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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
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state. OF all the bright men then in the ed
work, and we believe that Miller and our
self are the only two who have stuck con-
tinuously to the tripod. Jacob Stotler, of
the Emporia News, now of the Daily Wei
lington Press, was one of the number but
he sold out and quit for several months
Gen. Web. Wilder, then of the Leavenworth
Conservative, now of the Hiawatha
World was of the state but now or then
years of that time Gov Martin and Col
Anthony were both off in the army F. P
Baker, then editor of the Topeka Record,
moved to Texas, where he remained a year
or two George Martin, of the Junction
City Union, quit several years to play State
printer
These all are now, hover at he old
brain-racking toll OF the remainder of
the twonty-odd men who then composed
the newspaper men of Kansas somt are
dead, some have been wrecked financially
and others scattered to where we hardl,
know. In addition to those named there
were Taylor, Roberts, Crawford, Thatcher,
Prouty. Speer, Cummings, Vaughn, Burke,
Emmett, Sheppard, Reynolds, kalloch
Burlingame and, spasmodically, Sam
Wood. These, with the first half dozen
composed the bulwark of the progressive
and untrammeled press of free Kansas
twenty three years ago, in 1868.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
THE STATE TICKET.
From the Atkinson Champion.

From the Atkinson Champion
OF the eight candidates on the Republi-
can State ticket five were Union soldiers
during the civil war. Gov. Martin was
mustered in rs Lieut. Colonel of the Eighth
Kansas Infantry, and mustered out as Colo
mel of THAT regiment, November 18th, 1864.
His regiment served in the Army of the
Cumberland, and was1he only Kansas reg
iment attached to that army. The candi-
date for state treasurer, James W. Hamil-
ton, was also soldier in the Army of the
Cumberland At the age of seventeen
he enlisted in an Indian regiment
and served three years and three
months, carrying musket as private sol
der The candidate for state auditor, Tim
Mccarthy, served fifteen years in the regu-
lar army, and was in the Army of the Pc
tomac during the war; He is probably the
only man now living who saw the begin
ming and the end. for he was at Fort Stump
ter and at Appomattox. The candidate for
attorney general, S. B. Bradford, was a
private soldier in Missouri regiment. and
served in the Army of the Frontier The
candidate for the state superintendent of
public instruction, j. H. Lawhead. served
in the 9th West Virginia Vols, which reg
iment formed part of the Army of the
Shenandoah A. p Riddle, the candidate
for lieutenant governor, was too young to
serve in the army but his father was a
Union soldier.
OF the candidates, three, Gov. Martin.
Lieut.. Gov. Riddle and Superintendent
Lawhead, are natives of Pennsylvania;
three. Secretary of state Allen, Treasurer
Hamilton and Associate Justice Valentine,
were born in Ohio: one, Auditor McCar
thy. was born in Ireland; and one, Attor-
ney General Bradford, was born in Hi
nolS.
Two of the candidates, Martin and Rid
die, are practical printers by trade; one,
Hamilton. is farmer; one. Allen, is ply
sician; two. Valentine and Bradford. are
lawyers: one, Lawhead, is practical tailor
and was afterwards school teacher: and
one, Mccarthy, is a clerk and bookkeeper.
The Oldest man on the ticket is Judge
Valentine, who is IS; the youngest is Lieut..
Gov. Riddle, who is 40; Gov Martin is ~,
DR. Allen is 30, Mr. Hamilton II, and Mr..
Mccarthy 81
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
THE CAREY PALACE HOTEL.

From Captain Carey himself we learn
that ground will be broken this morning
for the great hotel There is little doubt
that il will be the finest caravansary in the
state of Kansas. built from the ground up
after plans made by an architect who makes
hotels a specially The building will be
five stories including basement. one-half of
which will be above ground The hotel
will be worthy of the enterprise and liber
ality of such citizen rs Captain Carey
and will stand monument to his foresight
and energy Captain Carey is an extensive
property holder and large taxpayer, and
being prominent and influential member
of our city council, to him especially do
the people look to be protected from all
schemes of individuals and from all jobs of
corporations and all traffickers in franchises
who only seek privileges that they may sell
out on speculation. The captain is
shrewd business man of large experience,
and if he sets himself about it can reach the
bottom of any scheme or job.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
a NEW PAPER AND ITS OBSERVA.
TIONS.

Conway Springs Gazette is the title of {;
new paper just issued at that flourishing
town. The initial number is before us, and
it is a bright, clean, newsy publication. lis
editor, +. ID. Parsons, says it is his purpose
to make the Gazette an illustrated agricul
tural paper, and he makes very clever be
ginning, only he clouds his papers future
for highest usefulness by announcing tina,
it will be Democratic us to politics. This
declaration aside, however, the editor of
the Gazette has level head and keen APP
probation of a good thing when he sees it.
He was in Wichita recently and here is
what he has to say of his observations:
Here we find Il city full of hustle and
vim. Real estate in many instances dOub-
ling in value in few weeks. We find
dozens of three and four story brick bust
ness houses in course of construction Capt.
talists have il ard the scream of the EAGLE
and here buying and building. The hotels,
twenty or thirty in number, are all full of
guests and boarding hOuses-dittO
The city is being built up in substantial
manner, and more rapidly than any other
ever before. 1t is already the great central
emporium and distributing point for the
immense new southwest
There are four points, one of which may
possibly become the great distributing cen
ter of the Arkansas valley: Hutchinson,
Wichita, Winfield and Arkansas City
Wichita has the grand stand of all, and
has today more population, more capital in
vested in manufactures, more capital in
wholesale trade than in the other three
points combined
She has Marsh Murdoch and his scream
ing EAGLE, and newspapers with brainy
editors are important factors in building
cities
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
CLAY CENTER CONVENTION.

The Republicans of the Fifth district are
on big disgust. and we don't see as We can
blame them. Mass conventions have been
called for counties to elect delegates to a
congressional convention which is called at
Clay Center for July Goth, at which time ii
is proposed to overhaul the work of the del
egate convention which, ii is claimed, beat
Andersons nomination by the methods en-
ployed in the average Democratic caucus,
l. e., by wicked and crooked manipulation
We PREDICT that the mass convention will
proved red hot with Indignation: that it
viii denounce the delegate convention, and
that John A. Anderson will receive It's nom
ination unanimously. If Anderson accepts
then look out for fun, unless Wilson de
clines. But Anderson, if he accepts. will
win.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
AN ORTHODOX SERMON.

Orthodoxy, after all, in both church and
state matters, is the surest and sound
est. 1t may appear Il little too hide
bound and illiberal when applied to human
affairs generally, but it keeps things level
and straight Rev Hodson, of the NJ Z.
church, Sunday morning, took for his text
the crankism of Rehoboam, the Hebrew
king, his real subject being mans personal
moral responsibility. The heredity dodge,
the environment excuse the emotional in
sanity subterfuge and all other pretexts re
sorted to to shield murders, thieves, anarch-
lists, were Thoroughly and logically exploded
The proper mode of dealing with crank
wife-murderers. crank political murderers
and all other kinds of murderers is to
hold them personally responsible and to
promptly hang them. Jail the thieves and
rigidly punish every wilful violator of law.
The sermon was wholesome ore and we
wish all the cranks in the town and all the
lawyers, could have heard it.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
FARMER. LITTLE & co.

Every type and rule and dash in thi,
paper went on TO press for the first time
this morning The dress is absolutely new
and was cast by the wellknown New York
Founders, Farmer, Little & Co, who stand
AT the head. The type in which the dis
patch and editorials are set was selected
with special reference TO a clear cut, open
and attractive face which we are sure will
prove delight TO the eyes of our readers.
The local pages are in smaller type but a
heavy or holder designed face hardly less
pleasing to the eye Our financial and
yet quite easily read. The dress us whole
we fiatter ourselves is well nigh perfection
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
CONVICT TROUBLES IN GEORGIA.

The state of Georgia like some other
states, has had deal of trouble with its
cOnvicts. With the removal of the state
capital from Milledgeville to Atlanta in
1866, the penitentiary was done away with
and the cOnyicts were from time to time
leased out to railroad contractors, mine OPP
orators, large cotton planters and such other
corporations and persons as would take
them. Sometimes the state received its hire,
but has about as often lost it through the
fraudulent practices or defalcations of the
lessees Most of the railroad construction
in the state the past twenty years has been
done by convict labor, and it was in conse-
quence of disagreement growing out of a
contract of this sort between Col. r. A.
Aston and Ed Cox, who were interested in
a convict lease that Cox shot and killed
Aston in the state treasurer's office in At
lanta
The rebel general "Tige' Anderson is
alleged to have made large sums of money
working convicts On railroads, stone quar-
ries, mines and the like, and others have
feathered their nests at the expense of the
state and the convicts, and not unfrequently
at the end of the lash well laid on The
convict camps are conducted pretty much
on the principle of the military prisons
south during the rebellion. When not at
tba .cfo doc
and guarded by militiamen, and for every
infraction of the rigid discipline followed
the unfailing whip
The latest notable experience they have
had down there occurred in Dade county
last week. A number of colored convicts
who were employed in coal mine mutt
MED and made break for liberty. They
succeeded in reaching place of temporary
safety in one of the mountain Businesses in
the vicinity and for awhile held their pursu-
ers at bay with the arms they had previous
ly procured Their resistance was of short
duration; they were overcome, manacled
and returned to the bastile, and il is said the
cries of the poor wretches under their tor
lures are heartrending
The treatment of prisoners is a matter
that has engaged the attention of philan-
thropists and humanitarians in all parts of
the country and through the interposition
of such organizations the condition of pris-
oners in many parts have been greatly anne
liorated. The Georgia convicts, it seems,
have escaped their attention, or they have
failed to interpose any restraints upon the
cruelty exercised in the Treatment of states
prisoners
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
oLpKANsAs EDITORS.

Whenever an unusual episode occurs in
our newspaper life our mind naturally runs
back 10 the old times in Kansas, and TO the
men who quarter of century ago con-
trolleithe destinies of the then comparatively
few Journals of the state. Twenty three
years ago. this summer, the editor of the
EAGLE established the Usage County
Chronicle at Burlingame. At that time a
large area of the state consisted of Indian
reservation. Burlingame being within two
miles and half of the Indian Trust lands
There were but three newspapers south and
west of Topeka, and Leavenworth and
Atchison boosted the only dailies in the
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
THE WESTERN WONDER
An Enthusiastic Description Of Wichita
the Metropolis of Southern Kansas.

| Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal
| WICHITA, Kan, July BY your leave.
| will give the readers of your great news
paper nv impressions of this part of Kan
/ sas. and more particularly of this busy.
! booming Young city. which is the Wonder
of the West" They call il Winning
| Wichita which is both alliterative and
/ true But am reminded that il is very
dangerous business to fool with ALTERATION
We might have had at tlii, moment a great
president if brother Burchard had only
| been little less reckless with his RS
This metropolis of the southwest Is beau
tifully situated on the banks of the classic
Arkansas-be careful in regard to
prouunciafion-which finds It's source
in the golden gulches of Colorado.
and whose waters finally lose them
selves. bard by the home of the festive fid-
dler. who still sgitates his bow Of hair. and
whose hospiiable house remains rooi3ess TO
this dayl The man whose heart and feet
have not yibraie-i 81 the sound of the soul
string strain of The Arkansa, Traveller
Is r, for treason, s;ratagem am. spoiis It,
author deserves a monument This deli
cate hint is gently dropped TO those CRATE
full and generous New Workers who seem
tn he doing a monumental business on
very small capital
Idon't believe there is a better country IN
the United Stafes than this. and Wichita
can hardly he duplicated from Maine 10
California. Why. Mr. Editor. If you could
be LEI down from balloon some fine even
ing they are all fine evenings in Wichita
in front Of the Manhattan hotel. in the gfsrr
of electric lights. and lock on our crowded
cars. countless carriages and endless pro
ceSsion OF brave men and beautiful women.
YOU would think that you had struck a sec
ton of Chicago. 1; would make an aver
age Hoosier's .'hair stand on end To SEE
how business Is done here
DO We speculase.r Well, yes. some
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
THE EAGLES NEW FORM.

As necessity in one important sense
rather than as matter of taste or choice
the EAGLE comes to its patrons this morn
ing in new form. For months past the
proprietors have known that an enlarge
ment was inevitable. Two considerations
the interests of our advertising patrons and
the popularity of metropolitan makeup,
decided the matter in favor of a quarto. By
resorting TO expensive supplements and to
one device and another, the day for increas
ing our size was postponed until the neces
sary and suitable machinery could be man
ufactured to order, full description of
which will I've found elsewhere While we
are aware that majority of newspaper
readers prefer an eight page paper neatly
Gu; pasted and folded. yet we must confess
that we have always been partial to the
folio and expect to be, even though it had
reached the proportions of blanket sheet.
And now, of course, Our pride in the
EAGLE is great, which pride we know will
be viewed as entirely pardonable by all of
our old friends and patrons, and which, we
hope, will not be considered egotism by the
thousands of relatively newer commers who
now daily peruse its columns The paper
in its inception, was far in advance of its
surroundings and it has ever been our
ambition to keep it to the forefront of
newspapers in Kansas, both as weekly and
as a daily. 1t was the first paper ever
printed on power press in this valley and
its presses the first to run by steam, as it
was the first and is yet the only paper en-
titled TO and publishing both the day and
night press reports, in full Up till years
after the close of the war the Missouri Dem
ocrat was of exactly the size and style of
the EAGLE as heretofore published What
the EAGLE will be when Wichita shall have
reached the magnitude of ST. Louis, we can
not g'Iess, but if our present patrons continue
to prosper and we continue to live, we
promise that their paper shall be known
from one end of the land to the other As
for the present, the greatest city in Kansas
is deserving of the greatest daily paper, and
these are the parts that Wichita and her
EAGLE are expecting TO take and, for which
important roles. they both now seem to be
fully equipped.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

Here is a small nut for the workingmen
to crack. Recent estimates indicate that
the average income of preachers is about
$500 year, and of lawyers $3.50, while
even newspaper men only make 500. This
|, is at the rate of from so to S13. 80 per
week for professional men. while many
'workingmen' receive wages ranging
firm Sl2 to $50 week, and some even
higher than that, and they are not expected
to support half as much style as the preach
ers, the editors or the lawyers either.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

The boycotters of New York city levied
$1,000 blackmail ON the proprietor of con-
cert saloon, and because certain brewer
saw fit to tell the truth about it in court
when summoned as witness by the boy
cotters, they have turned upon him and
blandly asked that he pay them 500, goo
or suffer the penalty of his temerity.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE or CONTROLLER or THE CURRENCY.
W.SUlxsTyS Iuly u fS-S

WAsHINGTON, July T. Is-b
Whereas satisfactory notice has been transmitted
to the OptrOlleT Of the currency that the capital
stock of the Kansas National Bank 81 Wichita Wich
tia, Kansas has been increased In the sum OF Fifty
Thousand Dollars tSsfp In accordance with the Ia "
and provisions Of OF NAV l. iSs and that The
whole amount OF such Increase mas been paid in and
that the paid up capital stock II sad bank now
amounts To the Of one Hundred Thousand Dot
lars lsls.spL
Now ir Is hereby certified that the capital stock Of
the Kansas National Rank of Wichita, Wichita Kan
aforesaid has been increased aforesaid In She
sum OF Fifty Thousand Dollars $500 that said ia.
crease 81 capital has been paid into said bank
part Of the capital stock Thereof. and tfat said Ia
crease 81 capital u approved by the comptroller u
the currency.
-; In witness whereof. hereunto ARK my q
sKkr- ficial signature and seal % e,f1ce
49, W. l. TsESHofls Couptr0iier.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

A member of congress is reported to
have said to some of his constituents who
were sightseeing in Washington: 60
first to the Smithsonian institution, where
you will see all that God ever made; go
thence to the patent office, where you will
see all that man ever made
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

The Mount Hope Mentor says that the
Wichita and Colorado railroad is complete
10 Lincoln township, and we learn a full
force of men is now working on the bridge
across the Arkansas AT Hutchinson II is
intended TO have the track laid and trains
running to Hutchinson by the 18th of
AugTlSt
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

OFFIcE OF CONTROLLER os TtE cuEIulScT
WASHINGTON. June ~ isas.
Whereas by satisfactory evidence presented sis
undersigned. IL has been made io spEr-ar that the
National Bank 81 Wichita. In the city % His
tia in the county OF se-dgwics and 81 kznSas
has complied with all the provisions 81 The statutes
81 Tn. nitef S;t. required 10 - COMPLIED with
before an association shall BE- aufhorized 90
Tlsnce the business ~ banking.
Now. therefore l. " iain l.. Trenholm cursITs-rni
Ter u ths ciFrracv, DO herehy certify faaf the S,ae
Natioaai Rank % Niritiia h. the city q stchrs- tn
the county Il Sts~ lex. and state Il slans-. 4
ihurizs- 10 III. business 81 banking.
provided in section hfgy hundred and sikfy EiHe
~ the revised s1atGfss % THE Gnitesi STATES
II testimony whereof. sttfse~s my hsslt
sRsI ana ~sI II Office. this 18th day q june. -
- ". l. IzFxs.1gs-
ra6r cornpfr1lisr "a the tsuTrsurF-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

We shall believe more when we see some
Democratic federal officer removed for ''of-
fensive partisanship" Until then the pub
lie will be excused from prostrating them
selves anew before the splendid sentiments
of Mr.. Cleveland's order
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20

1t is lucky for the Democratic party that
the president understands it better than it
docs itself. He knows it cannot be
trusted, and has not failed to show that he
distr,IstS If
The Clifton clarion., 1886-03-31

THE California claimant to the Tichborne property, is in Washing ton City, enroute to his paternal estates in Hampshire, England. He has succeeded in recovering S4,000 for wounds received in the Federal service during the war, and will cross the ocean with a lawyer and endeavor to establish his identity. He thinks he will be able to establish his claim to the property, by means of the records of the church of Madeline in Paris. He has written to his relatives con- corning his proposed visit, but has received no reply. He has fulfilled his VOW, and has expiated the sins of his youth. He expects to reach Paris in about four weeks, and will go immediately to the Catholic Archbishop, and hold a conference with him. before taking any steps towards the recovery of the estates and anticipates but little trouble in having his wrongs rightei.
The Clifton clarion., 1886-03-31

THE latest information, obtain able, concerning the hostiles and Gen. Crook, locates them at Canon de Embudos, p miles south of the line in Sonora. Upon the arrival of Gen. Crook, the Indians came down from the mountains and ask ed for peace, expressing a desire to return to the Reservation. Gen. Crook demanded an unconditional surrender, and told the Indians if they wanted to fight, they could begin now, as he was bound to keep up the fight until every hos tile was killed or surrendered un- conditionally. The Indians retired and held pow-wow. They are dissatisfied with Geronimo, and it is believed they will surrender shortly. Lieut.. Maus with his scouts, has joined Gen. Crooks command. Should the surrender occur, the news will be sent through by courier.
The Clifton clarion., 1886-03-31

THE mining outlook through out the territory, was never more encouraging than at the present time. From all quarters comes the gratifying intelligence that the season of 1886 will be an un- precedented one. Confidence has been restored, and capital is eager ly seeking investment. Mines which have lain Idle for years, and many which had been entirely aban- doned, are about to resume opera tions. Arizona has made a good showing in years gone by, and now that nearly all our mines are easy of access, thero is every reason to hope that she will shortly verify the prophecy of Baron Von Humboldt, and astonish the world with her productions of mineral wealth. She is possessed of all the requisites of great state, and needs but the capital and muscle to develop her mineral resources.
The Clifton clarion., 1886-03-31

THERE are a few Mavericks" and some Host sheep" in this neck of the woods, and it might pay the Rev. Sam Jones, to come out this way and organize a roundup. His gospel lariat might be used to advantage. He should bring his range riders with him, and con- struct large sized safe pen. His brandingirons would require to be red hot, to make something more than a hair brand. Many of the broncos would necessitate hog-ty- ing, whilst some others would re quire creasing, if not killing out right.
The Clifton clarion., 1886-03-31

TIE prominent mining men of Butte City, NJ. T. have recognized Senator Beck the silver champions worth, in a substantial way. He recently received neat little silver brick appropriately inscribed. "James B. Beck, defender of the peoples money" On the reverse @ side is. ''Presented by the residents of Butte City" The brick is solid silver, and weighs nearly a pound avoirdupois.