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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
LIGHTNING LOCOMOTIVES.

An application has been filed by New
York civil engineer, says the Philadelphia
Leader, for patent for locomotive and
tender designed for making faster time
than has been made in this or any country.
The boiler is rectangular In shape, hsv-
Ing large and permanent area for evapor.
sting surface, supported by great extent
OF heating surface, the pressure to be
carried being 210 pounds per inch, which
Is but one-third the bursting pressure at
its weakest points. The cylinders are In
the rear instead of between the truck
wheels, and the fire box Is supported be-
tween the center Of gravity or driving
wheels. All the combinations of parts are
In exact harmony, and 1t is intended to
easily make the time of sixty miles an
hour with ten coaches, and can, without
violent strain, be brought to ninety five
miles per hour with the same load. This
gain In performance over the pre- ent
machine Is obtained by mathematical
construction with reference to the distance
between rail- centers upon which II Is sup
ported, and Is the first application made
which has embraced and specified every
portion of locomotive and tender con
structed Mechanically with reference to
the limits within which they must be con-
fined and supported. As an exact proper.
ton with reference to such base, the cost
of maintenance will be greatly below the
general average Of present constructions.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
KANSAS KOLLARY.

A roster Of all the ex-Ohio Union sol
diers now living in Kansas Is soon 70 be
issued from the office Of the EmpOria
Republican. 1t will contain about ten
thousand names ane will be sold for fifty
cents.
Barber county farmers are going large
" into cotton and fax raising this sea-
son. They have both proven successful
crops the past few years, more so than
wheat and corn, and a large area has
been planted this season.
Last week the lightning struck Mr.
William I.indIeY's barn and burned Il TO
the ground, together with us contents.
consisting Of four excellent horses, two
Of them very large, gne ones. two sets Of
double harness, corn. hay, tools, ETC.
Howard Democrat.
Little Charley Wilson. Of Arkansas
City, went IN the Santa Fe depot in that
place on Wednesday night 90 meet his
grandmother, who was expected 10 ar
rive on the train from the north. Shortly
after the train passed the iittls fellows
mangled body was found on the track
near the depot, having been run over by
the cars. Il is supposed that he sat down
TO wait for the coming train, fell asleep
and did not awake in time % save him
self.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
THAT TEN DOLLAR SUIT, AND
SUGAR
E. A. B..

Beeswax, in Corsicana Crex) Exponent.
Mr.. E1itor-Ive bin thinkin' a good
deal about that ten dollar and half cotton
suite Of close Colonel Mills tells us about In
his speech. couldn't believe he sed it, til
I got the speech, and sure enough there 1t
was ten dollars and half for suite of
cotton close, before theirs eny taref col
lected on it. That's what the Inglishers is
goin to charge us when we get Free Trade.
Well, bin studying about this, and to
save my neck can't see what advantage
takin' off the tariff 5 goin to be to me, eff
l have to pay the Inglisher ten dollars and
half for a cation SUITE l wouldent make
no such fool trade eff l could. l can buy
cotton cloth enough for two dollars and a
half, and the old woman can make 1t for
me, and can take the other eight dollars
and buy her hundred or so of sugar, and
she'll make half of 1t into about a hundred
pounds of mighty good preserves. Ell
Colonel Mills will get interest down from
what Its at, to reasonable rate, the whole
country will say we'll done
line told the Republicans want to take
tariff off of sugar and say 1t will sell twenty
pounds for dollar. of they do Eff that's
SO, Mr. Editor, how come Colonel Mills to
let 'em get ahed of him. Eff we can get
twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar I'll
take that and let the balance CO. But
won't the old woman enjoy herself,
though, making preserves, and all sorts
of sweet things, and all Of them cheaper
than bacon
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
THE STORM AT HUTCHINSON.

A special dispatch to the Kansas City
Times says that the same storm which
passed over the northern part of Sedg-
wick county swept over Hutchinson
with terrific force, doing vast amount
of damage, enumerated as follows: 1t
tumbled down outhouses in every part
of the city and badly wrecked many
partially completed frame dwellings and
not few business brick blocks in the
course of completion where the walls
were not well supported. The roof OF
the Queen City hotel was twisted from
its fastenings and rolled back and some
of the cornice of the Midland hotel was
blown off and the building otherwise
damaged. Some thirty feet of the roof
of a lumber yard shed was blown over
the tops of dwelling houses and landed
in the middle of avenue B. A brick
block in South Hutchinson nearly COM
pleted, was tumbled to the ground. The
rain came down in torrents continuously
for about four hours. Telephone wires
are down in many parts Of the city. NO
one sustained personal injuries.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
gard of legal and moral obligations in


that connection.
It invites attention to the fact that in
order to force free trade upon the coun-
try the administration has accumulated
a great surplus in the national treasury
threatening financial and commercial
disaster.
It points to the weak foreign policy of
the government, and to the surrender of
important privileges of the fisheries
treaty now before the senate.
In short, it pledges the party if re-
turned to power to administer the affairs
of the government honestly and eco
nomically, and as guaranty of good
faith it points to its record made during
continuous incumbency for quarter of
a century.
There was no trouble in formulating a
Republican platform. The party had
only to reiterate its previous pledges,
and point out the constantly accumulat-
ing evidences of Democratic incompe-
tency. The work of choosing from
among the many distinguished compe-
tent men candidates for president and
vice-president will prove as entirely sat
isfactory to the party and the country as
that of constructing the party platform.
1t means victory. sweeping, glorious
victory
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
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THEN AND NOW.
To the Editor of the EAGLE.

| To the Editor of the EAGLE.
| The eighteenth anniversary of this
city, celebrated very appropriately few
| days since, presents to our minds vivid
| contrast in the city and country now
and as it was eighteen years ago.
Eighteen years ago with our parents
we immigrated to the banks of the Arkan-
sas river, which was then stream
densely lined with Kansas cottonwoods.
This part of Kansas was at that time
little more than promised land, for as
far as the eye could reach naught served
to impede ones vision save here and
there probably herd of huge buffalo
or wild antelope browsing Ter the flower
decked prairies, or perchance like the
graceful curves of a large stream, an
emigrant train vending its way west
ward Ger valleys faint with the perfume
of myriad wild flowers. Then there
were but few farmhouses throughout
the whole county, and not yet had the
brown earth been turned from the
farmers share; then at the confluence
of the big and little Arkansas rivers, by
great amount of search and vexation
we could find, but almost hidden amid
the tall grass, few small huts-the nu-
cleus of the future city. But to us
who have long lived here the
vast change is most notice
able. Then nothing served to mar the
perfect outline of yonder horizon and
streams; all the future martS and all the
future activity seemed powerless in the
enchanted sea of quietude. But gradu
ally as the power of energy gained the
mastery the broad domain is transform
ed into gardens of beauty and grandeur.
and wavy green fields of every cereal
furnishing suStenance and employment
TO the thousands who rely upon the
broad acreage of the great state. But
as we sit nestled in the very center of
the great continent with its great shaggy
arms outstreached from the ice-bound
islands of distand Northland to the per-
fume-ladened groves Of yon southern gulf
and from the mild golden shores of the
Pacific to the busy marts and grand en-
poriums of the Atlantic shore, we now
see to our right and to our left, arraying
our land in all the splendor of perpetual
spring, fair villages and hamlets, all of
which bespeak the prosperity and life in
herited from the hardy pioneers
of the plain. And no longer are
the broad tracts known only to the
bison herd, but on every hand the groves
of the farmers so unite in one harmoni-
GUS whole that one will scarcely deem it
credible that at was at one time a cOun-
try which had no gloomy forests to mark
and darken the horizon; but in the bright
refulgence of early day great towers
and steeples, FURNISHED and gilded in the
rising sun, now mark the site of city
Wichita. Here closely nestled on the
banks of a natural watercourse of great
volume stands magical city and one.
too, destined to rise and still rise like
mountains seen in mirage, till in her
transcendent splendor she will stand the
criterion of the nations enterprising
cities in an enterprising state.
E, A, B.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES.
To the Editor of the EAGLE.

To the Editor of the EAGLE.
However much some of us may differ
in regard to some minor tenets Of the
Republican party it is source of con-
graduation that our national cOnven-
tons never loose sight of the cardinal
principles Of the party as set forth in the
declaration of independence. The Re-
publican platform of 1860 declared that
governments are established to secure
equal rights and derive their powers
from the consent of the governed.
The Republican convention now in ses-
sion at Chicago have resolved:
In republic like ours where the citizen
is the sovereign and the official the ser
wants, where no power is exercised except
by the will of the people, it is important
that the sovereign, the people, should pos
sess intelligence. The free school is the
promoter of that intelligence which is to
preserve us a free nation, or both COM
bined, should support free institutions of
learning sufficient to afford to every child
growing up in the land the opportunity OF
a common school education.
Thus we see our national conventions
all indorse the theory that all powers in
government are exercised only by con-
sent of the people governed, and the free
school is essential to uphold this theory.
If some of the Republicans of Sedgwick
county had attended free schools in their
earlier days they would not in conven-
ton last fall have voted down the fol-
lowing resolution:
That the sentiment expressed by Gen
eral Grant in his memorable speech to his
comrades at Des MONIES, that the citizen
is the sovereign and the official the ser
want, that no power is to be exercised
except by the people is cardinal
principle OF the Republican party, and its
observance is essential to the preservation
'of free government.
That is a pretty stalwart principle to
have been voted down by Republican
convention, but the men who voted
against it perhaps got their inspiration
from the Prohibition party, who are ad-
vocating ideas of government upon
which despotisms in all ages have
rested, but which since the advent of
Republicanism are not popular. In their
convention at indianapolis they de-
clare:
''The Prohibition party, in national con-
vention assembled, acknowledging Al
mighty God as the source of all power in
government"
Here are two ideas Of government
directly opposite. Every one is at
liberty to take his choice. 1 propose to
stand by the idea proclaimed at Chicago
and all Republican conventions but
voted down by men in Sedgwick county
claiming to be Republicans.
FARMER DOOLITTLE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
THE PLATFORM.

The platform adopted by the Republi-
can national convention is perhaps a
little more voluminous than such instru-
ments usually are, but it is difficult to
determine after reading it where it could
have been abbreviated. The ground TO
be covered is very broad. and it was
needful that it be done in an intelligent.
comprehensive manner. The reader has
no doubt carefully peruSed it as it ap-
peared in full in these columns, but
some OF the more salient points will
bear repeating. over and often. First
and foremost it declares for the protec-
ton Of American industries. Nothing
is left TO the Imagination upon that
point. 1t favors revision of the tariff. AS
the platform did four years ago. but it
insists that every product of the soil and
every article that can be successfully
manufactured in this country shall have
protection from disastrous foreign COM
petition.
1t declares in favor of liberal pensions
for soldiers, and arraigns Mr.. Cleveland
for the veto of the dependent pension
bill and of special acts for the relief of
deserving ex-soldiers.
II holds up to public gaze the broken
pledges of Grover Cleveland TO reform
the civil service, and his reckless disre-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

1.-The fact is, says the st. Paul. Mimi,
News, ''that the greater number of the
distinctly eastern people are as ignorant
Of the real intellectual strength and cul-
ture of the west as they are ignorant of
its magnificent natural and developed
advantages. Time was when a Benton
csc or New York cityite could hardly
bear to shock his sensitive nature by even
so much as thinking of this wild land of
the buffalo and Indian, but when Charles
Dudley Warner. known and honored as
a man of undoubted literary ability
Judged by the eastern standard. goes
home to his eastern admirers deeply in
fatuated with the west and loud in his
prise of the genuine culture he found
there, the man must be either fool or
blgot who will settle down in his New
England veneer of culture and persist in
denying that there is any real culture
outside the limits of this same New
England"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

Here is what Bradstreet says: 'Re.
ports from ninetysiX counties indicate
that Kansas, all things taken into &C.
count, is in more promising condition
agriculturally than for several previous
years. The fall, the winter and spring
have been altogether favorable. This is
the cause of the thrifty condition of the
wheat plant at the beginning of May.
The area devoted to wheat is larger than
in 1897. Although it has been diminish
ed in the eastern counties, it has been
more than made good by the increase in
the western counties.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
As You Like It.

The greatest objection to beer is thatit
makes men talk too much.-Atchison
Globe. Not by darn sight. The great
est objection to beer down in this section
of the state is it's scarcity and high price.
Just think of paying thirty-five cents for
bottle that costs eleven cents, and then
have to lie, swear to it and steal away to
a livery stable, lumber yard or filthy
back yard to drink it And it's medi-
cine, too,-WInfield Telegram. Just
hold on, Brother Telegram you do not
know hardships. Put yourself in our
boots out here in Richfeld, where beer
costs fifty cents per bottle and where a
fellow always has able assistance at the
funeral -Richfield Leader Democrat Or
come up to Garden where it can't be had
for love, money, medical, scientific or
mechanical purposes.-Sentinel.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
GLORIOUS NEWS FROM CLARE
COUNTY,
ASHLAND, KAN, June 81, /

ASHLAND, KAN, June 81, 1888.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Clark county crop prospects are ex-
ceedingly bright at this writing. The
uneasiness caused by a short dry spell
was washed out Tuesday afternoon by a
heavy rain, which assures us good crop
of corn. Wheat, rye and oats are being
harvested. The average yield is from
twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre
where the soil was plowed deep. On
shallow plowed land the crop is almost a
failure.
At Letitia thirteen miles north of here,
Tuesdays storm assumed cyclonic pro-
portions and did considerable damage.
One building was completely wrecked
and several others damaged. Out houses
and well boxes were sent flying across
the prairie. Hail accompanied the rain
at this point but did no damage TO crops.
Ashland is steadily growing, new
houses appearing in all parts of the city.
The demand for city property Is rather
quiet. while farm lands are IN active de-
mand at good prices.
1t is reported that the Missouri Pacific
will submit proposition TO us on July
1. We want another road and the prop
osition will, no doubt be promptly &C
cepted.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

Is Click for Martin? That's the ques-
tion-k. c. Star.
Why ask such question these weeks
after they "kiSsed and made up in the
presence of the party of the state in con.
vention assembled? True, the harmony
that lay scattered around loose in great
chunks for days after the incident re.
ferred to transpired is not as conspicuous
as it was, but Dad Tomlinson's cudgel
still lies in easy reach, and you know
what Dad said he would do with it. OF
course Click is for Martin.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

Mr.. Bradford has looked over the situa
ton at Atchison and reports that the coun
ty attorney at that place is doing his duty
The Wichita papers will detect in this de
liverance strong suspicion Of Kalsomine.
*. c. Star.
Not at all. Hasn't the attorney gener-
al given it out that he is engaged this
week in doing the Wyandotte transgress.
ors: 1t is too much to require that his
human form divine should possess both
omniscience, omnipotence and omnipres,
ence, He'll appear at Atchison in due
course; that is. if
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
TIE Last Raina

TF5-a Lne hAIIsas 10y I.lAc--
Two or three more rains ike this. scat
tered at intervals through July and Au-
gust. will ill the fields Of Kansas with
more than the Average Of the three years
1882, 1883 and 1884. which aston,shed tie
world. The soil is capable Of a higher
rate and 20 far is on the way il reach it.
An average over the state Of fifty bush
els 10 the acre would make Kansans this
year the richest body Of people in the
country. II Is not too much TO hope foE
that much luck.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The state superintendent Of insurance,
or rather his assistant, makes an unfa-
vorable report of the Kansas Insurance
company of Winchester, Kansas, con-
Guiding his work with the assertion that
it is very doubtful whether 1t can be
made to succeed unless good luck and
superior management should bring it
through. Such an advertisement as
that would do up the average company.
The liabilities in the second class over
assets seem by the report to be $1,213.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

There is complaint at Topeka over the
quality of that city's water supply. The
only difference between the present sup
ply and that of former years is. it used
TO be delivered from the Kansas river In
water carts, now it is delivered from the
same stream through pipes. 1t always
was kaw water and always will be Kaw
water. and we fail TO see the force OF the
kick. The kickers more than likely are
attempting an excuse for their inordi-
nate use Of Kansas City beer.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The Abilene Gazette is generous to a
fault. 1t devoted itself-the full power
of its energy and influence-to secure
the removal of the state capitol from
Topeka some weeks ago, but failed in
the undertaking. 1t is now taking re-
venge on the capital city by chaperoning
one of its prominent citizens for the
Democratic nomination for governor
Great head and great heart has Colver.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
Edward Everett Hale, in his excellent

Edward Everett Hale, in his excellent
"Tom Torrey's Tariff Talks" in the Inter
Ocean, uses this illustrations:
| was reminded of what President
White showed me at Cornell. They
wanted set of the Olivier models, so
called, made by man of that name in
Paris. But the man was dead. Three
thousand dollars, which they offered for
one of the sets he made, would not buy
them. So DR.. White went to their own
instrument maker in Ithaca. He got up
a better set improving on Olivier's plans,
and they cost 800. But if, twenty years
ago, we had all bought in the cheapest
market" we should have no instrument
maker here today, and no model.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
The Cincinnati Commercial saws g

The Cincinnati Commercial says sit
looks very much as if the people of this
region must prepare themselves for a
great drouth. We are entering it with
out having recovered from the effects of
last summer" We sympathize with the
good people of that scourged district and
trust that they may be spared the vista
ton that appears TO be in store for them.
They may rest assured, however, that
should the worst come upon them as the
effect of drouth, the sections which re-
sponded to their distress call when
scourged by floods will again come to
their rescue, being blessed with bounti-
full harvest of small grain and every in
dication of an abundant yield of all crops.
Though Mr.. Cleveland may lose votes
in the United States and go into private
life next March along with the Ohio
plesiosaurus, he will have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that his administration
was always regarded well in England.
The British press and public never found
much to admire in Republican presi-
dents, but Mr.. Cleveland, from the very
first, has seemed to fill their souls with
comfort and their wallets with expecta-
ton. They supported him four years
ago, ratified his last message, and are
now unit for his reelection. That able
exponent of English policy, the Pail Mall
Gazette, even suggests third as well as
a second term for the american tariff
reformer," and the London Star, speak
ing of the enthusiasm at ST. Louis, says:
We may very well re-echo that enthusi-
asm on this side of the water, for the re-
election of President Cleveland means the
adoption of the program of tariff revision,
and his ideas on that subject go a long way
towards free trade.
In looking about for solace next year
Mr.. Cleveland will do will to remember
the warm and grateful hearts in Eng
land. No man could be more welcome
there than the apostle of the new idea
that an American Office is foreign
trust.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The platform is broad enough to af-
ford comfortable standing room with
both feet for every patriot in the land; it
is likewise strong enough TO bear up the
united nation with all Its industries and
diversified interests: it is likewise attrac-
tive enough to draw to it ann please the
most aesthetic and critical. In fact, it is
just such an instrument as viii please
everybody who had not made up their
minds IL advance to reject anything that
should be presented.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The Topeka Democrat hangs on to the
city printing contest with the persistence
it did to Gov. Hills candidacy for the
presidential nomination. Like the bull
that met a locomotive on the railroad
track and insisted on his right of way,
the Democrats pluck is admirable, but
its Judgment isn't worth cent.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

The European crisis is nowhere and
Bismarck and Williams demonstrations
a mere by-play as compared to the por-
tentious movements of the Wichita
militia on our western borders. We hope
the boys won't inadvertently let a gun
go off in the direction of Sam Woods.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23

Hon. E. P. Greer, editor of the Win
field Courier, is mentioned as probable
candidate for the state senate. If he
can be induced to accept the position we
doubt if his district could find worthier
or better qualified man to represent it in
the state legislature.