Wichita eagle., 1888-02-11

So far the present month has beef
much warmer than the corresponding
days last year. But February never We
disappointed any one who predicted colo
waves. 1t has more than two weeks il
which to hedge and save disappointment
II is stated that Texas boomers have
paid for large space in st. Louis ant
eastern papers in which to advertise the
advantages of the state. The reported
large number of emigrants now going t.
that state would indicate that the scheme
is having the desired effect.
1t is stated that hard coal is selling al
forty dollars ton in Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. From the glowing descriptive
of that perpetually sunny cline con-
stantly sent out from that locality we
had been led to suppose that hard coal
was a useless commodity.
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The New York Evening Post reaches
the remarkable conclusion that adding
fifteen per cent to the wages of the
miners in the Wyoming and Lackawana
districts would make the country .'pay
fifteen per cent more for its fuel If
the entire cost of the coal were for the
labor of mining it, this proposition might
stand; but in the light of facts it is alb
surd.
According to the report of the secre-
tary of the board of agriculture, there
was on the first of March last year four
and a-half million dollars employed in
manufacturing enterprises in this state.
The amount estimated to be thus en-
ployed at present is twenty-six and
a-half million dollars, showing the in
crease for the year 1887 to have been
twenty-five million dollars
The Republican central committee for
the Seventh Congressional district is
called to meet at Larned February 20 to
fix the time and place for holding the
district convention and to apportion the
delegates and alternates from the various
counties of the district to the convention.
The call is signed by l.. Chapman, chair
man, and ID. NJ. Frost, secretary of the
committee.
At Buffalo, N. Y, the telephone and
telegraph wires are being put under
ground. They are enclosed in tubes
called "labels" with capacity of 100
wires. The change is made voluntarily
by the company owning the telephone
system, the telegraph companies making
use of tubes by rental arrangement
The time is not far distant when the
reforming telegraph pole will disappear
from American cities.
Inquiry has brought out the fact that
during the past seven months pension
attorneys have drawn $201, SO in fees for
obtaining increases in pensions. In the
matter of increases the business must be
very simple. depending chiefly upon the
reports of the examining surgeon and
other testimony that does not require the
services of an attorney. A bill has been
reported in the house prohibiting attor-
neys' fees in the cases of increase of
pensions.
The Topeka Democrat asks: "Do the
snugly ensconsed federals hear the NUT
terings in the east!" It's doubtful The
deep-toned thunder that is reverberating
from every quarter browns the mutter-
ings in the east, and the storm is Just
beginning to gather. When it breaks it
will knock the aforementioned parties !
and their party into the middle of the
next century, or words to that effect. |
Better begin to get your hole ready.
brother
The promptness with which the |
suggestion of Mr.. Slonecker. the .
Kansas member of the executive |
committee of National League
clubs, for the organization of Republican
clubs is being acted upon throughout the .
state is gratifying augury for the har-
mony of the party, aud that it will go
into the campaign well equipped and pre-
pared to sweep the state with an increas-
ed majority. The rank and file of the
party are in splendid condition and evil
IDENTIFY mean business
A bushel of corn distilled will make
four gallons of whisky. Government
tax on four gallons of whisky, $3. so: the
whisky, made ripe and old by the new
Jay Eye See rapid process, sells rapidly
ior "a per gallon, making Sl6 for four
gallons. OF this SIC the farmer gets 25c.
the government gets $500. the railroad
gets e.: the manufacturer gets e.: the
vender gets &c. Is: the user gets the devil:
while the producer and tax payer foot
the bill.
The denunciation by Judge Thurman
of the methods employed to secure the
election of a Democratic senator from
Ohio, while not new adds no little en-
phasis to the popular commentator and
felt at the time. and while.
as he says, ''the conspiracy was to elect
John r. Mclean at any cost" its failure
lid not free the legislature from the sus-
picion, not to say open charge, of yield
ing to improper influences in the election
If Henry B. Paine. The stencil of the
whole proceeding in that convention