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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-19

an all-round blast from various quarters.
The law changing the S%hrievalty from that
of a fee to a salaried Office took place to-
day, and great was the CONSERVATION of
Deputy Sheriffs Gibbs and Evans when they
were informed that the salaries contem-
plated by the Commissioners amounted to
the extensive sum Of $50 per month. A
determined kick on the part of the deputies
and a defiant promise OF their resignation
resulted in their remuneration for services,
being placed at $1OO-just double the pro.
posed mount.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-19

Fred. LIE Fevrc, a popular hotel pro-
prietor OF Denver, who has been making a
trip to the coast, is in Butte on his return
home.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-19

To THOUSAND AND NINE tons
of quarts, crushed by a fifty-stamp mill in
t~wenty-nine days, produced 81, 500, at q
total expense Of SGT 900. How 10 that for
the Drum Lummon2 CAPITAL,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
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ALTON TOWNSHIP.
SALEM TOWNSHIP.

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
ANXIOUS INQUIRER.

In answer to Anxious Inquirer's" long
list of questions touching the city, county
and state officials we can only find space to
say briefly: All officers, from the highest to
the lowest, in city, county and state, before
they can enter upon the discharge Of any
public duty must take and subscribe to a
solemn oath to obey the constitution and
laws, all of them. The great underlying
guaranty Of the perpetuity Of free govern
ment like ours is the sacred observance Of
the spirit of the laws, especially by sworn
officials chosen TO administer and execute
the will of the people as expressed in the
laws. There is nothing that SO weskeDs our
form Of government and renders dangerous
law.ess spirits as disposition to disregard
and trsmple under foot any law.
As Gen. Grant once said, the best way in
the world to get rid of an unjust or obnox-
ious law is in its strict enforcement The
obligation to observe all laws rests upon all
citizens alike, but with peculiar force upon
the officer who has sworn to execute them.
OF course when subsidiary law-making
powers enact laws, rules or ordinances pur-
posely TO contrsvene the constitution or
laws of the state, the men composing them
simply violate their oaths, in fact, but we
would not like to say that one-half of the
sworn officers in the state, or that the offic-
ers of the majority of the cities of Kansas,
were thus guilty In a hundred years from
now we hope things viii be different, though,
from what they are now.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
RECKLESS EnmNEERs.

An engineer with only bis engine and cat
came rushing down the hill east of town
day before yesterday morning. and BY th'
cemetery crossing, at the rate Of about forty
five or sixty mile an hour. The hedges ar
high at that crossing and the track canno
be seen from the road, notwithstanding M
whistle was sounded or bell rang. Capt NJ
L. Moser, who was driving leisurely alona
with skittish mare, found himself on tn
track and the engine not fifty feet away
But for the lucky circumstances of the mar,
becoming frightened and jumping into :
dead run Mr.. Moser's estate would have
been ready to administer. The engin
passed him so close as to blow off bis hat
As for the mare, she took her cussing out in
running away with the buggy, captain and
all. Moser hasn't cooled off yet, and we
don't blame him. Somebody ought to be
made put up for such recklessness.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
SHOOTS orr HIS MOUTH.

One J. p. Martin, signing himself "Adj't
Gen1., Dept No." had his smartness airet
through the associate pres news ofyester
day morning, in the matter Of letter which
he no doubt intended should be both cut,
and sarcastic. The reading public do MOI
desire any information rs to the lack o.
practical business sense and want Of
efficiency of the average regular shoulder.
strapper. So far - the news given by the
associate press and is reliability are con-
cerned tho EAGLE on the evening Of the 7th
sent out about all there was. 1t was gath
cred from specials sent to this Office by men
possessing as much brains, judgment and
reliability as the smart aleck who signs
Ad;t. g en'l. to his name. That dispatch
covered all the news received by Governor
Martin, but it closed with these lew words,
as anyone can verify by turning to the col
ums of any daily published in the country:
"No special was received to-day from the
Territory, but the EAGLE, which has perfect
arrangements for news, and is tracing every
movement made by he the Indians, is still
inclined TO think the Cheyennes could not
have reached Pratt county without gen
eral alarm, even though the worst had oc-
Cured at the agency or ut Cantonment.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
A SIcKLY SMILE.

The Hutchinson man who INDUCES in that
sickly smile through the Commonwealth
over the Reformatory matter, would do well
to wipe the subsidized swill off his face be-
fore talking so giibly of what the Santa Fe
road has done for Wichita If the Santa Fe
ever did anything for Wichita more than to
deliver and take up freight and passengers
at the regular rates, We have not had any
notice of it. The Santa Fe has treated
Wichita Just rs she has treated all other
towns on her branch lines, no better and no
worse, while there is not town along her
main line, hardly, including Emporia,
Florence, Newton, Hutchinson, Nickerson,
Larned, Great Bend and Dodge, that some
one of her arrangements have not favored
and helped. The Santa Fe holds lease
only, and operates short line which reaches
Wichita, but has no other interest here ex-
cept what she has bought and paid for,while
she has expended hundreds of thousands
to settle Reno and other western counties
along the main line. By the time Hutchin-
son raises that little bonus or subsidy, if she
ever does in and of herself, that smile will
be transferred to q woful smirk on the other
corner of the mouth, possibly. So far as
Wichita is concerned she desires no aid nor
encouraging words from any town on the
main line, while citizens of Hutchinson in
our judgment should not be too previous in
writing letters to the Commonwealth reflect
ing on the management of the Santa Fe, but
for whose interest the Reformatory would
never have gone to Reno county in all
probability. We could suggest several
other little pointers to the Hutchinson
asmiler" but will content ourself with re-
minding him that in kicking the Santa Fe
he is not only kicking Hutchinson's best
friend but that only twenty-four thousand
dollars remains to be expended this year on
the Reformatory, and that it rests with future
legislatures as to what else shall be done and
that in the meantime the nineteen counties
down this way that heartily favored Wichi-
ia will after the superintendent of next
winter turn up with nearly four hundred
thousand people or upwards of one-fourth
of the representatives of the state. Be sure
you are ready before YOU crow.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.

The Topeka Commonwealth and Leaven-
worth Times make complaint that the news
companies don't give the said papers fair
show on Kansas railroad trains, and Gov
ernor Martin calls the attention of the rail-
road commissioners to the matter officially.
We suggest that this is matter beyond the
power of the governor and commissioners
combined to regulate. If the Times and
Commonwealth can't work the matter them
selves no other power can. The EAGLE has
no such trouble The train boys on the
Frisco carry the DAILY EAGLE as far east as
Pierce City. No.; on the Missouri Pacific as
far east as Fort Scott; on the Santa Fe south
to two points on the Indian line; west on the
Wichita and Western, southwest to An
thony and north to Newton. If the EAGLE
could persuade the commission
to order close connection of the
morning train with the west at Newton
our daily circulation would be increased
at least from one to two thousand, but if we
should ask such thing we would be laughed
at and ought to be. The EAGLE is sold on
the lines that we speak of simply because
there is demand for it BY the travelling
public such as pays the news company for
handling it, and on two. of the lines the
EAGLE takes the preference over either the
Topeka or Kansas City papers-there is
more of them sold. But, of course, if the
governor can through the commissioners
regulate the one matter in the interest of the
Commonwealth and Times the EAGLE will
call on him to regulate the other. and on
the ground that railroad companies have no
business(?) to run their trains in such away as
to cut out so important paper as the EAGLE.
There are about forty growing cities on the
main line of the Santa Fe, west, whose en-
terprising citizens are almost sick for the
great daily of the southwest and who are on
ly deprived of daily perusal of its enter
tanning, newsy and instructive columns be-
cause the Santa Fe lacks few minutes of
making the proper connection at Newton,
but all that will be cured when that road
will find it profitable to operate her princi-
pal trains from Wichita instead of Kansas
City. which won't be SO long in the future
as some people might think. Ifthat time
don't soon come then the EAGLE will be
forced to run its own newspaper train up
the valley as far as Pueblo and Triuicad.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
IMPORTANT SALE AND EXCHANGE.

Biting Bros. bought of J. II. Alley yester
day the premises No. 100 Douglas avenue
now occupied by Smith & Stover's sho'
store, the consideration being $4,000
Their objec. being to secure more room il
their business, they had, by previous agree
ment, traded the said premises with join
Braitch for his premises joining their store
on the west, so as to enable them TO enlarge
their store room. They will now build ,
four-foot stone foundation in connection
with Mike Zimmerly's building, and at som'
future time they will erect building OF
the newly purchased premises in conjunc
ton with their present store that the city
need not be ashamed Of The Biting Bros
have long felt the want of more commod
ious quarters to accommodate their rapidly
growing trade, and now they have made ar
rangements that will give them. all the room
they want. When this addition is finished
they will tear out the west wall of theil
present store and thus have a show room o.
50xl20, which will be by far the largest
clothing room in the city.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
A COLLEGE ON COLLEGE HILL

Two ministerial representative Of the
United Presbyterian church me. several of
our representative property holders and
ministers yesterday afternoon at the Office of
the Wichita Land and Loan company in the
rear Of the Wichita National bank at which
time proposition looking to the building
ola representative UNCONVENTIONAL college
for the states of Kansas, Colorado and the
western part of Wisconsin, in this city
which is TO be conducted and endowed by
the United Presbyterian church of the ter
r;tory named. We learn that the gentle
men representing the church ask
fifteen acres of land for site, $4,000 in
money, and 900 in land at a fair valua-
ton. The church upon its part proposes to
give $4,000 to start the endowment and
$4,000 for the same purpose in four annual
installments; and further, TO double any
sum that Wichita may deem wise to invest
In college of that character.
The meeting adjourned till O'Clock this
evening at the same place, when all who are
interested in this great enterprise are cor
daily invited TO be present The repre-
sehtatives say that Wichita was chosen as
the best place for such an institution in the
states named and there was going to be no
bidding or hawking.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10

The timely arrival at home of Mr.. n. F.
Niederlandcr, on the evening of the Fourth.
frustrated a burglary of his residence. He
and family had been visiting at his brothers,
and the hired girl went to the park, leaving
the house shit up. Just as Mr.. n. reached
the front of his house he heard glass break,
and upon entering found that pane was
broken into one room and that the blinds
had been torn off another window. Only
that he arrived just when he did the house
certainly would have been robbed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10

DIR. E. ?. Miller, of New York city, who is
quite land buyer, and who owns farms in
Bourbon, Sedgwick and other southern
Kansas counties, made us call yesterday.
lie is going out into some of the new west
ern counties this week to see what there is
out there to buy. The doctor is a very
pleasant and intelligent gentleman, who has
nationa! reputation SO far as the great
thinkers and writers on tariff reforms are
concerned, being a contributor to several
well known tariff journals. The doctor is
the gentleman who contributed several very
readable communications to the EAGLE from
New York during the past wear
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
Anornrs COUNTY HEARD rsox.

4 Tbs EAGLE calls the attention of the states
men who have bean al along satished viii
utilizing the grip they have held on OLD
pocket that there 10 another county in
Southwest Kansas that will soon be heard
from. Comanche county d destined ere
many morths to become . particularly heavy
Joint in the tail which is going eventually
waeRle the dog. We simply mention the
TACT nov because the men living in the old
settled portions Of this state are mighty
scarce who know anything about Southwest
Kansas proper. The attention Of railroad
owners and builders is also gratuitously
given pointer. Comanche county is des-
tined in the near future, ia fact right away,
to cut swsth 90 wide in the statistics Of
Kansas that many Of the old counties won't
know whether they belong to the same field
or not We have said little about it outside
of the letters of our correspondents but for
several months we have been keeping track
of the rush in that direction. A majority of
the railroad men and statesmen OF Ksnsas
have not got it fairly through
their wool yet that the coun-
ties along the line of the Territory, and
westward of the Arkansas river are of bet
ter soil and better wstered than the coun-
ties on the upper Arkansas valley. Never
theless that is true. While Comanche is
only one of the counties out there belong
ing to this category, nevertheless it lie one
Of the leading ones. Comanche county is
one of the best watered counties in the state,
with a fine and rich soil as can be found
anywhere, and q soil free from gumbo and
alkali. The heads of three important
streams tsaverse and water nearly her entire
territory, namely: The head waters of the
Medicine river, the Camaron river, and the
Nescatunga. We met yesterday an old &C
quaintance just in from Coldwater in that
county, and he says the place has several
hundred inhabitants, and is growing rapidly,
and that in looking abroad over the undu-
ating prairies for miles and miles away every
quarter section appears to be occupied.
He travelled all over the county and
i is all about equally fine,
well-water of the very best quality, and soft,
IS readily obtained anywhere. He said
'urther that it looks to-day good deal more |
ike living in Comanche county than it did
n Sedgwick twelve years ago. In answer
o question about crop prospects, he said
everything was as promising as it could be,
md that in another year Comanche would
have q surplus to ship. The extension of
he Wichita and Western railroad to Dodge
would run within six miles of the northern
inc of Comanche and branch of twenty |
niles would reach the center OF that county. |
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
CHICAGO! WICHITA!
The Eagles Line on its Feet.
Company Organized and Charter Filed.
Abilene On ahai-The Arkaasaw
Near 10 Scream! Cone to Taw At Wlchital

At Topeka day before yesterday, in pur
suance to previous call, q number Of rep.
resentative gentlemen from the more i'm
portant towns named along the proposed
new line of railroad, or independent oatlei
from Wichita to Chicago. met and, after q
full and free Endorsement of all that had
heretofore been done, corporation was or
gsnized and the charter fled for a new ana
independent line of railway from the Arkan-
sas valley, starting at Wichita and running
via Peabody, Marion Center, Abilene, Clay
Center and northward to q suitable or the
most direct and convenient connection with
the B. & M. system or other Chicago lines at
Beatrice, Lincoln or Omaha, as the directors
may elect Wichita was made or desig-
mated as the headquarters for the principal
Offices. and the following gentlemen sub
scribed TO the oath of the charter:
Peabody-F. II. Ksllock. banker.
Marion-A. NJ. Crane, banker, and S. T.
Howe, state treasurer.
Clay Center-D. A. Valentine, late presi-
Dental elector and editor of Times.
Abilene-J. Z. Bonebrake, banker; J. NJ.
Fisher banker; G. w. Hurd, banker, and J.
r Burton, speaker pro tenn house of repre-
sentatives.
Wichita-M. w. Levy, banker; J. H.
Blackwelder, capitalist; V. Moffet, mer-
chant; N. F. Neiderlander capitalist and
real estate, and DR.. C. z. Furley.
There was much important information
and correspondence laid before the new or
ganizstion by its members and by others
interested who were present at the meeting.
The line is viewed rs not only feasible one
by railroad men and one whose local traffic
would be second to no other new line in the
state, but which, as a connecting link be-
tween the north and south systems of Kan.
sas and Nebraska, and between the Chicago
and the Arkansas valley, would loom up in
to vast importance as to all the interests
noted. The character Of the men who are
enlisted in the enterprise is sufficient gusran-
ty that all the preliminary expenses will be
promptly met and the work earnestly prose-
cuted. The realty values of the towns ard
territory to be tapped by this line will be
enhanced the moment the en-
terprise is an assured fact.
With this line as indicated, constructed
and in operation, and the Fl Smith & Lit
tie Rock extended to Wichits-and
the latter enterprise is being put on its feet
as rapidly as possible-the future Of Wichi-
ia is not only assured as great city. but
she can bid defiance to all opposition and
inimical interests.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
Fsrrs,l's Add.-sx bi,k A.

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
ROWING FANCIES.

The Winfield Courier's worriment ovei
the style and price of the hosiery worn by
Wichita's hired girls is ofi-color and need.
less. OF course we cannot deny that they
are both neat and expensive. If the editor
Of the Courier could but persuade Wind
fields society bellies to initiate Wicbita't
hired girls in but this one particular, how
much higher might the fancies of its old
bald-headed editor rove as, in some pleasant
reverie, through his sanctum window, his
eyes fastened upon the surrounding scenery
on a muddy afternoon.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
DESERVED PROMOTION

The promotion of Mr.. j. f. GODDARD, the
general traffic manager of the Santa Fe, to
the position of assistant general Manager Of
the road, is a most merited ard deserved
one. He has been in charge of the freight
ing interests of the road for wears, and like
Mr.. Robinson, his chief, knows the system
and its needs from the ground work up.
The confidence of the directory in Mr.. God
dard's ability and trustworthiness is un-
bounded, and well it may be- He has earned
his promotion, and his many friends in this
state will congratulate him.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
PARK TOWNSHIP
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
THE NEW cArHoLlccHuRcH

As is known the Catholic society of this
city more than year ago put in founda-
ton for the largest church edifce in this
city. Father Kelly informs us that the
bishop came down the other day and
authorized the raising of the walls of the
basement seven feet, which will give base
ment room of twelve feet in the clear and
the full size of the building. This will be
finished up and used for services until the
upper portion of the main structure can be
put up. No doubt many will be disappointed
that the decision was not for completion.
Nevertheless the church will be in a good
shape to work and utilize its forces. Brick
are already being delivered and work will
commence Immediately.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-10
A DEEP-HEAD.

Mr.. T. b. Young laid upon our table
yesterday morning head of cabbage which
after being stripped down to the white folia-
tons, weighed plump fourteen pounds. II
was in fact, for the season of the year, the
finest and most perfect head Of cabbage we
ever saw. He called it the "Deep-Head" va
riety and it was grown on his home place
between the rivers six miles north of the
city. His patch contains three thousand
like heads. The head above alluded to
measures but about three feet in circumfer-
ence, but its solidity and perfect shape could
not be excelJed.