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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

has bought some twenty-five bushels
of blue grass of w. w. Psttison & Son
and will sow 1t this spring. Tame
grasses is what we must come to
sooner or later. The sooner the bet
ter. While our native blue stem ia
wondrously rich pasturage and makes
good hay, the tame grasses are richer,
and require less labor to make hay
and less room to store it. The day of
experiment in tame grass growing is
long past. Sown under fair cOndi-
tions the ordinary tame grasses grow
readily and yield abundantly.
Usage City Free Press: We learn
that W. ii. Douglas, of Reading, has
lost about twenty head of his best
steers. The cause of their death. it is
agreed, is overlooking them on miiiet
during the cold weather and drinking
too little water. The state veterinar-
ian examined some Of these steers and
their stomachs were found packed
hard and dry with millet. DIR. Hol-
combe decided that this was the cause
of their death. Abel Rees, who lives
near Reading, is reported 10 have lost
nearly fifty head of fat hogs, averag-
ing $50 lbs, from cholera.
Winfield Courier: The wheat crop
is in healthy and promising condi.
ton. At no time last year did wheat
look so well as il does now. The plant
is we'll rooted and full of sap. The
moisture and the covering of the snow
during the coolest weather have been
favorable TO young plants. So far the
wheat prospect is good and full OF
promise of bounteous harvest
While the blades look little worse
for the cold, the rOOtlets are all right
and with warm weather the surface
will be covered with living grean.
Dodge City Globe: Kansas Cit,
is near enough to the range countr!
to take in a rough looking train loat
of cattle, do the best they can will
them, and say no more about it. Thi
is encouraging TO the shipper, for h
knows what kind of stock he is mark
citing, and il they are not the slickest
he don't like to be told about it b.
every man he meets at the yards h
is perhaps little sore on the subject
and when they are handled withou
any talk, for just what they are wort
he feels better and goes home satisfied
Dodge City Globe: What every
body says must be SO, and everybod
says there would be big money in
mule ranch anywhere in this sectio
of the country. But an idea prevail
. that a man must be ia the cattle bus
ness to get rich. and although the
all say there is money in raising mules
not dollar goes into ranch for thi
purpose. Mules are hardy, easy KEEP
: and at two years old will be ready sal
: at fair prices, any place i'll wes:er
, Kansas tor the next fifty years.
, Attica Advocate: In 1884 Their
were 2,7S9 acres sown in fall whe;
in this county and 9,341 acres harves
ed. La 1885 there were 28,4S6 acl
planted TO winter wheat, the per cen
of condition in December being IL
compsred with average years.
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CHANGED BY THE TRUSTEES
pec;a, Dis,,atcb to the Globe-Democrat.

Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat
LITTLE Rock, Ak, Feb. 2S.-lm-
portaut changes in the management OF
the Little Rock, Mississippi River and
Texas railroad company will be an-
uounced tomorrow. President Wat
kins. in circular. will announce thai
the trustees have taken possession OF
the road and will formally discharge
all oil employees. a second circular.
from the trustees, announces the APP
poIniment of Henry Wood as their
agent. and third circular, from MIR.
Wood. notifies all old employees TO con-
time in the discharge of their duties
aud report To him through heads of
departments as heretofore.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

The southern ex-rebel leaders, who
are Just now on top at Washington
are making the most of their opportu
nity. As sample, the official record
shows that Senator Vance, of NORTH
Carolina, has managed 10 have thu
names of seventeen relatives, inciud
ing his three sons. entered on the gov
crnment pay rolls, their pay ag
gregating So, 800 year. The remark
made recently by distinguished
southern Democrat, that eve have
been out for twenty-five years ant
must now make up for lost time" wa
not made in jest.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

The three w towns On the east Of
IL are just now engaged in holly
contested lying match, the represen-
tativcs of each town could bury both
the Others in their back yards and
never know there was anything there
if the smell could be subsidized. There
is no question bnt Harper is a better
town than any OF them, but they are
so pulled up that they will not &C
knowledge it.-Harper Graphic.
Please give us your opinion touch
ing the relative present and coming
importance of the three WIS. w,
would like such an opinion as YOU
would be willing to have go on In.
records for future reference.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

The Kansas City Times Washing
ton correspondent has Tins TO say
about the Kansans at the capital: eli
is the subject Of pleasant remark that
Kansans visiting Washington arr
more clannisb. than any other class oi
citizens. Ii makes little diflereBc,
whether they are Republicans or Dem
ocrats, for politics plays no part IN
their association al the capital. They
all .iock together cobesively, and ihei'
favorite haunt is Senator Plumb''
committee room, which, by the by, Ii
adjacent 10 the senate restaurant
where the inner man can be conven
iently refreshed. Here they arr
snpremely happy in each others so
ciety, apparently caring but little for
the outside world"
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

MIR. Reed did graceful and gener
Gus thing, as republican leader of tn,
house, in rendering an assurance OF
respectful consideration TO the demo
cratic party in its present emtarras'
sing situaiion-.'stopped in career
of great and well-administered purity
TO consider the question whether i'll
stead of turning on; rascals il has moi
really. by some accident, been putting
them in. Ii is easy 10 immagine how
unpleasant such diiema must be, and
no narrow partisan prejudice should
restrain an expression Of republican
pity in the case. At the same time
however, the matter has its obviously
funny aspect.-Globe-D
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r,.x Nth scheme. in Arizona.

Capitalists are now busy with schemes for
Transforming the arid regions Of western
Arizona into blooming gardens. -Four irri-
cation canals are now in course OF con-
struction in ella valley, below the junction
OF Salt river, and when completed viii pro
vide the means Of cultivating an extent OF
country capable of supporting %, 100 people.
Another scheme for tapping the subter-
ranean waters Of the Santa Cruz river, be
tween Casa Grande and Tucson, will border
the route OF the Southern Pacific from
Yuma to Tucson with a productive country
instead Of a waste. The Arizona farmer
will have the advantage of being able to
supply the eastern markets with fruit before
the earliest fruits are ripe in California
and thus secure high pricez-Western
letter
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The new jail a. Paola, Miami county
will cost S9.939. II will be forty feet
wide by s;xiy-thrce feet long, and two
stories high. There is 10 be cellar
sewerage, etc. There will be two set.
of cells. one set down stairs, the other
on the second floor. In the front part
of the building the sheriff. or jsiler,
will reside. Work will be commenced
nj once, and the new Jail will be COM
pleted. ready for occupancy, by the
first of September next.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

V. p English, school teacher OF
Miami county, brutality whipped Il
scholar some time since lie was ar
rested and fined before a justice of the
peace He appealed 10 the district
court with the same result. From this
court he appealed Ia the SUI RENE
court ard the latter sustained the de-
cisious OF the lower courts. Corporal
punishment should have no place in
The school room.
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c,x, service over in China.

In China corpulence is considered to be
one of the mos. important qualifications for
the holding Of any public Office 1t is re-
garded as physical virtue, which imparts
dignity to the appearance, weight to the
Judgment, and solidity to the mind In
China the thin man is always moody and
disappointed; he sees himself easily out
stripped In the race OF life by his stouter
contemporaries, and, enraged at the unjust
distribution of natures gifts, he retires
usually into obscurity ard shuns the gaze OF
his feilow-citizens. Banting, except as
| punishment for great criminals, is unknown
| in China. The most popular gods in the
Chinese Pantheon are those remarkable fol-
| their obeiity.-Pal Mall Gazette
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

United States Senator ingalls,, OF
Kansas. is an ardent lover of nature.
Ii is not UNUSUAL for him to start OF
alone on a tramp across the Maryland
and Virginia hills. and ii is his boast
that he frequently walks twenty
miles ON bright, clear day.--Chicsgo
Inurnal
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BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE.

A fne agricultural and stock farm three and
one-half miles from city, about les acres broke,
one-quarter section fenced for pasture, plenty
NJ water and & small house.
Also 200 lots In city finely located and In
good neighborhood- Special terms to those
wishing 10 make homes.
nlars see Chris I. PeaYce. agent for Vim. Greif-
fenstein at city ONE. dl76-u
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In the effort to rid Montana of dangerous
wild animals bounties were paid during 1884
on more than 500 wolves, 800 coyotes,
500 bears, and 100 mountain hons During
1885 the tounties were still greater. Chicago
Times
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

Compressed paper is said to have been
successfully experimental with in Germany
for niano casea
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Weather Prophet of Delaware County.
For more than thirty-fve years preceding
the establishment Of the weather bureau by
the government Isaac Yocum, OF Paschal-
vile was the recognized weather prophet for
the people Of Delaware county. II the breast
bone of the goose, the hogs melt, the ground
hog and other well-established weather signs
corresponded with Isaac Yocum's predictions.
well and good. if not, they were ut fault thu;
year and everybody so understood il Mr..
Yocum was gathered 10 his fathers soon after
the establishment of the weather bureau de-
par:Ineut, bu. were he living to-day he would
say in his jocular way: Every snow this win
ter viii be rain
Weather Scion Yocum was a butcher, ane;
one Of his theories respecting the weather was
the set Of the wind at the turn Of the SEASONS.
IL, for instance. during the season Of the fal.
equinox-Say from Sept Is to a,-the wind
was generally in the east. shifting southwark
and finally clearing up by shifting round 10
the southwest, then 20 northwest, Mr.. NoHIa
would make contract at very low figure 20
pasture caitie on the hog island pasture lands
until about Disc 80 He would take q run
through Delaware county, purchase large
number Of thin cattle at low prices and would
invariably have three months Of warm
weather and the best Of pasture for his cattle,
which be would fstteu and sell at high prizes
During the winter soistice, along about the
auth Of December Of iSSS, The wind hung
around the southeast and finally veercd %
ssoTthwesfward and back again by the south
ward, thus besoksninS, according 10 the
Yocum theory, which invariably heA good
lSirty years ago, warm winter. with much
- =
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The press of the state SO far with
out exception, commends Senators
Plumb and ingalls,, for their OPPOSE
ton 10 the Blair educational bill.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-03

No nsoro satisfactory p..yssine has been H.
ventaSi for young chilirea than pictg-s
blocks The Fla;n. old-fA<hsoosd c1fss 81
bstssr for building houses, fences and rai,~s
traizs ths, the dsss-ctei esiifins the little *
can not pat together unasd<i Every ti,-.s
be lales one block upon anothr without lsl.
be harms s l.=Sson in se,f-resiana and perS-
veranse thzs counts for one seEp IN the &
ci,,sis.e Of life P....=s ie,psis Can
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Pennsylvania has four living ex-govern-
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Propositions

By resolution Of the board of directors Of the
Arkansas Valley Agricultural Society, the
time for receiving propositions and o1ers OF
grounds for fair purposes Is extended TO March
Sd, 1855. q: 2 O'Clock p. m. proposals TO be de-
livered to :he secretary in writing.
d. A. MITCHELL, Sec'y.
Wichita, Feb. 81, l.s5. dS5-5t
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Special Meeting.

Op6CIHI m66IIuB.
The stockholders of the Arkansas Valley
Agricultural society will meet in Beacon hall
on Market street, In Wichita, ON the srd day OF
March, lSS6, at one O'Clock, p. m, to consider
matters pertaining to the interests Of the
society, and taking action thereon.
d. A. MITCHELL,
Secretary.
Wichita, Kan, Feb. Goth. Iss5.
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SIXTH Because compared with other
points of far less promise.

SEVENTH the coming city Of the West
cenfs6e
what they Will be . few years hence
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FARMS.

Ny O and had create
Undue cineps 10 purchaser. The lie, embraces
Improved and Unmproyed Farms, Stock Ranches Garden
Lands. and every variety Of City Property.
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will be invested In improve
men in former

the supply depot and acknowI
edQ trade o Western Kansas.
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

MARY ANDERSON was the guest OF Mrs.
Lawrence Barrett at Cohasset last week. She
begins her farewell engagement at the Star
Theatre, New York. tonight.
THE new Chair Of Oriental Languages at
Yale College has been finally accepted by
Professor w. H. Harper Of the Union Bap
list Theological Al Seminary at Morgan Park,
Illinois.
LIEUT.. GILES B. HARBER of the navy,
who was sent TO the Arctic regions and re-
turned with the remains OF the crew OF the
Jeanette, lie at Youngstown, Ohio, visiting
his parents.
COLONEL Tom OcHrLTREE says there are
two men who "deserve monuments as big
rs the Colossus OF Rhodes for what they
have done for Texas--C. z. Huntington
and Jay Could"
SAYS the Macon Telegraph. at is now
positively stated that Miss Folsom is a
Democrat. We are glad Of this. II is an
encouraging sign to sec o Democrat put In
Office now and then"
+. /. AMoRY and family OF Boston are
occupying the Garrettson cottage, at New
port, but will vacate 1t for Mrs Helyar of
Washington in July. Mrs Helyar is at
piNoNhs ~ isuippc Nith huopahu.
A SON of Representative Ranncy of Massa'
chusetts is to be married in June at lIaver-
hill, Mass, to Miss Porter, who.visited the
family OF Congressman Russell OF Massa-
chusetts, in Washington three years ago
CAPTAIN JOHN N. MorFITT died at Will
mngton, N. G., Saturday, after prolonged
sickness. aged sixty-seven years. lie was
an officer OF the United States Navy UP TO
| the breaking out OF the war, when he re-
resigned to serve In the Confederate
army.
A yIESSA dispatch announces the en-
gogement Of Miss Agnes Carroll to an Aus.
| tfian count. Miss Carroll is a niece of ex-
| Governor John Lee Carroll and step.
daughter Of Colonel j, Fenner Lee, who IL
now In charge of the American Legation at
| Vienna.
"TnANK HEAVEN" said Congressman,
who evidently wishes that the Executive
were not a coordinate branch OF the Gov
| ernment, "The President will be married In
n few weeks, and then he will have some
thing else to do besides bothering us about
| our business.
THE right name of Frank Clements, the
| actor, who threw himself in front of rail-
road train at Newark the other day and
ended an existence which had evidently be-
| come burden to him, was Robert w.
| Minty. He was q Scotchman and first ap-
| peared In this country at Philadelphia about
ten years ago as Arnidnd In "Camille.n
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17
GERONIMO.

Geronimo still continues his savage
and murdcrous depredaiions, and the
chances of his capture seem rs remote
as ever. Mexioans and Americans, old
and young, helpless woman and tender
child, alike fall victims to his unspar.
ing barbarities, aud our great and
glorious Government is apparently un.
able TO cope with the emergency. The
pursued are constantly eluding their
pursuers, and fire, rapne, torture aud
death mark the track of the Apache
chieftain, who, whether fugitive. or
aggressor, is equally to be dreaded.
Were such public enemy upon the
war path in any of the States, he would
be corraled and brought to bay in a
week. The Governor would issue a
proclamation Offering reward for his
head, and his head would be prompt
ly forthcoming. Why should not the
Government of the United States make
q similar offer and at once for the fends
incarnate who have been terrorizing
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico for months, desolating the
scattered settlements and defying the
Army?
Again would THE Critic recon.
mend the immediate passage of the
measure introduced In the House some
days ago by Hon. G. G. Bean, the dele
gate from Arizona, authorizing the
President to offer $50, 900 for the cap
ture Of Geronimo. Is 1t not the plain
duty of the Government to take some
such action? If the work to be done
cannot be effected by the troops, cum
bered with equipage and subjected to
forced marches, far from their base of
supplies, let 1t be entrusted to men who
can live in the saddle and feed them.
selves as they 60, Indian fashion
men who know nothing, and want to
know nothing, about red-tape, but who
have tactics Of their own and only
want to be assured that they shall have
some compensation from the Govern
ment for the sacrifices they can i'll
afford TO make.
1t must be remembered that the set.
tiers as rule are poor and that GER
tain contingent of them must be left at
home for the defense of their property
and families, but enough can be found
who are accustomed to border warfare
and its hardships and dangers to take
the field and speedily bring the un-
happy condition of affairs that now ex-
lists to an end.
The Government should not higgle
about the expense and stand twirling
It's thumbs. General Miles is no doubt
doing the best he can. but $3.50 in
the way named by Mr.. Bean will go
farther and do better.
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17

tion was instrumental in bringing
about an earlier termination of the
strike than would have been effected
had there been no such committee.
Governor Curtin thinks that the com
mittee has so impressed the Knights of
Labor on the subject of strikes that a
constitutional amendment will be
adopted by the order entrusting all
matters relating to such demonstrations
to the General Assembly and taking
the power of ordering strikes from the
hands Of local assemblies.
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17

HERE is some mathematics for you
on the eight.hour strike. There are 200,-
600 persons claiming eight instead of
ten hours work per day, or rebate Of
two hours. Two times 200, 900 Is i00,
coo; that Is, 100000 hours or 10,667
days, or 40 years for every working
day In the year saved to the laboring
men and lost to the employer. Calcu.
lating on this base for the next hun.
dred years we will be 100000 years
ahead Of the record in 1896. Who
says strike isn't good thlng2"
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17
AUSTIE's ROSE.


II Is only rose, my darlings,
Do you ask what the tale can be---
Why rose that is withered and faded
Should bo so dear TO mey
Somebody sent IL me, darlings,
Back In the days of yOre,
On the night that his ship was sailing
Away to the dreadful war,
But had my rose, my darlings,
To comfort me day by day,
AS read the bitter tidIngs
OF the fighting far away.
TIL II drooped and died, my darllngs,
And ! read its message plain,
That he who had given that little rose
Would never come back again.
And now am old, my darlings,
And life draws near its close,
You know why my heart is happy
AS watch my sweet, dead rose,
Our life has another chapter
To read In the world TO be,
And love like a new rose darlings.
VIII blossom for him and me.
-lFrederick 4. Weatherly in Cassell's.
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17

The Herald this morning says: "The
jury that promptly convicted Jaehne has
won the plaudits of the community. 1t has
proved the honesty, intelligence and i'm
partiality OF its twelve members. These
men have rendered the public service
whose value can hardly be overestimated. :"
The Times commends Commissioner Mil
Ter Of the Internal Revenue Bureau for his ad-
herence to the principles Of civil service re-
form, and says, that "while 1t will not
commend him or the President to the
modern school Of Jeffersonian Democrats, 1t
will be entirely satisfactory to honest men
of all parties"
The World remarks rksinterrogatively; "The
Anarchists of New York city are opposed
to an increase OF the police force, but why
should the Central Labor Union-tbe repre-
sentative of honest workingmen--oppo
the measureYn
The Tribune "congratulates Messrs. Her
bert, Randall, Morrison and the other pcni-
tent Democrats Of the House upon their
new and patriotic zeal for the reconstruc-
tion Of the navy"
The Star says; "New York city is to be
congratulated on the conviction OF the first
alderman of the board of 1884, who was put
into the dock. There have been few cases
in which the justice OF the law has so
speedily followed upon the commission OF
q crime.n
The San says; "rhere can be no par
tisan politics In coast defense. If some big
foreign ironclad should train its guns on
this town, the ll0-tonners would make no
distinction between Democratic property
and Republican property
The Washington critic., 1886-05-17

THE New York Herald says the
Utah polygamists believe in the New
Testament, but "thcir Interpretation of
1t is singular" Strange, isn't it, that
the Herdld makes such a statement
when so many people in America have
always thought that "thcir interpreta-
tion of il" was numerously plural?