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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-24
DAN w. LAWLER AT DULUTH.
The Brilliant Young St. Paul Law
yer Addresses the Du-
IithIans.
OTHER CITIES HEARD FROM,
Day That viii Long be Remem-
bered by the Irishmen cf
the Northwest.
THE DAY IN AIINNEAPOPIs.

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AS was anticipated St. Patrick's Day
was observed by the Irshmen Of Min
reap0iis in befitting manner. The
day was anything bnt what is known
as 'St. patrick's weather." although at
ona time it did seem as it the festivities
might be rnarred by fall Of snow or
rain. AS early its 8o'clock hundreds of
people thronged the streets, and from
the amount OF green ribbon WORN one
would suppose that Minneapolis had a
population composed Of Irishmen and
nothiag else. From the principal bust
ness houses and buildings flags upon
which. were stamped the Irish harp
1uttered in the breeze. Everyone ap-
peared in good humor, and there was
not an Irishman to be found who was
not proud of the grand old Celtic race
from which he had sprung, and happy
in doing honor to the PATRON Saint of
ireland. But Minneapolis was not
alone in it's observance of the day dear
er than all others to the Irish heart.
From every city and hanlet in the
Northwest comes the pleasing intelIi-
gence that St. Patrick's Day was ap-
propriately celebrated. Something un-
usua! in connection with the observ-
ance of St. Patrick's Day this year is
the reports whlch reach US FROM across
the Atlantic that the English democ-
racy were largely represented at the
festive gatherings held throughout Eng.
land on that day. But it is more par
ticularly of the festivities held in our
own city that we desire to speak Of at
this time. The hour fix. d for the form.
ing OF the procession was s O'Clock a.
M, but long before that time hundreds
Of people cougregated in front Of Win
dom hall. The committee was. on the
ground early, and there vas very little
delay in getting every thing into order.
Right here it might be mentioned that
the preliminary details had been SO we'll
arrang d that very little confusion was
observable. For this they are entitled
to much credit. There were seventeen
men on the committee, and their names
are as follows: County Delegate John
r. Fitzgerald, chairman; Joseph Walsh,
secretary; Daniel O'I3rien, J. j. Smith,
Ed Kennedy, Jr., John Leonard, w. G.
Collins, j. j. McHale, John Courtney,
John Barron. Dennis Brennan, A. l..
Lennon, H. Barrett, John Mahoney and
@R.jJ. Fitzgerald. Grand Marshal Cor
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-24

rigan was not long in getting the men
into line and at 9:30 o'clock q. M, the
procession started to the soul-inspil ing
air of st. Patrick's Day. The line was
formed on Washington avenue in the
following order.
Platoon of Police, Headed by Seret. Coffin.
Patrolmen Led by Assistant Supt. Hoy.
Grand Marshal Corrfgan.
Plummer Post Drum Corps.
Hibernian Rifles,
First Regiment Band.
st. Paul Hlbernians,
Sidweil's Band.
Divisions Nos, 1, 2, 3, and 4, Ancient Order
Hibernians.
Dudley P. Chase Drum Corps.
Catholic Temperance societies.
Mi ler s. rhyle's Band.
Irish American Club.
Father Mathew Society.
Clergy and Invited Guests in Carriages.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-24

LContinued on Fourth Page:l
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
EXIT GROUND HOG.

Our old friend Larah Nc Chung writes
us from Happy Valley and literally de-
molishes the ground hog. He kills that
venerable prognosticator and hangs his
hide on the fence. Mr.. McClung saws he
has kept diary for nearly forty years
and has the record on the ground hog
that shows him veritable fraud: that
the ground hog on the 9nd of February,
when he sallies forth to make his
pretended meteorological observations,
knows no more about whether the crops
will be good than shoat born last Janu-
airy knows who the Democrats will
nominate for president at st. Louis next
June. The following is Mr.. Meetings.
record for eighteen years. The year
1870 he was in Illinois; all the rest are
given for Sedgwick county, Kansas:
Feb. 2, 1S70-Clear, frosty. Good
crops.
Feb. .. 1S11-Clear and cold. Spleen
did crops.
Feb ?. 1S12-Cloudy till 10 o'clock:
clear rest of day. Good crops all over
Kansas.
Feb. ., 1S.3-Cloudy and clustering.
Excellent crops of corn and oats.
Feb. ,, 1S74-Clear white frost. Fair
wheat, no corn and good crop of grass
hoppers.
Feb. >, 1S.5-Cloudy and cold. An
excellent crop of corn, oats and wheat.
Feb. ?. 1S.6-Clear and cold. Average
crop of wheat: corn, light crop; oats
good.
Feb. >, 1S11-Clear and warm. Very
wet all through May and June. Fair
crops.
Feb. ?, 1S7S-Clear. white frost. Crops
not very good in some places.
Feb. ,, 1S,9-Clear and warm. Wheat,
light crop: corn and cats fair crop.
Feb. 2, 1SS0-Clear and warm. Crops
good.
Feb. ., lSs1-Bright sunshine and verv
windy. Good corn and oats crop: wheat
not very good.
Feb. ,, 1SS2-Clear. \ good crop of
corn and oats; wheat very light.
Feb. 2. lSS3-Cloudy; sun did not
shine during the day. A good crop of
corn and oats: wheat failure.
Feb. >. 1SS4-Clear Good crop of
everything except wheat
Feb. ,, 1SS5-Cloudy and foggy in
forenoon and clear in afternoon. An
excellent crop of corn and oats: wheat
fair
Feb. 2, 1SS6-Blustering: snow ten
inches deep. Crops fair.
Feb. .. 1SS,-Cloudy and fog in fore
noon. Poor cropS.
Feb. 9. 1SSs-Cloudy; sun not seen. 4
splendid prospect for crops.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

all within the same hour, as l have seen
here, but we have a blizzard once in a
while that is not so pleasant, but they
are rare. How about your drouths: We
have no more drouths than you
do: in fact, we never totally
fail in crops, as / have seen
here in this county. If we have wet
season our hills produces the largest
crops. If it is dry the valley gives us an
abundant harvest. If it is just right, we
have more than we know what to do
with, and usually we ship it to you fell
lows back here that are in great need Of
grain.
This argument made them wroth.
''How could this be, when your state lies
IN the great American desert! says one.
My boy, the man that wrote our descrlp-
tive geography that we studied and
taught in our schools, never crossed the
Mississippi river, but like our ancient
mariner, looked out upon vast plain
and saw the hand of satan stretched forth
ready to scalp him should he cross its
margin, hence described it as a barren
sandy waste. / here gave them some
statistics.
AT this juncture large crowd had
surrounded me, with ''hallo Bill!''
When l walk out upon the streets l al
ways have ready listener to my talk
of Wichita and Kansas. When we sum-
med up all of our old ''chums' / was the
only one Of twenty-some-odd boys that
dared to venture out upon sandy des-
ert.
I will assure you, Mr.. Editor, I am
awful homesick. NJ. A. w.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
ART IN ADVERTISING.

This is truly an age of advertising
The ingenuity of man is taxed to the ut
most in devising new schemes to catch
the eye and attract attention. The sue
cess Of any business depends largely
upon the success of its projectors in
bringing it before the public. And sue
cess in advertising is not dependent
wholly upon the literary merit of the
subject-matter, (Which is often classicaD
nor upon the originality of design dis
played by the topographic artist, (Which
is frequently most ornate) The fine
arts are largely employed and photos,
Autographs, chromos and the like are
utilized almost exclusively in many lines.
and the average shop presents the APP
pearance albeit of an art galleay, by
reason of its elaborate display of artistic
advertisements. These are not only at
tractive but in most cases pleasing, and
while this is unobjectionable and in fact
beneficial in the main, as tending to ele
vate tastes and refine the feelings and
sentiments Of the people generally, there
Is a disposition to carry the matter of art
advertising to a hurtful extreme. Not
only do artists often carry their designs
to vulgar, indecent lengths, but not
infrequently take unwarranted liberty in
the use of likenesses of notable persons.
their penchant being for prominent So
ciety ladies. This is carrying the matter
farther than is warranted by any con-
siGeration, and we are pleased to see
steps taken in congress to put check
upon such latitude, by enactment, fixing
a penalty for the use of likeness of any
person in connection with advertising
matter without the consent of the person
thus caricatured. Very many persons
of both sexes care nothing about such
things, while some rather like such
notoriety: but to many modest, refined
ladies nothing could be more repulsive,
not to say humiliating than to see them
selves or their associates and friends pa
raGed in public to advertise some patent
medicine or laundry soap. 1t ought to
be stopped. .uuJE .-
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

On the character we are now forming
hangs our eternal destiny. Character is
what will conut when the world has
been burned up. 1t is about the only
thing that will not perish. If we are to
live on through eternity's years, if
when the sun has been blown out and
the last star has burned down, if when
the watchfres of heaven have all died
away, we are still to live on, character
is the biggest thing on earth. Neverthe-
less there are those who find their chief
delight in attempting to smirch the
character of some unsuspecting person,
taking care, towards that they are, to
make their attacks at times and under
circumstances that place their victim at
the greatest disadvantage. Hence the
importance of circumspection in every
day life, especially on the part Of the
young whose character is in the forma-
tive state. Beware.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The chances for the denomination of
the president by his party still amounts
practically to certainty. notwithstand-
ing the asseverations of the disgruntled
opponents. of the Tomlinson sort: but
for the second place on the ticket there
is going to be an old-fashioned Demo-
cratic scramble. There are about a
dozen prominent gentlemen who have
peculiar claims upon the party. to say
nothing of the scores Of willin' Barkises.
If that party were in the habit of doing
the wise thing we would think General
Blacks chances for the nomination the
best, but as it is, ex-Representative
Morrison or their Uncle Josef Mcdonald
will both distance the soldier candidate.
though it is not certain that either of
these will be chosen.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
A WICHITAN IN INDIANA,
OwENsvILLE, Ind. Maarch ).

OWENSVILLE, Ind. March ).
To the Editor OF the Eagle:
While setting in my room Just after
the hour of midnight watching and
keeping vigilance over her who gave me
birth and who is suffering and slowly
but surely dying with that dreaded de-
stroying disease, consumption, and ex-
pecting every moment or hour to see the
last lingering spark of life fade away
and her spirit go to the God who gave
It, or pass into the unfathomable I'M
known. and while thinking of what the
past has been and what the future may
be, ny mind naturally wanders back to
my loved ones and the great Queen
City of the southwest Owensville is
situated in Gibson county. One of the
richest as well as the most fertile coun-
ties of the state. Near this village are
the scenes of my boyhood days. l have
met quite number of my old ''chums"
and schoolmates of eighteen years ago:
and was hailed by the same old familiar
Halo Bill! Then we would talk of
some tricks we used TO play on our
teacher. they usually were female
teachers. and of how we used to swim
in the old swimming hole down the creek.
OF course it would seem natural for us
to inquire of each other of what and
how are you doing: l usually put the
above question, but they would saw. well
Bill, we hear you struck it rich,
or, we hear you have made Your stake
in Wichita. Well. tell us all about that
windy wonder. After had given de-
scription of its wonderful growth-its
packing houses. manufactures. etc. -
they would look at me as if to saw. You
are telling us a lie, Bill" Of course
had 10 take it. Well. Bill. how about
Your climate: Well. We do not have IL
rain, then freeze, then thaw, then snow,
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

1t appears, from statements in the
Kansas City papers, that there are a
brace of DULLES in that place who are
bigger in their power and influence than
the police authorities with the law and
order league thrown in. Their names
are Tom Corrigan and John Savage.
Last Sunday these two bosses kept their
saloons thrown wide open all day in de-
fiance of law, while all other such places
in the city were closed. Carrigan must,
indeed, be holy terror.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The Newton Republican to prove that
Newton is the best governed city in the
state. sites the fact that fewer arrests
are made there than in any other town
in Kansas. The writer stayed over night
in Newton in the spring of 1872, and all
night long it sounded like a regular
battle was in progress. Two men We're
killed and no arrests were made. 1t may
be further remarked that those were the
days when even moralWichita was noted
for hope and the cattle trade"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

square proposition to submit. and the
facts in the case are that they are OF that
class that it didn't take them long to
make up their minds to take good
thing when it was offered to them.
Mobeetie has a first-class weekly news
paper which is very much devoted to
Mobeetie and the best interests of
Wheeler county. Mr.. w. E. Edwords is
the editor and manager.
And now hoping and believing Just as
the Panhandle" people do, that they
may ever be directly tributary to the
city of Wichita and that our interests
may be united, l close. T. b. ID.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

Since the acquittal of Cora Lee of the
charge of being accessory to the murder
of Mrs. Graham, near Springfield, Mo-.
the two cases that were pending against
Mrs. Mallory have been dismissed. Thus
ends the great sensational tragedy,
nothing having been accomplished by
the trials.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

Hon. B. F. Chapman of the Soldiers
Home has written an indignant comment
upon an editorial.of the Wichita EAGLE,
with the caption, "Relegate the Bloody
Shirt" The comment has been printed as
a pamphlet and is on sale at George A.
Spooner's. 1t is vigorous article written
by one-armed acknowledgements
Times.
Why hasn't the Hon. B. F. Chapman
sent the editor of the EAGLE copy of
his Indignant comment in pamphlet
form?' This thing of chawing fellow
UP and splitting him out unbeknownst to
him amt fair.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

This country has gone through with a
good many trying ordeals, and has al
ways proven equal to the task, but it will
now have to stand another strain, as itIis
announced that already more than fifty
members of the house have put their
names on the speakers list for speeches
on the tariff question.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The attorney general of the United
States has prepared a petition to the
Judges of the United States court in this
circuit asking that the patents granted
to Magnus Swenson for the making of
sugar from sorghum be set aside, Oh the
ground that he was in the employment
CT the government when he applied for
and ATTAINED the letters patent. Correct
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The southern zephyrs have returned
and with flood of sunlight driven the
snow clouds away to the north, and now
the people of the Arkansas valley again
exclaim glorious sunny Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

About the only thing of Importance
developed in the Ingalls-Blackburn dis
cussion was that Vest, of Missouri, repre-
scented state in the Confederate con-
gress that was never out of the Union.
The fact remains, however, that Vest
considered himself out of the Union, and
according to the southern idea of states
rights he was traitor to his own state
as well as to the United States.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

One hundred doctors graduated from
Kentucky medical college last week. Sixty
five of them have made specialties of gun
shot wounds and whisky stomachs and the
rest are horse doctors,-k. &. Journal.
That shows that the esculapian knights
have an eye to business: they prepared
IT, ms Ives as specialists in the lines of
profession that affords the bulk of the
practice. Who blames them?
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
THE LIVEST TOWN.

One of the Hveliest towns in the boom
ing West is Wichita, Kansas, which has
$1,000 population, has increased its
assessable property 100 per cent during
the past year, and is still a booming.
Mr. Fowler has favored Us with several
papers from that city which have been
quiteinteresting reading. -Lirna n. j.
pecnrdar
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

Ed Carroll. of Leavenworth. does not
exactly decline the nomination for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket, but he
hastens to inform his party that he is
modest and is not seeking the nomina-
ton. This is very proper thing for a
good Democrat like Edward to do.
Grover Cleveland has run his admins
tration entirely in the interest of Secur-
ing for himself a second term. but about
the first thing he did was to intimate
that he did not consider it the proper
thing for president to be his own sue
cpSSOr
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

1t has been intimated that Chauncey NJ.
Depew, as the residuary legatee of James
G. Blaine, could carry the vote of Yale
college and of the Vanderbilt railroads
Kansas City Star.
The foregoing was intended as a joke
at the expense of the parties and inter
ests named, and it sounds quite clever;
but joking aside and taken for serious,
barring the "residuary legatee" idea, it
contains statement of fact that is the
highest compliment to the superior intel
ligence and business sagacity of Mr.. De-
pew.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The people of Kansas are naturally
hopeful. There is something in the
bright sunshine and atmosphere that in
spires prophetic faith in the future.
But never in the past have our farmers
planned to plant SO extensively as this
spring, nor with firmer faith in a boun-
tiful harvest.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The decision of the supreme court in
the Sharon-Hill case was filled in the
county clerks office in San. Francisco
last Friday. Mrs. Terry gets $4,000
alimoney at once. The world will doubt
less come to an end some day; wonder if
this case ever will? Hope SO.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

The citizens of Great Bend will cele-
brate the event of the opening of the
Morrison House, the new grand hotel
just completed, by spreading a banquet
upon its boards the evening of the 10Th
inst. 1t is proposed to make the occa-
sion a notable one in a social way, The
editor of the EAGLE is among those hon
ored by invitations to be present on the
suspicious occasion.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

A great rain storm has prevailed on
the Pacific coast for several days which
the papers of that locality estimate a
Godsend. Rainfall is very rare occur
renee in that arid region.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08

THE Southwest" the official paper of
the Frisco system says: 1.-The headquar-
tiers of the Wichita division of the Frisco
line has been moved from Neodesha to
Wichita. The Wichita division now
covers all the line of road west of
Neodesha, and the removal of the location
of the division superintendent office
places him in the most central part of
the road under his direct charge"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
aailg II zas1e
MARSHALL N. MURDOCH. EDITOR.

There is time coming when one
whisper of an approving mind, one smile
from Heaven, will be accounted of more
value to every one than the wealth OF a
thousand worlds.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-08
RAILROAD MATTERS.
A New Road in Kansas.


The secretary Of state has issued a
charter 10 the Omaha, Garden City d
Pacific Railway company; capital stock,
s., o6o. 900. Incorporstors-Hil P. VIII
son. of Hayes City: John Bailinger, Geo.
+. Morgan. 4. P. Teombs, y. u. Picker
ing. W. ". Wallace. E c. Gibson, 4.
h Atkinson. c. W. Aldrich. Garden
City. The route of the proposed road
extends from the north line OF the state
point near the north boundary line of
Jewell or Washington county, running
thence in a southwesterly direction
through the counties OF Washington,
Jewell. Smith, Republic, Cloud. Mitchell,
Osborn, Lincoln. Russell. Rocks. Ellis,
Trego, Rush. Ness, GARFIELD, Haskell,
Grant. Hamilton. Stanten, Morton,
Stevens and Holgeman.
The executive committee Of the Solo
mon Valley Immigration association, at
Beioit last week adopted resolutions
against the opening of Oklahoma al
present. The Golden Belt association
took similar action at Ellsworth Frlday.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
u. j. HennessY Z Go.

In order to do general honor to the day
Messrs. J. r. Boyce, Jr., 2. A. Largey and
L r. Maillett have been clothed with pow
er az a committee to visit all places OF
business and procure general consent to
| closing up universally on the 4th at 10
a. m.
Chairman Jack and M. J. Cornell yes
terday afternoon rustled $500 out of the
business men On Main street between
Granite and Quartz and they didn't have
to do much urging either. The business
men in this block never fail when it comes
to sustaining the honor of the town.
Messrs. Hall, Tibbey, Davis and
Goodale lave reported no collections yet
realize a large sum as well as the railroad
companies which should be asked to con-
tribute literally. particularly should the
new road pay it's portion OF the expenses
of Butte's grand celebration.
Fred Kerth, the bill poster, has been
commissioned to bill the Territory and he
has a list of about twenty places from
Dru,nmond and Helena on the north to
Dillon on the south which he starts out to
paper with the advertisements OF the cele-
bration next Monday, and Fred can he
relied upon to do the work he undertake s
energetically and thoroughly. He guaran-
ices 10 make d raUtilng gOou JoD Vi III anu
will take pride in disseminating the pro-
gramme in every possible way. He bills
this town and it's adjacent suburbs.irst be-
fore going into the other places in the Terri
tory assigned to him.
The celebration is an assured fact. OF
that there is not the slightest doubt. The
energetic ~nvasse who will take the
balance of the subscriptions to-day can be
relied upon to make good all deficiency,
and it is hoped they will be met with a
prompt liberality on all sides, which they
certainly ought to be when the necessity
for it is realized.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
SOME SUGGESTIONS.
The Fourth of July Celebration and
What Is Being Done to Accommodate

The Fourth of July Celebration and
What Is Being Done to Accommodate
Visitors.
Things are booming for the coming
Fourth Of July celebration in butte. In
addition to the regular observance OF the
anniversary itself, it is intended to cele-
brate the arrival OF the new railroad, the
Montana Central, which will be in running
order about that time. This is proper, Tor
the building of this road is an important
factor in the prosperity OF Butte as well as
the whole OF Montana. 1t is understood
that an excursion train will be run free
over that road on the 4th and 9th OF July,
between Helena and Butte, to give the peo-
pie between those two points an opportu-
nifty tc take part in the festivities here on
those days.
Col. Dickinson, superintendent OF the
Montana Central, has notified the com
mittee in charge of the celebration that an
excursion train will be run over his road
on the 4th and 9Th of July, the fare being
Tor the round trip just half the usual rare.
The trains will leave Garrison at Q a.. m;;,
stopping at all stations, and returning VIII
leave Butte at 7.30 p. m.
The balloon ascension, the races, and the
other festivities which continue on the 4tn
and 9th, will make the occasion oil interest,"
to all, and many visitors are expected:
The committee suggests that all boarding
house keepers, and all persons having rooms
Tor dodgers, make extra preparations ioi
the coming celebration by placing beds ano
cots in every available room, for the use o
which reasonable prices can be obtained
The suggestion is a good one. There VIII pe
great demands for sleeping accommodation
Tor two or three nights, and every prepare
ton ought to be made to decently accom-
modate our guests ON that day.