, re-
piled to Governor Hubbard as fol-
lows
"Troops are now moving under or
ders from here, with all possible
speed, from Forts Bayard, Stanton
Davis and Santa Fe. Relief must
soon be had.'
The War Department has received
information that the local difficulties
in FL Paso county, Texas, which
grew out of the right to certain salt
mines, has assumed quite threatening
aspects. The United States and State
militia companies have been surround
ed, aud unless soon relieved will fare
badly. The dispatch from Governor
Hubbard, asking assistance from the
President, war referred to the Secre-
tary of War, and by him to General
Sherman, who telegraphed General
Sheridan to send all the troops he can.
The latter replied this morning that
no had ordered all the available troops
to the scene of the difficulty. 1t is
thought the troops from Fort Stanton
have already reached FL Paso, and
will probably be able to relieve the
military surrounded by the mob.
Troops from Fort Bayard will no
doubt reach San Elizaro tomorrow,
and with those from Fort Stanton
will be sufficient to keep the peace.
The affair is purely local, and no seri-
Gus complications are anticipated.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana,
was born in Vermont, in 1880. He re-
moved to Illinois in 1913, where he
completed his education and was adj
mitted TO the bar in 1854. In 1860 he
was presidential elector for Illinois.
lie was appointed Chief Justice of
Nebraska in 1861, by President Lin
coin; served during the war as colonel
and brigadier general of cavalry; was
appointed collector of the port of New
Oaleans by Mr.. Lincoln; was elected
United States Senator from Louisiana
and afterwards governor of that State;
and a second time elected United States
Senator.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
The Republic Of FIsncs.

France still lives as republic. Mar
shat MacMahon backed down and or
ganizea a cabinc, in accordance with
the demands of the nation, as evinced
In the late elections. The Bonapart-
quiet and evidently beaten very badly.
MscMahon is an enlightened ruler, but
in no particular Gtied as an executive
of a renublic
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
That Dollar.

The West is solid-very solid-on
the silver question; it will remain so
until the silver question is decided, as
the West desires it shall be decided.
Every State, every Congressional dis
trict, every county, every township,
every school district is of the same
way of thinking OH the question.
Every Congressman from the West
must support it, or prepare to retire
to private life. There will be no
place for anti-silver men in the next
Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
A Rebel Raid on the Treasury.

A special dispatch to the New York
9th, says the Democracy, while re-
naming on the verge of controlling
the Government, and being yet pow
erless to accomplish their purposes, ARE
attempting indirectly to smooth the
way for the payment of large class
of so-called rebel claims. Whatever
is done in this behalf must be insidi-
Gus and concealed in its character, SO
as not to attract attention and arouse
opposition. The court of claims has
come to be looked upon by some claim
ants as convenient means of securing
the payment of bad claims, not be-
cause the court is any way in fault,
but because the evidence which by law
| is the guide of the courts action, can
| be manipulated so as TO show facts
very different from what is real. 1t is
alleged that many cases have been
passed through the court already, in
| which claims have been allowed to
persons VIGOROUSLY connected with
the rebellion, who yet appear on the
records of the court and in the proof
presented, to have been loyal citizens.
Ii loyalty can be proved before that
court, when no loyalty existed, then
that is a convenient tribunal to which
disloyal claimants may go. AT the
present time there are slumbering in
the quartermaster's department claims
against the government amounting TO
millions of dollars for property de-
stroyed or stores taken, which claims
have been disallowed in the depart
ment, for want of proof of the claim
ants loyalty. There has been some
discussion about remoAihg all these
claims from the department, and yes
terday Mr.. Williams, of West Virgin
ia, offered resolution, which looks, it
is believed, to their transference to the
cobrt of claims. This resolution re-
quires that the portion of the Presi-
dents message, and the report of the
Secretary of War, referring to the
claims arising under the act Of July
4, 1864, and now pending in the offices
of the commissary and quartermaster
generals, be REFER ed TO special COM
mittee, to be charged with consider
ing what tribunal, now existing or to
created, these claims should be refer
red to. The resolution was not con-
sidered, but it is likely that if it
should pass, the special committee
would be so constructed as to report
a scheme very favorable to the pay
ment of the suspended claims. 1t is
almost certain that before the end of
the session, the southern Democrats
will make a united movement to Sc
cure the payment of large volume of
claims made by people who could lay
no claim to loyalty during the war.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Administrators Sale.

Notice is hereby given that the underslg ned
administrator OF the estate of William John
son, deceased, will offer for sale at public auc
ton, at the late residence Of William John
son, deceased, in Rockford township, Sc dg
wick county. Kansas, on the 10Th day OF De.
csInber, A. ID. 1877, commencing at 10 o. clock
a. M, the following personal property be-
longing to said estate:
Three Head of Horses, Head of Cattle
AZ Head Of Hogs, Sows and Pigs, Lumber
Wagon, Buckeye Mower. Lot of Corn in
Crib, / Lot of Corn in Field, 9 Stacks of Oats,
100 bushels of Wheat in Bin, so acres of grow
ing Wheat, also q large number of farming
utensils and other articles too numerous to
mention.
TERMS OF SALE.
Said property will be sold on q CREDIT OF
NINE MONTHS on all sums over $500. the
purchaser giving note with one or more ap
proved surities for the same.
ii. G. TUCKER,
Administrator of the estate Of William
johnson, deceased.
Fl Paso, Kansas, Dec. 10, 1877. sgt
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Paris Exposition.

Gov. Mccormick, of Arizona. has
been nominated aud confirmed as Com
missioner General 10 represent the Uni-
ted States at the Paris International
Exposition.
Alfred Gray, of this State, should be
appointed as one of the commission
ers at large. lie is more entitled to
the position than any man that We
know, and it would be TO bad thing
for Kansas
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

The Matthews silver resolutions will
force the square issue whether our
bonds are payable in old silver dollars.
The people want TO know who Of the
Congressman are on their side. They
owe debt of gratitude to Senator
Matthews for his able presentation of
their case, and they will bury Con-
gresham or President that opposes it
so deep that arms of resurrection will
never reach them.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
NOTICE.
sharif's sala.


District court 18th judicial district, setl-y7ick
county, Kansas.
A. d. Sims,
+ vs..
a. ID Wheeler, Helen 4.
Savings Bank.
BY virtue Of an order OF sale issued out Of the
district court of the l3th Judicial strict sitting
in and for sedgwick county, Kansas wherein
\. u. Sims is plaintiff and y ID. Wheeler Hell
len 4. Wheeler end Wichita Savings Bank are
defendants, will on
Saturday, he 5ia day Of JdHaary Is7s.
Between the hours OF : and 4 O'Clock D. m,
Ut the courthouse door, being at the front
of the building known az Eagle block on
Douglas Avenue, in the city of Wichita, Kan
sas, offer for sale public auctionto the highest
bidder Ter cash in hand, all the right tifle iii
interest Ofthe defendants, 4. D. Wheeler Hell
len A. Wheeler and the Wichita Savings Bauk
in and to the following described real properly,
situated in the county Of sedgwick state 81 Is an
sas, to wit:
Lots number f0rty-0ne [iil and foriv-.hree
(i3l, on Market street in Grifenstein's addition
10 the City of Wichita.
Said real property is levied upon As the prop
erty of defendants A. D. Wheeler, HELEN 4
Will be sold to satisfy said order OF sale
Sherln's Office, Wichita. December >. ISL
III. W. DUNNING,
Sheriff sedgwick County, kansas
sluss & ilatton, Plaintiff s Attorneys. 81
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

Now comes the Rev. Dewitt Tai
mage and calls it s'rascally, thieving
business TO pay the national debt in
silver, when it is promised to pay in
gold" Where did the reverend d.
vine read gold? The bonds we pro-
pose to pay read payable ''in conn.,
The public are not tools or knaves, and
Dewitt would do well to let finance
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

The Lawrence Standard, speaking
OF tho vote Of Senators Ingalls, and
Plumb for the silver bill, saws: "This
makes the Kansat delegation unit in
favor Of restoring silver coinage to
the currency" There has never been
amy doubt about the position of our
Senators on this question. They have
been outspoken in favor Of the re-
monetization of silver, from the first.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

The seating of Kellogg was as tho
bitter waters of Marah to the Demo.
Gratis, but the report that Packard i:
to be made collector of New Orleans
is as gall and NORWOOD double dis
titled. Governor Packard has been
offered other positions but refuses
any that will compel him to leave
Louisiana. There is more bulldog
grit in Packard to the square inch
than in any man in poiitics-and the
future will demonstrate it.--KaRsas
CifH Journal
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

Yesterday was not a bad day for
hogs in Chicago. The largest number
of these animals that had ever been
led to slaughter i'll any one day pre-
viously in this city was on November
10, 1874, when something more than
$4,000 marched to the sacrifice, but
yesterday considerably more than 81
900 hogs were received.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Russia's Great Victory.

According to official returns, Rus.
sian losses in the fight preceding the
surrender of Plevna, were twelve off.
GERS. 1872 men killed, and forty-fivs of
ficers and 1907 men wounded. The
Turks lost 40, 900 killed, wounded aud
prisoners, including ten pashas, lbs
staff officers, quo officers, $4,000 in
fantry and 1900 cavalry. Seventy
seven cannons were captured. The
first batch of prisoners, number 10000
started for Bucharest on the 18th in
slant.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Auditors Office.

The State Auditor, Mr.. Bonebrake,
has been at work making caculations
which are of interest. lie says that
the increase in population since 1871
in the State is 79 per cent; in taxable
property 40 per cent, and State taxa
ton per capita has decreased 81 per
cent.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

Advices from San Domingo to No
vember 10Th, nit, report distressing
condition of affairs. The revolution
has now spread all over the ccuntry
Carlos Baez, brother of the President
and Governor of ANA, was killed by
insurgents of his own house. The
San Domingo City prisons are crowd
ed. Many prisoners have been exc,
cuted in the interior, among them
General Metencian. The greatest ex.
element prevails. Baez's fall seems
inevitable.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20

The people in the West were never
more united on any single question
than on the question of making the
silver dollar good enough to pay debts
to the rich bondholder as well as the
dsy-laborer. President and Senator,
stand from under, there is business
ahead. and no boys work.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-20
Dissolution Notice.

The co-partnership heretofore existing between
ID u Emmert and John p HOvey, under the dFIn
name name of Emmert & Hoyey. il this day dis
solved br mutual consent, John p. Honey hssi ng
sold his interest TO Oscar ID. kiri. Unpaid in
paid Indebtedness incurred by the firm Of En-
inert & Hoyey, will be settled at the Office of En-
inert & Kirk, who are authorized to coiec. all
ID. b EMMERr.
JOHN. r. HONEY.
Wichita, Nov. 23d, 1877. SIS