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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

We are disposed to think that the Wich-
its EAGLE Is needlesely alarmed at the
prospect of a reduction of the legal rate of
interest by the incoming legislature We
do not believe the proposed reduction will
drive dollar OF legitimate money out of
the state, and. lift drives the money sharks
out, let them go.-Osage City Free Press.
Bravely said, but can we get along
without them? Kansas, in addition 10
her own earnings, wants from fifty to
one hundred millions of dollars annually
of outside capital to make her improve
ments and develope resources which
otherwise would not see daylight for
two generations to come. Its all ques-
ton of profitable use of tae money,
which profitable use not only leaves
with US the increase but makes the nom
resident owner of the money safe. Leg
latures can't create, in such a sense. and
they should be very careful how they use
their power to regulate.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

of real estate, and one-third is mort
gagged for one-half its value. Who of
the owners of the other two-thirds can
sell ANYTHING? The competition is
amongst sellers to unload, not among
the purchasers. The buyer passes every
unniortgaged tract and finds himself sur
rounded by crowds of eager mortgage
sellers. Every piece of land in that town
is brought down to mortgaged basis, and
until that is all sold and changes hands
the bears rule the town, the bulls are in
pasture.
The sooner that Kansas realizes that
all unmortgaged land is deprecated in
value by reason of the mortgaged lands,
and that these mortgaged lands must
change hands before real estate starts
upward the better it will be for US.
Strangers are quick to observe whether
the "bears or bulls rule the market,
whether the tendency is to cry down or
raise up, and they don't buy on falling
market. These mortgaged lands must
get INTO hands that can raise them TO a
level with other lands not mortgaged or
we cannot have good times.
Packing houses. sugar works. salt
plants can not raise the price of lands;
they stimulate trade, but land owners
raise the price of land. And if we were
free from mortgages every piece of land
in Kansas would appreciate 25 to and
even to 100 per cent in ninety days.
There are five millions of dollars, if
not twenty, ready to invest in Kansas as
soon as the buyer is satisfied we have
bottom, but millions of unmortgaged
lands are being held down and out of
the market by ulortgaged lands.
Any man who favors the delay OF
foreclosures is either debtor or an en-
envy to prosperity and progress.
Prosperity and progressiveness are
sworn foes to an individual, communi-
ty OF a state oppressed with debt, and
we must get out of debt. Procrastina-
ton is not payment-or settlement
harsh as il may seem 10 the debtor, be
stands in the way of the progress of the
state.
Shall we be saved at the expense Of
the entire state, or shall the state pro-
gress?
That which man soweth shall he also
reap.
he that sows the wind shall reap the
whirlwind.
Shall this be changed 50 as TO read, |
viz: That whatsoever Spectator soVys, |
the entire state shall reap.
The Spectator has sowed wind and /
the state shall reap the whiriwind.
What shall the harvest be-
Ktxzs~
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
Our Great Cloak Sale

Is a fact OF great interest to
those who intend to buy. We
have no competitors in Plush
Wraps. We beat them all in
Quality, Style, Fit and Price.
The price Of children'S gar
mentS cut in two. We won't
carry them over.
Just received our spring i'm
pOrtatiOn Of lace curtains. They
are awful cheap.
Chenille pOrtierS, Turkoman
pOrtlerS. Novelties IN high
grades.
Our rug sale was q SucceSs. We
show some rare bargains in the
new Japanese rugs, and in the
Smyrna and Oriental lines
We please the most faStidiouS.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
Getting Fvcn

In one Of :Ss largest dry goods stores Ia
this city there Is q particularly cross salss-
man he h altogether TOO superb crsaturs
to be behind dry goods counter, and when
he doss oondescend 70 wait upon custorns1
so the women ssy-lt Il such a favor tha; %
Is really painful Yesterday q young woman
who had suffered at bis hands got s7en With
him IN tie highest gtyie % the art Che hsi
been selecting q material toy q dress for an
cut Of town fr5sBd and the disagTsozbls sales-
man had chosen 20 assurne, when she asked
fer samples, that she had 10 inteniioo Ct buy
Ing. sn6 tad loftlly referred her 70 sozns ons
else, intiuzt.ng a. mach. The young woman
had bouget ct least halt a dozsn dr-~sus 81
tha. oo1nter. AID shs vowed vssgssEos.
Yesterday she walked Up - tbs superb
creature with Der suee:es. aid faost asrcrre
air She had a sample Of cashmere that abe
knew corldr't 10 matched Ia Chicago. ard
she Laid IL down Ia frozt q him yI.aout =
word
IL there Il Anything thA. be ha:>.-so tie
women say. "a % tzxs down gods frrra
"a, shelves; b. vbsn o sample IL brosgAt IA
20 Be raa.chsd hs cam kelp himself rs was
"a q particularly lofty fr.zss a mind yess<r-
cay. AID picksd Up tSs anoss16iax s.zspLs
with tAs oozdescsnzoa Ct a daks & ths fasss
After he bad ,akea down tEros ssssy 5oi.s
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
New Years Gifts

And rememberanceS. Ladies and
cblldrenS handkerchiefS; q be-
wildering display Of exquisite de-
signs at a lower price than you
VIII ever buy them again. Pocket
books, hand Satchels, hair Orna-
mentS, lace ScarfS, Spanish and
hand ruch. GentlemenS silk
handkerchiefS, gentlemens linen
handkerchtefS, gentlemenS silk
and aShmere muff erS
FurS, muffS and bOaS, seal caps,
silk umbrellas for ladies and gen
tlemen. In infinite variety or
everything suitable, practical
and ornamental for New Years
81 is
The best is the cheapest, always
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Governor Click, in an aticle in the
Kansas Farmer, says the only hope for
western Kansas is to engage in sugar
making. He thinks the climate, soil,
and all the conditions of that region
very favorable to this industry In this
last the ex-governor is correct, but he
puts it too strong when he says the only
hope of that section is in sugar making
Ii has been demonstrated that variety
of crops can be successfully and profit
ably grown, among them potatoes, pea
nuts and broom corn. Wheat and corn
have also yielded paying crops, and with
proper care in seeding and cultivation
these can De made profitable.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The persistent nagging at Wichita by
the papers of few rival towns has had
the effect Of putting Marsh Murdoch on
the defensive. That is fatal error and
one that Marsh should not be guilty of.
Sullivan never parties blow; he simply
plants a tremendous lick under his oppo-
nent's jaw and the fight is ended -Empo-
ria Republican.
The experienced kitten does not at
once gulp down its prey, but first gives
the mouse a seeming chance for life. 1t
tastes better. A defensive pass now and
then not only affords moments relaxa-
ton, but the next ''knock 'em stiff has
a more cold and quoting effect. Our
Boston friend, u. Leonadas Sulivong,"
has ever been our patron saint.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
KAxzAS.

1t is stated that the manufacturers Of
Marblehead, Mass. who were recently
burned out are undecided whether 70 re-
build there or not. The wise thing for
them TO do would be 70 fall in With the
tide Of emigration that Is constantly
moving west. Such move once de-
cided upon sheyEwould naturally be at
tracted 70 Wichita, possessing Is Il does
unsurpassed if not unequaIed advantages
as to accessibility TO the entire scope q
country that viii in few years embrace
the center Of population Of the country.
II those Marblehead manufacturer
would take advantage Of the enforced
interim to their bsssiness and visit this
city, take Ia the situation and consult
their own bes. interests. there n little
question but TIA. their plants would De
transferred 10 this point IN the shortest
possible time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
YES, WICHITA IS.

Wichita is a good town, but this stuff
which is printed in he: home papers, that
Wichita will not only in few years be
as great but greater city than Kansas
City" can only excite laugh. Don't boast
too much down in Sedgwick, but look out
for Arkansas City and Hutchinson-Kan
sas City Missouri Times.
Yes, Wichita is good town, and there
is no need of better proof that it will
some day prove a formidable rival of
Kansas City than the fact that the news
papers up there devote great deal of
space to our promising neighbor. Ell Do
RADIO Republican.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

San Diego Cali Sun: The stampede
from Kansas for California comes largely
from about Wichita which is engaged in
fierce rivalry with Ness City, a neighbor-
ing town. Competitor between them has
how reached the point of acrimony.
Stampede from California TO Kansas.
you mean. The poor devils are getting
back as rapidly as a bursted purse and
sore feet viii let them. But about this
fierce rivalry" between Wichita and
Ness City. VIII Marsh Murdoch please
enlighten credulous world on this mat
ter:-Winfield Courier.
Wichita knows nothing of any such
conditions as referred to above. We
cannot speak for our live neighbor to the
northwest, though it has given no evil
aence of entertaining such sentiment or
ambition.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The hustle OF a lady at Belfast, Maine,
was struck by lightning while she was on
the way to a neighbours house the other
day, and she was so affected by the shock
that she was unable to speak for several
minutes. The lightning, TOO, blushed and
said nothing Republican.
The hustle is having a hard time of it.
Between being continually sat down up
up and regularly collapsed by the Annie
Jennesse Miller crowd, it comes now to
be attacked by lightning-by a very
thunderbolt from the sky. We cover
our eyes from the very lank, limp
thought of what the street scene will be
with all the bustles gone. a more effect
lively descriptive word than collapsed"
will have TO be invented.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Kansas City has made very satlsfac-
tory showing of the packing business
the past year of which fact Kansas City,
of Missouri is not little bit put out.
Kansas City is great city, and even
Kansas City of Missouri will yet be COM
nelIed to acknowledge the fact.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

But for his official title one would
naturally conclude, upon reading his
diatribes on the tariff at the Tariff Re-
form league banquet at Boston Friday
evening, that Secretary Fairchild was a
college professor. The school of re-
formers to which the secretary belongs
seem to be unable to realize that it is a
condition and not theory that con-
fronts US. The study of maXims is well
enough in its way, but it is too nebulous
for this practical age when it come in
contact with affairs that affect the
material interests of the people.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Wichita people hope for the Armour
packing house.-Ex.
1t is not a case of "hoping," but one OF
fat hogs. If Mr.. Armour desires to con-
tinue extensively in the business OF
packing hogs he viii have TO come to
The point where the squealers congre-
rate in the greatest numbers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
A Cold Wave Sale

or beautiful bed blankets. Don't
wait for the wave buy now, buy
at this sale White blankets at
94c, worth S1.5O. - hite blankets
at $1.O5, worth 50 White blank
cts at S455, worth SO. White
blankets at S5.47, worth ST. Cor
responding reduction up 10 SI5.
30 pairs gray, extra heavy, OF
$234.. % pairs gray, double
weight, at S261. Is pairs gray,
extra fine, at 1881 Il pairs
gray, heavy and fine, at So. 90.
Fancy blankets at halr price.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
1889 1881
Happy New Year
- FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE
Of
INNES & ROSS.
Turn Over a New Leaf.

Gentlemen: We propose TO
close the old year d open the
new with a grand sale OF IS cent
Unlaundried Shirts. They beat
anything ever sold here at 81. 90
dozen unlaundried shirts at IS
cents, worth 81.
Gents unusual underwear op-
portunity. Knit shirts and draw
erS. al cents, worth rs cents.
Knit shirts and drawers, 66 cents,
worth 81, nit shirts and draw
erS, "a celtS, worth S1.25 These
goods are butchered to close
them out.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

May we be permitted to ask the Asso-
ciated Press agent at Topeka why he
didn't announce to the country yeSter-
day that the annual convention of the
county superintendent and the annual
conversion of the superintendent of the
high schools of the state are to meet in
Wichita the coming year? From read
ing the Topeka papers we should judge
that vote would have carried the an
nual association here also.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The Cherryvale Republican seems con-
siderably gone on the Wichita EAGLE
Has the EAGLE said something real nice,
Buff?-Iola Register.
Mr.. Burlington has ideas, and very &C
eurate ones, as to what constitutes good
daily paper, and he is not afraid to ex-
press them in the Republican or else
whore
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Harper's Weekly says that Wichita
presents already a social standard of a
wonderful high order. A Kansas City
NIissourD paper yesterday republishes
the details of the hooded girl case and
the murder of a school master, in Wich-
tia, and then winds up by observing that
the cause of education needs looking
after down this way.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Mr.. Cleveland still insists that the
horse is sixteen feet high, notwithstand-
Ing that it fell short of as many hands
when placed under the standard III
November. The people have said that
tariff iockeying shall not win, and if he
were as shrewd as his hackers seem to
think him he would let ur on it, SO to
spaak
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Mcpherson Freeman: As the prosper
ity of Kansas is dependent upon her
crops, the interest of the state will be
best served by the settlement OF the
country and cultivation of the soil from
here to the gulf and by securing the
shortest haul for our products to the
roast
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

II is TO be hoped that Mr.. Springer's
confidence in early action on the Okla
homa bill may be justified. Three
fourths of the house are it favor of it.
That a handful of filibusterers can pre-
vent its consideration for so long time
would seem TO indicate the need for a
change in the rules of the house.-Em-
poria News
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
FARM MoETGAoEs.

4 recent communication from Stats
ecan Dodge. II the agricultural depart
raenf. With reference 70 farm mortgage.
contains a volume OF sound sense. He
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Kansas as usual leads the country in
railroad building for the past year. The
young state believes in having plenty OF
lines. but there is danger in too much OF
a good thing.-Kansas City (Missouril
Times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The Kansas City (MissourD papers are
In the midst of a fearful racket over the
Stars Santa Claus scheme.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Sloppy, sloppy indeed, and drear. but
think of the crops next year.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The city of Leavenworth leads all The
cities of Kansas in population.-Times.
When did that happen?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30


Wichita people write more :'communica-
tons" to the newspapers than the people
OF any other city in the world. The EAGLE
generally reserves one column of its edi-
torial page, and gives up the rest to ''com-
munications." This is one reason why
Marsh is SO popular. He let's the people
do as much writing for his paper as he
does himself.-Kansas City (Mo.1 Star.
Putting it little strong, but the edi-
torial chair of the EAGLE boasts only a
modicum of the higher order of intel
lectuality and acute percipience neces-
sary to the edification Of people whose
physiological attachments have come to
be SO conspicuous as to call forth favor
able comments from appreciative stran-
gers, we, therefore, open our columns,
occasionally, to such to the end that the
world may be rendered better and
brighter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

The exhibit of the new industrial en-
terprises inaugurated in the southern
states during the year now closing, as
made by the Chattanooga Tradesman, is
next to wonderful in its extent and the
variety embraced therein. This is the
most convincing augury of the trend of
affairs in that section than all the the
orizing and philosophizing INDUCED in
by political partisans on either side. That
it will lead to a general break up, ere
long, of the political and social regime
that has obtained there for many years,
there can be but little doubt. The whir
of machinery and the smoke of the fur
mace are wonderful forces in transform
ing the sentiments as well as the condi-
ton of people; forces the strong-willed
souteerners will not long be able to
resist.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

In the celebration of Forefathers day,
in New. Haven, Connecticut, last week,
Senator Platt delivered an address on
''The Extinction of the Meeting House."
There is sound Of music, mournful and
beautiful, in this eloquent extract: 81
cannot escape a feeling of sadness when
/ stray into some rural town in Connec-
ticut where the inhabitants still cling to
the religion of their fathers and call
their meeting house by its right name.
Wherever l go and howevermuch l may
admire the architectural glories of the
cathedral, or the elegance and comfort
of the modern church, my heart always
turns to the meeting house Of my child
hood. Its pictures will never be dim
until these eyes close in death. There is
no architectural beauty to charm the eye,
and its furnishings were angular and I'M
comfortable, but the OLD meeting house
still remains part of my life."
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

Ehappy New Year to Oklahoma. May
she be speedily opened up.-Osage Free
Press.
Yes, speedily. The money which the
Indian is annually costing the govern
ment would clothe and feed every buck,
squaw and papoose in the United States
and leave big surplus, providing they
were all located together near some big
market and the feeding and clothing
was carried out in a systematic and
business-like manner, or in the way that
an army is fed and clothed. Under the
present policy, besides practically feed
ing and clothing them, they annually
worm, through their attorney and others,
immense sums of money from the gen.
eral government, and all the while i'm
mense and valuable districts are held in
idleness and undeveloped only that the
Indian may refer to it as his reservation.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30

divisions in old towns and new ones are
monuments erected TO attest the boom.
Such an era of unexampled prosperity
had never been before. Lands were
bought on the "installment plan, on
the same principle that sewing women
bought sewing machines. The install
ments matured and the creditor wants
bis money or the sewing machine.
The eastern dealers in pianossand car
riages and buggiAs proclaim that Kansas
went insane on "moosic" and vehicles
Diamonds shown on shirt fronts and on
bosoms that never before had worn gold
triple plate ware The beggar was
mounted Il was only question of
time when he would reach the devil, but
it was not surmiSed then that every body
had to 90 to the devil with him, and
that to save himself from destruction
and ease his fall that he would imperil
the credit Of the state, and
blast the value Of all real
estate until he was made whole.
1t Is popular to be creditor: how long
it will &c before il IL disgrace remains
yet TO be seen The debtor favors any
and all expedients that delay payment.
The rising demagogue, as well as the one
esta blished in business, favors anything
popular, and the legislature is expected
to avert all the ills that grew out Of spec
ulation and bad crops.
All Kansas is. however, anxious for
good crops. revival Of business, 70 the end
that real estate may be sold, and yet bust
ness men agree on the general proposition
that financial judgment day must fol-
low every speculative era. and that bust
ness will resume in healthy and nor
NAL condition until that day of judg-
ment has set its seal Of condemnation on
the Spectator.
The Spectator who is loaded must die
a financial death. He must be threshed
to chat as grain On barn floor 10 get
what good Is IN him out SO long as the
few kernels Of wheat are il the bundle
of straw they do him, no. any one else,
any good. Unthreshed they rot and
spoil every bundle In the stack
Suppose a town has one million dollars
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-03
HUNrINGT0N TALKs.
HOr AAr1aON 1ALhSs
He Speaks of the New Llnes in
California.

SAN Francisco, May &c. p. Hunt
ington, in an interview to-day in re-
gard to the plans which have been
formed for the extension of railroad
facilities, said: NEARLY all the roads
we have in contemplation are feeders
ter cur lines in California. The road
connecting Templeton and Santa Bar
bara will be completed in due time,
although it will not be rushed. 1t will
90 directly through San Luis Obispo,
and there will be branch line from
some point to connect the Salinas and
San Joaquin valleys. Already about
ninety miles of the branch down the
west side OF the San joaquin
river has been built. This will 20
down and Join the main line, but on
which side Of Lake Tulare has fot yet
been determined. We do not know
that the Santa Fe is back of the other
line i'll the San Joaquin valley. 1t is
my judgment that the gentlemen are
bnilding the line independently, hop
ing to sell it out when done. We are
going to build down the foothills from
Oakdale to Sumner, and q line from
Visalia will form part OF the same
branch. We are at work now build
ing twenty miles west from Huron,
and possibly some day connection
will be made from there with the end
OF the line in San Benito county"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-03
A Crazy Rancher shot.

JACKSON, CAL, May 2.-Augustus
Wiley was shot dead yesterday even
ing, about six miles above here, by
Lorenzo Cuneo- Wiley, under the in
fnence Of a crazy fit, to which he was
subject, went to the Cuneo ranch, adj
joining his own, and attacked young
Cuneo, aged IL, in the garden, saying
he was going TO kill them all and
take the ranch himself. He then
attacked Cuneo's mother with shovel
inflicting several severe scalp wounds.
The Boy gotta shotgun, loaded with
buckshot and told Wiley ii he
did not quit beating his mother he
would shoot him. The assailant left
the woman to attack the boy, who
fred at him as he approached, the
charge taking effect and killing him
instantly. The deceased was Al years
old, unmarried, and lived with his
widowed mother taking care OF her
farm. Mo