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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
The Nenosha telegraph
KENOSHA, WIS, JULY Is, 1878.

The Turkish territory in Asia, over
which ENGLAND and Turkey will rule
as one power" is 66O,87O square miles
in extent, and contains a population Of
10000, 900. OF the inhabitants 10, 000,-
600 are Turks, 100000 Armenians,
and the rest Greeks, Jews, Tartars,
Arabs, Syrians, Kurds and Turcomans.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18

The American Consul at Tahiti, Mr..
Atwater, intends to make that place his
residence for life. His inducement
thereto is his marriage to the native
Princess Moetia, member of the royal
family.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18

was merely necessary to introduce into
the furnace greater quantity of air in
a given time than at the sea level, and
the simple operation of opening the
hampers wider accomplished this result.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18

will be as easy and as cheap to prose-
cute railway corporation in the United
States as it now is in England!
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
History and Fa cts.

"Murdock, of tile Wichita EAGLE
once hid in a well; it happened in
Lawrence when a gentleman by the
name of Quantrell was rambling
around the city. Murdoch had cash
in his pocket to buy printing office;
he escaped, the money was saved and
the Chronicle was started at Burlin-
game. "-Repubitcan-D Democrat, Coaa-
cal Grore.
Our life has been a series of illus
trations of the truthfullness of that
consoling adage, rr'Discretion is the
better part of valor ~ Our motto
ever has been:
"He that fights aad runs away,
VIII live to fight another day y
and what we lack in fighting the zone
day" we make up in running away,
and if we live until the fight of San
other day" run away some more.
That's not only the way we saved our
bacon in the Quantrell muss, but the
way we saved ourself aud a whole
battalion of Kansas men whom we
commanded when pressed too closely
by the "Johnnies," under Pap Price
and General Shelby, in the border
raid. And we would have saved our
sword-it was a beauty-that same
night, too, if some of the boys belong
ing to company "a" of Burlingame,
hadn't hooked it and pawned it for
whisky.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
For the EAGLE.
The Fuel Question.

ED. EAGLE Can some of your
readers tell US the relative value of
Usage coal and Indian corn as fuel /?
The average price for the coal this
winter at the car has been about Sc. 80
per ton of 1000 pounds. This amount
of money would buy of corn, at TWEEN
ty cents per bushel. thirty-two and
one-half bushels, or 1915 pounds, or
thirteen per cent. more iii weight than
the ton of coal. Now. if the consumer
be a farmer and lives twelve or fifteen
miles from Wichita, he finds il good
days hauling for himself and team to
deliver in town the thirty-two and
half bushels of corn and bring home
the ton of coal. Besides, the money
which buys the coal goes right out of
the country impoverishing the circu-
lation that much and the corn put up
on the market adds to an already over
supply. This over supply has done its
share towards causing thousands of
bushels of corn to sell as low, or even
lower than sixteen cents per bushel
on the streets during the last three
have burned corn some
and find that half dozen good solid
ears, put in when the fire is low, soon
makes hot stove, and by shutting off |
the draft some the heat is lasting. !
How much the same number of |
pounds of coal will beat it is a ques-
ton of some interest to the Sedgwick
farmer. | know there exists
among US some sentiment against
burning what is good for food, but
'uch things are undoubtedly given us
o add 10 our comfort and enjoyment
n this world, and our sojourn would
,e joyless and comfortless indeed
without fire to cook our victuals and
o warm us in winter. There certain
Y can be no great sin in studying
low to make the most of what provi-
lence has given US. Yours,
FARMER K. ,
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
The Eastern War.

The eastern war seems practically
at an end. Russia has encompassed
all she desired, even to the occupation
of Constautinople. From the die
patches it seems that Turkey is dis.
posed TO place her fortunes in the
hands of her late enemy, expecting
more Cancellation and better terms
than from the other powers. When
Johnny Bull learned, last week, of the
investment of Constantinople he more
than rendered himself ridiculous. No
Government could have roared more
Justify, threatened more loudly aud
done less. Austria don't know what
10 do. Bismarck says Germany will
do nothing until a new Pope is elect
ed. A conference of powers is to be
held, but Russia has notified all hands
that, having mastered the situation.
she don't propose to be coerced into
any distasteful measures by England 6
bragadocia. Ii is stated that Russia
has captured one hundred aud twenty
thousand Turks, including twenty
pashas, and one thousand cannons
during the war. She is mistress now
of the Dardanells, the Bosphorus and
the Black Sea. The death of the Pope
unjointed things considerably.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Secrstury Sherman on Kansas.

A Washington dispatch says when
John Francis, the treasurer of Kansas,
came to Secretary Sherman to pur-
chase S46S,00 of the new four per
cents, or account of the State, Sher-
man said humorously: "Yes, think
it's time for western people to take
hold of this loan, as you have about
ruined our market in the east by the
silver agitation" Now, we advise
John TO keep his shirt on. The west
is the hope of this country. The
south is gone up, viewed in every pos
sible aspect, and will not be what she
ought TO be in the next hundred years.
The east is irrevocably in the hands
of that same monopoly interest that
has so successfully bound the Secreta-
ry hand and foot and blinded him
with gold dust. The west wants SUIT
fcient currency TO transact her ordi-
nary business, but whether she gets il
or not, at the end of twenty years
more she can carry the whole Nation
al debt and run the Nation, too, for
that matter.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Kansas Honorary Commissioners to Paris.

The associate dispatches of Sunday
bring US the news of the appointment,
by the President, as honorary COM
missioners to the Worlds Fair, at
Paris, for Kansas, of the Hon. L. 2.
Baker, of Topeka, and Eugene l..
Meyer, of Hutchinson. We cordially
endorse Governor Anthony's recon-
mendations. In the first place, one
from the capital of the State and the
other from the great Arkansas Valley
suits. With Alfred Grav as the reg
ular commissioner under pay, and
with Baker, the editor of ne of the
leading daily Republican papers of
the State, and with Meyer, who is a
splendid linguist, from our own val
ley, Kansas ought to have her emigra-
ton interest pretty well looked after.
In another thing the Governor made
good hit: Mr.. Baker, besides know
ing Kansas as well as any man in the
State, has been anindefatigable work
err for her every material and political
interests, and we are glad to see these
services at last in some degree &C
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
For the EAGLE.
Ths Question Of Taxes.

GERMANIA, KAN, Feb. 6, 1873.
Mr.. EDITOR In looking over the
columns of your paper | see that a
great many wise men are trying to en-
tighten the beclouded masses of the
people in regard to various things
that interest the public, among which
is hell or no hell, silver or no silver,
etc. Now let me say few words in
my weak way, and tell the dear peo-
pie of this corner of the vineyard that
the thing most needed is reform in
our system OF taxation. All viii
agree that the taxes are so great that
the country cannot prosper and never
will until the wrong is righted.
In the first instance, not over one
half of the personal property of the
State pays any tax in consequence of
the two hundred dollars constitutions
al exemption, whereas every dollars
worth of property should pay its full
share of tax. In the second place, |
every rag-tag- and-bob-tail that owns
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
For the Eagle.
The Game Law.

EDITOR EAGLE As suggested last
week by yJur paper, the game law
might be studied to the advantage of
all concerned. l believe that there
have been and still are great many
quails and prairie chickens killed and
shipped from Wichita, regardless of
the law. If this is not stopped, with
in a very few years it will be rare
thing to see quail or chicken on the
farm or prairie.
Quails and chickens are both birds
that destroy large quantities of insects
and do no harm. All the. grain that
is eaten is more than paid tor in that
way. But some of the Wichita sports
and perhaps some from the country,
shoot and trap all they can and sell
them to be shipped out of the country.
1t seems to me that it is the duty of
the County Attorney to stop this
wholesale destruction of the game of
our county by enforcing the law, let
it hit where it may. The people of
the country and sportsmen of the city
will be with him in the rigid enforce
ment of the game law. l believe
Mr.. Hall is doing the shipping.
think the matter might be stopped at
once.
| appeal to every sportsman and
farmer TO assist in stopping this un-
lawful work. There are several
months in the year that we can shoot
game without following it for living
all the year round. Yours, j.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
POPE Plus TX. DEAD.
10 Brsathes His Last Amid the Solemn Gran
deurs Of the Vatican.

The traditional words uttered al his
coronation, "Thou shalt not see the
year of Peter" was contradicted by
the life of the now dead Pontiff. But
at last comes the ocean cable bearing
the last words of Giovanni Maria
Mastai-Ferretti: "Guard the church
| loved so well and sacredly." After
life of eighty-fiye years and a Pom
tiiicate of thirty-two, amid the polit-
ical upheayal of all Europe and self
imposed Imprisonment of eight years;
after a career of early triumphs and
defeat, of joy and tribnlation, of re-
signedly-borne bodily sufferiDes, Pope
Plus IN. lay down 10 eternal rest on
last Thursday evening at 4:57 O'Clock.
Rome, with her tears for King Victor
Emanuel scarcely dried, the garb of
royal mourning just laid by, is called
upon to weep afresh over the death of
an aged priest and king, whose be-
nign sway was acknowledged by nigh
200,000,000 souls over the wide world.
There i, deep excitement among the
changeful people of the ancient City
Of the Seven Hills.
Plus TX. was strict churchman,
and his official acts were, MANY of
them, Interpreted, even by the most
earne st Roman Catholics, to be against
the spirit of the age. While he lost
the sympathy and support of many of
the Old Catholics of Europe, and
while some OF his ecclesiastical acts
gave the Protestants new oppertuni-
ties for attack, it must be admitted
that the church, speaking in general
sense, made good progress during his
pontifcate. That he had the affection
and love of his people to greater ex-
tent than many OF his predecessors is
certain, and that he had from those
outside the Roman Church a larger
measure of sincere respect than many
other Pontiffs is equally certain.
His successor will be elected by
conclave Of cardinals, which will as
semble at once. During the sitting of
this conclave the cardinals will have
no communication with the outside
world. AS two-thirds vote is nec-
essary 10 elect, and as there are many
candidates, the session may be long
one, and, il Influenced al all by polit-
ical considerations, stormy one.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Sensible and Right.


EDITOR EAGLE II don't want to
encroach upon your valuable space
and time, but when | see anything so
very sensible and right" | feel like
must endorse it heartily. We live
and learn, i. c., those who read the
EAGLE. used to think that the OBJ
ject of all law in free country was to
vouchsaie to its people equal rights,
but find there is one law in Kansas
an exception and that that law is
sensible and right"
And now, Mr.. Editor, since you are
the farmers friend and always have
been, and sagacious man in an intiu-
entail position, what pity it never
entered your mind six years ago to
work up law fixing the price of ag-
ricultural products so that the decline
in gold could not affect them. OF
course such law would have either
starved or driven manufacturers and
consumers generally out of the coun-
try ere this, but then it would have
been sensible and right" Political
economists have long since decided
that competition is the only safe reg
lator of prices, but we know better.
Brother farmers, you know that since
the framing of that just law i'll 1872
our products have declined nearly one
hundred per cent. While the EAGLES
subscription terms have remained the
same, and under the present state of
county administration, if they had
been raised to five dollars per year We
would be obliged to take it or do
without the news so important to
every body in the county and to all
their eastern friends contemplating
coming to the country. But then,you
know, we are an honest, law-abiding
people, and we can never excuse and
palate the criminality of those two
commissioners wh5 cat down the
price of the county printing ten per
cent, in open defiance of law so
sensible and right" What if we
have reason to believe that the same
amour of money now paid for county
printing might have secured it in
both papers. Let us not be SO crimi- !
nally foolish as to think for a moment !
that such transaction on the part of |
the county commissioners would have |
been sensible and right.
And now, Mr.. Editor, in conclusion
let me congratulate you on the |
amount of real reform that is assert
ing itself in the local politics of our
party and of the reduction of taxes,
keeping pace with the decline in farm
products aud gold-over the left. Let
us stick together like band Of broth
ers and who can tell how soon we
shall be able to trample under foot
that sfuDid GrauUe motto. SEuuaI
rights to all and special privileges to
none," laugh to scorn the fact enun-
ciated in the constitution of the Unit
ed States that "all men are born
equal and so FORTH" make everybody
believe that competition is a danger
BUS principle, and everything will be
sensible and right" Yours,
FARMER X.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14

From what we gather from the
newspapers and corr cspondents, pri-
vate and public, it is evident that
Charley Miller will lose his place. The
Attorney General intimates that
Charley's own admisslon s are sutfi-
cient, under the civil service rules, for
removal. Sidney Clarke asks the
place, backed by strong Endorsement,
but from what we hear and from
what we know of the character of
General Devens, the chances are that
some new man not talked Of will Sc
cure the nomination. Senator Ingalls,,
who felt friendly to Miller, says cor
respondent of the Atchison Champs-
on, virtually gives up the fight for
Miller.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
The End in Sight.

With silver meetings being held il
New York and Boston, the strong
holds of the gold bags, and with sucl
men as Senator Blaine and other east
ern Senators conceding the point, thu
question of the final passage Of The
silver bill is only one of few days
time. The struggle has been fearful
one, but right triumphs. Then let u
rise and sing 10 glorious meter tune
Give us the silver dollar,
Hard and clear as bell,
Sounding the peoples triumph
And ringing the Shylock's knell.
They threaten distress and ruin
Should silver its place resume;
OF terrible mischief brewing,
Portendlng the crack OF doom.
They lie. and they know they're lying,
For gold Steps coming down
In spite of the usursrs' trying
To Brighten us with their irown.
To our neck there clings no collar
We're neither bribec nor sold,
Uurrah for the silver dollar,
BY law on par With gold.
Then give US the silver dollar,
The coin that our fathers knew
Twas good enough in the good old days,
It's good for the present too.
There's good time coming, boys,
Good time coming,
a good time coming, boys,
Wait a little longer,
THE gold monops' have mad their day;
The people now resume the sway,
Dads dollar, boys, is on the way,
Wait little longer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Instructions Concerning the Chero-
keo Strip.
DEPARTMENT OF THE Inter or.
GENERAL LAND OFFIcE,

WASHINGTON, ID. c. jan, Is, 1878.
Register and Reeeirsr, Wichita, Kan. Gentlemen:
have to call your attention to the act Of Con-
grcss approved February ., 1877, entitled can
Act to Provide for the sale of Certain Lands in
hansas' Statutes vol. 10, page 2s5, which pro-
yides for the sale of the lands west of the Neosho
river along the southern line of the state of Kan
sas. included In what is known rs the 'sCherOkes
etrip," portion of which in township 81. south
OIL range one east to eight east, inclusive, and
ranges one west to ten west, inclusive, falls
The above mentioned act provides that che
secretary Shall offer for sale to settlers all of
SAID tract remaining unsold'' at the date of its
pass't g. AT tne local land offices in the disfrics in
when ~ Is situated at one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre, and that all of said lands remain
ing aHsoia alter one year from the date at which
they are SO offered Tor sale at the local land OIL
ces, shall be sold by the Secretary of the fntersr
for cash, in quantities or tracts NOT exceeding
one hundred and sixty acres, at not less than one
dollar per acre.
Ibis act having been accepted by the Cherokee
nation, us therein provided for, you win in or
der to carry the same into effect, so far as re-
CARDS the sale of the lands, to settlers, proceed
to give notice Immediately on rece Ipt hereof, by
publication In some newspaper OF general circu-
lation IN the vicinity of the land, at least once
week Ter four successive week; that you will be
prepared TO receive applications from settlers
entitled hereunder TO enter the tracts covered by
s ii respective settlements, not TO exceed one
hundred and sixty acres, for each settler, at
sl . per acre, for the period of one year rom
tne GATE OF the notice. That date you will report
" tuis ohce N special letter, forwarding a
copy of the published notice.
On application being msde you viii require the
applicant TO submit proof to consist OF his
cOrrOborated by the AFFIDAVIT of disIuferesfed
witnesses, which shall show that he ia ~, ,-t,,si
settler ON tie tract desired, and also that fh- ia
no other party entitled thereto as "a prior Sc tIer.
III the proof ON examination is found satisfactory
you will endorse il the fact and IN the absence
OF any legal objection, allow the entry, q in
ordinary cash cases. requiring the party 10 make
appheati ON according 20 form No. q circular Of
l..
certificate according to forms Nos. and ) of the
same
Very Respectfully.
j, \. WILLIAMSON
Commissioner.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
18th, january. 1878.
Approved.
c. SCHURZ,
Secretary.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Sitting Bull.

The various reports that have reached
the government with reference to the
whereabouts of Sitting Bull and his
band, has not been disregarded at war
department. There is settled determ-
ination. to make thorough war upon
that party, whenever and wherever
found in our dominion. Permission
has been asked of the Indian bureau
by the military authorities to enlist
the Crows against the hostile Siouxs.
The Crows are old enmies of the Sio-
TX tribe, and have been for long SER
les of years friendly to this government
The Indian office has acceded to the
reqest from the secretary of war. II
there is any danger of Sitting Bull cr-
ossipg into the United States territory,
recruiting of the Crows will commence
Immediately
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
For the EAGLE.
The Immediate Effect ef demonstration Will
Not be Easy Times.

WICHITA, KAN, Feb. II, 1873.
Hon. II. IT, Nurdock:
DEAR SIR We beg, through your
accommodating columns, to reply to
questions so often daily asked US.
The reconciliation of silver or the
Difference of specie payments can, OF
themselves, be Of no material relief to
our present monetory depression, but
will be Of great functional advantage
to the people and Nation. When the
Government can be awakened to the
necessity of the adoption of financial
system, so simplified and enduring as
to restore the confidence of the mil
lions of capital now slumbering in
distrust of dark, obscure, uncertain
future. Until such times we shall
pursue, as nearly as possible, the DOR
mant policy we adopted some months
since. If our example be thought
practical to any of your enquirers we
assure them it is submitted in good
faith. Respectfully yours,
WIN. c. WooDMAN.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14

no property and pays no tax is allowed
to vote bonds of all descriptions for
tax payers to pay. Then comes the
assessor and inquiries what you have
done by way of Improvements in the
last year and notes down for taxation
every rod of hedge, every fruit tree,
every forest tree, and all are taxed.
Now this is wrong. There should be
an inducement held out to the farmer
to cultivate hedges and fruit trees and
timber, and, in my judgment, the
most successful way to accomplish
the desired object would be to give an
exemption to every one of a certain
amount for every rod of hedge and
every tree that he has IN good grow :
ing condition, say for every mile of
hedge, or less, he shall have exempt
from taxation 800 worth of property
and in proportion for fruit and forest
trees. Then we would see farmers go
to work in earnest, and in very few
years we would have no need of herd
law nor any other Inconvenience Of
farming out doors.
In short we want the constitutional
exemption repealed; we want the
two thirds vote on bonds restored,
and an exemption OH hedge and tree
culture.
Hoping this weak article may in
spire en- ADLER pen to teke up the SUBJ
ject and present it III all its proper
bearings, | will close by saying that it
makes but little odds to the farmer of
Sedgwick county how big or how lit
tie the dollar is or what it is made of,
so it will buy dollars worth of stuff
or pay dollars worth of debts, and,
as to the hell question, trow the
farmers are thinking more about their
debts than they are whether hell shall
keep or not Yours,
VIM. MCALLISTER.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
The Kansas Publishing House.

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Kansas publishe.. The best School Officers
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Kansas author and Kansas publisher Being
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Address, GEO. W MAsTIS,
3S-6m Topeka, Kansas
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-02-14
Nipped in the Bud.

The premature efforts made by am
bilious brothers up the valley TO kill
off Tom Ryan fell still born. These
little strajetic movements developed
the fact that every one of the older
and more populous counties of the
district, without single exception,
are for his return. The truth is, he
has n. only done his whole duty, bat
done il exceedingly well-accomplish-
ing, too, far more than he ever prom
ised or eyer was expected of him in
so short a time.