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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
THE FATE OF OKLAHOMA.
Some Matters of Interest to Kansas People,
Kansas CITY. Nav 91.-Tbe Jonru.l,s

Some Matters of Interest to Kansas People,
Kansas City, May 21.-The Journals
special correspondent teIegrAphs from
Washington, yesterday, that patents were
issued 10 Kansas inventors to-day az fol.
lows: William l. Rorick, Winfield, " alter
elevator; ID. W. Jscoby, Abilene. check
rover and cornplanter; Homer Adkins,
Concordia, horse power.
Hon. James S. Merritt, Of Wamego, and
Hon. W. j. Buchan, Of Wyandotte, Kan
sas, departed for the West tonight.
John Terry, Of Fort Scott, Kansas, IL
here.
The following pension claims were OBJ
tanned by Senatar Plumb to-day: Allen
Mowry. Cowiey; Moses w. STANDBY. Ross
vile Henry Schell. Marysyille; Bernard
Stewer, Ell Dorado; Geo. Gertney, Farmers
burg. Nimrod II. Ensley. Reading; John d.
Lindsay, Ransomville. all in Kansas.
Representative Hanback,. of Kansas, to-
day secured pension for r. X. Tabor, Law
renee.
Secretary Teller, 1T is believed. will recon-
mend the passage OF Senator Plumb's bill
providing for the opening of the Oklahoma
here opposing the same.
With regard to the Western dispatches
published here this morning announcing
that Leavenworth paper would publish
letter from Senators Plumb and ingalls,,
showing MIR. Arthur to be the only Repub.
lican who could carry New York state,
Senator Plumb says: 81 never wrote any
such letter and though I am not authorized
to say so, Senator ingalls, informed me this
morning that he had done ne such thing.
When I 60 to Chicago as delegate 1 shall
support the best man who can win, and
have never yet declared otherwise, the New
York Tribune to the contrary notwith-
standing. The Kansas delegation will be
divided and how they will vote cannot
say.'
The announcement of the Kansas City
Times that Representative Graves mustered
bis forces and defeated the passage of
Burnes' court bill causes the colleagues of
Mr.. Graves to smile. Mr.. Graves took no
active part in the matter. Mr.. Alexander
defeated the bill, If credit is due to anyone.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
NEWTON BAND.

The judges decision was thea announced
I'm the stand and elected three rousing
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22

NEWTON tOKNEI,BAND.
VIM. Nicholson, L. Willis, ID. Mathies,
G. j. Faliz. NJ. Wallace, o. 4. Cherley, ID.
Williams, c. ". Clapp, Geo. Warden, w.
IL. Angood, f. ID. Westhauer, L. Fox, W.
Lindner and l.. Garten composed the New
ton band, which played the following num-
bers
Overture F" Arion'' ..........,........ Peitee
Overture niagara, - ........ Southwe
Overture Quickstep, ''Co. e "........... Piney
At the conclusion of the last piece the
judges rendered decision in favor of the
X I. band, the following tabular statement
showing on what points they were marked.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BAND.
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The National tribune., 1884-09-04
\ NEW TELEpHoNE.

The giant monopoly of the telephone in the
hands of the Bell Telephone Company is in
fair way of being broken. A new company,
composed mainly Of men prominent in the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has been organized
with the determination offghting in the courts
the Bell Companys claim to monopoly of all
telephone devices, and in the business world of
monopoly of the business of telephone trans
mission. The new company is called the
"Globe," and viii have means to do all that
itsets out to, and its managers are fully aware
of the struggle they are entering upon with
the immensely wealthy Bell Company. twill
claim priority of invention, based upon the
caveat filed in 1871 by Antonio Meucci, an
Italian residing in this country, for a "Telle-
trofone" Poor Meuccis history is the usual
pathetic one of great inventors. He first be-
came interested in transmitting speech by wire
in 1913, when he was living in Havana He
afterward immigrated to the United States, set
tied on Staten Island, and became the intimate
friend of Garibaldi. He continued his expert
ments, but just as he was getting the "telletro-
fone" into tangible shape he was blown up on
the Inflated steamer Westfeld. When he rose
from a sick bed, months later, he found himself
alone, almost penniless, and sunk beneath q
mountain of debt. Despite all opposition on
the part of his friends and his wife, he crawled
over to New York and invested his last cent
with lawyer in filing eaveat. He made
some feeble efforts to interest capitalists in his
"telletrofone," but without success, until
year ago, when the projectors of the Globe
Company were looking up some ground upon
which to fight the Bell monopoly.
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
A VETERAN REGULAR.

A reminiseence of the far-wsy past appeared
at Washington hotel last week in the shape of
the once-distinguished Gen. w. s. Harvey, who
in the old "befo -de-wah days was the great
est Indian fighter in the Nation. The tales
that were then current of his exploits in In
dian warfare would fill volume He had
been in the army for 43 years had fought
through the Seminole Mexican and a score Of
Indian wars, and had risen to the rank of
Brigadier- General. He was a tail, powerful,
brave man, of that type which made the ideal
Captain, Major, or Colonel Of the old school
that is he was capable of whipping at fstieufs,
any man in his command and delighted, espe-
cially when in his cups, in having a knock
down with some bully of teamster or Ser
geant. He believed the white man was supe-
rior to the Indian in any possible way, and in
his younger days he was fond of exempIifying
this by a foot race, a wrestling match, or some
other contest of strength and skill, with some
Indian champion. He never failed to win the
victory.
When Fort Sumter was fired on Harney was
in command at st. Louis. The grand oppor-
tunity of his life came, but he was either too
old to recognize it, not big enough mentally to
perceive it, or sympathized too strongly with
the South to take advantage Of it. Perhaps it
was combination of all three Of these.
At all events, he let treason be plotted di-
rectly under his nose; saw, without making any
effort to thwart it, plot ripen to seize the i'm
mensely-important arsenal and carry Missouri
over to the rebellion, and finally entered into
an agreement with the Seeessionists which
tied the hands of the Union men, but left the
rebels free to do their worst.
1t required all that the Union people of Mis-
souri,, ably led by Frank P Blair and Capt.
Lyon-afterward General-could do to coun-
teract Harney's policy, and save the arsenal
and city of st. Louis. The most brilliant chap
ter of the early history of the war is that which
tells of their efforts and their success, and the
splendid audacity of Lyon in forcing the sur
render of Camp Jackson, and afterward chasing
Sterling Price across the State of Missouri
Harney had no heart for any of these things.
In april, 1861, he started to Washington, was
captured very singularly by party of rebels.
raiding his train on the Baltimore & Ohio, and
was paroled By them on condition of his taking
no farther part in the struggle. The Govern
ment put him on the Retired List, and he has
been there ever since, or over % years.
He is now "a years old, but, except an i'm
paired vision and memory, has his faculties in
excellent preservation.
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
rHTs MEEK,s Issr1s.

This week Gen. Howard tells very interest
fngly OF tie entry Of the Eleventh and Twelfth
Corps upon their work in the West and the
relief Of the beleaguered Array Of the Cu,nber-
lands ''csaclser line" from the rebel forces
which had hnng over it for weeks ard nearly
starved our men out Of Chattanooga. Ineiden-
tally comes in an account OF tie sharp little
1ight battle Of Esuhaicbie, ia which Geary
and his division covered themselves with glory
and drove Of their old enemy, Gen. Longstreet.
Carleton brings the unluclzy Burnside.
whom ali the faaes seemed to conspire against,
10 the RappahannOck opposite Fredericksburg,
and gives Us the gallant preliminary work
which was 70 lead the Army Of the Potomac up
to lis frightEul slaughter on the slopes OF
Maryes Higl.s. Our two comrades Of the z2d
Ohio who told SO spiritedly the story Of the
capture Of Arkansas Post, give us the opening
Of the Niclzsburg campaign, and tel Of Gen.
Grants magnificent strategy and afford a
glimpse Of The futile effort Of the rebels tc
arrest the march upon the doomed city at Pori
Gibson. Fighting Them Over" has many
valuable "reminiscences, and the whole paper il
wei worth reading from the FIRST line on The
first page 70 the last line On the eighth.
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The National tribune., 1884-09-04
OUR DlyINDLING FORESTS.

Something of the way our forests are going
can be judged by the dimensions of two RATS
which appeared in Lake Erie last weekday
ing been towed from the south shore of Lake
Superior-one of which was FIVE and the other
eight acres in extent. Each had about 16, 900
logs, from IL to 16 feet long, but there were
100000 feet of lumber in the larger to
100000 in the smaller. We are told that still
bigger RATS viii be brought down from the
Lake Superior region before the close of nayi-
CATION.
We can see very clearly by this the rate at
which our country is being denuded of its COW
ering. We hear nowhere of any movement to
put back one tree to every thousand cut down
and taken off, Except in some of the new
prairie States and Territories there is being
absolutely nothing done to replace the enor-
nous destruction of timber. 1t is hardly likely
that all the trees planted in year in Kansas
Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota under the
encouragement of the forestry laws represent
as much good timber as one active firm in the
Michigan and Wisconsin pineries cut down.
OF course, we must do something to replace
these trees. The Government must do much,
the States moro, and private enterprise vastly
| more.
| The States and the General Government
should copy the systems which have produced
| such excellent results in Europe. The best of
| these is that in operation in Bavaria. That
Kingdom-much of which is mountainous
derives about one-third Of its income from its
| forests, which are under the control of a
trained corps Of foresters." forestry" is as
much of profession in Bavaria as the army.
Youths get appointed to the College of For
estry, as in this country to West Point. They
are carefully educated in ali that pertains to
woodcraft, and upon graduation are uniformed,
armed with a hunting rifle, and placed on
duty in the forests They keep a record of
the condition of every tree, designate those
which should be trimmed or cut down direct
the work, and the planting of new trees to
replace those taken of. The care of the wild
animals in the forest also belongs to them, and
they control the hunting permits.
In this country Texas, Virginia, New York,
Maine, and some otherStatcs still retain control
of great tracts of woodland, which should be put
under the care of an experienced corps of wood
men, modelled upon the Bavarian plan. The
United States has hundreds of thousands Of
square miles of timbered land-much of il
mountainous-which it ought to lose no time
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
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GEN. HoWARD,s MONOGRAPH.

We have to report an unpleasant gap in Gen.
Howard's contributions. His contribution pub
hshed last week gave an account of the trans
fer of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps from
the East to the West. The one we publish this
week tells about the preliminary operations on
the right flank of Chattanooga. The number
between the two, detailing the operations be-
tween the arrival in the West and the COM
meneement of the Chattanooga campaign, has
been lost in the mails, somewhere between
Constantinople-wh Gen. Howard mailed
it-and Washington. Luckily the loss is one
of the less important numbers. It twouid have
been serious had it been in the midst Of the
Atlanta campaign. Gen. Howard viii, in all
probability, reproduce the article upon his
return home.
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
EuRoPEaN CoMpIICATIoNs.

The sensational feature of foreign news Is
the change in the attitudes of England and
France toward each other in consequence of
the movements against Egypt and China The
sole object of England's invasion of Egypt was
to monopolize that market for English goods.
France, Germany and Russia endured this
with very bad grace. Now France invades
China to open up that great country to French
products. This means a diminution of Eng
lands ascendaney in those markets, and is a
very serious thing for our cousins, since next to
the United States, their trade with the Celestial
Empire is the most important they have They
are, consequently, savage against the French
movement. The French papers reply bitterly,
and the friendship between the two peoples
ago, is in fair way of being destroyed and re-
placed by the bitterness of past centuries, when
the policy OF both nations was based on the
axiom that France and England are natural
enemies"
The Germans, who have been making con-
siderable inroads upon the English trade with
China, are anxious for the French to succeed,
for if the English ascendaney is broken down
no matter how-the Germans will have more
show. To this is added the irritation developed
by the conflict over the Congo Colonies and so
France and Germany, who have been hating
each other mortally since 1870, are liable to be-
come allies through their common hatred to
England.
On the other hand Italy, who is enraged at
France for gobbling up Tunis, which Italy was
getting ready to gobble up herself sides with
England.
Great is the almighty dollarl 1t is at the
bottom Of the whole muss
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
JEWISH LONGEVITY.

The remarkable exemption of the Jews in
ton to the health-preserving influence of their
peculiar beliefs and practices There are 1900
Jews in Marseiiles, OF whom but seven were
attacked by the cholera Two of these were
lifelong invaiids, third was 81 years old,
while two more were not obedient to the jew
ish law. The American Hebrew ascribes this
comparative immunity to the dietary laws of
Judaism, and lifts up its voice against "the
unclean offal- feeding things of sea and land :"
which Christian epicures prize so highly.
There are certainly some unexplainable
things about the healthiness of the Jews The
greater portion of especially in Europe
inhabit wretched houses in filthy localities,
and the personal habits of the Jews themselves
are far from being of the best. Yet we believe
that European statisticians place the Jewish
average of life at 50 years, while the Christian
is but 81. This difference is hardly explain
able by their abstinence from pork, or the care
they exercise in selecting and slaughtering
their beef Temperance in eating and drink
ing is strictly enjoined by the Jewish Law.
One never sees drunken Jew, and so they es-
cape from the terrible mortality of alcoholism,
which is the great scsurge of Europe. Then
the Jew is always an actively y-cngaged man;
idleness does not eat him out. He is peace
fpI Ia-v-a Iidinn mon aud en- arao,og ~ s,uo-5
Of the soldier as well as the dagger of the ruff
fan, which helps raise his average length OF
life
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
LOTS OF COOP rERRIroRY.

There is plenty of good territory yet left
for those who want to make money easily by
selling the life of Gen. Logan. Write to The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE for a sample book and for
such territory as you would like. It is as well
to mention two townships, calling them first
and "seeond" choice, SO that if the first :"
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the second F" without any loss Of valuable
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
Sc MONTH FOR SOLDIERS, ORPHANS


Grateful Nation" did we hear you say2
"Lavishly generous to its manned and dis
abled soldiers did not some one remark2
"Cares tenderly for the children of him who
bore the heat and burde en- of the strife" appears
in all the political platforms, does it not9
Absolutely bankrupting the Treasury to
pay pensions to the swarm of hungry claim
ants" is regular sentence in the editorial col
umns of number of prominent papers, if we
are correctly informed.
There is so much of this kind of talk that we
are getting anxious to have the basis Of it
pointed out.
We want the gratitude" put in shape to
be recognized by the naked eye.
We would like to have some competent ex-
pert materialize the generosity" until it be-
comes visible by ordinary daylight.
We really yearn to have placed on exhibi-
ernment's tender care for the orphans of him
who gave his life for it.
Our own unassisted rc7earches have so far
been only able to find an allowance of 81 a
month for each child of deceased soldier un-
til the same shall have reached the age Of 16l
Last Winter an effort was made to increase
this allowance to SIS a month"; but it failed.
Now, does g month for all the needs and
expenses of a healthy, growing child, with a
good appetite, an instance of a " Nations splen-
did gratitude?"
Is 81 month-50 cents a week-to provide
child with bread and butter, clothes, shoes,
school books. doctors bills, candy and circus
tickets, lavish generosity" by the richest and
most prosperous people in the world2
Is an allowance of 81 month-seven cents q
day-the popular conception of caring ten
derly for the orphans of him who bore the
heat and the burden?p
How long viii it take this lavish payment
of seven cents day-carefully stopt the day
the child reaches the age of Ito bankrupt a
Treasury which has a yearly income of $780,
100000, and annually receives $10o,o00000
above ali expenses2
Singular, isn't it, how fine phrase viii
collapse if you puncture its swelling sides with
sharp little actual fact?
The National tribune., 1884-09-04
PROF. KoCH,s DISCOVERIES.


While Prof Koch's discoveries have been of
immense Importance to the world, their prac-
teal substance can be stated in few plain and
easily-understood words. Thus:
l. The spread of cholera is caused by per-
sonal contact and not by goods and other OBJ
jects, except damp infected linen.
2. The infection is not in &he air, but in the
elections of the patient; it is only dangerous
in moist state, and dies very speedily when
dry air cannot transfer the disease.
g. The bacilli do not, as in small -pox, produce
spores, which may dry up only to reappear
alive. Drying viii positively kill them in three
hours
4. The disease is confined wholly to the di-
gestiye organs.
5. Contact with the patient is without dan
ger if no contamination from the digestive
organs is received.
6. The following convey infection: infected
drinking and washing water, infected moist
and liquid foods, and especially milk.
Therefore, no one need fear the cholera who
is not in the neighborhood of some one in
fected with it, and not then unless in some
way = through contamination of drinking
water, food, milk, etc-the matters elected
from the cholera victims bowels find their
way to the stomach of the healthy man.
This being the case it is a most disgusting
revelation as to the natural impurity of the
drinking water, ETC., in the infected districts.
The National tribune., 1884-09-04

CAPT. r. G. RANKIN, late Of the 7th o. v. @,
Ripley, o., writes to us that the notice we
gave Of his little pamphlet history Of his regi-
ment has overwhelmed him with demands for
it. He says that he was asked at a Reunion to
prepare history Of the regiment and hs
found it best to make it into pamphlet form.
He sold enough among the comrades TO pay
the publishers bill amounting to about $50
and the copies remaining over he has given
had more to supply to applicants. but the edi-
ton IS entirely exhausted This illustrates
the value Of advertising in The NATIONAL
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BEING THEM OYER.

A statement frequently made by reckless
writers and speakers in this country is that
working people in this country do not get but
little, if any, more wages than those engaged
in similar employments in England. This sort
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The most valuable Of military works is un-
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ont Of print, but The TRIBUNE has managed
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