Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-10

| A. 4. Dodge Is candidate Tor auditor o
Sedgwick county. Geo. Steenrod, oul
county commissioner, is a member of the
Idaho Mining Company. He was initiated
at Topeka. Benz. Robinson, Of Butler
county. planted twenty-four acres Of corr
on the Sd and 4th of April. Hon. f. NJ
Dofilemyre will plant his corn this week.
j. G. Hyde says the Short-horn calf be
bought in Missouri gained six pounds pei
day for twenty-five days. The large min.
isterial looking gentleman, with black suit
stove-pipe hat and gold headed cane, walk.
ing with a slight limp on Douglas avenue
one day last week, was DIR. II. f. Garner
of the Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio. lie
says the old soldiers there are mostly pleas.
ed with their situation. They are well
taken care of-have plenty Of good food
and nice clean beds. He says there are
about five thousand soldiers in the home,
and that the institution now has about all
it can accommodate. He thinks the gov.
eminent would do good thing il it should
establish q similar institution in this State.
The doctor says he was never in these parts
before, and he can cay that he never saw a
| finer county than this. There are soldiers
all over this county who will be glad to
learn that their brave old comrades, at
Dayton, are fareing well, and that the Off.
GERS Of the home recognize that the inmates
| are the Nations hon6red guests. :. C.
Summers, of Clearwater, sold ninety head
of fat cattle, averaging twelve hundred
pounds, for IS per hundred. :. In time past
about every man in the West could express
a decided opinion in regard to the great
senator Of New York, Roscoe Conkling.
Now only few people can tell who repre-
sents New York in the United States Sem
ate. Owing to reduction Of railroad
rates, corn sold in this city last week for
45 cents per bushel. This week the rates
are restored, and corn sells at 80 to IS cents.
1t will now be in order for some one to rise
and explain the position Of II. G. Ingersoll
when he said, "The consumer pays the
| freights, and it would make no difference to
the farmers if the railroads shipped the
grain for nothing, the grain would sell for
just that much less in market" Eighteen
of the officials of the A., 7. & S. +. r. R.
| took dinner at the fremont House, in this
| city, Tuesday of last week. Cyrus Sulli-
van says Kechi is all right for another wheat
crop. He never saw wheat look better at
this time Of year :. Yank Owens has been
on the sick list, but is now able to be about.
Yank says if he dies, tell the g. A. Il. to
fire farewell salute over his grave. >. Last
Saturday man at one of our hotels wrote
| q very confidential letter-it seemed to be
strictly copfidential-and addressed it to a
lady in Wellington. The letter was left !y-
ing on the table and an envelep addressed
to the lady in Wellington. As that letter
was read by only two gentlemen, and the
gentleman's name who wrote the letter not
appearing on the register, it was consigned
to the stove. If the gentleman will write
that sort OF q letter in some other town,
and leave it on the table, it might work its
way to Wellington, but never from Wichi-
ia The prohibition meeting at the Meth
odist Church, last Sunday night, was q
noted one. The elder of the church said
that there were three voices calling to man
in favor of prohibition history, nature
and the Scriptures. As the history Of hu.
man government is history of the repeat
ed violation of the rights Of mana history
OF despotisms-it may be truthfully said
that the elder is correct in his first position.
But as nature does not teach prohibition,
and as the word of God, which the elder is
suppose to preach, teaches directly the op.
posite doctrine, it may be remarked that il
is about 100 per cent. wrong. He said pro.
hibition had reduced the use Of liquors
| 100 per cent, and crime 100 per cent. Pro-
hbition speakers should not forget that 100
per cent. of a number is the whole business.
The saloon men are getting the worst
of it. One by one they stand up before
Judge Sluss and receive sentence. In my
opinion, men who own property in this
city are foolish to continue in the liquor
business. All this talk that, by electing
anti-prohibitionists TO office, gives the sa-
loon men any advantage, is sheer nonsense.
What more could T. b. Wall, as county at
torney, have done than David Dale has
done !; or, what more could Murray Myers,
as sheriff, have done than John Fisher has
| done? just simply nothing. For respon-
sible men to run open saloons, and pay this
city a license, when the city fails to give
them any protection, is simply an outrage.
Gentlemen, close up your houses, and re-
fuse longer to furnish revenue for this city,
! and at the same time submit to these pros
ecutions. Let US have prohibition and drug
stores. BY responsible men running sa-
looms and paying fines prohibition is made
more respectable. When the business is
run by parties who are unable to pay fines
aud costs, (which it will be when the men
| now in the business go OUT, we will have
fair test Of prohibition. II prohibition
can stop the smugglers it will be success.
ID.