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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30

situated on the Arkansas river and on
the A., TIA S. f., the ST. Louis & San
Francisco. Wichita & Western and the
ST. Louis, Fl, Scott & Wichita rail-
roads, and has q population of $4,000,
an increase in the last year of 5000
and is still rapidly improving. The
people look for city of $4,000 within
the next three years, and from the way
emigration is pouring in from all
parts of the country their hopes will
be realized in even less time than that.
Wealthy capitalists representing hum
drcds Of thousands of dollars are
coming in and making large invest
ments, and il VIII be but a short time
till Wichita will have her wholesale es-
Establishments in full blast, which will
make her the Kansas City of the west.
The city is well supplied with churches
and school buildings aud number of
good weekly and daily papers, an,'
business of all kinds is booming.
Wichita is the county seat of
Sedgwick county, one OF the
best in the state and Is sur
rounded by a rich and f-rtile
country, and TO say that the crops are
fine would give but a feeble idea Of
the immense crops of 1884. Rev. ID.
w. Phillips, ID. ID. late of the Southern
| Illinois Conference. is pastor OF the
NJ. +. church in this thriving western
city. and is truly master of the situa-
ton. lie is now engaged in rebuild
ing the church that was recently
burned by incendiaries, and is
succeeding grandly. He is very popu-
lar with the people, who recognize in
| him all that is needed in a faithful and
successful pastor. To him we owe
much of our information in regard TO
the city and surrounding country.
Goddard is our next station and is
situated fourteen miles from Wichita,
in Sedgwick county, on the new rail-
road, the Wichita 81 Western. The
town is about 100 days old and al
ready has population of from 300 to
400 and is rapidly improving. The
country around is rich and beautiful,
the farmers are in good circumstances
and the crops are splendid. Here we
spend the Sabbath and meet number
of old friends and parishioners and
| had the pleasure of preaching for them
on the Sabbath in the neat and beau
tiful u. +. church which was dedicated
only a few weeks ago. Ii is
credit to the pastor, Rev. G. II.
Woodson, and his intelligent congre-
CATION, many of whom were recently
from Illinois. They expressed them
selves rs pleased and even delighted
with their new home and country.
Fruit of all kinds does well here and
we think that it is truly a desirable
place TO live. Our old friend, l.. L.
Henderson, showed us peach trees OF
his farm that he had planted six years
ago that were now loaded with thai
precious fruit. while we picked fine
| ripe cherries from trees that were
| planted at the same time. Our old
friend, j. j. Bechtel, one of the lead
ING merchants of this young town.
who had trayersed the country from
Wilmington, Delaware, to this western
home, thought that he had found the
garden spot of the world and ex-
pected here to spend the remainder
of his days.
Next week we will tell YOU about
kingman, Arkansas City and some
other points, which will close our
rambles. Yours fratcrnally,
\. T.. HARMON.
Pastor VI. +. church, Newton, H.
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the Difference.

The Wichita EAGLE has progressed
in its prohibition faith far enough to
favor the putting down of whisky
Emporis Republican. Too many edi-
tors In Kansas already favor putting
down of whisky" Kansas City
Times.
The trouble with Kansas City is
sat in the struggle between whisky
and her editors il is the latter that
goes down and the worst of il is they
stay down. ~
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30
ANOTHER BlUNDER.

II seemed rs if the ignoring of tho
soldier clement was Democratic
blunder. Gen. Rosecrans was in New
York last week, and is reported to
have said: ,t
.sThe nominations made by the Dem
ocraiic party AT Chicago have chilled
two classes of workers. They are the
industrial classes and the soldiers.
They have seen the choice made with
sorrow and regret. Neither body has
had the slightest attention paid 10 it
in any way. and that they have been
ignored will not help the party, and
you can be sure OF that. The Repub-
hcans put in a man for whom the sol
iiers will vote"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30
" CAPT. WHITE, SHUT UP OR PUT up

To tie Ea1tor Of tie Eagle:
clip the following from last weeks
Beacon:
The Emporia Republican makes the
point that neither Of the Democratic
candidates were in the army. Wen,
that's a fact, but wha; of il! Logan
went into the army after recruiting n
company for the southern army and
sending them 10 the south. Blaine,
during the war, was in the peniten-
tiary. by proxy. and personally he was
swindiing the government on Spencer
rifle contracts Flaunt the whole shirt,
and not the dirty tail alone. The Re-
publican, in its article headed, "Siand
by Logan" has the spirit Of The
Wichita EAGLE in its boom for Mar
tin Beacon.
The above in regard to Logan is
known 20 be made out Of whole cloth.
If the Beacon thinks be knows so
much, | ill make the following prop
osition: If he can prove it so. will
agree TO vote for Cleveland aud Hen
bricks and give $2j TO Garfield Posts
poor fund !; if Capt Whine will vote
for Blaine and Logan and give s25 10
Garfield Posts poor fund, if he can't
prove it.
Every member knows that he
couldn't belong to the G.. i. Z. if he
held commission in rebellion 10 raise
a company. SO comrades will
naturally think they will tell the same
lie about Blaine, and consequently east
their votes tor the men who stood by
us in time Of need, instead of those
who are still apologizing because they
didn't superceed Jeil Davis.
Yours, etc,
LEE TAYLOR,
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OFF FOR KANSAS.

From the Newton liiinoisi Press
From independence we pursue orr
Journey westward Till we reach Wei
lington. the county seat of Sumner
county. Here We find Que oithe most
beautiful cities q! the west, with 4
population OF $3.50. good business
blocks built of stone and brick. and
business of al kinds flourishing and
the city rapidly improving. The
county around is OF a rich. black sandy
soil and produces well. Farmers are
in good circumstances anu delighted
and pleased with their COUNTY. Here
we met Rev. c. y. Bottom an obi
Jasper boy. who is now one OF the
leading members of the Southwest
Kansas conference and also owns a
good farm near the city of Yelling
ton. He is delighted and pleased with
his new home and would not think
for moment of returning TO the
Sucker state. Land in Sumner coun-
tv ranges from $40 to $50 per acre.
according TO improvements and locs-
ton. Good farms with fair improve
meuts can be bought for $50 per acre.
Crops OF all kinds are good in this
county. We never saw better wheat
grow anywhere than We find a5ou;
Wellington.
We next arrive at Wichita, the
trade center of the southwest. IL Is
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NOT NEW.


The Young author OF the comnuni-
cation in Yesterdays EAGLE, headed
Educational Reform who speaks so
fippantly of church, pulpit, and
priest. will think better of IL alter
twenty wears shall have been added to
his age. A few years moro of obser-
walton anu experience will convince
him dial lac NOR his ideas can add to
the granducr of manhood, or 10 the
effectiveness or roundncss Of civiliza-
ton. or to the worlds religious or ed
uca,ional methods. Among some of
the earlier things, lac will learn thai the
PHILOSOPHERS of Darwin, Huxley,
Haeckel and their contemporaries
have not been accepted by majority
of either the cducationalists or scicn-
fists of to-day, NOT by any means: that,
in truth. outside OF Il class of wild
eyed euili siast-. who deHominate
themselves, i.iberalists, Frec-think
crs. and the like, not one man in ten
thousand subscribe 10 the DarW iGian
doctrine in toto. The two coinnlonest
things in this word, the two things
of which not only every intelligent
being j. cognizant, bat even the dumb
brute, and the vegetable kingdom
seem to. in measure, comprehend,
is "lifc" and death" still the mortal is
yet 10 be born who shall despisa
either.
While we have neither time nor
space 10 further refer, 10 this subject,
yet our young friend is assured that
neither in matter or general scope Is
there anything new in his communi-
cation, and no reform in il education
ally, scientifically. religiously or other
wise
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30

And now comes the Capital in its
issue OF july 2sth, the great prohibit
;ioE light and says. in the second col
lWn on the third page, @ioe-water is
She great American vice, and probably
kills more people than rum"
Oh, major, majcr, how could you?
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30
COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEET
ING - n.

For State senator, 33rd District,
JOHN KELLY, Of Sedgwick.
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SoTIeEa

The nlernbcrscf the new central committee of
the thirty third senatorial district are requested
to rnee, In the city of Wichita on August Cd,
lsss, for the purpose of perfec;ng an organiza-
tion. and transacting such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30
PNEE-seEsIDESr,
JOHN A. LOGAN.
STATE TICKET.

For Chief Justice,
A. II. HORTON. of Atchison.
For Associate Justice,
W. JOHNSTON, of Ottawa.
For Governor,
JOHN 4. MARTIN, ofAtchison.
For Lieutenant Governor,
A. r. RIDDLE, of Crawford.
For Secretary of State.
E. d. ALLEN, of sedguick.
For Auditor,
T.. L. MCCABE, or Graham.
For Treasurer,
s. T. HOWE, of Marion.
For Attorney General,
sB. BRADFORD, Of Usage.
For Superintendent Public instruction.
nLAwHEaD, of Bourbon.
For State senator, 33rd District,
r. or oil ,;a1y
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30

CORRESPOr ~ DEiNTS-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-30

There will be meeting OF the Republic
can county central committee Of Sedgwick
county held in the court house in the City
OF Wichita, on Saturday, August 2, 1ss4, al
2 o'clock p. IN, for the purpose Of consider
ing the time and place OF holding the coun-
" convention. and other important bust
ness. All members of said committee are
expected 10 he present. and all friends are
invited. JNO. KELLY,
Ar. WRIGHT. Chairman.
Secretary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
CONVERSATIONAL
MONDAY, July 7.


Sendte-The senate receded from its
amendment to the bill making tempo
rary provisions for the navy. Sir. Mil
Ter said the people Of California would
be much disappointed, as it left the
coast without defenses. 4 vote of
thanks was given Mr.. Edmunds for the
ability and courtesy with which he had
performed the duties of president PRO
tenn. Messrs. Allison, Hale and Pendle-
ton were appointed on the commission
to consider the organization of the sig
nal service. Mr.. Allison said the aggre-
gate appropriations this year amounted
to $193, POI, 087. At 2:45 o'clock Mr.. Ed
mund6 adjourned the senate aftera brief
speech.
HouSe-In the house Mr.. ]. c.. Black
burn acted as temporary speaker in the
absence Of Mr. Carlisle. A bill was
passed increasing the pension of soldiers
who have lost an arm at the shoulder
Joint to the amount received by those
who have lost a leg at the hip JOINT.
The house adjourned at 8 o'clock.
George III. Sharpe. Thomas G. Reynolds
and Scion Thatcher were appointed a
commission to ascertain the Lest way
of securing more intimate commercial
relations with the countries of South
America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
TELEGRAPH
NERAL NOTES.

The funeral services of Allan Pinker-
ton were held Sunday afternoon.
THE prohibitory liquor law in Iowa
went into effect at midnight July 3. In
Des MOineS previous to that hour liquor
was given free TO all who wished to in
dulge, and drunkenness reigned ramp
ant.
A NEW counterfeit SO silver certifi-
cate has made its appearance in the
west. On the back of the note where it
should read "And all public dues, and
when so received" the word "all" is en-
tirely omitted.
NOTWITHSTANDING the prohibition
law, the distillers at Dubuque, Iowa, are
manufacturing as usual, aud the saloons
are openly selling liquors. The whole
sale dealers are also busy, but they
send out tkeir packages in new shapes.
THE Baltimore Manufacturers Record
will publish seEni-annual statement of
the progress of the south, showing that
during the last six mOnths yearly $70,-
000 900 has been invested in new in
dustrial enterprises and in charging
those already established.
HUBBARD, the defaultiug cashier. Sc
cured the arrest at Monmouth, III. Thurs
day, of James Thompson. of Chicago,
because he threatened his life. Thomp-
son claimes to have lost $4,000 through
Hubbard S embezzlements. A number of
citizens procured ThOmpson's release by
going on his bond, and, with a brass
band serenaded him Thursday night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
CRIME

AT Alliance, Ohio, Sunday, the body
of a woman was found in a woods with
a bullet in the head. Her companion
on the day on which she was last seen
has been arrestedfer the crime.
CALEB PERRY, farmer living eight
miles from Pierre, D. T., was shot aud
killed Saturday by German named Al
bert Lanker.
VIM. R. RUGGLES, Treasurer of Carroll
Co., Iowa, is missing, and the sup ervis-
ors have found shortage in his accounts
of nearly $4,000
A SPECIAL from Alton, ILL.,. to the
Pest-Dispatch, says: A murder occurred
at Rocky Fork, negro settlement about
ten miles from this city. a colored
man, named Williams, tenant on the
farm.of George Sidney, was fred upon
by unknown assassins while at The
door of his cabin getting a~drink of
water. Two shots took effect near his
heart, and Williams dropped DEAD.
There i: no clcw to the murderer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
r@ot. Ty&G CAPITAL

REAR ADMIRAL AMMEN's wife died
Saturday at Washington.
SARGENT, ex-Minister to Germany. az
rived at New York Sunday from Eu-
rope.
The electoral vote will be counted il
the old way next February. The bill
which was intended to remedy the de-
fects OF the law passed both houses of
congress, but the committee of confer
ence could not agree upon points of diff
ference.
BOTH houses Of congress were in SEES
sion until a late hour Sunday evening
All the appropriation bills were passed
except the Naval item, which was rro-
| vided for by making a temporary pro-
vision for six months.
THE Ways and Means Committee
agreed to favorabIy report resolution
providing for the appointment of a COM
mittee OF five members to investigate
the relations between the Alaska Com
mercial Company and the United States,
the object being to learn whether the
company has complied and is now coma
plying with its contract with the gov
ernment.
CONGRESSMAN KAss0N, the new minis
ter to Germany, says that he has no fear
that he may not be able to get along
with Chancellor Bismarck. as he is per-
sonally acquainted with kim ard
with Kaiser William also. Dur
ing his residence in Vienna as minister
to Austria he was in Berlin frequently
and was cordially received and hos
pitably entertained by the Emperor and
Bismarck.
GREAT injustice has been done Mr.
Frank Sperry, who w2s nominated for
the judgeship Ia Dakota. He did not
apply for the office, but asked to be APP
pointed Judge Ia Alaska. That place
having been promised to another person,
Mr.. Sperry was nominated for associate
Judge OF Dakota, but feeling that his ex-
perience in law was not such as to quail
ify him he promptly declined. 1t should
be said that the president and the attor-
ney general have confidence in Mr. Sper-
RVS legal abilities.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR sent q number of
important nominations to the senate
July 4th. They include Congressman
John 4. Kass0n, Of Iowa, minister to
| Germany: Alphonso Taft of Ohio, min
lister to Russia; John NJ. Frances, Of
| New York, minister to Austria, and
Lewis Richmond. of Rhode Island,
minister to Portugal John jarrett,
formerly president Of the Amalgamated
| Association Of Iron and Steel workers,
is nominated for commissioner of labor.
FRANK w. SANBORN was arrested
Monday at New York charged with
offering a forged voucher and receipt for
goods delivered at the bureau of medi-
cine Of the navy department.. Sanborn
asserts his innocence, and states that
two yea1s ago, Daniel w. Corrigan,
chief clerk of the bureau, informed
him that he had made arrangements by
which Sanborn could get money on a
contract, before the goods were deliv-
cred, if he (Sanborn) would lend CORR
gan $500, and that Sergeant General
Wales was party to the scheme. San
born willingly went to Washington
with the officers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
What a Nuisance.

After eating well cooked meal with toIerable
appetite, to be pestered with heartburn! Is that
your case. my dear sir or madam? If So rectify
the difficulty with Hostetters Stomach BitterS,
the national stomachic. 1t viii put the stomach
in good terms with its contents, and enable it to
digest far more rapidly tn an carbonate of soda,
or ginger, or any other carminative Such post
prandial helps are Intellectual and iuiure the
stomach. Not so the Bitters. Digestion is the
proximate effect of its use, a function which
of UGH symptoms as heartburn, fatutence and
acidity of the stomach. Bilious subjects also
derive speedily relief from it AS laxative it is
effective and painless. Rheumatic sufferers testi-
fy TO its good effects, and diuretic it bears
high reputation. LaDguor and lassitude ere sue
ceedad by a feeling of vigorous energy when it is
resorted TO. 1t quietS and strengthens the nerves
a & wine-glassful swallowed before bedtime
enables one to court sleep successfully. Tt also
eradicates malarial poison from the system
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17

AFTER all efforts to reach an agree
ment on the naval appropriation bill
had proved futile Mr.. Randall submit
ted bill to the house making tempo
rary provision for the support of the
navy, for the next six months ending
Dec. 81, 1884, which was finally passed,
The bill appropriates one-half or SO
per cent. of the sums of money appro-
priated for like purposes and continues
the same provisions relating thereto,
as were appropriated for the service
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1884, subject to all limitations and
conditions in respect to the disburse-
ment of the appropriations made that
were imposed by said act and other
laws Of the United States upon or in
respect to the disbursement of the APP
preparations made by said act, provid-
ed that nothing is appropriated by
this act ''for special ocean surveys
and the publication thereof" or 'for
the purchase and manufacture, after
a full investigation and test in the
United States, under the direction OF
the secretary of the navy, of torpe
does. adapted to naval warfare, or OF
the right to manufacture same, and
for fixtures and machinery necessary
for operating the same"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
CAELEGRAMS.

1t is announced from London Minis
ter Lowell will give dinner July 70 in
stead of July t.
War is again threatened between
France and China, the latter refusing to
carry out the terms of the treaty.
THE Pan-Presbyterian Council con
cluded its work Thursday night The
council adjourned to meet in London in
1888.
A DISPATCH from Cairo states that
Khartoum was captured by the Mahdi
the latter part of May. There was no
massacre, the Europeans being well
treated.
The cholera still increases in Toulon
and Marseilles. Thus far two sisters of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
Paris Dispatch.


An exciting scene was witnessed
yesterday afternoon at the JardiD 0es
Plantes. A man leaning over
the wall of the BEARS pit suddenly
overbalanced himself and fell into the
pit, depth of some - feet. lie was
stunned by the fall and had his head
cut open. One of the bears, the big
gest and forcest in the collection, in
stantly approached, and after smell
ing at the man, began licking the
blood from his brow. This caused
the man to revive. Starting up, he
pushed the bear backward, which,
combined with the cries of the by
ISLANDERS above, drove the animal into
a fury. A terrible struggle ensued,
tie bear attempting to seize the mans
head between his teeth, and the roan
holding the bear by the throat. III
timately the officials came up, ard by
dint of rope the poor fellow was ex-
tricated in an exhausted and wound
ed condition. While he Was being
pulled up the bear was kept off by an
IRON bar, with which heavy blows
were dealt at his head. The man,
who is respectable workingman, was
taken to the hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
POET HITS TERRIBLE TRAMP.
10 Start for San Francisco Afoot from
the Big Bridge.
NeW York .Innrnal

1
y Well-oullt man, apparently about
~ years or age, who wore q black
goatee and wide brimmed cowboy
hat, sat III the office of Richard K
FOX the other afternoon. He was
Adrian Hit, the poetical pedestrian.
who was to start at 8 D. m. in an en-.
deavor 10 walk to San francisco.
William E. Harding, Mr.. Fox. and
other sporting men sat around and en-
couraged the venturesome poet with
tales OF men who had been scaIped
while crossing the plains, and pedes
TRANS who had died from sunstroke
and starvation ia the wild woods.
through which a part of Mr.. Hits
roate lies.
You cant scare me, boys, with your
ghost stories, " remarked the rhymiDr
walker. III get there if it takes me
ten years"
Have you any record as pedes-
trlan" asked q Journal reporter.
Yes" replied Mr.. Hit. have
walked a thousand miles in Texas in
less than a week. Besides, I have,a
well established pedestrian reputation
IN the west. | am one of the greatest
poets this country has ever produced.
See this. "
Mr. HIT handed the reporter q small
volume of poems, on the cover of
which was picture of man walking
at twenty mile- hour pace, and
the legend, ireland forever; England
no, never. From the brain, pea and
pencil of Adrian Hit" printed on the
cover. The volume was interspersed
with crude drawings evidently whit,
tied out of a single, and representing
Mr.. Hit walking all the way from five
to fifty miles an hour.
Let me read you a sample verse;
said he, and before his auditors could
stop him he sang:
Oh, if you will but read this book
know you won't be cross.
And over the money you paid for it.
You'll never mourn its loss
This is no common book of prose. SEEayE
The oftener you read it the richer it grows.
When you look at it you'll say its profound
The longer you read it. the better it'll : und,
The poet was seized before he could
recite the 118 other verses, and he con
tinued:
Il shall walk over the toughest
route I can pick out, mountains pre-
ferred. [ expect to make fifty miles
a day, and will telegraph Richard K.
Fox every night from nay stopping
place"
"Dontsend them collect, " INTERCEPT
ed Mr. Harding.
j shall carry no provisions, but
will have plenty Of money to buy
whatever [ need. think can reach
San Francisco inside of a year.
eff you walk as we'll as you write
you'll reach there in three months, "
said Mr. Fox.
This pleased the poet, who present
ed each auditor with a copy Of his
work, "The New Shakespeare" and
then retired to secure some needed
rest.
William E. Harding was asked
whether Hit would really undertake
the proposed task, to which he re
Piled:
He is sincere ia his statements,
and Informed me that some unknown
person has offered him a purse Of
81, 900 to attempt the feat. I have no
doubt he will start off tomorrow, If
he only goes as far as the Jersey City
ferry. He will start from the foot Of
the big bridge