Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-08
STATE OF KANSAS, EXECUTIVE

NAY Il. 1854. |
f. r. Ford. County CLERK, HSeAnG:
DEAR sIR-Your letter Of May 81, con-
tanning copy of resolution adopted by your
board requesting me TO offer reward for
the arrest and conviction of the persons
who set fire to the NJ. f. Church in the city
of Wichita, ETC., is at hand. / will offer a
reward of s2eO for the arrest and conyic-
ton of the guilty parties. 1 cannot offer
reward Of $500 as that is the highest amount
that can be offered and is only offered in
eases OF murder. The legislature appro-
PIRATES only $4,000 for the purpose of offer
ing rewards, and you can see that from the
number of murders committed and the re-
wards offered that that sum is very made
quate, and it IL very unusual to issue proc
lamations other than in cases OF murder. /
am, sir, your obedient servant.
G. W. CLICK.
TUESDAY. the Goth inst, will be the first of
three-days' session of the grand lodge of
this State, Of the knights of Pythias, in this
city. The city will look as it never looked
before. All the business houses will be
profusely decorated aud we have been prom.
ised two or three arches spanning the ave-
nue. and Main street. The parade by the
gallant knights "a thousand or more are ex.
pected) dressed in their handsome uniforms |
with their beautiful and costly side-arms, |
will certainly present scene worth going |
20 see. One seldom has-living IN a new |
country like ours-an opportunity TO see .
parade and display Of this kind. So if you
fail TO be here on that day aud take in the |
music of two dozen bands: see the decora- |
tions; witness the competitive drill see
10000 or 15,009 strangers, don't blame the |
EAGLE for it, for we now give fair notice |
that if the weather is propitious May 10th,
10th and 2lsi will be the three biggest gala
days Wichita ever had.
The sermon Of Rev. J. ID. Hewitt, at the
Presbyterian Church Sunday morning, was
ringing discourse, full of radical truths
pronounced with distinctness only equaled
by their fearlessness. The subject OF the
discourse was the evil of the hour and its
manifestation in the destruction of the
Methodist Church by fire last Friday night.
At times be raised TO such heights In his ell
oquence MS 10 cali forth applause. His text
was from Isaiah .'The whole head is sick
and the heart faint" In diagnosing the
disease now affecting the country, and
against which the church is arrayed, he
traced it TO two principal causes, viz: aver
ice and appetite, for which he prescribed
home and liberty. We cannot give a syn
opsis of the sermon, but we think him in
clined to place too much moral responsible
ty upon the secular press. While paper
whose moral tone is not sound should not
be supported, nevertheless the field of gen.
erai intelligence and enlightenment belongs
more particularly to the newspapers, as does
that Of morals and religion belong TO the
pulpit, although, incidentally, each will and
should occupy the field OF the other. The
preacher talks TO an audience which is in
full sympathy with him, the editor ever TO
mixed audience embracing every coDceiva-
Bile notion, and but small portion Of which
believes with him or in him. II