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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-15

better than it did in 1888. The ex-
treme western counties report fine
cOndi ion, while last year at this time
the failure Of the crop was q, finitely
in that section
OATS.
The east, central and northeastern
counties report very poor crop Of
oats as compared with what the con-
dition of month ago promised. Ex-
ce-sive rains and high temperature
caused it to "rust," and heavy winds
blew down the rank straw so that it
was difficult to cut. The other pOr-
tions of the state report good yield,
and in some of the western counties a
very heavy yield. The average for
the state is 1922, a falling off from the
large crop of 1888 of nearly 10 bushels
per acre. The area as compared with
that of last year increased over II per
cent, or S6,255 acres, giving a state
urea of 780, 1881 acres. The total yield
for the state is 81, 499, 1853 bushels.
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clEvELAND'S INc0MPENTENCY.

There is great deal being said as
10 the uncleanness of Cleaveland's
private character. He is ..likened to
Aaron Burr, whose lec5erouness is ex-
ecrated to this day more than his great
political faults. While we do not deny
that the onslaught is deserved, yet be-
bind and back of all that, when it
comes TO personal reasons the great
indisputed fact remains that Cleve-
land has never done anything which
would entitle him TO such great hon
or. His incapacity TO hold the reins
of a mighty people is virtually con-
coded by every disinteresied man.
There is nothing in his life, or in his
iaental make up, or in his official re-
cord which would even indicate that
might possibly fill the station half
.yay decently.
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CATHOLICS AND PROHIBITION.

The fourteenth annual meeting OF
tie Catholic Total Abstinence Union
which met at Chicago OH the 18th, was
composed of 575 delegates, 200 OF
whom were clergymen. The tota
membership reported was 80, 446, an
increase within the year of 2.44s
Within the past week there have been
addresses delivered by bishops and
arch-bishops, which in radical express
sions equalled anything ever uttered
by prohibitionisis. But one society
i reported from Kansas. and that
from Atchison.
The session of Wednesday evening
vas presided over by Archbishop
Feehan, of Chicago, and The first
speaker introduced was Bishop Ire
and, of ST. Paul, who made a power
ful address. lie took strong ground.
lie said:
"Moral suasion was in the very front
ground of battle. But there were
other methods also. Opponents of the
cause were SO shorisighted they saw
nothing else; but, though total alb
stainers gave il all the prominence it
should be given. they were prepared
TO appeal TO the laws of the land. The
law as il had been administered in
America had been brought to the
service of alcohol. Men engaged in
the liquor traffic had been able to se-
cure the passage of laws ia their inter-
est, and TO make dead letter of laws
directed against them. The laws
should be remodeled. II was useless
TO work among men who were SO weak
they had no desire for reformation.
The weakness of great portion
of mankind made legislation in their
behalf necessary. The laws 10 be
passed on the subject should go as far
rs the need of the citizens demanded.
There were many dead-letter laws.
The church, us well avs the state. APP
proved OF the laws forbidding the
sale of liquor to habitnal drunkards,
and also OF the law for the proper OBJ
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Lots ~ A. 10 81 81 60 n 70 rs IA Is Is a VIC 70
Fourth xvenue--ss OF lot IS and lots So IS 57--s7
50 II 3s 40 81 "a. Fifth avenue--Lots 20 ~ 10
y "a IS % 40 ~ "A "a. Douglas avenue Lots
IL 10 n on e side IL ~ q IS.
English's I'd Addition--Fifth avenue Lots 3
ii, beginning at point IA n neit cor of sw&
OF sec 2l27-le, thence 2s6 r. W 142 II n l51 Il
III n n L5 n thence % II to beginning. tn :
point ia It and s3l 5-l2 n W ofne cor Of swl.
OF sec 2i-:l-le ~ IT ~ n n 2s4 W ~ r..
English's Sd Addition--Lswrence avenue
Lot q. Emporia avenue--Lots l0l 1903 las l17.
Fourth avenue--Lot o.
English's 4th Addition Block l-Lot o.
English's 9Th Addition--ropeks avenue--sh
OF lot and lots and 0. Emporia avsnue--Lots
9 8 10 IL IA I6 Is 20 y "a &c IL 10 q Is 3.
Fourth avenue--Lots ) 5 II ID Is u 10 81
% Is.
Lees Addition Water street--Lots SO 100 1os
% 100 l02 I0a. Lawrence avenue--I.ots " 80
l0l los los lO7 LIS III l79 Isl.
Orms & Phillips Addition Topeka avenue
Lots % 81 ~. Eemporis auenue--Lot 81.
Waterman's Addition Wichita street.-the
ginning at 3 point 800 II Of sw cor Of large lot
no 8, on Wichita street, in Waterman's add to
the city Of wichita thence &c n = i1j II 20 n
lis r. to bsginring Beginning M az point SO
Waterman add to the city Of wichita, thence
e lis II n $50 n W ll3 n l50 n to beginning.
Commencing rs n n Of sw cor OF large lot no ],
on Wichita street, in Waterman's add to the
city of wichita. thence $50 n 70 NV cor Of
said lot thence lis n TO the ne cor OF said lot
thence 365 n thence W llJ n TO beginning. Lot
scription. Commencing IS IT n OF Sc cor of
large lot no 2, on Wichita street, in Water
mans add to the city of Wichita. thence n IS r.
thence W t2 II thence 8 - n thence Q If2 n to
beginning. Waco street--C0mmencing 80 II W
Of sw cor Of large lot no In Waterman's add
to the city OF Wichita thence W line OF
Waco street TO the Sc cor Of lot no II, In Water
man. I'd add to the city Of Wichita thence W to
fol mr. fha maj IN
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Road Notice.


First publication August :, lssi
STATE or kANsAss.l ss.
OrFrCE OF COUNTY CLERk
August 9Th. lssi.
Notice IL hereby given that on the eth .Iay Of
July, iss4, petition signed by A. &. Payne
and eighty-siN others, was presented To the
Board of Copnty Commissioners of the county
and state Aforesaid, praying for the location OF
q certain road. described n follows viz:
Commencing at or near the northwest corner
OF the southwest quarter Of section twenty two
CD township twenty-sevcn fs1) range one ~.
east, running thence, In an essteziy direction,
on the south side OF the half section line to \
point intersectiDg with the section line between
sections twenty-five GU snd twenty three (,3),
town q. range one ~. east. the terminus
said road.
whereupou said Boar,l of County commits
sioners appointed the following named persons
viz Frank Williams, John Tucker, NJ Alley.
As viewers, with Instructions to meet, In con
junction with the County Surveyor at the point
Of beginning of said road In Wichita township.
on Thursday, the 18th day Of August b.
lisa, and proceed TO view said road, and give 10
all parties q hearing.
By order Of the Board of County Commission
ers. r. p FORD.
a-z County Clerk
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DOWN WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Martin Van Buren, Bennett, the
blatherskite who has had soft thing
of il as the chief apostle Of ST. John,
IA an interview with a correspondent
of the Kansas City Journal lets the
eat out of the bag. lie says that he is
tor the Democratic party just this far,
nat he proposes TO fight the Republic
,ln party to the death. He said fur
iler that st. John and the leading
rohibitionists had long since conclud-
"A that the only hope the Prohibi-
i;an party ever had of ever becoming
national party of influence was in
lie defeat and destruction of the Re-
piblican party, and to that end they
we're working. There is logic in the
d"magoguc's talk.
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RE-SUBMlSSl0N.
A Few Words With Republicans Who Can
not Afford to Go on Half Cooked.

Within a few minutes after the SEN
ate had passed the joint resolution
submitting the prohibition amend
ment to the electors of this state, we
remarked to a senator who had voted
in the affirmative that he had given
his voice TO a measure, and ut the be-
hest of an adyenturer, which would do
more to destroy the dominant party
in Kansas, give more trouble to Re-
publican editors and go farther to-
wards putting the state under Demo-
cratic rule than anything that had ever
occurred in the history Of Kansas.
The gentleman addressed hung his
head for mo meRt and answered ::
"Yes, if it should receive twO-third
vote in the house you and will not
live to see the end of the strife and
discussion it will cause, but" he
added, "tEe issue could only be
lodged or dOwned through moral
recreancy." The following year, with
out regard to party msjOrity of the
people voting thereon said, by their
verdict, at the ballot box, yes, the
principle involved is correct; and, they
elected legislature on that issue, TO
make il good. AS soon as the princi.
pie became Incorporated in the laws
the dominant party, as in all like cases,
was held TO be responsible for the
innovation which responsibility was
assumed.
II is unnecessary to refer TO the re-
suits which have followed, further than
to admit that a large per cent of Re-
puhlicans within year became dis
satisfied with the measure and with
its practical workings, and as pro-
test turned round and virtually
elected man for governor who had
hated and fought every principle of
the Republican party since its earliest
organization.
Another two years had rolled
around and another convention must be
chosen and another ticket named by
the Republicans. And right here
arose the worst trouble. When it
came TO the primaries and county con-
ventions, that element which had vOt-
ed for Click. "a a protest, had become |
SO settled in their opposition that they |
refused TO fight the matter out inside |
Of our own lines, but stood back and
let the other element choose whom
they liked. The result of this was a
" onderfully unanimous convention, SO
far as the prOhibitOry question was
concerned, but intensely Republican.
The latter finding themselves so great
ly in the majority not only became very
liberal but magnanimous, making all
manner of concessions and then finally
nominating ticket-the very ticket
that the so-called liberal Republicans
had been advocating, in fact the best
ticket as whole, SO far as the men on
ii are concerned, that was ever nOmi-
mated in the state.
This brings us down to the present
time when we are confronted by our
old enemy the Democratic party, and
by st. John and his strikers who orig
inally led us to defeat, and by the
leaders of the anti-prohibition element
"a part of which are opposed to pro-
hibtion from principle aud part of
which are opposed 10 that principle
from policy-who send out call for
another state convention. Il
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Road Notice.

First publication August I2, iSSi,)
THE STATE OF KANSAS, L.
Sedgwlck County,
OfFIcK or COUNTY CLEk,
August ), 1891,
Notice Is hereby given that On the 9TH day oil
July lssi, petition signed by Wesley Murry
and eighty others, was presented TO the Board
Of County Commissioners OF the County and
and State Aforesaid, praying for the location OF
n certain road, described rs follows, viz.
Commencing Mt the south west corner of south
east or OF sec No. 3. twp 20, range one ~ east,
running thence north on the half section Iiue
two (2) miles to the intersection of the section
line between sections ihriy-four $50 and
twenty seven (23) in township -. range east,
thence west one and one-half tl1ll mile on the
section line to the southwest corner of section
Is, township p, range east the terminus OF
said road.
Whereupon the Board of County Commissi-
oners appointed the following named persons,
viz: James stewart, James McAdams and
Frank Tyrell as viewers, with instructions 10
meet, in conjunction with the County surveyor,
At the terminus OF said road in Rockford town
ship, On Monday the sth day of September, A .
ID. 1854 and proceed to view said road, and to
give to all parties a hearing.
By orior Of the Board OF County Commission
ers p. FORD,
2l-2 County Clerk.
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Road Notica.

tirst publication Auu. sth, ls-t-
STATE OF KANSAS,
County OF Sedgwiek,
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,
August 18th, lsst I
Notice Is hereby given that on the >th dsy OF
July, lsst, petition signed by % II Bently
and eighteen others, was presented to the
Board of County Commissioners of the county
and state aforesaid, praying for the location OF
certain road, described a. follows, to-wit;
Commencing at the intersection OF Topeka
avenue and Oak street in the city of Wichits
thence running north to the south line Of the
south half of the southwest quarter Of the south
wet quarter of the northwest quarter of section
sixteen Q6). township twenty-seven ca. range
one ~, east, the terminus Of said road
Whereupon said Boarl Of County Commission
ers appointed the following named persons, viz !:
Healy. % Daisy, NJ Allen, as viewers
with instructions TO meet, In conjunction with
the County surveyor. at the point OF beginning
OF said road in Wiehita city, on Monday, the
25th day OF August, A ID ISL. and proceed 10
view said road, and give to all parties hearing
BY order OF the Board Of County Commits ion
ers. r.. T.. FORD,
3D. County Clerk.
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First Door North Of Postoffice.

GOOD morning. Deacon you walk on as
spry as boy, for all You are so old. -
"Why, law bless you. can't help it; can
see so well with my new specfacles il appears
to put new life in me. / actually feel twenty
years younger, and have had them only a
short time. You see, dill not buy when Dir.
lOst first came to wichita | thought would
just wait and let some others try had psid
out so much money for spectacles, and my eyes
were getting poorer and poorer all the time,
that had about despaired of ever getting any
thing that would stay the dreadful loss of sight.
But when l came to see and talk with my neig h-
bors, and with people from other parts of the
country who had used Dr. Yost's improved
lenses (some OF them for years., | concluded |
would try 1t once more. and am frank to con
fess they are far ahead of my expectations.
Oh, yes, it, hard country eyasight. All
this western prairie country Is much harder on
on the eyes than the eastern states, and come to
think of 1t. il is as much out of place to try-to
use the old style of spectacles here In Kansas as
IL would be to try to farm with the old style OF
farming tools. and. sir, don't hesitate to say
that the man that wont go to DIR. io,t and be
fitted with pair of his improved lenses ought
to have his se;i-binder and improved plows
taken from him, and be compelled to cut his
grain with the old hand sickle and pillow with
the wooden -moudboard plow."
1t isjust as important To use improved lenses
properly fitted, in order to save eyesight, as IL
Is to use the seIf-binder TO save grain in this
western country.
No use talking, nothing short of DIR. Yost's
improved spectacles will save the vision in this
day and age.
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Road Notice.

4 tflrst publication August 5, lssi.)
| STATE OF KANSAS,
County of sedgwiek.
oryrcE OF COUNTY CLERK
| August 4, 1ss4
| Notice Is hereby given that on the eth day of
July ,Isss, petition signed BY William kessIer
and twenty lone others, was presented 10 the
Board Of County Commissioners OF the county
and state Aforesaid, praying for the location OF
q certain road. described follows, viz
Commencing at the southwest corner OF see .
ton No. ., in township q, range one ~, east
and running thence north the section line
| three-quarters of u mile To the southwest cor
ner OF lot No. In said section CD, township q .
range one %, east, the terminus Of said road.
Whereupon said Board of County Commits
sioners appointed the following named persons .
viz: L. :. Eichholtz, W. II. Ransom, }. W !.
SterDs, rs viewers. with instructions to meet.
in conjunction with the County Surveyor, at
the point OF beginning os said road, In " lchits
township. ON Wednesday, the esth day of Au-
gust. A. ID. lss4, and proceed tn view said road
and give to all parties 3 hearing.
BY order OF the Board OF County Commission
srs l. Y. FORD,
A-2 County Clerk.
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servance of the Sabbath. Every OPP
portunity should be taken to have
those laws enforced. The liquor men
were bold; they had gone far and
were striving to 90 further. Soon
WOULD come the cry, halt! aud then
the traffic would be stopped. The
freeing of the people from the domina-
ton Of the saloon element was the
mission of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence union: The union should teach
how the ballot could best be used.
The ballot was q strong weapon. BY
il the liquor power had been enabled
TO continue in supremacy. By it the
downfall of that power should be ac-
complishcd."
Rt. Rev. Bishop Spaulding was more
moderate in his views, but said:
whatever views one might hold as
to the proper attitude Of government
toward iDtemperance, there should not
be two opinions. the speaker thought
among honest and enlightened men as
to the duty of the civil authority to
force sellers TO associate themselves
for common criminals and violators OF
the law. So long as saloon keepers, in
defiance of law, sold their wares Oh
Sunday or at forbidden hours to min
ors and drnnkards, SO long would all
good citizens have the right TO employ
political means to suppress the illegal
traffic, and if other remedies failed to
try what effect prohibitory legislation
would have. The chief argument
which could be brought against pro-
hibition, SO far as the speakers knowl-
edge of the question extended. were:
First, that such laws were inopera-
tive, failed to produce the intended eff
feet, to which he replied: IL so, then
those who opposed such laws would
get their liquor, but if by chance it
happen that prohibition proved effect
i've, then drunkenness would die out
and three-fourths OF the crime and
poverty which disgraced the country
would disappear. The second argu-
ment rested on the objection that if
the principal underlying prohi-
bition were carried to its ultimate
consequences it would change govern
ment into the most odious of iyran-
MES. to which he would reply: Pre-
cisely what distinguished statesman
from doctrinaire, the trainers of the
American constitution from the auth
ors of the reign of terror. was the
knowledge that political principles
were not always to be pushed TO
their ultimate consequences; that
practice and speculation were not
the same thing, and consequently it
did not follow, because one was q pro.
hibitienist, that, therefore, he ought to
be in favor of a law to forbid women
the luxury of tight lacing. The polit-
ical axiom, the will of the people was
the supreme law, would, if insisted
upon, justify all possible iyrrannies, OF
which the majority might approve and
was if taken in logical and not a
practical sehse, in contradiction with
freedom of conscience, which was the
basis of civil liberty. If the end of all
political agitation was to strengthen
morality, which was the only secure
foundation of free government, then
the speaker would never be able to I'M
derstand why crime should be sur
sounded by holy wall and declared
a sacred asylum into which the law
might not enter"
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Road Notice.

First publication Aug. 18th, 1881
STATE OF KANSAS,
County of Sedgwiek,
OFFICE or COUNTY CLERK,
April 9Th, 1851
Notice Is hereby given that on the 7th day of
July 1854, a petit ton signed by l.. G.. Lapham
and eighteen others, was presented 10 the
Board OF County Commissioners OF the county
and state aforesaid, praying Tor the location OF
certain road, described as follows, viz:
Commencing IT the northeast corner of sec.
5, township 70, range west, running thence
south on or near the section line to the south
east corner OF section %, township ~, range
west, the terminus Of said road.
Whereupon said Board OF County Commits
sioners appointed the following named persons,
viz. Earl Wakefield, Andrew Small, VIM.
O'Brien, as viewers, with Instructions to
meet, in conjunction with the County Surveyor,
at the point OF beginning Of said road, in Erie
township. on Monday, the 18th day Of septem-
Der, A d. 1854, and proceed to view said road
and give to all parties = hearing.
By order Of the Board Of County Commission
ers E.P. FORD,
2l-2 County Clerk.
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Road Notice.

first publication Aug...s. 1ss4.i
STATE OF KANSAS
County OF Sedgwick,
OFFIcK or COUNTY CLERK
August 4th, Iss4.
Notice is hereby given that on the It'll day OF
July. lssf, petition signed by II. r Reed AMI
twenty Others, WAS presented 10 the Board Of
County Commissioners OF the county and state
aforesaid, praying for the location OF q certain
road, described as follows, to-wit:
Commencing Mt the intersection Of Fourth
avenue and Oak street in the city of wichita
thence running north to the north line of sec
tion sixteen tls). in township twenty seven
GU, range one %. east, the terminus OF said
road.
Whereupon said Board of County Commits
sioners appointed the following named persons
viz; A. =. Dodge, W. T. Jewett, j. ID. Hew
EFT, IS viewers, with Instructions To meet l.
conjunction with the County surveyor. Mt the
point of beginning OF said road in Wichita eifyn
on Tuesday. the 9th day OF August, A. D. lssa.
and proceed to view said road, and give u al
parties q hearing.
By order OF the Beard Of County Commission
ers. E!P. FORD,
al-2 County Clerk
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Notice for Publication.

Aug sth, lssi
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
To make final proof in support OF his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the L. :.
Land Office nt Wichita. Kansas, on Sept. Goth.
1854, viz Frank Murphy, u. :. ~ ,O12. for lot
=, sec. 3, twp. 80, south range | west. He
names the following witnesses TO prove his
continuous residence upon. and cultivation of
said land, viz:
II. Saddler, W s. Noel, Jno- T. Noel, John
Wheeler, all of Boon, Summer County, Kan
sas
X. l.. WALKER,
j +. LAUCK, Register.
Att'v 2i-G
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Delinquent Tax List Of Sedgwick
County, Kansas.
'ouNTY rREAsuRER's OFFICE

In compliance with section l06, chapter "a.
Kansas session laws Of ls16, public notice Is
hereby given that the taxes and charges for the
year lsS against the following de scribed tracts
of land and town lots, situated in the county
of Sedgwick, state OF Kansas, are due and re-
main unpaid, and that will, on Tuesday, the
ting tlays offer for sale and sell at nv once in
the city of Wichita, so much of each tract OF
land or town lot In the following list rs may be
necessary to meet the taxes and charges
! 3 l,ar
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Legal Notice.

In the district court of sedgwick county,
Kansas
John p pa~ vs' plaintiff
Hw. Miner, defendant.
The above-named II. w. Miner Il hereby no.
titled that he has been sued by the aboye-named
plaintiff In the district court Of Sedgwick
county, Kansas, and that unless he answer the
petition Of said plaintiff against him, fled In
said action in the Office OF the clerk Of said
court. by the Isth day Of September, A. D.
lsst. said petition will be taken as true and
judgment will be rendered In said action In
favor OF said plaintiff and against said defend
ant for the sum of eight hundred and thirty
eight and hfly-six one-hundredths dollars.
with interest thereon at seven per cent. per
xnnum from June IL. lss+, and for the applies-
ton OF the sum Of four hundred and one dollars
on said judgment, the said sum having been
attached and garnisheed heretofore in the hands
Of shellabarger, imboden & Oliver, in accord
ance with the prayer Of the petition liesl In said
action. STANLEY 4 WALL,
1s-4 Attorneys for Plaintiff.