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y story of COnkling.

Senator Riley, of New York, said the
other evening, while speaking of the
famous Broadway investigation by the
special committee Of the Legislature: 81
never was so impressed with man us ]
was with Roscoe COnKling while We
wero holding that investigation. After
we had concluded taking tho testimony,
the counsel for the defense gave notice
that they wished to submit arguments Mt
Albany. OF course we wanted Mr..
Conkling to go along as the representa-
tive of the committee. When the propo-
sition was made to him in secret session
he said that he would prefer to have his
partner, Mr.. Seward, assume that share
of the work, because there were certain
memories about Albany which would
make it very distasteful to him in case
he should have to. visit there Seward
fatty declined to go, and in the course
of the discussion one of the members of
the committee said that there were two
Senators who had particularly requested
his presence. They were men who voted
against Conkling in the famous Sena-
tolial contest of 1881. AS their names
were mentioned, Conkling drew himself
mp to his full height and said: "Gentle-
men, l shall merely send these persons q
polite note of regret. After a great deal of
persuasion, however, he consented to
go. Washington Letter to the Boston
Traveller,
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KiIled bN nen..

:. MONTREAL December A ter,it,,e
S'DS mSn o9mes mn@sd om &1rrsa rhofign effect tba
Adelard, u boy Of 12, Went hntniii, iis. son
Monday last. As they did not s r@t,rns ,Dn On
neighhors started into the woods in sn,rnS rn1
and found their dead bodies i'm ., to,rj,T,,
manglcd condition. Bear tracks werc Srfo,3 fomn33
Ill all directions, but it is still umcnr;ain
WliGthcr the men were attacked ana ki;I"d
while asleep or ii they had first fred cm nnon
the savage animals and had been .atter
wand boycrpowcrcd. The bodies were found
about three feet apart. a5@fS -
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y ba d Jub OF iirguiatorS.

., Sr. Louls, December "a ,ncci J., rror
shepard, Texas, says negro nnmrd Iohn
SSLbmmcfS' who lived on Big Creek, near
;;9nePNra' ;'P' 9ud who was suspected Of bn;nr
n,iIpliIGalcd nnIs in mail robbery, rccpnIiv WIS
oF"c;' c; TO his door Monday night by a nyrIy
"n8 o. r,8nC or ten men, Who discinhowIr1
Fn'ti'} GUm,IrS and left him for dead. liz was I;
'31l l9hnu yesterday morning still nvin@ snI ""I
I,,,' i,p,c ~ @tVG the names of tho men WHO ht,i
0r~omiISI p,EiSS' m'im and the Sheriff immediately
Inc Inc accused parties The others rscoroJ cr,n u
me friends cf those under arrest or" rL,. Ir.'
pcrH;e ana the sheriff is Il man Of nrTvc
ano serious trouble iSanticipated. Conurrs
cannot live. 'i''ei >
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-. Hlslcr Louise, the head and founder Of
~ - houses OF the Order of Notrc Dame in
oaG CtS country, with their 700 sisters and 49,.
SgU TGD glrl pupils, died Friday afternoon in
TTnnT5nha5l' T'a nnI! Six houses of Notre Dame on
rG pnciIlG slope also lose in her one of their
noLa1 Br,I'ant society fcoturcs--some peoples
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Progress OF Prohibition,

MONTGOMERY, Ala, December 8.-Thc
HOUSE of Representatives of the General
ASse mbly, now in session, has passed bill
mai ing the retail liquor license $3.50, which
ls Equivalent to more than doubling it. a
proposition to make it $500 was votetl down
by small majority. The Assembly has
passed prohibition bills outright for two of
the largest black counties, upoE petitions
from nearly all the white inhabitants Local
prohibition bills arc passed almost without
objection from any member. The Senate
has passed general local option law for
all the counties.
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The formation of Mother Ewes tomb on
the outskirts of Djeddah shows her to have
been woman over thirty feet high We
have always had q suspicion that Father
Adam, when lie ate that ounce, was vic
tim Of domestic coercion.
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CnARIEsroN, S. g., Sept. /, 1855.
II. b. EWDANK, Esq, President Of
The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co.,
Spartanburg, 5. c.: Dear Sir-I nave
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The difference between matrimonial tie
and neclitie Is that the latter Will wear
out and the former won't
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
THE WICHITA AID SOUTHERN

Hon. Neil Wilkie, ex-state senator from
Butler, and banker at Douglas was in the
city yesterday. He says that the people of
Douglas and that part of Butler county are
solid for the Wichita. Cedarvale and
Southeastern railway Petitions We're i'm
mediately gotten out as soon as the charter
was issued, and in one day sufficient names
were secured to call an election. Wilkie
SAYS he has been over the route SO often
that he knows every foot Of it. and that a
line from this city east through the south
half of Minneha or southeast through Gyp-
snm, then through Pleasant township.
dropping into the Walnut valley just north
of Douglas. is without single ob
struction or impeachment for the
entire distance He further says that
there will not be the least obstruction
in getting out of the valley east of Douglas
and in the direction of the Caney valley.
and that he believes the entire line to the
border of the Indian Territory perfectly
feasible and practical one. while he knows,
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
THE SALOON N POLITICS.
From the Atlantic Monthly

From the Atlantic Monthly
What have the 1000 saloons in New
York City done for her. They have fast
ened upon her citizens the most shameful
corrupt government ever endured by a
community indulging in the illusion that it
was free; they have almost made impossible
for an honest, educated man to touch local
politics, much less take Office; they have
degraded the conduct of public affairs to
their own low leye::;; they have perverted
and spoiled the democratic system, making
a Kissing and reproach Of American citizen
ship, and the suffrage, establishing politi-
cal shambles, pandering to the vice
of the worst classes defiling
everything decent and pure with
their ribald scoffing, and producing at in
tervals, as proof of their quality. tenden-
cies and power, such abominable scandals
as that OF the Tweed ring. or the more re-
cent sale of votes in the board of aldecmen.
But evil as are the results of the combina
ton between the saloons and politicians it
is not just to hold the latter responsible for
all the mischief they canse. In truth they
are the result of conditions which could
not produce anything better, and it is I'M
reasonable to blame the product while re-
fusing to interfere with the generating
agencies. The saloon is an arrangement
for the maintenance and propagation of the
worst vices with which humanity is af-
f1icted; vice which destroys every elevat-
ing influence, kills shame, manhood, am
bition, family affection, honor-all that
makes life worth living vice which fos-
tiers brutality, self-indulgence and all the
train of ignoble and degrading passions
and inclinations.
Now, the purpose and intent of the sa-
loon being what it is, the developments
noted are simply what ought to have been
expected when so large a share in the gov
eminent of the country was permitted to
be seized by this sinister agency. The
American system of government is theoret-
ically sound The means of education are
accessible to ALL But when our children
have passed through the public schools and
entered into active life, if they wish to take
part in public affairs they must descend to
the saloon for instruction in politics, and
in the same institution the foreign immi-
grants must graduate before they can exer
else the right Of citizenship. These are our
political schools. in fact; and they give tone
to our politics, city, state and national.
The candidate for office finds it indispensi
bic to make himself solid" with the rum
power He must buy the favor of the ss-
loon keepers. He must frequent these
places and ilatter the vanity Of those who
gather there Through them he must OBJ
tain the votes of the idle, vicious and Grim
inal classes He must be represented in
the caucuses, which are always held where
drink abounds He must defer to the
views of men Of lowest intelligence. He
must subscribe to platforms drawn up by
demagogues and time servers Is it any
wonder that self-respecting men so often
shrink from these ordeals, and prefer the
obscurity of private life to political career
demanding such sacrifices and debase
ment?
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
WHISKY AND DEMOCRACY.

The Democracy of Kansas once upon a
time took advantage of the trouble that the
prohibition question brought to the ranks
Of the Republican party and elected pro-
nounced and protested whisky champion
for governor The Republican party, not
only, but Kansas as state, became awfully
ashamed of that episode in its political life,
not ashamed Of Click as a man, but Of the
naked, disagreeablc fact that man had
been elected governor of progressive Kan
sas on platform whose principal plank,
whose central idea, was the interest Of the
whisky saloon But time makes all
things even The Democratic party. after
all is said, embraces progressive men. who
although, and of course, are few in num-
Der yet who like pea Of shaking lime in a
mountain of rock, are felt from its away
down base to its thin pinnacle A war is
now ranging in the Democratic party of
Kansas, hot and bitter fight, and its AL
because of this very whisky problem. The
advanced and enlightened men of every
cline and country are declaring that there
is no good in whisky for humanity, moth
ing but bad, and some few dozen of infiu-
ential Kansas Democrats recognizing the
truth of such a conclusion, are kicking up
rumpus and threatening that if whisky
is not dropped as a party cry that they
will drop the party. And there is where
the fun is coming in
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
A LIVELY LETTER.

In another column the Hon s. N. Wood,
whose recent capture and sequestration was
q state wide sensation, tells his own story.
When it comes to matter of speech max
ing or letter writing our old friend is
equalcd by few, surpassed by none. Away
back in the sixties, during the war and
border troubles, at time when the writer
and the honorable Sam published two of
the only four papers then issued south and
west of Topeka. Sam got OF out west on
some kind of cattle or transportation deal,
we have forgotten just what, but which at
any rate got him into trouble. He
was captured by some United
States troops and made pris-
oner That fact was "old beans" for
rs. In our next issue we announced with
. flourish of triumpets. that our esteemed
Council Grove cotemperary had at last met
his just and deserved doom. In the mean
time Sam was released the officers acknowl-
cd ring that they had made mistake in
ordering his arrest, whereupon Sam immed
let civ wrote us letter in which he said
thst if we didn't take back what we had
said that he would whip us within an inch
OF our lives the first time he should meet
1s. We refused to apologize. The next
sine we met Sam we ran onto him face to
face. He was watching for us and was
1afta I'll,
today is the only letter We remember to
have received from Sam Wood from that
day, twenty three years ago, to this-incl
dental links of life's chain far separated.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
ANTI-SALOON.

The National Anti-Saloon Republican
conference viii meet in Chicago, Illinois.
Thursday, Sept Is, at 10 o'clock a. m,
and will probably adjovrn that night.
Each state is entitled to four times as mauy
delegates as it has congressman and sena-
tors. Delegations have already been elected
or pledged from sixteen states, viz: Kan
sas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and
Nssissippi-and others are expected.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11

as do we, that it would run through some
of the best and richest farming districts in
to be found in southwest Kansas. So far
as Douglas is concerned, some OF the mer-
chants have been hauling goods by wagon
from Wichita because they have found ont
that in the lines of haevy goods, such as
groceries. ETC., they could buy as cheap as
in Kansas City.
All that the people along this proposed
line have to do to secure an early construc-
ton of this road will be to take hold of
this enterprise in an earnest way, and
promptly vote reasonable amount of aid.
Wichita will do her part and promptly.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
THE OLD POLITICAL wHELP.

The Bangor correspondent OF the New
York Tribune says: St. John, in his
speeches, is rivaling the Democrats in at
lacking Mr. Blaine's protective tariff views.
At the prohibition meeting at Maranacook
yesterday, St. John made violent attack
on capitalists, and asserted that the tariff
was for their benefit to the injury OF work
ingmen As this is exactly in accord with
the speeches delivered by Pillsbury, Gar
celon and other Democrats, it only confirms
the general belief that St. John is working
wholly in the interest of the Democratic
party He gets $50 night for hisspeeches.
He refused to speak in Augusta because
they would not pay him in advance.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
SCIENTIFIC FACTS.

A Frenchman has calculated that a one
horse power engine would run $1,000. 900
watches.
Crows and other birds sometimes stand
over ant hills to allow the insects to kill the
vermin on their bodies.
A case is reported in Sweden where
blindness in one eye was Immediately re-
moved by the pulling Of the decayed and
intiamed molar teeth.
In Avignon, France, there is a clock
pendulum measuring 81 feet, weighing 1872
pounds, with an arc of about 10 feet. 1t
ticks 4 1-2 seconds.
Dreams of persons who have been blind
since the age of five years never contain
imaginary visions. They dream mainly of
hearing things or feeling them.
DR.. de la Rue says the majority of
auroras are not higher than SO miles. A
glow may be produced at the height of 80
miles, but no discharge is possible at the
height of 124 miles. The figures were OBJ
tanned by experiments with voltaic battery
discharges in rarified air.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
THE c., Il. q q.

The citizens of Salina are moving in the
matter of securing an extension of the c.,
B. & O., from COncordia south via that
city, with view of having the road go on
southwest Mcpherson and Wichita CO.
operating in the matter can prevent the
southwest division, and secure the line to
these two places. Prompt action should
be taken by the board of trade, and let us
secure this important road.-McPherson
Freeman
1t would be we'll for SaIina to act upon
the Freeman's suggestion. Salina, Nc
Pherson and Wichita united ought to be
enabled to induce the c., B. 81 9 to do
most anything for their respective interests.
-Salna Herald.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
That Gentleman Writes the Eagle His Sid
OF the Case.


HARMED, Kan, Sept. 8, 'S6.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
My attention has just been called to an
article in the EAGLE of this morning en-
titled "Who Kidnapped Sam Wood"
81 gned: "Disinterestcd 1t will occur to
any intelligent reader that the writer shows
too much interest to be "disinterested'
The facts will show that there could have
been no collision by Wood and Price. AT
dark we were at r. S. Rice's, seven miles
nor tn of Hngaton. After dark was in
formed that two gentlemen wanted to see
me. l went out and found the stage driv-
cr anxious to know if we were 10 be pas
sengers in the stage the next morning. l
informed him we would and he bid me
good night Price and myself at once left
intending to reach Relysus by daylight
Three hours later bowling mob of
forty men, many of them drunk, sur
founded Rice's house. They had rope
ready to hang us, but we were not there
A dozen houses were visited and searched.
Woodsdale, two miles away, was visited
and every house searched. Dudleys ten
miles east, was visited, etc.
Six men thought they were on our track
and followed it to Springfield. thirty miles
east.
The party that caught us were in am
bush on the Cimarron, eighteen miles north,
You see there was too much labor for a
put up job.
Instead of 2,66s inhabitants in Stevens
county there is not 100; instead of 500
odd houses there is not 800. The attempted
organization of the county is one of the
most bare-faced frauds ever perpetrateed
in this state. We had TAX
en- affidavits to prove these frauds.
We had counted the houses
in Stevens county and enumerated the in
habitants. The "Hugonots' imagined
that if they could capture this evidence and
get Price and myself out of the way, until
after election that would end the matter,
that it did not result as they expected is
true, they fired a gun that had back &C
ton, regular boomerang. and Hugoton to-
day is a dead town, Woodsdale is boom
ing. We hid the evidence in the wagon.
and it went direct to Topeka. They al
lowed me at Hugoton to write my partner
A. NJ. Markcy at Topeka to go right on
with all our business the same as if l had
not been captured" Twenty-six of the
conspirators have been arrested for kid
mapping. and others will be. the people
north of the sand hills are in large major
ity, they have sworn eternal vengeance
against Hugoton. Not another dollar of
trade will go to that town. ''Disintercsted, -
gives me to much credit for shrewdness I
am not entitled to the credit of busting
this Hugoton bubble 1t is clear case of
suicide. 1t shows that the men who set
tied Hugoton on school section with a
fraudulent .ittle, are poor sehemers. But
enough. This whole case is in the courts
and the public must wait for the evidence.
Yours, S. y. WooD.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11

Mr. Charles Dudley Warner saws that If
we give our girls just one christian name
and no more, the maiden when she marries
Immediately makes her old surname her
middle name. which will be not only a
handy way to tell whether woman is
married or single by glance at her sigma.
ture. but We shall always know who she
WAS when she was unwedded This is a
good suggestion. and there is an old New
England fashion of naming one of the sons
after his mothers family. thus, if Miss
Smith marries Mr. Jones, the son will be
called Smith Jones. thus preserving the
names of two families.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
WHAT Is TO HINDER?


From the Marion Register.
What is to hinder the four best towns
in central Kansas, Wichita, Marion, Nc
Pherson and Salina, from securing an eX-
tension of the G. B. & Q. across the state
from Concordia to Wichita, touching the
towns above mentioned! This would give
this section of the country the best railroad
facilities in the world and three of the
greatest trunk lines on the continent Will
the Wichita EAGLE lift up its voice in this
direction, glso the rustlers in Mcpherson
and Salna? This road can be secured
within the next fifteen months
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
DERBY BUILDING ASSOCIATION.

To tle Editor O; the Eagle.
DERBY, KAN, Sept. 10.
l have seen the reports of the Arkansas
Valley and the Mt Hope Building associa-
tons in which they declare a scmi-annual
dividend of $3.50 and $3.50 per share re-
spectively or an increase of SIS. 90 and So. 40
per year. Derby sees it and ''goes it one
better"
The Derby Building and Loan association
has just declared an annual dividend of
So. 62 per share, or nearly Ga per cent.
Very truly,
Y JACESON Fin Sec
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
GLAD OF 1T.

We are glad to learn that the Hon. Ro-
dolph Hatfield. of Wichita, was re-nomln
ated for representative from the eighty
second district, as he has shown himself
good man-Sterling Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11

The Wichita people have their eyes
turned Oklahomaward, as the opening of
that territory to settlers would add vast
area to that city from which to draw trade.
Sterling Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
STATE TICKET.
D. H. vALEN TINE.
Franklin county.
JOHN A. MARTINI s;;.s,.o, .ountv
For Lieutenant Governor-
p. RIDDLE, -
For Secretary Of State AVE,
sedgwlck count,
saw JAMES w. HAMILTON.
Sumner county
-" A'A"'' THoTHY MCCARTHY; .onn.v
For Attorney General .nropn
S. b. BRADBURY.
vr Superintendent Of Public MI Instruction-
J. H. LA"hkADb bourbon county.
FOR CoNGREssMEN.
'H'' O'''' HON. <. n. MORRILL,
~ HON. z. II. FUNSTON; u.n .,nn,w
'"N- HON B. W PERKINS.
Neosha county.
r0uf'1 HON. THOMAS RYAN,
HON A. g. WILSON,
Washington county.
HON E. J. TURNER,
Sheridan county.
HON S. r. PETERS,
Harvey county.
JUDICIAL-ISth DISTRICT.
HON T. 3. WALL.
Sedgwick County.
COUNTY TICKET.
'o F. d. JEwYTT.
For Clerk OF District Court -
A. B. WRIGHT.
For County Attorney o>r
N d. S. PENCE.
For Commissioner Tsird District
T. II. RANDALL.
oi i'' RODOLPh HATFIELD
''' no r. E. LAWRENCE.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
Comanche, Comanehe County, Kansas.

Cmmarron a. It's function with Big Bluff and
In Kansas this Only three miles from
Cavalry valley hundreds Of fine farms under cult
Chance
away Many buildings going Write for full
particulars 70 the
CONANCHE TOWN COMPANY.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
THE LATEST Is
CAPITAL = HILL = ADDITION,

Situated between
is fine the Hill Of
call office
Lots every part city, forget we can
you fine bargains
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
SAN WOOD HEARD FROM.

A. B. JACKSON, Fin. Sec.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-11
DISTRICT.
COUNTY TICKET.

HON. T. p. WALL.
Sedgwick County
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-20

CTATE OFMINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMSEY,
~ SIS. 1nProbate Court, special term, May s.
1856.
In the matter of the guardianship Of Anton
Schmitz, an insane person.
On reading and filing the petition Of Jacob
Orlef representing, among other things, that on
the 23d day of July, 1877, Anton Oref was duly
appointed guardian of said insane person. that
said petitioner is creditor of said estate that
said guardian has never made report of his do
ings such guardian. that said guardian in the
year 1882 left said county and state and his present
whereabouts is unknown and said guardianship
ma tier remains unsettled, and praying that said
guardian be removed and a new guardian be APP
pointed; ''| -
1t is ordered that said petition be heard before
the judge of this court on Monday. the 3lst;
day of May, A. d. 1885, at ten O'Clock n. m,,, att
the probate Office, in ST. Paul, said county. .,
ordered further that notice thereof be given
to all persons interested by publishing a
copy of this order for three successive weeks
once in each week, in the st. Paul DAILY GL6BE,
newspaper printed and published at st. Paul,
in said county.
BY the Court s,ef
[Ls.l WIN. B. McGRoRTT,z "
Judge of Probate.
kt'cst: FRANK Ro"E2r Jr., Clerk
NJ. II. ropping, A tornry for Petitioner
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