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Mohave County miner., 1888-11-17

The vote Of Mineral Park precinct for
Probate Judge II not ipcl',ded in the
footings for that office. - f.'@
Mohave County miner., 1888-11-17
KAUFMAN, TEX. Iune a. rsss.

KAUFMAN, TEX, June %, 1888.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.:s
Gentlemen--I have been afiiicted with
skin disease for about twelve years, and the
best medical treatmeB, failed TO give me re-
lief. / am now using swift's specific, and
have received the greatest benefit from iss
use. Yours truly, WIN. JoSEs.
Mohave County miner., 1888-11-17

St0cs sAAaSbJ 0AfN ~ SoShS ssoh way ~
tween the Spring and Cummings' house.
The ore is green horn silver, and assays
about 600 ounces. But little work has
been done and the extent Of the lode is
unknown.
J. r. Luthy left for Albuquerque last
Sunday. He will during bis stay in that
city purchase the property known as the
Pope block, paying therefore the sum Of
twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr.. Luthy
will some time next year, remove TO Al
buquerque, as he believes II to be the
coming city Of New Mexico.
A. X. Lee, q practical matchmaker and
jeweler, who is located at the Needles,
presents his advertisement TO our readers
and solicits their patronage when In need
Of anything in his line. He enjoys the
reputation Of being thorough workman,
and guarantees his work. Orders left
with Messrs. Frost and Larkin will be
promptly attended 10.
The members Of the Mohave County
Live Stock Association met, pursuant to
call, at the Recorders Office on Wednes.
day Of last week. The only business
transacted was the levying Of an assess.
ment for the purpose Of prosecuting In
dian cattle thieves. The Association in
tends to prosecute ali cattle thievesto the
bitter end, as they believe that few
convictions win put an end To- stealing
and killing cattle on the range.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
A. j. srREATOR'S RECoRD.

| To the Editor O. the DAILY EAGLE.
| In your issue of the 21st inst / noticed
the testimony of Judge E. N. Oliver, of
Ohio, in regard TO the character of A. j.
Streator, Union Labor candidate for pres
| ident. In 1852 ! was resident of Aledo,
the county seat of Mercer county, Hi
nois, and had an Office in the court
| house. Streator, in 1862, represented
Presumption township in the board of
county supervisors. As said by Judge
Oliver, the board of supervisors did pass
a resolution ordering that the destitute
families, wives and children OF the vol
unteers in the union army. should be
provided for out of the public fund. AZ
forwards this same Streator offered a res
olution ordering that no tea, coffee or
sugar should be provided in their provis-
ions, which he termed as luXuries. These
are facts which the writer knows of his
own knowledge, having been then and
there present. At that time Streator
was q ranting anti-war Democrat. After
the war he went off on the grange craze
and became very prominent as a local
politician on the greenback theory.
During all the time OF my acquaintance
with HIM he was successful Speculation
in grain and live stock. He was wealthy.
and in. his county where known was
looked upon as a cold blooded, selfish
man with little or no sympathy for the
poor, as the aforesaid resolution of his
clearly proves. S. w. Mccoy.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23

An Emporia woman was fined 50 and
costs the other day for beating her sister
inlaw with broom stick. The assault
ing party, according to the local press. is
staying in Emporia for the benefit OF her
health.
Frank Spooner, a young farmer living
near Cuba, Kansas, drank two ounces OF
laudanum Thursday, because his cousin
refused to marry him. He leaves wild
owed mother and a young brother who
We're dependent upon him for support.
The Tribune says. Sunday evenings
are celebrated in grand prohibition style
at East Fort Scott by men biting and
fighting, women cursing and swearing,
and children screaming for the protec-
ton of their parents.
A tract of ten sections of land, under
fence and i'll cultivation, located in OF
tawa county, near Minneapolis. was re-
Gently sold to q syndicate from Chicago,
Alton and St. Louis. Eighty thousand
dollars cash was paid for the 6.400 acres.
1t is reported that Oscar O'Blenniss,
editor of the Ellinwood Express, has left
for parts unknown. The possession Of
sixty dollars, all at once, seems salts
factory cause. a town can't expect to
keep some Of those editors If they get 50
careless with their cash.
Lawrence Journal: The recent mill
tary expedition 10 Stevens county will
cost the state about :15, 900. This is a
rather heavy dose to pay for subduing
Sam Wood, but the exigencies of the
case required it. The proper thing now
is to get Sam appointed as minister plen-
ipotentiary to kamschatka.
The mayor of Topeka, city engineer
and members Of the council were yester-
day arrested on complaint Of +. G.. Hen
tig, charged with maintaining NUS
ance. The nuisance constitutes uncon-
pleted city works adjoining Mr. Hent;g's
property. TheyNwill appear before Judge
1senhart this morning to answer TO the
charge.
Exchange: The average daily wages
of the coal miners at Petertou. Usage
counto, for the month of July was 81 "a
a day, and the miners worked on an
average. 1874 days during the month.
The average income for each family for
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
KANSAS KOLLARY.

Leavenworth amatures Will present
| Little Tycoon
A satin tie is considered the neatest
thing in North Topeka society.
A brick factory at Junction City turns
out %, 600 brick every ten hours.
/ The Kansas river at Topeka is SO low
that the frogs have quit croaking.
Fort Scott has new hose cart, much
to the sorrow of the pedestrians of that
city.
Topeka is just now busily occupied in
disposing of some money left by a sui
eide.
The Santa Fe company is having 1000
new freight cars made at their shops in
Topeka.
Three doctors are in jail in Emporia,
and the drug clerks liberty has been in
danger.
They are thinking of using the bugs
as fertilizer.
1t is reported that Marion county has
104. 900 acres Of corn with a prospect of
:, 800, 900 bushels.
The newspapers will eventually ex-
terminate the male sex at Argonia: they
get so little notice.
The Fl Scott Republicans have form
ally declared in favor Of colorei children
in the white schools.
Spiritual seances are having a great
run IN Kingman, much TO the destruc-
ton of the guitars and banjos.
There is nothing so tragical and blood
thrilling in Kansas as one sheriff's mes
sage to another requesting him TO detain
horse thief.
Abilene doctors have formed a spool"
with their patients IN order TO give a
vacation TO the members Of the profes-
sion turn about.
The Kansas railway commissioners
have been asked 70 investigate the cause
of the delay In rebuilding the union
depot at Atchison, which burned down
last winter.
Monday morning young man named
Vetters was ST work in the rUturta Of
the capital at Topeka when a Fort Scott
brick fell upon his bead and rather Sc
verely injured him.
The Star IS the authority for the state
nnent that the German editor Of the Hills
boro Herald Il Democrat and john
Stole is a Republican, hence the double
barrelled way Of running that PAPER.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
A FARCIAL PRETENSE.

The Kansas City Times is out in favor
of encouraging Democratic negroes in
| Kansas.
There are no such stock to encourage.
The Times bewails the supposed fact
that the Republicans OF Kansas have
failed to properly recognize the negro by
giving him more offices.
Why don't the Times try a little Of its
own medicine on the Missouri negroes
encourage them by giving them some of
the Democratic offices:
The Times in this whole matter is
simply insincere-hypocritical.
The Times says the negro needs friends.
If the Republican party is not the friend
Of the negro then he has no political
friend. If the negro waits for the friend
ship OF the Times and of the Missouri
Democracy he viii die the most friend
less of all victims.
We never encountered negro who
was such fool as to ever expect polit-
ical favor, or friendship, from Missouri
Democrat-from the Times Or any of its
ilk, in advice or otherwise.
The disinterested solicitude evinced
by the Times and the Missouri Democrats
for the Kansas negro would nauseate a
turkey buzzard.
The Democracy have hired one A. A.
Whitman, an imported Kansas colored
man, to go up into Iowa and talk Cleve-
land and free trade. Whitman says he
can't stand the Republican party because
of its free whisky policy, and the last
time that we heard Of him was in a
drunken broil. Oh, the gall!
The Times will find the negro BULLDOG
ers in Missouri, not in Kansas.
For a Missouri Democrat to advise
Kansas Republicans to manifest friend
ship for the negro could only be equalied
in cheek by the devil calling on the saints
TO repent
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
CROPS IN WESTERN KANSAS.
ENGLEwooD, KAN, Aug. 90.

ENGLEwOOD, KAN, Aug. 90.
To the Editor of the EAGLE.
We have come again. But not to tell
you that the late fine rains have assured
a full crop for the late corn. Yet for
the fall seeding it is encouraging the
farmer to put out an acreage of wheat
and rye.
Do not regard it as a rash expression
when we say the few hot winds that
have to all appearances been SO dis
couraging, are TO the farmer blessings in
disguise. Because most of the grangers
have come from regions where little else
is depended upon except corn. the most
expensive crop, and if successful the
least remunerative. This region
may raise a crop of good corn less
times, but who can afford
to depend upon it whether other lines of
certainty are before them. 1t is a well
attested fact now that no matter how
the wind blows or apparently how dry it
may be sorghum, rice corn, caffre corn,
broom corn, cotton, etc, will grow and
mature TO perfection. These grains will
yield more bushels to the acre than a
good crop of ''old corn, " and fatten hogs
and cattle Just as well, and some of them
answer a double purpose IN the CONNER
cial world. Then, if you can raise
plenty of feed for stock of all kinds
and a good crop of corn must be fed to
stock to become a source OF wealth-why
not let the "old corn" idea go and adopt
a certainty at once:
There are many wealthy portions of
the country that have but a single line
of success. This is made the special bus
mess of the country and the products
find a market and in turn all the neces-
sites of life may be purchased from its
products.
The Icelander is Mortified at the thought
of coming into the United States, be-
cause he knows nothing of the modes of
living. and concludes he should Etarve.
So with the Esquimaux OF the north. he
hears of no walrus here, hence he lInag-
ines his starvation is sure. SO 1t IS that
our surroundings tend 10 keep US in '.old
rutS. Let every farmer see 10 II, that
he plants what the country VIII produce,
that be manages soon 10 stip q
few car loads of cattle and
hogs, feeding in winter to have few
TO sell IN the spring, then the grass VIII
make q few more loads for fall delivery.
Everything necessary TO make this
great and wealthy region can be pro-
duced here. If the hot winds come or
cease success is within the reach of
every farmer in the southwest, If he viii
cease to look for the walrus that was IA
miiiar TO him in his native CLINE. While
we shall be powerless 70 change nature,
we may conform our customs to suit II.
No thoughtful man has any reason TO
fault this country; he should revise his
methods and hit it again. Everything IS
now lovely here. Seventeen carloads of
cattle were shipped last night, and still
they come.
There are parties here looking after
land and from all appearances they have
caught on TO the facts OF which l have
been speaking.
Some lunatic from your city in the
employ Of an eastern company has ad-
vertised this state as having the crops All
burned up and the mercury up to ls5 de-
grees in the shade Now why such de-
prayily: No one should now doubt the
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23

Talk about the hard times and scarcity
of money now prevailing throughout
the country. if by anv freak of lnisfor-
tune or accident the Labor party should
gain the ascendancy in this state and
should undertake to enforce their finan-
cial ideas and doctrines by fixing an ar
bitrary limit to the rate of interest at six
per cent, which they demand, the bor-
rover class, which is by far the largest,
would be forced to the wall as quickly
as the lender class to get them there
through the process of collecting out
standing claims, which done they would
quietly disappear from the state, and with
them their money. Enacting law, with
heavy penalty for violating it, establish
ing low interest rate might be done by
the Labor party, but its enforcement
would drive every dollar of cash capital
out Of the state and bring universal bank
ruptcy. The propositions too ridiculous
for serious consideration.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23

the month was $35.77, 81. 10 per day, or
81 33 To each of the sixty-six persons for
the month. and IA cents daily. while
the aggregate family expenses amounted
to 1923. Is. 404l per family. sl.35 per
day. or $3.50 to each person. 1873 cents
per day.
AT Burlington, Thursday evening last,
Frank Clark, while firing n cannon for
a Republican rally, lost both eyes by n
premature discharge of the gun. lie
had loaded the cannon and III the fuse
that set the gun off and stepped away.
The gun failed 10 discharge as soon a.
he thought 1t ought 20 and be stepped up
where it was and was inspecting the
fuse TO see if il was 1t. when the gun
discharged with the above results. He
Is a single man OF about !! years Of age.
was gallant soldier during tho late war
and is respected citizen.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
KANSAS, THE LAND OF DESTINY.

The Financier.
Much has been said and written about
the sun flower state. Her growth in
population and material. social, intel
lectual and moral wealth is without
parallel III the history Of human progress.
She is young in years, but rich in the
most eventful, exciting and entertaining
history that has fallen to any of the
younger states of the union. She has
the fairest domain, the grardest re-
sources, the greatest possibilities, and
the brightest prospects of any of the
great agricultural states, and offers more
to the intelligent master of husbandry,
mechanics and commerce than any other
country of equal extent on the face Of
the broad, green earth. No portion of
her magnificent domain of 81 900 square
miles "a territory one-third larger than
Engiand) is attracting more attention
among settlers and investors, and more
promises of ample recompense for well
directed labor and investment than the
region known as western and south
western Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
JOKING DEMOCRATS.
hia Press (Rep.) August Is.

Philadelphia Press (Rep) August Is.
Chairman Brice, of the Democratic
national executive committee, now de-
MES that he was in earnest in his con-
versation with the correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. He has been SO
run down by Democrats all over the
country for his frank exposure of the
Democratic situation that he had to do
something, and so he calls it joke. 1t
was a most extraordinary way for a
man of Colonel Brice's position to joke.
and it isn't anything like as much of q
joke to him, probably, as hetries to make
believe. We are now prepared to hear
Chairman Barnum explain that he was
just Joking when he said the other
day that he had the Republicans
on the run. All around it seems
to be a pretty good year for
Democratic joking. There are evident
signs that Grover Cleveland is making
arrangements to explain that his free
trade message was only joke, just as
the Democratic organs have already con-
tended that he didn't mean what he said.
The Mills bill, too. Is regarded by the
Democrats as great joke on the indus
tries and labor of the country. Mr..
Cleveland's civil service reform pledges
We're all jokes. His order to the office
holders to refrain from using their Off
cial influence in the manipulation of
party primaries and nominating conven-
tons was a joke that has been good
deal laughed. The civil service reform
law has also been treated as joke all
the way through the administration, and
the demand upon officeholders for cam
paign contributions is another joke.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
CONCERNING SORGHUM SUGAR.

The sorghum sugar industry seems
destined TO undergo renewed embarass-
ment. A year ago, the department
chemist, Professor Wiley, declared that
experiments had shown that with sor-
ghum of the grade then raised In Kan
sas and other western states. sugar
could not be proftably manufactured.
His report this year celebrates and more
decisively enunciates this point. This
conclusion he reached after examining
the work of sorghum sugar manufacto-
ries in Kansas. Illinois Tennessee, Mime
sofa and New Jersey.
1t has been the opinion of sorghum
growers that the failure which has hith-
erto attended all efforts to profitaoly
manufacture sugar from sorghum has
been due to Deceive machinery. Prof.
Wiley's report is chiefly important in
that it denies this theory and declares
that the fault lies in the character OF the
sorghum. He affirms that not only Is
the percentage Of sugar in the sap Of
sorghum far below that in the sap Of
sugar cane, but sorghum Of the same
variety, grown on the same land and cut
at the same degree of maturity, VIII
vary greatly in its sugar contents.
The publication of this report will
open again the heated discussion Of the
sorghum question in Kansas. The
charges Of prejudice and mercenary in
terest on the part of the government
chemist will be renewed. But out of it
all Will finally come truth, and the future
of the sorghum Industry is likely to de
pend upon the ability of those interested
to refute the conclusions reached by
Professor Wiley.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
Life On the Farm.

II tell you what it Is. Dick" said Tom.
to his younger brother. as they brushed
their hair in concert. and discussed tho
affairs OF the world at large, what We
need IL farrnl"
Dick. being n younger brother. always
listened with awe. and assented with dis
cretion.
as itY he inquired.
Just think Of II for o minute, Yor
have piece of land: you buy few
pumpkin seeds. and plant en- Next fail,
when you want jack o lantern. al
you've got TO do is TO gather a pun pkin- .
'"That's SO" agreed Dick.
IF you want TO make q PEA shooter.
~alk on. into your garden and dig your
peasl'
That's factI"
Then. II you want 70 make COW oct
Of Harry Lee says be used
TO when be lived On farzn-go oct And
knock of cucumber"
Wen have farm" cried Dick
We'll have FARM" echoed Tous-and
when they 90. DO doubt they viii con-
t.nue ''bssithy and wealthy ard wise. -
Youths o1upzuion-
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
DEEP WATER BUT NO MONOPOLY.

On the 18th INST. i large and repreSen-
tative convention of delegates from the
several states and territories contiguous
to and dependent upon a deep water
port on the west gulf coast viii meet in
the city OF Denver. This convention
| viii have to deal with a subject of inn
portance second only to the projects of
the magnitude of the isthmus and Suez
canals. Its labors wifi be looked up to
by an anxious constituency embracing
in territory and natural and developed
wealth Of an empire greater than Spain,
Portugal, France and Germany com
bined. This constituency of half dozen
millions of people are within quarter
of century of normal development to
grow into forty or more millions. a
corresponding amount of wealth will
accompany the coming of this great
population. If some far-seeing genius
of future development were invoked to
point out the principal step in this move
ment it would no doubt indicate this
very deep water project as that step. 1t
Is no slight revolution to bring the great
ships Of the worlds commerce from the
beaten track between Boston, New York
and Philadelphia and European ports
through the gateways of the gulf to
Galveston. All of that trade which now
goes by the old routes and exists by
virtue Of these great southwestern inter
ests adjacent to the gulf coast
will in that event take to itself
manifold additions when transferred TO
the newer and more legitimate route.
Of all the ports on the gulf which
have been mentioned as the probable
one to be selected for improvement, Gal
weston is in many respects ahead. She
is established in organized social forces,
supporting already considerable popu-
lation and commerce. This is of itself a
very superior advantage. But she has
one drawback which. it is to be hoped.
can be obviated, at least to the extent of
curtailing its too all powerful
monopolistic tendencies. We refer
to Its wharf company. For
years the shipping interests of
that city, notably the old Morgan COM
pany, and the press of the city, princi-
pally the Galveston News, have waged
war on what that paper termed the devil
fish. The full franchises of this wharf
company are not known to the EAGLE.
It may cover only short bay percent
age, or it may extend round the lower
end Of the island and the gulf side also
One thing is certain, that city calling
for the patriotic contribution of coun-
tenance, moral and material support. of
so large q number Of states and people
cannot afford 10 offer at the same time
an obstacle in the shape of a soul
less monopoly TO devour an undue
share of the proceeds of the labors OF the
people supporting the movement. 1t
viii, therefore. remain for the Denver
convention to investigate tie franchise
of the Galveston Wharf company. 1t
ought 10 be clearly established that the
company must be either modified in the
franchises or done away with altogether
before great effort is made for Calves
ton if it is likely TO be IN the way. If
an artificial ilarbor can be made at San
Luis pass or elsewhere on the gulf coast
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23

England is demoninated free trade
country, not because it collects no import
duties, but because the list of dutiable
articles is the smallest of any country in
the world. being limited to thirty. The
revenue derived from the dutiable list OF
imports is but small portion of the
enormous sum necessary to meet the ex-
penses of the government, consequently
a direct tex is levied upon every pro-
fession and calling and industry to make
up the amount required. In its tariff
ideas and principles the Democratic
party of the United States patterns after
the English. That the tendency of the
Democratic policy is towards free trade
is proven by the terms of the Mills bill,
As it passed the house it transfers just
forty articles from the dutiabls to the
free list. and largely reduces the imposts
on a number of Others. Free trader
may not be pleasant cognonsn. but
the Democrats imposed it upon them
selves by their deliberately chosen policy
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
Che aalthita aly Eao1e ghusdau orn august 25,


total part of it. The fact is, the mercury
under the most favorable conditions in
the shade has not risen above 102 de-
grees.
Many people come to this region to
make few dollars and leave. As soon as
they could mortgage or sell their right
for few hundred dollars they were
ready to leave. They never
came to stay. Men who have
a little determination and even carti-
lage for backbone can live here if he
attends to business and ceases to look for
the walrus.
There are as many coming into this
region as are leaving. and the difference
is those coming now have higher mo-
tives than bounty jumpers. Let all who
want homes come. If live men they
have nothing to fear but much for which
to hope. G.. ". r.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-23
of the island without the control of thi

of the island without the control of this
wharf company, well and good. But
the people of the southwest would prefer
to do their work without feeding ''devil-
fish monopoly.
The people of Galveston or any other
place on the gulf coast who are candi-
dates for the support of this section in
this deep water problem must remove
all obstacles to its easy working and sue
cess. The shipping interests, the cities
interests, the railway interests, and the
interests of the contributing producers
are unalterably opposed to any obstacles
ike wharf company.