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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06
WESTERN KANSAS.
Facts About the New and Great Agri
cultural Empire.

To the Editor of the Eagle
| DIGHToN, Aug A, 1885,
| came from Garden City to Dighton
yesterday and Toasted my eyes on the finest
looking country ever saw.
remember hearing Sluss say once at our
old-settlers reunion that no one was de-
serving of more credit for locating at Wich-
tia in the pioneer days than the person who
''came in" stopped on the line east of town
long enough to look down into the most
fertile valley on Gods footstool and then
stopped because he could not help it,
The newcomer into this country looking
into this locality for a location would stop
for the same reason. Lane county is I'M
questionably the finest body of arabic land
in Kansas. More than ninety nine per cent.
is smooth and tillable. If the people who
are cutting such figures trying to s'open up
Oklahoma'-tbis may not be spelled cor
rectly, but its good enough for that coun-
try-would turn their efforts in this direc-
ton they would find a country here the
very sight Of which would make their very
bosoms heave with delight.
| There has been an abundant rainfall dur
| ing the whole summer and this is shown in
the corn, oats, millet and potatoes, which
have been planted
| | have seen hundreds of acres Of corn,
nearly all sod corn, and with the exception
of one field, it has all been Of dark green
color from the root to the top. | have
seen several pieces that | think will yield
thirty or forty bushels per acre.
Mr., Barnard showed me bunch Of oats
yesterday, grown near town, that some OF
our enterprising real estate agents at Wich-
ita ought to secure at any cost, to advertise
our county The bunch was nearly four
feet long and the heads were very heavy.
drove out to look at the field and from
the appearance Of the shocks should judge
the field will yield fifty bushels to the acre.
am told that there is another field just
south of the town that will yield as much,
and this on sod.
AS tried to take In this marvellous devel-
Opment' and realize that in the part of Kan
sas heretofore regarded as unproductive,
there was an abundant rainfall, thirty bush
els of corn and fifty of oats per acre raised
on the sod, thought what an empire of
population, wealth and enterprise
Kansas will be when this part Of
the state reaches the develop
ment, il soon must reach under these fiat
tering prospects and bountiful promises.
have only time to say of Dighten, "she
is booming" They expect a railroad with
in eighteen months, and it now looks as if
they would get it.
The Dighton Town Co. have erected an
elegant hotel at cost of about fifteen thou
sand dollars, and Wier & Williams-both
Wichita men-are running it in splendid
shape. Frank sat me down to the best
meal yesterday that have eaten at a hotel
in year When bed time came he show
ed me to "A nice clean cosy room, where |
was luled to sleep by the ''patter of the
soft rain on the roof" This morning it is
still raining W. Il. 5.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06
STEVENS COUNTY ORGANIZED.

The census taker of Stevens county day
before yesterday made his report to Gov
ernor Martin, showing that there are 1862
inhabitants in the county, and that there is
$313, OBS worth Of taxable property, and
the governor therefore issued his proclama-
ton declaring Stevens county to be organ
lied. He appointed John Robertson, H.
0. Wheeler and J. b. Chamberlain to be
county commissioners, and j. W. Calvert
to be county clerk Hugoton was. desig-
mated as the temporary county seat. There
are now only seven unorganized counties in
the state, to-wit: Cove, Greeley, Morton,
st. John, Sherman. Wallace and Wichita.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06
HOW MEDICINE LODGE GROWS.

| To the Editor OF the Eagle.
! August 4th. Another heavy rain visited
! this county yesterday, making three within
the past two weeks.
The prospect for corn, millet and other
late products is indeed tattering Corn is
variously estimated to make from forty to
eighty bushels per acre Wheat and oats,
while good, did not fill as well as if it had
had more rain.
+! Trade in town is picking up wonderfully
| since farmers are sure Of raising good
crop and can see their way clear for at least
one more year.
| Medicine Lodge is growing steadily. The
court house and the jail walls are beginning
to look up and it is expected to be com
pleted before snow falls.
The foundation of Wood & Vincent's
boot and shoe store has been laid. The
building is to be of brick, 25x6O feet, two
! stories high: plate glass front with trim
mings of Winfield stone.
| McNeal Little & Thompson are now
making preparations to build an elegant
! brick and stone banking house on the cor
ner of Main and First avenue. They will
endeavor to make it the finest and most
beautiful building in southwest Kansas. II
is to be 75x100 feet, two stories high.
Byerly, Dark & Runyan are talking OF
building large dry goods storeroom, the
one they now occupy not being large
enough to accommodate their stock.
There are a number of dwellings and
other buildings being completed.
On the whole, the town is not on boom
but we are having a steady growth, one
that is liabte to last, and not get ahead OF
of the surrounding country, and then pc
litically the county is taking things coolly
There will not be much fighting between
the two parties this year. The issue viii
be to get the best man in the right place.
A. S. NJ
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is hay
ing a new roof put on her house at Hol-
land Patent and the old shingles are much
sought after by relic hunters" Miss Cieve-
land had better get married and save the
shingles for disciplinary purposes. That
will be better lin the long run. Cham
pion.
They would probably stand better
chance of being sooner utilized by sending
them to her sister-in-law Il the Kansas
City Times correspondent yes didn't mis-
lead him as to the alteration made In that
wedding gown.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06

Garden City Herald: A farmer named
Sidney. whose claim is in this county, about
fifteen miles south Of Santa Fe, while Dor
ing a well recently, struck a very strong
vein of gas, which few out of the hole
with great force until the tube was driven
further down and the gas shut off. The
next thing we hear out there is natural gas
for manufacturing purposes.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06
KANSAS MOONSHINERS.

As the Democratic party of this state
have taken grounds against the right of the
state to interfere with the use of whisky as
a beverage, and have nominated for gov
ernor an individual by the name of Moon
light: it will be in order to call them moon
sinners
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06

1t is told in Washington that after Ger
tain senator. noted for his absent minded
ness, left that city on a short visit, this
memorandum was found in his room
Things to take along: Zone pair socks,
one shirt, two collars, one pair cuffs, one
urifa -
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06

What has become of the terrible and I'M
precedented drouth prophesied by the
Shawnee county weather prognostlcator,
who. not satisfied with publishing paper
containing his own predictions, employs
the Topeka papers to blow for him. He is
singing mighty low just now. That sixty
day drouth may be on at Topeka, but
cranks in this section are in continual dan
ger of being drowned.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-08-06
Vail. y Center township teast Of river) ..
Valley Center township (ws e, of river).


Eagle township. .
The primaries TO elect said delegates Will
be held on Thursday, September 2nd, 1856, at
the usual voting places In the country the
polls will be opened from . o'clock to o'clock
D. m, and in the city from 2 o'clock until
$50 y. m E. B. JEwETT, Chairman
NJ = Rochelle Secretary
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Ryan Anxious to Meet Sullivan.

Troy, N. Y, Jan. 16--A dispatch was sent
from Boston yesterday afternoon announcing
the arrival in that city Of John L. Sullivan, and
the receipt of a dispatch from VIM. Bennett, of
New York. to the effect that the proposed fight
between Ryan and Sullivan was off, because
Ryan could not raise the $1,000. Pad
dy Ryan was shown the telegraph by
reporter. tonight, and the pugist said:
Il know nothing at all about it. | have tele-
graphed and written to Coburn for information,
but have received none, except the dispatches
published last Sunday. did not authorize CO.
burn to make any match for me, nor do / be-
ieve that Sullivan authorized Bennett to match
him. You say for me, though. that | am
ready and anxious to meet Sullivan at
any time or place. and fight on any con-
ditions that he may name, aud that l can raise
the 81 500 there is no doubt. When j received
Coburn's dispatch, although my mother was
very sick at the time, | had to accept it, or /
should have been put down coward and
afraid to meet Sullivan. What / said then l
say now. / believe that Sullivan and l will
eventually come together, but do not believe
that anything will be done until Sullvan's con-
tract with Lester 81 Allen has expired. Let
Sullivan name the place, conditions, and amount,
and Ill be on hand"
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
business Embarrassments.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 16-The Western Crockery
Companys business was placed in the hands of
Charles Andrews, as receiver, to day. The as
sets of the company are stated by one OF its Off
GERS to be $4,000, and the liabilities $50 000
The failure grew out of claim for So 600 fled
by Burgess 81 Goddard, of New York and Liver
pool.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Louis Renaeh, wholesale
dealer in toys, failed to-day. with estimated lia-
bilities of $4,000 and assets about 500, 600. His
creditors are principally in the East. MIR. Rie-
mach hopes to effect q settlement and resume
business.
NEW YORK Jan. 16-Schedules of Adolph
Goldsmith. dealer in watches, fled to- day,
state his liabilities at SLIT, S66; actual assets
S73.S7O
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
ne Frecinet,s Programme.

PARIS, Jan. 16--M. De Freycinet made dec
laration in the Chamber of Deputies Of the poll
cy the new Cabinet would follow. He said that
the colonial policy would be less adventuresome
than that of its recent predecessor. This state
ment was cheered by the Chamber. NJ De
Freycinet also said ut is necessary to restore
good order in the administration, to hold the
clergy to a strict execution of their duties, to
restore financial equilibrium, to vote French
loan and to adopt no measures creating new
taxes" The Tonqnin protectorate should be or
ganized on an economical basis.
He said the government hopes to eqnaize the
budget by rigid economies in the various depart
ments The readjustment of taxation he said,
would not effect the consumption of food The
War and Marine Offices would be required to
make the greatest sacrifices short of reducing
the efficiency of the countrys defenses The
colonies that had been recently acquired would
be retained, and it was hoped that they would
soon be able to pay their own expenses, when
the direction of their affairs would be retrans-
ferred to the Colonial Office The message was
received with cheers in both houses.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Two THE CREDITORS OF THE SToCKSIAN ICE
4 Machine Company:


4 Machine Company:
You hereby notified that in the entitled
Samuel H. Cobb ct al. VS.. The Stockman Ice Machine
Company, No. 32835, the Superior Court of Marion
County Indiana. has entered the following ORDER
1T is therefore ordered by the court that all credit
of said The Stockman Ice Machine Company be-
and they hereby required to file with the clerk Of
this court in this cause with the said Alex c.
Jameson receiver of The Stockman lee Machine
Company, proper and sufficient statements of their
respective claims of Indebtedness before the 9Th
day of February, 1886 and that such statements be
each accompanied by copies of all written evidence
thereof signed in the of said The Stockman
Ice Machine Company. and by the affidavit of the
respective claimants, of one in their behalf
that such claims true do include any usurious
interest, justly owing by said company and that
there credits upon, counterclams or setofs
against the same and it is further ordered by the
court that claim be allowed against said company
to share in the assets that may into the
hands of said receiver unless proof thereof herein
before provided shall be filed as above required prior
to on the said 9Th day of February, 1885,
You will, therefore take notice that you must file
your claims as above required directing them either
to Moses G.. McIain clerk of the Superior Court of
Marion County Indianapolis Indiana, or to Alex @.
Jameson Receiver, in of Lew Wallace No. Odd
fellows Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana.
ALEX G. JAMESON,
Receiver of the Stoekman Ice Machine Company.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Sensation Among Odd-Fellows.


RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 16-Something of a
sensation was created in Odd-felow circles this
evening by charter for canton of the degree
of Patriarchs Militant being displayed in the
store window of a member of the old Patri-
archial Circle. The presumption was that
tho members of tho circle were
still turning deaf ear to the
edict of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, as they
threatened to, and their dlsgusted brethren of
the three links who had not gone into the circle
were on the eve of having them expelled for not
obeying the edict of the Grand Lodge, when they
suddenly reveal the fact that Richmond Temple
No. 4. of the Patriarchal Circle, was quietly
mustered in on the night of Dec. as canton of
the Patriarchs Militant (which the Grand
Lodge ordered substituted for the Circe) by
Gen. FL. G. Underwood, who came in on
a night train and left at o'clock in the morning,
without his presence being known to any of the
hundreds of Oddfellows in Richmond save
the forty odd in the Circle who kept quiet on the
matter until now, to worry the other Odd fell
lows who had opposed the Circle.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Society Women Who Play Poker.

st. Louis pectator.
1t is not generally known, but am told that
there are several coteries of ladies in st. Louis
who meet regularly to play poker They go
early to each others homes, and stay late. A
good deal of money changes hands. some of the
ladies. who are very skillful supplying them
selves in this way with such little trifes as dia-
mond earrings and seaskin saeques. 1t may be
all right in this age of progress, but doubt
whether these ladies would be pleased to have
their sons. bro theirs, or husbands walk in on the
little game They certainly would have no right
to reproach them in case they took to gambling
themselves.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
A Bride Worth Having.
Nogales IN. M Frontier.

When the Apaches attacked the Black Rock
ranch of William Johnson, a week ago last Sun
day, only johnson and his young bride were on
the premises. They took refuge in chicken
house. from which the fight was kept up for an
hour, the husband doing the shooting and the
wife loading the gnns johnson was shot through
the body and thigh, and had one arm broken
When the RED devils gave up the fight and left
Mrs. Johnson hitched up team. placed her
wounded husband in the wagon, and drove twenty
miles to Fort Thomas.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

The Connection Between Whisky and Music.
Springfield Republican.
The lessee and treasurer of the New York
Academy of Music made out in the Supreme
Court on Wednesday that unless liquors could
be served at balls, the main source of the Acade-
my's income would be cut off, This speaks vol
umes for music in this country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
No Change at the Edgar Thomson Works.

BRADDocK, Pa, Jan. 16-The situation at the
Edgar Thomson steel works remains still un-
settled, and the outcome Of the trouble is hard
to determine The men are confident their
terms will be complied with. and think that by
the middle of next week the mill will be running
full in all departments Is is rumored here to-
night that the firm has offered the men 80 per
cent advance in wages, and work twelve hours
as heretofore, or no advance and work eight
hours. 1t is difficult to tell which of these propo
sitions would be accepted.
Tomorrow Father Hickey, Catholic priest,
will address meeting Of the striking steel-work-
ers, and offer them the eight-hour turn as de-
manded, bat not the 10 per cent. advance.
Father Hickey represents Carnegie Bros. & Co.
in this transaction, and possesses much infu-
ence. The probabilities are that the strike will
be ended, though the men say they will refuse
anything but eight hour turns and 10 per cent
advance.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Victims of the Storm.

DENVER, Col, Jan. l6.-A Benkleman special
to the Tribune Republican says: ''G. w. Tup-
per. living on a claim eleven miles southeast of
Benklemen, started to neighbors and got lost.
He was found frozen to death. Three men
named Cherry, Carson and Carter left Wona,
Kan, the 9th of this month. going home, sixteen
miles south; Carson and Carter, going to Goudy,
eighteen miles further, lost their way They
were found. five days later. sixteen miles from
Cherry's place, lying side by side in a small
field, frozen to DEATH
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Banauet TO Joseph Arch.

LONDON, Jan. 16-A banquet was given to-
night in honor of Mr.. Joseph Arch. NJ. p, who
is the first agricultural laborer to be elected TO
Parliament. Mr. Chamberlain, who presided.
made speech in which he enlarged the i'm
portance of agraran reform. He emphasized
the fact that Mr.. Arch is dissenter~ de-
clared that that the Church of England has new
er given help to great popular movements.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
The MARTYR Mackin.

Lewiston (Il) Democrat.
Joe Mackin is, after all. better man than he
is popularly supposed to be. He has gone silent
ly to the penitentiary for crimes committed in
the interest of other and greater rascals. 1t is
rather sublime to servant and tool
suffer so silently and heroically for the scoun-
drels who stood above him, and who were to be
benefciaries of his crimes against the sacred
hall
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
McNeirs Alleged AcconpIice.

Boston. Jan. 16.-Dr E. s. Nelson, who was
arrested, charged with completely with Pres-
dent Mcneil in the embezzlement of the funds
of the Lancaster National Bank, and who was
arragned and placed in $15 600 bail, was arrested
in this city tonight, on United States warrant.
for embeZzlement He was taken before Com
missioner Hallett and placed under $4,000
bonds, which he furnished
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

Methodists in the country. The charges are en-
braced under the general head of conduct not in
accordance with the rules of the church, and
will be confined chiefly to the business transac-
tions of the Doctor for several years past. There
will be at least three specific charges to be inves
tigated, under which there will be twenty-five
counts.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
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The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

which attributed the cause OF the trouble and
improbable discussion in the School Board to
women. It is only worthy of a man who would
infiict injury upon innocent parties in order to
divert personal responsibility from himself
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Killed by a Railway Train.

ELMITA, N. Y, Jan. 16-Mr and Mrs. Daniel
Bennett, of Horseheads, N. Y, while crossing a
railroad track, two miles from Emira, to-day,
were struck by train. Mr. Bennett was in
stantly killed, and Mrs. Bennett will probably
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

Liberty Herald
Cleveland, in letter to the editor of Puck,
an Englishman, took occasion to denounce the
American press generally. Ye gods, what q
spectacle of low-down, binding ignorance on
the part of the President of the United States,
in writing condemnatory letters of the press of
this country to the editor of one of the viest and
most lbelous sheets published in this country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Strike in the Conneilsvilie Coke Region.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 16.-At the meeting of the
coke-drawers at Scottsdale, to-day, all the mines
in the Connellsvile region but two or three were
represented After lengthy discussion it was
unanimously decided to ask an advance in wages
of 10 per cent, and if not granted by l o'clock
Monday afternoon the strike will be declared
general
special to the Dispatch from Connellsville
says she situation at Mount Pleasant looks
alarming. The coke-drawers and miners at the
Moorewood and Standard works struck yester-
day, and both works are now idle. bowling
mob of Hungarians have congregated in the vi
cinity of the mines and will allow no one to
lift a tool. In these two works, there are 1850
ovens. The strike was started by the Hunga-
rians. and from present indications it will
be necessary to call out the militia. report
reached Connellsville this morning that a riot
was in progress, and all the coal and iron police
besides numerous deputies, are now at that
point. In the coke regions there are over 1000
workmen. If a general strike is ordered there
will be much trouble, as the Hungarians are a
turbulent set. 1t is the general opinion, howev
er, that the demand will be granted, and that
the strike will not last long. At Moorewood and
the Standard works the strikers have been or
dered to vacate the company's houses within ten
days, and have also been refused credit at the
company's stores.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Arrest of Professor O. S. Fowler.

BUFFALO n Y. Jan. 16-Professor o. S.
Fowler was arrested to-day, and held to await
the action of the grand jury charge of prac-
ticing medicine illegally.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Gold Discovered in Texas.

FORT WORTH. Tex. JAM 16.-A special to the
Gazette from Leakey, in Edward county, tells
of the discovery of paying gold mine. The ore
yields from SOS to $500 per ton. Prospectors are
pouring in, and many claims have been staked
off
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Rev. DIR. pershipp,s coming Trial.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 16-The preliminary investi-
cation into the case of DIR. J. C. Pershing. presi-
dent of the Pittsburg NJ. E. Female College, is
to begin on Tuesday. and will continue week,
or perhaps longer. Owing to the prominence of
Mr.. Pershing, the trial viii bs Of interest to all
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Fourteen Lives Lost.

Boston, JAM 16.-Itis now generally believed
that the captain and entire crew, fourteen souls,
of the wrecked bark Julia A. Brown, which left
Perth Amboy for this port, on the 9th inst,
were drowned.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18
Interfering with Jealous Democrats

Interfering with Jealous Democrats.
Lawrence Mail
looks like an attempt by prominent Democrat
to interfere with the occupation of such jealous
members of his party as John Mclean, of Gin
cinnati Sim Coy of Indianapolis; Mackin, of
Chicago, and others.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

To graft grape vine cut off the stock Just be-
low the ground, graft as you do an apple. bind
ing them with soft bit of leather, and then
cover up with earth again.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-18

Ours and wounds can be cured In a short time
by the use Of Salvation Oil. Price, % cents.