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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08
jefferson Tp. Trustees Notice.

vUvHE undersigned will be At his Office
- to attend to township business 81
Jefferson township, Dubois county. on
Saturdays OF each week. and requests All
persons having business with the town
ship TO attend TO II on those days. The
township libraries are kept at ,. w.
Jacobs, III Birdseye. aud At the Trustees
residence, where all persons entitled can
get books thereof
JOHN CrMMINS,
Sept.5. sly. Trustee Jefferson rp.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
CELEBRATED CASE
The Winner and McNutt Life InSur-
ance Affair and Its Tragic
Sequel.
Standard

Leavenworth Standard
Kansas has had two celebrated in
surance cases that are known far and
near, and have been extensively COM
mented on by the press and public.
One is the Hillman case now on trial
here. The other is the Winner and
McNutt case, involving a tragedy at
Wichita. Kansas, resulting in the SEN
fencing of the two men Is death, which
i'm this state means, of course, iInpris-
onment for life.
In April, 1873, McNutt was married
in Leayenworth. or at least was living
with a woman in Leavenworth, and
subsequently married her at Kansas
CITY. While i'm Leavenworth he be-
came acquainted with Winner. Both
were painters. They both removed
TO Kansas CITY. where McNutt took
out policy late in the fall of 1873 in
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com
pany of New York. in favor of his
wife, for 5000. Early in 1874 Win
ndr and McNutt went to Wichita and
rented building in the outskirts oi
the town. where they opened paint
shop, While in Kansas City they
hired an easy going. dis-olute fellow
named Sewer and induced him To 70
to Wichita TO work for them
After getting him TO their shop
at Wichita they got him very
drunk and while he was in that condi-
ton they put his head in pot of burn
ing oil and burned il until the face was
disfigured beyond the possibility oi
identification. The room had been
saturated with oil and after di>iiguriug
Sewer they set the building afirc
Winner had wounded himself by cuts
with a knife and ran into town cry.
ing fire. murder" McNutt quietly
disappeared. Winner said that ht
and McNutt, while alone in the shop
had been attacked by robbers who
wounded him severely and murdered
McNutt; that the robbers then Sc; the
shop afirc and he (Winner) succeeded
in escaping.
The suspicion of the company and
of the public was aroused and the
affair WAS investigated The sheriff ot
Sedgwick county, by means of an in
tercepted letter from McNutt's wife
obtained such clews as enabled him Il
fathom the conspiracy and get on tn,
trail of McNutt. He traced him Il
Ray county, Missouri, aud there fount
him working on farm under an as
sumed name. The sheriff was dis
guised as hunter and sur
prised McNutt by drawing i
shotgun on him and order
ing him to throw up his hands
He took his prisoner back TO Wichita
where all the facts of the conspiracy
and murder were developed. Upon
trial in the district court McNutt and
Winner were both convicted and
sentenced 10 be hanged. Winner ap
pealed TO the state supreme court, bu
the verdict of the lower court wa
aft rmed and both of them are now il
the peniteutiary with death sentenc'
hanging over them.
This case was reported for and pub
lished in the EAGLE ia full.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10


A corr. spondcnt OF the New York
Times is responsible for the statement
that ex-senator Conkling's silence
during the campaign last fall was due
to his successor in the United States
senate, Warner Miller, and Whitelaw
Reid. of the New York Tribune. The
story is at one time last summer when
the outlook in New York was not
very bright for the Republicans Mr..
Conkling was approached by friends
of Mr.. Blaine and asked if he would
make two or three speeches. The ex-
senator minated his willingness to
help if formal request from Mr..
Blaine could he secured. Mr.. Blaine
wrote such request, and placed it in
the hands Of his son. Walter Blaine,
for delivery. But when thc young
man arrived in New York and Sena-
tor Miller and Mr.. Reid heard of il
they prevented the delivery of the re-
nnalt
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
Grace at the Restaurant Table.


A clerk AMI his country father entered
the restaurant the other evening and took
seat, at a table where sat telegraph opera
tor and a reporter. The old man bowed his
head and was about To say grace when "a
waiter flew up, singing. al have beef,teak.
Goldfish balls and bullheads." Father and
son gave their orders and the former again
bowed his heal The young turned the
color of blood-red beet, AMI touching his
arm, exclaimed in low, nervous tone:
Father. it isn't cu,tomary 10 DO that In
restaurant, = ats customary with me to
return thanks 10 God wherever am. said
the old man For the third time he bowel
his head, and the telegraph operator pau' ed
in the act Of carving his beetsteak and
bowel his head, and the journalist put back
his fishball AMI bowel his head, and there
wasn't a man who heard the short and
simple prayer that didn't feel a profounder
respect for the old farmer than If he had
been president OF the United Stats
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
CHENEY.
CHENEY, ks.. July 9th, 1885.

CHENEY, H.. July 9th, 1885.
To the Editor OF the agile.
Mrs. Dildsy, mother of \. j. Dilday
is here on visit
The Odd Fellows at their last rcgu-
lar meeting elected J. NJ. Sellers treas
urcr of the lodge, vice .. NJ. Thorp,
resigned.
Murh wheat is reported damaged in
the shocks: the late keavy and copious
rams, accompanied by strong winds,
have damaged much grain yet stand
ing and lodged it to such an extent
that ii is nearly impossible TO cut it
by machine.
The ihreshing machines will COM
mence work by next Monday.
DIR. Shannon has purchased Jim Win
geri's interest ia the L. o. drug store.
Drug stores are changing hands rather
often here. MAY be. the business is
not so profitable as in some of the
Arkansas valley towns.
Reports about the Indian trouble
west of here was received last night.
and much discussed during to-day.
but no combinations of them or any
thing new in that line was received
since. Rev Sanderson who preached
at Murdoch last night, reports that
about 100 refugees at that town who
came in during the evening and night
some of them were terribly fright
ened. Even near Cheney we have a
few iimid ones who contemplate lcav-
ing for Wichita if any worse news
should be reported. but Mr.. Charlie
Daulenbeck is bent on making money
out of our Indian raid. if there should
be one, for he seen our grocery men
with view to furnish them dead In
dians for cigar signs. According 10
telegram 500 soldiers are expected to
pass through here tonight, en- route
for the scene of trouble.
FARMER JoHN.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
a HrNhleun In Wnnsi.

The problem has puzzled many WIN two
pieces OF wood, sawed from the same section
Of tres. should posseSs very varied char
acteristics when used In different positions
For example, gste-post viii be found tc
decay much faS,e- Il the butt-eni of the
tree is uppermoSt than would be toe caSe IL
the top was placed in this position. Tie
reaSon Is that the moisture OF the atmos-
phere will permeats the pores Of the wood
much more rapidly the way the tree grew
than it would in the opposite direction.
Microscopical examination proves that the
pores invite the ascent Of moisture, while
they repel It descent. To mako my mean-
ing more clear, will mention the familiar
case Of a wooden bucket Many may have
noticed that some OF tie slaves appear 70 De
entirely saturated, while others are appar
entity quite dry This arises from the same
cause-viz. the dry slaves are in the posi-
t.oIf in which the tree grew. while tbs
saturated ones are reversed
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
4 Very Strange Sight.

itratf AhittdnttEt
As | returned u the city throu ,h tho
scrub timber | came upon a great rel clay
viaduct or embankin mt which is t. extend
to Mission Ridge from Chattanooga, AMI as
the cirria 20 mounted upm it | observed for
a while nothing among tho workmel that
was notable except Gns man sitting III the
middle of the roai with gun III his hand.
Thought to myself: That Is a suriy fell Dw;
Ia does not even move, AMI forces the car
riage clos. 10 the edge of the embankmcnt-
There was a queer expression in his c IS ~
he locked up with the gun across his knees.
Then 1T seemed to me that the men work
ing had expressions not very human or IA
miliar. and l iikened them II the queer
Dutchman Rip Van Wiakle saw whea he
went up the mountain. ], 'okng clio ser
saw that every man hal chain extending
from his middle TO his ankle, AMI on the
ankl, was some kind of q weight These
were the convicts working on the roads, q
sight one does not SEA anywhere in the north
that am familiar with
BLACKS AMI whites are mingled, and tney
were shove,ing earth into cart, or taking u
from carts AMI filing the roadway. ard
every man wore that great steel chain, and
now aud then on n fence would bs hung up
a pair Of hani-cuffs, AMI. finally, alon, the
fence line was seen 4 chain EXTENDED upon
the ground, to which thee convicts are at
tachel morning and night. they are
marched TO and fro But, after all this i
probably better form of employment than
being shut up in narrow cells AMI den;ei tn,
breath of Heaven or the panorama OF day.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
Peoples Feet in Different Sections

Philadelphia Times.l
@There is a decided difference in the shape
Of peoples feet in different sections OF the
country" said q member Of ono OF the
largest shoe manufacturing firms in Phila-
delphia. In the eastern states the feet are
narrower and somewhat longer than in the
west, while in the south they are not only
narrow but possess very much higher in
steps So much is this the case that We are
obliged to keep three sets Of lasts for tbs
three sections That comes to be large
item, / can assure you, when it is remem-
bered the number OF siz,s that arc in each
got
For example in one size alone we have the
initial numter-say saSen; then there are
narrow seven, broad seven, seven and q
quarter marrow and broad, seven and
q half marrow and broad, seven and three
quarters marrow and broad)-that IL,
twelve pairs OF lasts to ono siz,, and to each
of these s:zss we must have three different
STYLES for the section of the country to
which We are going to send our goods-that
is, thirty six pairs of lasts to one size pail
Of boots. Sounds rather extravaganza,
doesn't it, OF course, this is only the case
with firms vino deal with all these sections
Some firms only send their goods to one
Part Of the country. Now, you would be
surprised to be told that in different sections
CT the country different shapes OF toes Of
boots are required. Out in the west nothing
will suit but the squnre-toe shoe, whereas
in the eastern states the square toe would bt
in stock n century AMI then never sell Dit
ferent parts of the country require different
kinds of leather, also. In the north and
west tougher harder leather can be worn
than in the south, where not only soft up
per- is necessary, but, owing to the sandy
hot soil. quite thin soles are necessary. Fol
this KIND of wear it is not unusual to use i'm
ported leather-that is, for the 'uppers'-bu'
for soles we employ domestic productions al
most exclusively.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
THE INDIAN TROUBLE.


The EAGLES special from the Chey-
enne country to-day is quite long.
A private note accompanying the dis
patch expresses the greatest fears for
the safety of the community at the
agency. 1t is very evident that the
war department. especially that the
department headquarters at Leaven-
worth, has suppressed facts that are
known at the agency, and which must
now come out. The department has
been furnished positive information
of raid on the Panhandle.
No information will be permitted to
go out from the agency which in be-
ing returned in newspaper would give
the Indians the knowledge that the
authorities knew just what they were
doing. We gather from our inform
ant that unless troops were sent to the
Territory in overwhelming numbers
and the present war party completely
broken up, a raid inSome direction will
be attempted
These false alarms are almost as
damaging, except a to loss of life, as
an actual raid and the pres
sure ought 10 be such as
would force the departments
to more vigorous action and such as
will insure Kansas from any more such
scares, as have been recorded of this
week. Governor Pitkin. of Colorado,
showed exactly the spirit that is now
needed, when he telegraphed the lnte-
rior Department.: ''Some of your In
dams are loose. Take care of them, rs
shall kill every one found ont of
his reservation"
Let this Indian foolishncss be stop
ped at onca. There is simply no eX-
cise under heaven for this threaten
ing menace TO the life and property of
Kansas people. Squelch the Indian
or at least the spirit at present evinc-
ed by him in the neighborhood of Reno
aud Da, liugton. There is no excuse,
we repeat, for not doing it. the army
is maintained and kept up for nothing
else in these piping times of peace, and
Indian rings AID contracts and leases
10 the contrary Notwithstanding,
sunik out this uncertainty.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
THE CLEAN SWEEP,

july LIST was the day set by the
knowing politicians for a-clean sweep
in the departments At Washington.
but il failed to put in SIN appearance
on time. The broom may have
broken, but upon the authority of 4
senator. who claims 10 know what he
is talking about. President Cleveland
has never intimated that he proposed
to make eileen sweep on the LIST OF
july or any other day. Ii the state
ments of this well posted senator are
true. and he claims that he gets his in
formation from a cabinet officer. there
must have bean pretty lively circus AT
the cabinet meeting the other dav
President Cleveland first inquired of
the members of the cabinet what
foundation there was for that "eleau
sweep story" which had been re-
ceived by the public rs if il had been
given out by authority. Whether any
member of the cabinet acknowledged
that he had been telling tales out of
school. we are not informed. but Mr..
Cleveland is said TO have given them
all very vigorous hauling over the
Goals. 1Ie''gave them to understand
also that he had repeatedly outlined
his policy aud that he did not pro-
pose TO have them shape one for him.
In other words. he invited them to at
tend to their own business. as he had
mind of his own.-Commonwcalth.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
REV. SAM JONES ON WHISKY.

Atlanta Constitution,
Ibelieve liquor is good thing in its
place, and believe its place is in hell.
i'll were in hell might drink it, but
so help me God | never will on this
earth drink it again.
Some fellows say don't mix politics
and religion. When you hear fel
low talk that way yon may know he
hasn't got any religion to mix.
would mix.religion with politics, but
not politics with religion. A little re-
ligion will help politics. 1t will make
it clean and decent. We want truth,
justice and temperance mixed with
politics in this state. spoke TO the
legislature of Tennessee on this SUBJ
iect the other day. They are
talking about constitutional amend
ment on the liquor question up there.
We waht this question cleared up be-
yond the reach of those little cross
r. ad judges, who hop up every now
and then and say something unconsti-
tutional. We want to do away with
such judges and put decent men OF
brains and character in their places.
You can't reform a state until you
send good men to the legislature.
Some men come to every legislature
that meets in Georgia that amt fit to
go to the chain gang.
If you refuse to help suppress the
infamous wrong that is being done by
whisky you are rotten yourself. Some
of YOU here don't know me. speak
plainly. / use words you can under
stand. Now, you can take the Latin
word decayed and it won't faze fell
low If you take the good old Anglo
Saxon word rotten you can cut his
head off You see, | choose my
words. OF course there are always
some little spelling-book critics sitting
around who will go back on a fellow S
grammar wouldn't mind being
swallowed by whale, but would
hate TO be nibbled to death by min
nows
Whisky is not good for one thing in
this world for which there is moi some
thing else that is better. If the time
ever comes when they say 10 me;
You'll die if You don't drink
whisky" Twill say: ''Gct my shrOud
ready" mean TO die sober. 1T fell
low gets so low that nothing but Ii
quor will save him, am ready 10
preach his funeral sermon.
If there is i'm this vast audience one
man or woman who never had rela-
tive or loved one hurt or ruined by
whisky. want him or her TO stand
up right now. You have all had a
brother or a son ar father or SON.
in-law ruined by whisky. My good
ness, those sons-in-law. I'd rather
have boa constructor around my
neck than to have drunken son-im-
law. The devil cannot do any worse
than that. Some of you old hypocrites
that are daily dallying with the whisky
question are going to get caught just
that way. The devil is going to slip
up on you with q drunken son-in-law
| and In bet he will make you pro-
hibitionist with vengeance
God despises a coward. l had
rather die at the mouth of a cannon
doing my duty than TO run away from
| il because was afraid. God intrustS
all the noble causes on this earth to
men who are game.
don't mean to talk here more than
half an hour. If any of you fellows
get tired. you know the way home
We wouldn't have missed you if YOU
hadn't come at all.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
Lineoln.s rir,, United state. Court Ca,
story by Carl sehurz.

STORY by Carl schurzi
or his first case in the United States cour:
the following story Is told: He had secured
q client, whose case was found To he bad.
and when be got up to address the court,
Mr. Lincoln spoke a. follows: This i tho
first case have had in this court, and there
fore / have examined IL with great cara.
The only question al issue is one u author
ity. have found iBnumerable presidents
sustaining the opposite side. but have not
found one in ny favor. With these remarks
/ submit: the case lIAughtsr.l Tha; Q
lawyer should have found himself On the
wrong side Is not strange. but that he
should say was strange inieei He WIS
perhaps the only lawyer OF whom this cpl
taph coali have beeH tr1thtuily written:
-Here lies Abraham Lincoln He told the
truth when il rtlinei his cas-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10


Let Us ROW turn TO polygamy IN high life.
LorenzD Snow. one Of the his:i coGnsellOrs.
having reached the aivsncel age II three
score years AMI ten, decided 70 have
family reunion. and, consi!srins that he
had No. wife with two daughters No
with one daughter aal two slns, ". 5 with
two daughters ami three sons " with
three daughter, AMI two sons. Ne. with
SIX daughter. AMI two SON. NJ q
with two daughters and one son. No :.
with three daughter and three >cns. No. S
two daughters and three SOUS. 10. . with
two daughters and ons soa. making in ali
twenty three daughter AMI nineteen sons
he had a pretty goot-sizsd family 70 assem-
be about him. There were in all i6i imme-
date descendants 70 liz around the family
board. and to give them ali a dinner :; took
three days This old man Is well preserved,
reads the finest priir without Giasses. AMI
only lost by death t~eaty-thres OF his
numerous family. including some o. the
wiyes
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
VALLEY CENTER.

VALLEY CENTER, kas., July s
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
just received ,mmunication from
Bradstrect's commercial agency re-
qucsting the business standing of j.
NJ. Baldcrston, poultry dealer, Valley
Center, Kansas. We stated in reply
that said j. NJ Baldcrston was, on the
4th day of july, 1885, engaged in said
business at this place. and to our GER
tain knowledge disposed of one chick
en-. Further. that he was well quail
fed for said business, but that later
reports have it that said party had
since made an assignment. Cause I'M
known.
Further information will be gladly
received at the agency at Kansas City.
Yours, DoN IA.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
Where His Joke Led to.

iNancn'.stff touficT-I
On Lord Coleraine's first visit to Drury
Lane theatre he saw n gentleman in boots
enter the box, and loosely remarked; Il
beg. sir, You will make no apology "Apol
oSy, sir replied the stranger; apology for
whatf Why returned his loriship
pointing toward the boots, that you did
not bring your horse with you into the box
Perhaps it i; lucky for you. SIR retorted
the stranger shat did not bring my horse
whip; bu; have a remedy at hani, for
can pull your nose for your lmpertiDence.
Some ether gentlemen in the box now inter
fereI, an exchange of card took place, and
both parties left the theatre.
Lord Colerain, went Immediately 70 hi
brother and said: Il acknowledge that
was the first agyre sor; but it was too bad
to threaten 70 pull my noe. What hal
better dor Soap it well, replied George
@and then it will easily slip through hi
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10
raprS PASSENGER
|. w. ENGLAND, THE PUBLISHER.

An Example of What Poor boy May
Accomplishments Skylark Experiment..
Uncle Biz in Chicago Herald
Isaac W. England, the publisher Of The
Sun was a notable example Of what poor
boy may come to be. From barefooted
printers devil he pushed himself into fore.
most rank as a journalist. and he relin-
auisheI labor with the pen to attend to tho
business of The Sun only because it was be.
coming evident that The Sun was to grow
into vast concern that needed the best
kind Of brains in its counting-room. He
was one Of the most energetic men that ever
tro1 New Works streets.
II was England who conceived the unique
idea OF introducing the ssy,arsS into
America While a boy he had stretched
himself OH his back in the grass at his old
home near Bath, England and watched the
bird as it sang and scared, AMI scared and
sang, and the song haunted him for years
and years in after life. He often said that
he had a notion to go to the old country
Just to hear the skylark once again. 1t
flashed upon him that, maybe, the bird
would sing in America With all possible
haste he sent to England for a dozsn. They
came, three of them dead, however, and
after being put in good condition the nine
survivors were released on Mr.. England's
farm, at Riigewood, n. J. Within two
hours one of them took to soaring and sing
ing, and Mr.. England in delight declared
that he had already the worth Of his money.
The birds did not get along right well in
our harsh climate. A few broods have
been Matched out each year, and occasion
ally ones note is heard arounl Ridgewood.
but the attempt to make them numerous
may be said 20 have failed. Evidently
there has been very little increase in their
numbers. although the original biris were
brought here eight years ago. 1t was the
opinion of Mr.. England that the winters
were too severe for them, but he believed
that in the climate of Florida or Georgia
they would multiply and be as musical a!
they are in their native air.
Mr. England hal the model farm crazt
developed more intensely than ever did
Horace Greeley There was nothing in the
line of experimental planting that LIE did
not practice, and his valuable farm wa.
covered with rare trees and shrubs from al
parts of the world
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-10

The Patriot has evidently got Judge
Harris, of Wichita. mixed up with
Col. Harris. of Fort Scott. That the
last-named gentleman has n good con-
federate record the writer happens TO
know from the circumstance that
Col. Harris himself 1--WE believe his ac-
tual rank in the Confederate army
was that of captain) gave the facts in
a long pleasant conversation on the
subject of the war That he was 4
Confederate soldier he never denies,
and the Champion has no doubt
that he was a good one'-Champion,