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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

With the fresh outbreak of trouble in
connection with the Burlington strike
and the renewa! of the rate war among
the northwestern roads, the outlook for
the restoration of peace and harmony in
the railroad arena is anything but en-
couraging. A good many people are
beginning to suspect that the fault is not
altogether with the operatives in their
trouble with the railroad companies, the
Burlington at least, for their unyielding
course not only occasioned the trouble
with their engineers and firemen, but is
largely the cause of the complications
between other roads in the matter of
freight tariffs. The Burlington is a
powerful corporation but it is not strong
enough to brook public sentiment if it
shall fully decide that corporation to be
in the wrong.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

are not now predicting. This article was
wVtten of the why" not the when %
That it will be soon seems certain. That
it will even wait for another big crop or
the opening of the Indian Territory we
are not convinced. There are many
things which seem to indicate that it
will not. The spirit Of this state, of this
city, is not to wait for Times full devel-
opment, but they lay hold of his fore
lock at an intination. But that it will
be, as the financier quoted above says,
the greatest in our history, there is no
doubt. And when it comes there will
be thousands Of dollars made where there
only hundreds realized during the last
advancement.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
THE TREASURY SURPLUS AND TIE
MONEY MARKEr.
70 the Kerer q q. l..iT Eax.s.

To the Ear9r Of %. Ds1iy Esxa
According 70 the officials AZ Washing
ton, the surplus in the national treasury
by June 20, 1855, would reach the enoF.
nous SUM Of si55. 90, 90. And this
will b. increased in rising ratio indiea-
led By the payment Of nearly &, Cd. 90
Of the principal Of the national deb. in
February and so .ooo, 90 in March. This
process. whether the money is locked up
or NOT, Is equivalent 10 placing this large
and rapidly Increasing sum cut OF active
use BY thus paying off the national deb.
80 fast, and where /. viii, undoubtedly
in the near future be turned into the ac-
nve channels Of business in ali diree-
lions - congress will be- forced to ado,,,
sosse measure to dispose Of the surplus
or stop Its acc1mmu.stinn. The rs.y-
nent constantly going On Of such
large principal. az such low rate Of In
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

1t is a trite old saw that it's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good. 1t is being
broadly limited just now that the defalca-
ton and flight of Treasurer Tate of Ken
lucky will have the effect of disarming
the opposition of Senators Beck and
Blackburn to Mr.. Cleveland's re-nomina-
ton, for the reason that the present con-
dition of affairs in Kentucky, in their re-
lation to the Democratic party, will not
admit of any side-show or monkey bust
ness, but that all hands will have to pull
together in order to save the state in the
presidential election, and that Cleveland
Is the only man on whom they can har-
monte. Even with him it is not by any
means certain that the state will not pass
to the Republican side.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The mention of Senator Allison
name in connection with the Republican
nomination for president, while it does
not create wild furore of enthusiasm
anywhere outside of his own state Iowa)
is nevertheless well received in all sec
tons. With a strong man such as SEN
ator Hawley, of Connecticut, for in
stance, on the ticket with him it would
be invincible. The North American. of
Philadelphia, in speaking of the candi-
dacy of Senator Allison, says: "The
more the public sees and hears of Mr..
Allison the better it will think of him.
and the hearty tribute which has been
paid to his character and record and
abilities by the Republicans of Iowa will
meet with a response in many Republi-
can hearts elsewhere. Every one will
be satisfied if Mr.. Allison should be the
man"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

Now that Mayor Hewitt is receiving
SO much commentator land otherwise
for standing up for the American flag. it
NAV be well to remember that it was
Chauncey NJ. Depew who set the ball
rolling months ago, when he said. speak
ing of red flag demonstrations: There
is room in this country for only one flag
and old Glory must head the process
sion or it cannot march, 1t is said that
Mayor Hewitt spends good deal of his
time and often sits up o nights trying to
keep even with DIR. Depew.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Iowa Legislature has passed the
bill making the Railroad Commission
elective. This takes the matter out of
business and transfers it to politics. OF
course the board will no longer have rep
resentatives of both parties on it, as is
the case under the present commission
law, and the question of its decisions
will be relocated to the political conven-
tons. The change made by the legisla-
ture is being severely criticised by the
press Of the state without regard to poll
tics.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
s.The authoritative Contradiction OF

''The authoritative contradiction of
the report of Blaine's dangerous illness,
which has just been made, will give sat
isfaction to every Republican in the
country. With Conkling and Blaine on
the stump in support of the Republican
candidate-a contingency which is
among the probabilities this year-the
country appears to be on the eve of a
highly enthusiastic and picturesque polit-
ical canvass Thus saith the good
Globe-Democrat, which, in view of its
hostility to Mr.. Blaine while there was
probability of his being a candidate, is
encouraging, not to say exhilerating-
the statement of the probable contin-
gency, we mean.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Chicago papers are poking fun at
the Minneapolis twenty-eight story
building. Chicago is to the west what
Boston is to the east. 1t never misses an
opportunity to magnify its own points
of excellence and to minify those OF its
rivals. Nevertheless the city at the end
of the lake is great town.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
Wipe OrYour Specs


The spectacle of lot Of literary men
who demand free trade in the produc-
tons of muscle urging protection in the
shape Of International copyright for pro-
auctions of mind Is fine exhibition of
the eccentric,ty Of genius Ii the gentle
men Were to wipe the dust Of their spec
taelss they would see that any ssuce
good enough for the literary goose should
be eQuaily fit for the industrial gAuder
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Winfield Telegram does not look
with special favor upon any of the pro-
posed linguistic innovations-ncither the
Volapuk nor Eugene Wares reform III
the English language. 1t thinks the
people of the United States are not in
need of any new language, for many of
them cannot speak the one they have.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

If the Democratic brethren don't stop
firing such charges against Judge
Gresham of Indiana. as tina the voted for
Tilden in 1876 they may spoil his chances
for the Republican nomination for presi-
dent. To have done such thing is. in
the eyes of our friends. the enemy. the
grandest evidence of patriotism Repub-
hcan could manifest, as voter: but if
he should ever offer for an elective Of
nee before his own party, such an act at
once becomes great crime. They are
wasting their ammunition prematurely:
they should wait until there is some
thing tangible to shoot at.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Boston Transcript, in referring to
the women's convention in Washington,
remarked that s'about six hundred wo-
man-women are gathered in Washington
for their international conference this
week" What other sort of women,
pray, do they have in Boston?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The press will sometimes take I'D a
case, try it and render verdict before
the court can have a chance to pass upon
it. In cases of this character it makes
little difference what the result of the
trial by the court is, if the case is an
equitable one, the Judgment of the press
will remain as the judgment of the peo-
pie. Such is the case of Badeau against
the dead hero of APPROXIMATION. 1t has
been tried and a just verdict rendered
That verdict is unanimous. 1t acquits
Mr.. Badeau of any claims to literary
talents, military genius, or even the in
Stincts of common gratitude.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

George Francis Train is still braying
about in the Province. George Francis,
it is said, expects to live for 200 years
vet. Apropos of his prolonged sojourn
in the Pine Tree state and the foregoing
remark the Kennebec Journal suggests
that Mr.. Train will hardly live SO long.
but he has already lived quite long
enough to explode the notion that when
the brains are out the man will die.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The midwinter report of the agricul-
tural department, which has just come
to hand is, as usual, devoted chiefly to
farm animals. From it we learn that in
the United States at large the numbers,
as compared with last year, are as fol-
lows:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The completion of the Arkansas Valley
railroad from Fl. Smith up the river to
this city will shorten the distance be-
tween Wichita and southern Kansas and
the coal fields and lumber districts of
Arkansas two hundred miles and will be
one of the most beneficial lines of road
this section has. But little is being said
about it, but it will reach Kansas this
year, undoubtedly.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
EXCHANGE sHOTs.
Eingman's Sal. Deepest.

EtEz-Las 1o,zTbe-.
The vast and inexhaus;iIls mas Of
rock saii lying beneath and al around
this city Is shown. by analysis, TO be tis
I',sresi article ever placed on We market,
on the world Hutchinson. possibly.
may make sgrne salt, but fx months
hence OR RICK salt product win Be II
ooloct 81 every packing boise manage
n1ert from ocesF. to OCEAN.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Commonwealth appeared yester-
day with another candidate for the gov
ernorship of Kansas, Mr.. George H. Case.
The Commonwealth says that Mr.. Case
lives in Mankota and that Mankota is in
Jewell county
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
One Exps-1-rsni Enough.

kslAAi Cl.5~r-
The refusal Of The women Of Wichita
% register does rot s,sAk wei for the
cause Of ssfrags, but Sezks yolGn@
for the true women Of sAe 'fSoesiszs
Princess One sxpsrizneai of ihai kind
. enough. and more than enough, fos
most true women
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The voters of Kansas who are in favor Of a free
and untrammel led vote and fair count, who favor
a strict enforce ment Of the law who cherish the de
tenders of the country and favor liberal pension
to all who are disabled who favor such laws will
protect home productions, home manufactures, and
home labor, who favor free schools and popu lar
education. and who in favor of again placing
the government in the hands of those who saved ii
instead of those who sought Its destruction are cor
daily invited to participate in the primaries county
and state conventions.
P.I. BONEBRAKE,
HENRY BRANDLEY, Chairman
Secretary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
The Kind Of Men Needed.


Henry DsIrss returned from wtchita
Monday. whss@ be had b>sn on business
fos week o. So lie THIGHS great d~al
q that city. AMI says II A.dicine Lodge
rad the same kind Of n~n al the bad q
her affairs, she would be Of tae same
stripe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

delegate convention Of the RsRnbMcsabn ans o. 2,
KANSAS will be held in the city OF Wichita on the stn
say Of May 1855 at the hour OF IL O'Clock NJ lor the
election of FOUR delegates and four 70 II
National Republican convention to be heid IN cnl-
cago June ~ 1888. Also for the nomination Oh TWO
presidential electors. ,.,, ..
Also a delegate convention of the Republicans OF
Kansas will be held In the city OF Topeka on the
25th day of july 1885, at the hour of Il O'Clock ~,
for the nomination of candidates for:
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
Auditor of State.
Treasurer Of State.
Attorney General.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Delegates to the conventions mentioned above
shall be elected by county conventions. duly called
by the several county Republican committees; un-
der such rules and regulations IS NAV be by them
prescribed. The county conventions to be held not
later than Nav 1885 The basis Of apportonment Of
delegates to said state conventions VIII be, one
DELEGATE and alternate to each 4 votes cast Tor
Timothy Mccarthy for auditor Of state, November,
1856 or fraction of 20l or more votes One delegate
and one alternate each will be allowed TO all unor
ganized counties and counties organized since Nov
2. 1856 Delegates apportioned to the several
counties as follows, to-wt:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

Few persons are aware of the i'm
mensity of this country, either in extent
or wealth. The following from the
Bankers Monthly will give some idea of
the relative standing of ours with other
countries, and it is made all the more
astonishing by the fact that we are
younger as nation than any of the
others mentioned:
The United States stands first in rank
among the nations of the earth in regard TO
wealth. being worth SIS go 90, 600 other
nations ranking as follows: The United
Kingdom. S4t 600 90, 90; France. SAC. SssD
eOl,0oo; and Germany, S3I,6l5.0pOD0 As
regards agriculture, the United States
stands first. Russia. Germany and France
next, standing in the order named. The
United States, with an export tsade reach
ing the enormous sum OF S1O9. 81 500. inn
ports, Sis, 355, 045: for lSS1 we had a defic,,
OF -, 5tS, Isl, TO be paid in gold. Give rs
more projections; enough TO protect us
against our own folly Of e1travagaDce and
over-trading. Our position, as holders OF
metallic money. places us among thu. fore
most OF the nations OF the earth: the
United states treasury alone held ON
March IL, lsss, the enormous sum OF S,;I-
l'l, $50 1t is estimated that the peon,s
and banks held about 500 ap. 600, making
total estimated holding of 81 .lel ofsn fOS
The Bank OF England holds gold To TIE
amount of $50, iS2, 600. Bank OF Fr.nca in
gold and silver, S456, 1890: Bank Of
Germany, in gold and silver, So, SO. 900
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

The Rich Hill mine disaster is the
worst that has occurred for several
months and is indeed distressing in its
details and extent. The cause of the
affair is not definitely known but the i'm
pressions of those acquainted with the
mine is that it was caused by neglect on
the part of the mine inspector to have
proper ventilation provided. Evidently
some body is guilty of the grossest Grim
inality. To bring in lot of new men,
ignorant of the conditions, and place
them where escape is impossible in case
of accident without first using even the
ordinary precautions to avoid such catas-
trophe, as seems to have been the case
at Rich Hill, is too horrible to think
about. Terrible as these mine disasters
are, dsspite the fearful warning each one
affords against such criminal negligence,
similar occurrences will continue to take
place until a few conspicuous examples
are made of those who are responsible
therefor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

such Transformation is like a glimpse of
Utopia But. however great the past
the greatest things are vet to be.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

We trust his excellency, our national
chief of police, las the good Captain w.
5. White was wont to denominate him
will not regard us importunate, nor yet
impairment. for again suggesting it, but
we repeat that if he cannot find a good
enough lawyer in the Democratic party
to suit him for chief justice there are
good precedents to enable him to make
his selection from among Republicans.
President Grant, it will be remembered.
nominated Caleb Gushing, an avowed
and prominent Democrat, to the place,
who was rejected by the senate not be-
cause of his lack of ability but because
OF reasonable letter he had written to
jeff Davis. Cleveland might follow the
course OF Grant and select Republican
now. To have voted for Tilden is no
worse crime than to have written the
letter referred to, granting that both al
legations are true We don't believe the
senate would reject the nomination of
Judge Gresham.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

Three hundred and twenty of the larg-
est manufacturers in New England have
signed petition to congress, which is
printed in the Boston Journal. and
which gives strong reasons for opposing
the fallacies of the arguments for free
raw materials. The petitioners repre-
sent the cotton, wooden, paper, carpet.
hardware, boots and shoes, silk, worsted,
lumber, hosiery, machinery, and nearly
fifty other leading New England indus
tries. The Jouanal says of the petition
and its signatures that lit would be hard
TO find a parallel to this paper as an ex-
preston OF the position of the industrial
forces of New England" Nor are the
industrial classes of that section alone in
terested in this question: the principle
involved affects the industrialists of the
whole country, a fact that is too patent
to need application just now and here.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

out in distances sublime. If YOU look
north, all Is ours to the lakes. If you
look south, the stars and stripes reach
TO the gulf. And east and west our be-
longings are washed by both oceans.
The progress In the development Of
this great western empire Is 80 rapid. 50
marvellous, that it sounds more ike
romance or Ike the Arabian tales than
sober truth. That deserts should bloom
like gardens of the east, and mighty
cities spring up IN their midst in few
short 'years-all this takes the credulity
of readers somewhat too far The king
Of Siam rejected the testimony of the
Dutch ambassador that IN his country
water was sometimes frozen into a solid
mass, for IL was entirely contrary to his
own experience. So incredible and 50
marvellous are these wonders IN the west
to those not seeing them: men digging
and ploughing and grading the soil that
had never before been broken, and in
which might vet be seen the footprints
OF the bnffalo-and for WHAT For the
coming thousands-for a mighty CITY.
whose broad and level streets. fast as
they are graded. thunder with the rum
bling tread Of commerce and traffic and
enterprise, as the hammer stroke Of i'm
proyement is heard on every hand.
Railroads are built. manufactures are
established and thousands Of houses are
built In a single year. The sound Of the
hammer and the troweI is everywhere
heard. Dozens OF great manufacturing
concerns are building ak the same time.
and millions Of dollars is the price Of la
Dor and material 30 expanded Here We
ssa how wonders cease not and how
stranger than fiction is truth. All is oas
mceessat tramp Of proSrsss and thunder |
OF development Such growth. such !
progress and such enterprise beEgarz
description, and the contemplation q 7.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-23
THE FLOUR OUTPUT
Lightly Decreased--Export Small
Better Prices ExDected.

Lightly Decreased--Export Small
Better Prices Expected.
AS result of nearly all the West
side mills being shut down Friday after
noon, the -four output of last week
showed decrease. The total produc-
ton of the week was 164,9OO barrels
averaging 27,4S5 barrels daily-against
174, 800 barrels the previous week and
140,450 for the corresponding time in
1887. Three mills, with an aggre-
gate capacity of 1000 barrels, stopped
Saturday and are not in operation now.
The eighteen mills left in operation are
running at fair gait, but one or more
may possibly be shut down in few
days. With the advance in wheat,
prices of flour have been marked up
Is cents and 20 cents per barrel,
and most millers feel pretty strong.
This has had the effect of check
ing business, and the mills are max
ing a good deal more flour than they
are selling. A few of them are storing
here to limited extent. There is COM
paratively nothing doing for export, the
continued high ocean freights keeping
the foreign trade reduced to small lin
its. Local millers are very much exer-
ciSed about the damage done to the
wheat crop by frosts. While reports on
this matter are somewhat conflicting.
there is little question but that there
has been very serious damage done
throughout the northern wheat belt, ,and
that the corn crop will be much re-
duced in grade, if not in yield. 1t will
probably be necessary for the grain to
be threshed, and possibly ground, be-
fore the full extent of the injury is de-
termined. Miliers. however, believe
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-23
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES.

Bank clearings yesterday, S552, ,539,05.
The Nicollet National bank sues Charles G.
Hutchins for S400 on promissory note.
This evening the Lucy Hayes W. c. It. Q.
meets at the Franklin Avenue M. E. church.
Frank Davis was Yesterday held to the
grand jury for breaking into the Manitoba
depot.
Monday night next a new lodge of X. of
p, to be known as the Franklin lodge, will
be Instituted.
q EManager Sterling, of the Peoples, is pre-
barring for an elaborate production of 'Riche-
lieu" next week.
Catharine L. Frost has begun an action
against George w. Frost for a divorce on the
ground of desertion.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Kenneth McKinnon and Ormie Douglas,
Joseph Spangler and Mary NJ. Nelson.
A concert was given at the Swedish hall,
corner Eighth avenue and Fourth street, last
evening, for the victims of the great fire at
Sundsoall. Sweden.
Patrick Kelly. arrested on a charge of rob-
bing j. Shackies III a South Minneapolis
saloon, has been discharged, as no one ap-
peared against him.
That famous minstrel organization. Hav
erly MastodonS appears at the Grand this
evening, beginning an engagement that lasts
three days, with the usual Saturday matinee.
Soren Peterson has begun an action in
ejectment against Lumln OSmer ct al, who
he claims are occupying ten acres of land in
section IL, town 2S, town "a, OF which he is
the owner.
Elvin E. Gay. arrested by Patrolman Han
non on charge of breaking into and rob-
bing several stores on Hennepin avenue, was
arraigned in the municipal court yesterday
and he'd to the grand jury.
A small blaze in the roof of c. Simmons
fur establishment on Nicollet avenue called
out the fire department Yesterday afternoon
No damage. The place has been on fire
three times inside Of year and half
An examination of candidates for teachers
certificates or for admission in the teachers
training class, will be held in the Central
High school building on Thursday ard Fri
day, Aug, 80 and 81, commencing at 8
O'Clock each day.
Parties desiring to offer board and fur
nished rooms to teachers of the city schools
are requested to send their addresses and
rates to the office of the superintendent of
schools. Pleasant boarding places in fami-
lies convenient to each of the schools outside
Of the center of the city are especially de-
Sired.
''Storm Beaten" is drawing big houses at
the Peoples. Arthur Eurt's representation
Of Aurora Borealis'' is one of the most at.
tractive of features. "Richelieu'' is being
rehearsed for next week and a good deal of
extra work will be put on the scenery aud
costumes. The full strength of the com
pany will appear in The cast, with Theodore
Hamilton as ''Richelieu.''