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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
PANHANDLE POINTERS.

Culled from the Canadian Crescent.
A new bank building is being erected
at Panhandle city.
A brick yard will be put in at Pan
handle city this spring.
A Masonic lodge was organized at
Timms City last Saturday evening.
Hansford county will attempt to get
the Frisco road through her bounds.
Hansford county organized an immi-
grafton society last week at Hansford.
A daily express train was put on over
the Fort Worth 6 Denver railroad last
Monday.
Greer county contains 500 voters and
her assessed property is worth 81 ESQ
900.
Hansford county is getting to the
front with two newspapers recently start
ed there.
Indications are said to point to the es-
Enlistment of Fort Elliott as perman-
ent post.
The railroad postal route was extended
down the road to Panhandle City last
Monday.
The TX ranch will soon ship 5000 cat
tie from Panhandle City tonorthern pas
lures.
In the Panhandle there are 53S. SIP
head of cattle worth anassessed value of
more than 81 100000.
Moboetie has been made a residential
postoffice of the third-class, the only one
in the Panhandle.
A smelter is to be put in at Quartz
City, Greer county. The ore is said to
assay $500 to the ton.
1t is thought that the Santa Fe road
will soon change its time table so as to
run through the Panhandle in the day
light.
Only 459 votes were cast in all the
Panhandle IN 1886. This year there will
be 5000 ballots thrown for Panhandle
interests.
The FRANKLIN Land and Cattle COM
pany is now surveying its lands in Car
son county preparatory to putting them
on the market.
The blackberry. Sweetwater. North
Fork and MObeetie branches of the Far
mers Alliance have been organized in
Wheeler county.
There are yet 6,S15,640 acres CT state
school lands in the Panhandle for sale.
but awards are made daily in large mum
bers and the vast area viii soon pass into
private holdings.
The San Francisco and the Rock Island
have both made preliminary
surveys looking to running through this
place, and the Santa Fe Is arranging TO
put in division buildings and a round
house in the near future.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

1t is believed that Boulanger will not
take the seat in the chamber to which
Dordogne elected him without his solicit
tation) last Sunday, preferring to sit for
the department of the Nord, where he is
formally candidating, and where he ex-
poets to be elected in triumphal fashion
tomorrow. But he has written courte-
GUS letter to the Dordogne electors.
thanking them for their votes, denounc-
ing the conservative Republicans as men
who are making the republic laughing
stock III Europe, and adopting as his
own the twofold radical program-im
mediate dissolution of the chamber. i'm
mediate revision of the construction.
Boulanger may not be a destructive
factor i'll the French politics OF the wear
1888, but he bids fair to be at least a
disturbing one. His potency in the
chamber will depend a good deal on how
he gets on with that austere and epaulet-
distu rbing Republican. DR. Clemenceau
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a Great Natural Wonder.

Meade Couaty Globe.
Meade Center great salt wells Is Great
ing quite reputation as a PHENOMENON,
which will give our city an enviable'rep-
utation and make US way up people In
this great American desert. To give our
readers an idea of this mammoth hole
in the ground We viii say: Ia 1873 a
space OF earth about 200 feet in diameter
sank down. leaving walls a. though they
had been bored perpendicular. and left a
perfect well OF salt water with "A beauti-
full sky blue hue; the depth is IA nom
less. There have been many attempts
made To measure the depth, but all have
been fruitless, wlsch Is attributed TO the
salt condition OF the water, which bears
up the weight.
Now our great natural wonder again
comes 10 the front by the gradual sink
ing Of the earth around II. which pre-
sents The picture OF an Obi time earth
quake. Cracks are IN the ground suffi-
GENTLY large to deposit two good sized
cows and hide them from sight. There
Is undoubtedly a vast bed Of salt az the
bottom Of this phenomenal wonder and
the continual washing Of the water pro
dUces a vacuum which causes the earth
to sink around Il.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Sports OF Antiquity.

Atchis9u Cham Jon.
They played dominoes n Egypt 2. 90
wears ago for money, and the eali~~aries
OF ancient Carthage shook dice for tie
remuneration they received for their
brutal sery ices. Poker was known -
another name Nebuchadnezzar army
doubtless anfed up in their camp N 'be
warm Assyraan night and while Bruiss
was quarTeling with CsssiIls in his tent
the Roman sCldIcry were probably stalk
ing their prospective drscbmas Al soIae
game Of chance. still. IN the nineteenth
century. with civilization IN fuil blast
and hundred religious creeds sighting
Ter the regulation Of peoples morals. he
thre,-caTd monte man sleoops N the a.
tute man q business. and he bohemian
cat swindIer lands the nOsiern Clncin-
natus Just g Of old.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Mebbe So. Mebbe NO.

New York Sua
But there is one large, sad and solid
fact which the Mugwumps should nerve
themselves To face without iiinchinZ. II
Is this: Even if Republican candidate
should b. nominated FOR whom the Mug
wumps should condescend 10 vote. he
could be- nominated only with the con
sent of Mr Blaine and his friends. Hr.
Blaine himself NAV not think II dieni-
fed 20 interfere, but his supporters will
not permit the nomination Of anybody
supposed to DE not in sympathy With
him.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Stimulated by desire for a little no
toriety. or to experience the sensation to
be produced by dabbling in politics. or
what-not, one of the fair suffragists of
Winfield announced herself a candidate
for the school board at the recent cleo
ton. There being no opposition of
course she was elected. The only point
IN that connection worthy of note is the
fact that there was no vacancy on the
school board, consequently no office to
fill, poor thing.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Correct You are.

AlllLsOl t'alrIut-
No better place for holding the dele
gate convention could have been chosen
by the Democratic state central commit
tee than Wichita The large opera house
of that city viii afford plenty of room.
and the people of Wichita are noted for
their hospitality. The sooner some p4o-
pie find out that the whole state OF Kan
Sas Is not in the First district the better
II viii be for them. Southern and west
ern Kansas is being settled ANA improved
.Tery fast and oUght not be sighted,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Why the dickens don't Princess Vic
toria assert her woman's prerogative,
beinhow it's leap year, and marry Alex;
or what's the matter with having the
romance of an elopement. If its real
love affair, either plan suggested would
compass the international, diplomatic
difficulty in the wav.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

The New Orleans Picayune Dem.
sends out note of alarm by the declara-
ton that Warmoth's election as governor
viii insure the defeat of Cleveland by de-
priving him of the electoral vote of the
state. The warning would seem to be
unnecessary, inasmuch as the Demo-
Gratis have control of the election ma
chinery and understand perfectly how
to manipulate ii.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
KICKING ON WICHITA,

Sol. Miller's mental horizon is not al
ways brilliant with the glories of opti-
miStic sunshine. This is one of his thin
skinned weeks, and his bellicOse condi-
ton superinduces big case of genuine
belly-ache, his halucination being a half
dozen hungry pigs and only two teats.
He says that the state conventions
ought not to have been called for Wich-
tia. If he will but attend either of the
two called here he will go home deciar-
lug that there is no other place in the
state worth naming in such connec-
ton.
When Sol looks at a map or runs over
the statistics of the state he has vague
impression that Kansas is pretty big
domain, but it's only an impression. His
realizing conviction and sense, (as it is
that of thousands of other old eastern
Kansans) is that west of Junction City
and Emporia it's all blank case of ne
plus ultra, that here rests in mute i'm
mensity that rhythm of ubiquity,
the Great American Desert.
inhabited by wild-eyed feelers and ex-
perimenters, who live on wind and sue
cessive crops of infatuated immigrants,
people whose capital is thin air, whose
monuments, sand dunes. We are sorry
for Sol, sorry as can be, for him and all
the host of old dodgers with whom we
labored for so many years in crowding
the high rolling bluffs and deep scrubby
ravines of the Missouri valley down the
Threats of peripatetic innocence as val
liable agricultural possessions. But our
sorrow don't reach his case, at least fails
of efficacy, and we are left the alterna-
tive of bringing him down here by the
mere force of numbers to see how it is
himself.
Such is life in the far west and the far
Their west you get, dear Sol, the more
lively it is, and don't you forget it.
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Their NATIVITY.
S@r=A - 2 - - :
Kansas CT Tfssss-

Earsts CT Iisass-
Seuauor Pasco. u Florida. was born IN
London: Congressman Crisp II Georgia.
in Sheffield. England ConzressI.a I.
White o. Indiana. II scotland, Congress
man HenGerso8. q IOwa. ~ Scotland.
Congressman KegE. Of Io~a, IN Scot
land. Senator Beck. q Kentucky. in
Scotland; CongTessfElan +. L. Mcdonald.
Of Minnesota. IN Scotland. Senator Jonez.
q Nevada, n England, Congressman.
George West, a NeS YORK. IN Devon
shire. England: Congressman FArqlss.r.
Of New YORK, IN Scotland. and Con
gresham L2idIaw, q New York. IL
scos!anl.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

In an unguarded moment New York
society man declared that there are four
hundred persons in that city, and now
the society folk of Chicago, st. Louis.
and even Kansas City are put to their
wits to determine whether it is the prop
er thing for them to claim a proper
tlonally larger or smaller number. The
tendency of the creme de la creme is to
exclusiveness, you know.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Judge Foster, of the United States dis
trict court at Topeka, quashed the in
dictment against the publishers OF the
free love paper published at Valley Falls,
Kan, charging them with sending
obscene literature through the mails, on
the ground that the Indictment was not
specific in naming the alleged offense.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
ALAsKA's GTEAT WEALTH IN FURs

New York Mail and Express.
No one will ever be able to tell the
real wealth of Alaska, said furrier this
morning to a reporter for the Mail and
Express. 1T consists of the abundance
of its skinned animals. The Russians
used 10 value the country mainly for its
furs, and it was mainly for the furs that
this countrp acquired it from Russia.
The trade has grown much since its an
nexation to this country. The shipments
of sea otter and fur sealskins alone have
more than doubled during the last ten
years, and now average annually 81. 800
600 in value. The list Of furs produced
IN that part OF the country is long one.
The land furs comprise otter, beaver.
brown bear, black bear, red fox, silver
fox, blue and white fox. mink, martin.
polar bear, lynx and muskrats Rabbits.
marmOts and wolverines are also com
mon, but their skins are retained bv the
natives. The annual value OF the furs.
sea and lond, now obtained from Alaska
is estimated to average $4,000. 900. and
there Is no sign of decrease in the Weld.
The competition OF the traders for skins
has stimulated the natives to greater in
dustry in hunting, and the prices now
paid to the hunters are from four to ten
times more than were cnrrent during the
Russian rule.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION

The voters of Sedgwick county vho believe in the
principles of the Republican party IeIueSted 10
assemble in their several townships and wards be
tween the hours OF TWO and seven O'Clock y. m. IN
their usual voting places Saturday, april 2lst,
1SSs, and there chose delegates and alernateS VINO
will meet In convention at the court housei in Wch-
tia Wednesday. April 18th, ut II O'Clock a. m, 10
chose nine delegates to the seventh Congressional
District convention at Garden City May ist.
nine delegates to the state delegate Convention At
Wichita May :l and nine dclrg gates TO the state
convention Topeka July 18th, ISIS, for the nonlin
alton OF state officers.
The apportonmcnt Is made for one delegate and
alternate for each p votes cast for auditor of
state In lSSti "A = follows:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Spring Song of the Editor.

Spring Song OF the Editor.
Newton Kansan.
'Tis the first day of sprig,
Ad All the birds sig.
Their sweet, tedder sogs To the roses:
The lilies viii bloob,
Cd code widterS toob-
Ker c-h-e-e. ker c-h-e-e-e e-e-i-s-tl
Such tibe we're habig. oh, Bosses,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Omaha is beginning to howl already
at the price fixed by the ice trust of that
place upon that essential summer COM
modify. Hear the Republican: Think
Of it-half cent per pound for ice
thrown into the dirt and sun! The same
price charged for a ION of ice that is
asked for hard coal, mined in Pennsyl-
vania, brought more than a thousand
miles and delivered at your door, A
pretty hard state of case, to be sure; but
it serves to illustrate the beneficent
effects Of the immaculate trust principle
when practically applied. If the rate
named is maintained the poor people of
that city will have to take their water
warm.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
A Happy Thought.


Nina Van Zandt is said to have aban-
doned her idea of going on the stage and
viii return TO Germany. Since the gov
eminent Of this country doesn't suit her
little bit she probably cannot do better.
II she viii induce number of her
friends to follow her all will be forgiven
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Come in Out Of the Wet.

Prentis, OF Newton. is the candidate at
large for secretary of state. Some Of
the politicians are said to he little luke
warm towards him, but Noble hes done
50 much good to the state. has been 80
kind to everybody and Is 50 well quail
fed for the Office that from all quarters
the clouds are rising that viii rain Prem
lis votes
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Make l. a National Holiday.

Eaasss C.sF Rep hlican
y movement has been started n New
York 20 celebrate Grant, birthday. April
.. with a dinner 3: Deinl0nlcos. II
would contribute quite a. much 10 the
lasting glory Of General Grant Il the
money which the dinner vii cast were
20 De added 20 the SLOW growing Grant
loaa1e1s t1ad.
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The poc--tre q Re-eds--


Ella Wbe.sler Wilcox believes that her
genius Tor po'e'rv Is dnst 70 the fac; ts.4t
iseT FuS'iheT read volume u POEMS \
ssaori time before Efla svzs ba1n. r.
11AGr s.44Elz- ala az-I4zxa~ :. x-4z-z-ssl
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Simultaneous with the statement that
Boston'S burly bruiser, John L. Sullivan,
had set sail on his return home, comes
the announcement that his manager
offers to back him against any man IN
the world for five or ten thousand dol
lars a side, the match to take place with
in three months after the signing of the
articles. AS the Kansas City Journal
remarks it is in prospective match, three
months away, that the champion figures
most glOriOusly. But, then, guess we
shouldn't be too eXacting in our criti-
cisms; the champion needed something
TO bring back home with him, and since
he failed to get AIitchelrs scalp, meta
phorically speaking, to hang on his belt,
there was nothing left him but a big
bluff. That will satisfy Boston Just as
well.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

The political incidents of the present
week, remarks the New York Times,
make it clear that President Cleveland's
name will go before the convention at
st. Louis June > with scarcely a flutter
of opposition to his nomination. Hemay
already fairly be said to be the only
Democratic candidate in the field. He
bids fair to be nominated by acclama-
ton" Just that thing may occur. 1t
would be unprecedented in the history
of Democratic conventions since the
adoption of the two-thirds rule, to be
sure, but what does that party care for
precedents in matters of expediency?
What they want is to make the nominal
ton with whoop and hurrah and in
order to do it with full swing the rule
will most likely have to stand aside.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

influences. Now, Will Ella please inform
an anxious public what the parental ia
fluence was that resulted in the produc-
ton Of a dudel
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
Kentucky Ladies'


Pafacah News
You turn "A Kentucky WOMAN loose on
the downward path and she can ''raisa
more --' IN gwen space Of time than
any other female on earth Like the
bluegrass horse AMI bourbon whisky,
they git thar every time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

The voters OF Kansas who are in favor of a free
and untramme led vote and fair count, who favor
a strict enforce ment of the law: who cherish the le
tenders of the country and favor a liberal pension
10 ALI who are disabled who favor such laws rs VII
protect home productions, home manufacture ana
home labor, who favor tree schools and popular
education. and who in favor OF again placing
the government in the hands Of those who saved II
instead of those who sought its des ructiOn, cor
daily invited participate in the primaries, county
and state conventions.
P.L BONEERAKE.
HENRY BRANDLEY, Chairman
Secretary.
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Civ of Wichita.

II is earnestly hoped that the Republicans of the
conunty viii see that we have a thoroughly repre-
sentative convention. w. f., HUTCHINSON.
Chairman Republican Central Committee.
j. r. KING, Secretary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

Prof. Weissel of the Lloyd line steam
er, Vera, has invented an oil rocket, to
be used in sitting the troubled waters of
the sea, in case of shipwreck in the vi
cinity of a life saving station. Practical
tests of the invention have been made,
it is said, with entirely satisfactory re-
suits 1t is an old theory practically
applied.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

The peach trees are in bloom and show
that only about per cent OF the blossom
buds have withstood the winter.-Arkan-
saS City Democrat
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14


The Globe Democrat is addressing
itself assidiously to grooming Judge
Gresham for the presidential nomina
ton. It's hero is mighty good man,
but the Globe seems 10 have lost sight of
the fact that Iowas favorite son, Sena-
tor Allison, is likewise regarded by
host of voters as very proper person
for president. The Globe is to be COM
mended for the change III its line of
policy Of four years ago, that is, while
saying all the good things it can of its
favorite, leaving unsald ugly things
about others who may have aspirations
in the same direction. That paper has a
distinct recollection Of the taste of crow
and it has no relish for the dish.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

delegate convention Of the Republicans o. OF
Kansas will be held in the city of Wichita on Inc 3tn
cay % May, 1883 the hour of II o'clock NJ 1or the
election Of zour delegates and four ateraIeS 70 tie
National Republican convention to ne held IN cnl
cago June ~ 1855. Also Tor the nomination OF TWO
presidential electors. . 49,. -,
Also a delegate convention of the Repnoilcats ol
Kansas will be held in the city of Topeka on Lne
95fh day of July iSSs at the hour Of u O'Clock IL,
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 he elected by county conventions, duIy caileu
lv The several county Republican coEllnlttees UNI
der such rules and regulations as NAV De oy sIien
prescribed The county conventions 10 oe hed lot
farer than May s. 1885 The basis OF apportloeht OF
delegates TO said state conventions wlil pe, one
deIetrafe and one alternate to each 4D votes cs lOr
rTImofhy Met arthy for auditor OF state NoEeiEbeF
IesS or fraction OF aO or more votes one deIestee
and one alternate each viii be allowed to all Ilor-
asnized counties and counties Organizer since Ny
3 iSs6 Delegates are apportioned 10 The several
counties follows, tU-Vit:
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With hotel rates at fifty-four dollars
day, as has been intimated, and the sup
ply of beer cut off, as now seems prob
able from the brewing trouble that is
brewing in the east and is likely to
spread all over the country, the Demo
cratic convention to meet there in June
bids fair to be a small, tame and dry
affair But YOU can't most always some
times tell what the outcome of such out
locks viii be. The brewers as well as
their allies, the Democrats, are as In
ventive as they are imperturbable,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14

The Italian campaign in Abyssinia
does not get on well. The country is
mountainous and Sickly and the willy At
rican potentate obstinately refuses to
come to an engagement. General Mar
zani seems to have advanced as far as he
thinks prudent, and King John is APP
parently determined TO preserve the
status quo until the deadly summer
climate and the natural attrition Of mill
tary operations in such country wears
the invaders out or reduces them to a
point where an attack upon them may
be successful
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
DIEECTOES .

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-14
IN CURTAIN DEPARTMENT
NEW DRESS GOODS.

Silks, velvets, sateens, dress trimmings
shawls, wraps, parasols, lace, embroideries
by tar the finest assortment ever shown IN The
city, all received since Monday