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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
A GOOD BYE.

Prof. Arbuckle leaves this morning fol
Erie. Pennsylvania, his old home, where hi
business calls him. The professor has moi
only made hosts Of friends in this city, blu,
in all the adjoining cities and counties with
whose people his business has brought him
in contact BE viii be missed in many way,
and a. many times. For long time pas,
hardly civic or religious society attempted
an entertainment until they had secured the
services of Prof. Arbuckle as either Q
speaker or ringer or both. In bidding him
good bye we but give expression to the gen.
erAl wish that his future may be flled with
joy and brightness, which are such promi-
nent elements in his makeup. and that pros
perity may attend all the days Of his LIFE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
NAME THE SCHOOL HOUSES.

With the completion Of the new school
buildings there viii be two permanent school
buildings in each of the four original wards
and one in the Fifth ward. To number or
name them viii be found q necessity. The
EAGLE is not insisting but suggesting TO the
school board the propriety Of naming each
permanent building. 1t strikes us that
numbering or naming viii be found necs-
sary. In naming historical or even local
names other than personal might sppropri-
atalv be chosen
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
OFFENSIVE PARTIsANs.

It's an i'll wind that blows nobody good.
We were honored yesterday with calls from
three offensive pArtisians who having been
supplied with their walking papers were out
looking for the next best thing in sight,
which is of course an interest in Wichita
DIR. w. w. Curry, Of the Medical Board of
Appeals of the Pension Bureau, Washing
ton, d. C., and Major J. B. Glover, Consul
70 Havre, France, and Capt Finney, Il special
examiner, composed the honored roll invad-
ing our ssnctum. The two former gentle
men were out prospecting and the latter
gentleman. in company with Mr.. Cameron,
of FL Dorado, had been out in Western Kan
sas for some days. They say the growth
and development made by some sections of
Meade and other counties are simply mar
velous. Mr.. Finney desires TO locate in our
city providing he finds everything as he
hopes 10 on further enquiry
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
TO BE PTTIED.

A young lady member of the institute al
Howard mnde the statement that Wichits
was the fourth city in the state in popula.
ton, wbereupon they drew the census Of
1888 on Der and laughed her down. She
writes ne for the facts. We answer tina,
Wichita has more than double the popula-
ton of 1888 and that Wichita is the third
city in the state, If not the second. Wichita
way back last spring had 1903 inhabitants
no census since Topeka leads us and
Leavenworth claims to-clain. not vet made
good. The members Of that institute save
and except Miss Hattie Ward, don't know
enough to hold Office under a Democratic
administration, and the school children Of
that county are TO be pitied.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
DOWN THE VALLEY
And on to the Mississippi and
Gulf.
The Wichita q Arkansas Valley Rail-
way Incorporated.

In straight line 1t is four hundred miles
from Wichita to Arkansas City on the Mis-
sissippi river, which city is one hundred
miles below Memphis. Just one-hAlf Of the
distance from that point to Wichita is al
ready traversed by q railway. AT Arkan-
sas City connections are made by rail with
New Orleans, and the Ohio & Chesapeake
and the Mobile railway systems, and with
the Gulf and with all the lower Mississippi
cities BY the Mississippi river. From Fl
Smith, the western terminus Of the Arkan-
sas Valley railway, it is two hundred miles
to Wichita by the verdigris and Cana val
leys, which Is almost an air line, or about
two hundred and fifty miles by the way of
the Arkansas Valley, which makes more
circuitous route.
As was announced by special in these
columns yesterday morning new and
and strong corporation has been organized
for the purpose of constructing at least the
Kansas portion of the link between Witcita
and Fl Smith. A cusory survey has been
made Of the route by way of Douglas, But
Ter county and on in the general direction
Of Sedan, in Chatauqus county, nearly
through the north central portion of Cow
ley county, and on the Cana river valley.
OF that portion of the two hundred miles to
be built to put Wichita in direct commune
cation with the Mississippi river and the
Gulf system of roads, about eighty miles
would be inside the state and would traverse
not only as prosperous section as can be
found in the state but one
which is naturally tributary to
to this city. 1t is the line contemplated by
the general traffic manager of the Fl. Smith
& Little Rock road, who paid our city Wis
it this spring in that interest, and the line
which we wrote up at that time. We can't
say whether it would prove Of greater or
less importance to Wichita than the Omaha
line, but in connection with that line will be
of paramount value 10 all the territory in
Kansas which either or both will traverse.
The EAGLE has gone SO often over the
many advantages of this southeast outlet TO
the Mississippi that it is unnecessary to
enumeratc them at this time. Everybody
understands them. We find an editorial on
the subject on our files as early as May,
1872. A right of way through the territory
has been the barrier, but it is one that can
now be removed because southern interests
have been awakened to its importance.
In the meantime there is no reason for
any delay in getting the preliminaries set
tied for an early construction Of the road
from Wichita TO the Indian line, for as a To-
cal railway merely it will be valuable to not
only its owners primarily but to Wichita.
Mr.. Robinson, of Toledo, Ohio, whose
name heads the list of incorporstors. is an
old experienced railroad man and hnancier
whose relations with capitalists and especi-
ally railway capitalists, are intimate. He is
at present, we believe, managing an Ohio
road as its Receiver. The other members of
the company, including Hon. Neil Wilkie,
banker and stock raiser Of Butler county
are all we'll known.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
THE ARKANSAS.
A Letter and Some Yerses.

| Letter ana some tersess
1t will be remembered by our local read
ers that Prof Hay, the eulogist, was in this
city this spring on his way out to make q
survey of the valley counties west of Wichi-
ia. While in this city he was guest Of
Mr.. j. r. Mead, to whom be writes the fol-
lowing letter after his return home:
JUNCTION, CRY, Kas., Aug. IA, 1886.
JAS. R MEAD, ESQ.,:
DEAR SIR am at home again after o
journey of thirteen or fourteen hundred
miles. went from Winfield west to Medi-
cine Lodge whence l made several excur-
sions into the Gypsum hills and elsewhere,
then edged off Edwards county to Dodge
City. Then on the north side of the Arkan-
sas few miles into Colorado, then back as
far as Lakin, and across the river, west and
south to the north fork, then the main
stream of the Cimmaron, thence easterly
through Meade, Clark and Comanche coun-
ties to Medicine Lodge. Then rapidly
through Kingman home, without time to
stop at Wichits as we should very much
have liked.
We saw the various forms of caps of red
rock and gypsum in the hills west of Medi
cine Lodge very much as you had described
them to us. was able satisfactorily TO de-
termine the relation of several strata, and to
find that it would take more time to deter
mine others.
The settling up of those counties is mar
vel-the way people are crowding in is as
.tonishing, but the resources of the country
is simply beyond calculation; the possibili-
ties of the future of southwestern Kansas
simply stupendous.
One OF the things determined was the
origin of the redness of the bluff formation
as you have it below Wichita, and / traced
the enormous gravel deposits to their source
in an extensive tertiary conglomerste, the
weathering of which is yet yielding abund-
ance of pebbles.
Following the Arkansas for nearly 200
miles, it looked glorious with its broad food
and many islands. At Garden City wrote
the enclosed lines and as you are situated
on the river, thought possibly the ladies Of
your household might be interested in read
ing them.
1t is not impossible that may see you
again during the fall, as want to take an
other run down south soon. With kind re-
CARDS, am, yours truly,
ROBERT HAT.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
WICHITA BENEFITED THE MOST.

| The EAGLES assertion few days sinct
that It made no difference how many road
were built in southwest Kansas noen of then
could prove detrimental to Wichita so long
as her roads intersected them all, has beer
dissented to by several. The proposition
holds good, nevertheless. For an instance
take the d. NJ. & A. enterprise. If tha,
road is built say from Belle Plaine TO King
man it will be Of more benefit to Wichita
intersected as il will be by Wichita roads
than it will be to any other town. WicLits
has but one road to Kingman. The build.
ing of that road will give wholesalers Of
Wichita completing lines to both Kingman
and Belle Plaine; that is, Wichita goods will
reach Kingman by either the w. & w. OF
by the Fl. Scott and d. N. s. A., and Belle
Plsine by the Santa Fc and by the Fl. Scot
and d., N. & A. To say that these lines
will not combine to compete and run trsini
and do business between these points and
Wichita is nonsense. Wichita being the
supply point, the Kingman merchant wont
care which way his goods are shipped 90
he gets the lowest rate So with the Belle
Plaine merchant, and SO it will be with the
Winfield merchant if the D., M. & A. should
ever extend that far east. So it will be with
any point on the Santa Fe northwest thai
the D., NJ. & A. may touch Therefore, Al
we said, the building of tho d., NJ. & A
over the line proposed from Winfield to hs
intersection with the Santa Fe northeast will
benefit Wichita more than il will any other
town, simply because Wichita is the supply
point and all intersecting lines must COM
bine to compete for her freight and travel as
against all single lines, wherever combina-
ton is possible. For another instance;
Three years ago any man who who had ten
cars or one car load Of hogs, or what not to
ship from Wichita to Newton, would have
been compelled to pay the Santa FEES local
rate. But it is not so to-day, simply be-
cause shipment Of such importance can be
sent by a competing line.
Everything pulls together for the good Of
the fellow who's on top and the proposition
is sound that it makes not against Wichita
however many roads are built in this section
so long as Wichita is the supply point and
so long as her roads intersect all others.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
THE CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE.

Yesterday evening an EAGLE reporter
while perambulating the city to find ou
what was going on was attracted to the "Y'
of the Santa Fe and Frisco railways, by see
ing a force of men and teams at work there
and fence posts up around all that spact
known as the common between the two rail
roads. He was soon convinced the aeon
solidated Tank Line" meant business and
that they made no delay as soon as the
council granted them the right to put ur
their works there. A number of teams with
scrapers were busily engaged e1cavating &
cellar 50 feet BY so and to be four feet in
depth, near the Santa Fe track. In CONVEX
sation with the company's manager, who
is experimenting the work, the
reporter learned the following about
the plans of the company
At present they will build two store roomi
and a cooper shop. One store room will be
built over the excavation already mentioned
and the other, which will be a0x60 feet will
be erected by the Frisco track. The oil will
be drawn frora the tanks into barrels and
stored in these warehouses. The entire
grounds, about three acres, will bs enclosed
by board fence seven feet high with q
bsrbed wire on top, so that no one can
climb in there and cause an accident
Everything will be fitted up with care, so
tine works will be neither dangerous nor a
nuisance. The concern will give employ
ment to from thirty to fifty men, including
coopers, and they will buy up all coal oil
barrels. This concern will be very i'm
portant adjunct TO the business interests of
the city and will from year TO year
in magnitude. The Topeka
Commonwealth, referring 10 the filing of the
charter of the Wichita and Arkansas Valley
railroad, said it was dark ard cloudy day
when there was not some big scheme orig
mated in Wichita.
That's so, and the thermometer is down
pretty low when work is not progressing on
some of these big schemes.
The importance Of the consolidated tank
lines works can hardly be over-estima.ed, as
they viii keep pacein growth with the four
ishing young cities scattered all over south
western Kansas.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
TWO pEPors IN pELANo.

1t R proposed, we believe. by the Wichits
& Colombo company TO build . depot in
Delsno township. II that is true, OF If it i
embodied in the proposition TO subscribe
stock, ii viii result in the establishing Of q
station by the w. 4 w. in that township in
self protection, and somewhere near the
center east and west We can see no partic-
ular Objection TO the claim for depot on the
W. 4 C., which If granted must result in
the other on the W. & w.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
NO PAPER AFFAIR

Touching = rumor on the street yesterday
that draft for small amount drawn upor
the treasurer Of she Omaha, Abilene q
Wichita Railway company had gone TO pro
test, we are authorized by Mr.. Levy, thu
sressurer,to state said paper was drawn with
out authority. And further we are author.
lied to state that any order, drsft or CHECK
on the treasurer OF that company, properly
signed by the president and counters;gned
by the secretary, for any amount from one
dollar to twenty-five thousand, or from
twenty-five thousand TO one hundred thous-
and win be promptly paid. II anybody
takes The Omaha, Abilene & Wichita road
for paper concern they will get left.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
A SOUTHERN MANS VIEWS.

Judge Pintsrd, Of Matches, who is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Ray Oliver of this city,
made us call yesterday. Judge P. is ma
tive of the south and be says that the life
and activity of such cities as Wichita are
revelations to the average southerner and
even 10 him well nigh incomprehensible.
The Judge takes rather gloomy view of
the future for the cotton states. The col
ored man is the great clog and break. Dom
mating in numbers and without ambition
TO accumulate, except in rare instances,
their movements are as slow as the action Of
their brain. The great body of them are
content that each day shall provide for
itself and as they ill all avenues Of manual
labor their seems little chance for northern
push or enterprise to get foot-hcld. To
our proposition that the west will have soon
reached her maximum development and that
northern energy would force itself into the
south as the next best field for development
he disscnted, giving as q reason the lsssitude
and want of ambition Of those who held the
situation. Judge p. says be could hardly
conceive OF fairer or more prosperous land
than this valley, or of city more full Of
evidences Of future growth and importance.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
NEW KIOWA.

NEW KIowA, Kas.. Aug. II
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
We are still booming and since the COM
pletion of the railroad We have had severa
trains day hauling the beeves from the
range. Lemont's ranch had the honor oil
shipping the first train Of cattle over the
new route. A number of herds from the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe country are en-
route for New Kiowa and already the town
is full of vim and hustle.
Several hundred strangers are in town and
each train brings more.
A number of prominent cattlemen are at
the Hardwick looking after their interests.
We received notice Tuesday that grand
excursion from Ohio, Missouri and Illinois
will reach here on the afternoon Of the 10Th
instant.
Land is selling rapidly in bodies of half
sections and less to actual rett!ers who will
improve the wild west at once.
Crops never were better than they are
here at present.
Tuesday afternoon about 4:80 the town
was visited by very heavy wind and rain
storm that lasted about an hour. Quite .
heavy cloud hung in the southwest and no
one thought Of there being storm, as the
sun was shining underneath the clouds
when all at once there came vivid fash of
lightning and crashing peal Of thunder.
Mr.. Cameron. of Caldwell, was just unload
ing freight in the rear of Dobson & MERGERS
drug store. As the lightning flashed Mr..
Cameron was seen to fall and when the
bystandes reached him he was quite
dead, struck by lightning. On the right
side of his head was deep hole where the
bolt had entered. His eyebrows were burnt
of and his hair and the right side Of his
moustache was singed as if he had been in
q fire. His remains vera taken charge of by
the mayor and the body was shipped to
Caldwell Wednesday morning. He leaves
Q wife and three children in Strengthened
A new building belonging 10 Mark Tully
was lifted of the foundation and completely
nothing being left intact but
the roof, which was carried to one side and
deposited on the ground in good shape.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
HOG CHOLERA CURE.

Mr.. George Rock tells the following story
about hog cholera and remedy he found
out. 1--WE got lot of hogs and they oil
took sick sad died. Some time after man
came to our shop and gave US the following
directions for cure and preventative"
"Take kettle of corn and water, put in .
pail full of unslscked lime and let it stard
about twenty-four hours, then feed the corn
TO the hogs and scatter the lime about the
enclosure where the hogs are" We tried
this said Mr.. Rock and never lost . hog
since.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21

From private sources We learn that tht
engineers of the Omaha, Abilene and WITCH.
it, Railway company have passed Abilene
and can be expected TO reach Clay Csnts'
some time next week. Il will soon be nsces.
sary for Clay county to commence q
seriously think about the schsms. Clay
Center Times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
THE pRELLER MURDER.

Maxwell the supposed murderer passed
through this city yesterday morning IL
charge of George Badger and james Tracy
He refused to be interviewed by the EAoLK'
representative farther than to say that al
he purported talks with him published in
the newspapers were without single color
Of fact. As soon rs be was arrested befort
saying anything he sought the advice Of
one Of the best lawyers of Auckland, who
told him to keep his mouth shut and that
he had done 20. He said there had hardly
been daylight hour since his arrest IN
which attempts were not made to pump
him and that the published "give away
make BY him in San Francisco in which he
was represented as saying that Preller was
still alive and that he and Preller had
put up Job with "stiH" TO beat the in
sursnce company, was ali pure imagination
and guess work. Maxwell is slight dark
eyed and dark complexioned man, in ma
sionality resembling an Italian. He is
watched continually by his armed guards,
who chain him to his seat every night. He
has bad eye and an unprepossessing face.
He will arrive in ST. Louis this morning.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
THE EAGLE LINE.

The above named road is what the people
Of Sedgwick county want The more rail-
roads Wichita gets, the better it will be for
this whole country. The idsA ID 10 make .
second Kansas City out Of Wichita and
thereby mshe market for cur wheat, corn,
osis. hogs and cattle nearer home. Isn't il
sos-Nt Hops Mentor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21
REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

There will be meeting of the Sedgwicl
County Republican Central committee in
Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, August 22nd
1885, at ] O'Clock p. m Business of i'm.
portance to transact. By order OF committee
T, B. WALL. Chairman.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21

Major Burr's new resideace on Mil
street = sbout completed. Its very nsuG
and commodious house.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21

The annual report of the Wichita Public
Schools for 1sS4-85, which includes the
cirruculum, rules, report by superintendent
and other officers and the presidents report,
printed on tinted paper, making pamphlet
OF my pages, is the finest specimen of
typography CT that character ever issued by
any Office in this city or in this section of
the state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-21

Work + prokrsssns q he new tower Il
The county building.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-09
PERSONAL.

CHRISTINE NILSSON has received from King
Alfonso the eros of the Order Of Benedcence
founded by his mother.
Miss NEVADA kissed 900 girls a day or two
before leaving san Francisco. She said il
made her feel very tired.
IT is said that Mrs. Frances Hodges Burnett
was cured of nervous prOstration at Boston by
the faith cure treatment.
MINISTER PHELPS is a keen sportsman. and
his collection of mall arms Is said 10 be one
of the finest IN the country.
GEN. GRANTS publishers are said to have
contracted TO pay him $zJ0,000. This viii be
invested as the Generals legacy to his
family.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN is superstitious on the
subject Of white specks on his finger nails
He cuts them out with his penknife regard
less of pain
QUEEN VICTORIA has mania for collecting
relics of engagements in war. Among OF hers
she has, mounted in crystal and silver the
musket ball that ended the career OF Nelson.
MONCURE d. CONWAY, who is to return to
this country and take up his residence in
Washington, was forced 10 quit that cltv in
1877 on account of his radical political SER
mons.
Miss VIOLET Mono Az is acting rs tempo
rary Master OF the Tredegar f01hOunds I'M the
absence from homeof her father. Col. Morgan,
NJ. Z. The Young lady Is an excellent rider
and nothing stops her.
MoDIE~EA has son now completing his
studies as civil engineer. lie Is devoted no
his profession, and Modjeska rs apparentIy
both proud and fond OF Ter big boy, who u.s.
che says, "A years old.
WITH the exception OF a touch Of rheuma.
tism Boo hs feet, viii h infcrferes with rand
locomuuuu, Ju4Ge Thurman Is in spleudid
health. Tile mental faculty Us rs powerful
and Dee is as bright m his conversation as he
ever was.
lr Is said that cx-President Arthur and
daughter wll arrive in New Orleans ahsut
Apri 90, when he W N spend week M tho
Turing bis stay Dee viii bee entertained by the
Hckwick and Boston Clubs.
Miss MuEFErE. novelist "a seen with mas.
cuInr eyes through pair OF iasses at the
cable reading 900 Boston. "Shc was look ing
very luf aul winning In some coating dra.
pcries OF h|a"k lace aud silk. with a great
GOLDEN SHAFT Of daGoils carelcssly held by a
PIN
Mas NJ j. MARTIN. Postmstress at Bur.
+tln' Nis ipr thn past sixteen years. Is
credited with sending Che second best rcports
m point OF pcnman-h.p and accuracy. OF any
receive uY the department az Washington.
me uiiclas ai lrst doubted that they were
made by lady.
WILLIAM MEHLE on Tuesday. at Moreau,s.
IN New brlraus gave the most brilliant din.
ner OF tht scAoa. 10 was boz honor OF Miss
Miriam Lee daughter of Gen. 4. D. Lee.
overs were lulf Tor ~ ppraous-tl ladies and
the same number " gentlcmcn-the chapr.
rome or the occasion beng Mrs McCOnnice.
REV AARON CLEVELAND. great grandfather
OF President cleveland. was An FpisropsIiab
clefg' man, and died iu Philadelphia while ON
@ visit Co beuiumin Franklin. HIS rem ANS
helo Aulefftu ia the churcdyard Of old