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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
THE MA RKETS.
Kansas City tram and Produce Market
KANSAS CITY, October Is, 1888.

Kansas City GraIn and Produce Market
KANSAS CITT, October IS, 1888
The Daily Indicator reports:
WHEAT-Receipts at regular elevators since
lest report, 1854 bushe .; withdrawals. 4.CO(
bushels; leaving STOCK in store as reported to the
No. red winter wheaf-Cash, no bids. 81 OF
asked; October, no bids, 81 IL asked; Noyem-
Dor, no bids nor of. rings: December. Il OI1s
CORN-Receipts at regular elevators since last
report -. bushels; Withdrawals, 49, bush
els, leaving stock in store as reported to the
board of trade to-day, 9, y bushels
No. 2. corn-Cssh. no bids nor offerings; Octo-
Der. NO BAGS nor offerings: November. no bids
sic asked. year. 2s1ic bid. 2sAc asked; May. no
OATS-No.. 2 cash. 1salc bid. 2o.sc asked;
bic ,sno offerings; May. 2i,ic bid. 251ac asked;
RYESo. cash ~ i1c s' bid, no Offerings: o.
tober. NO bids nor offe ings.
FLOUR-Firm and irregular. Demand for
high and intermediate grades greater than the
supply. Quotations cannot oe made with any
accuracy at the present state of the market.
Quotations are for unestablished brands of
new, IN car lots par half barrel il sacks follows
chcice1 606l 20 fancy 81 6i IS; extra fancy.
81 9oG2 co: patent, 81 14s2 IS.
Corn M al. bulk, ssc; sacked. eoc; corn chop.
stuff. per leo lbs. bulk. SIC: sacked. eSo bran
6rn onsignu ents from first hsnds, per 100 lbs
bulk 57c sacked. Csc; $50 ID sacks. CSC; on order
higher prices are charged.
HAY-Receipts. 10 cars; market steady.
Prairle. 81 90; good to medium, IS 0 as 50;
fancy timothy. 81 5Oes so; good to choice. 81 70
Gs 90.
POCLTRY-Chickens, receipts large: SLOW to
sel. Choice hens. 8! 21g2 SO perdozen; small
e2 25; Ioosters: large. q o. per DOZEN. Turkeys
fat, atao6 ducks. 81 o., U per dozen; geese
no demand spring chickens. msdiun 81 Is,
large 81 Is per dozen.
PROVlSIONS-We quote: The following QUO
tations are for round lots. Job lots usually lac
higher. Sugar cured hams, Ike per lb: break
fast bacon.1 Sc per h.: dried beef SIC dry salt
shoulders. 3 g; long, clear sides. s, so: clear
rib sides, % 90; short clear. S. so; smoked
shoulders, 80 Is: long clear, 60 50; clear nh
sides, 81 20: short clear. 50 50.
BtESWAX-We qoote: No. at PIC per h.. No.
2. lsr
BUTTER-RsceiptsI large. Market vas etea ~.
Creamery fancy .o6ZSc. dairy fancy, ISc;
etore-racked. lS6l5c.
CHEESE-We quote: Full cream. twins, liz,
al C full CT am. Yong America. l.
EGGS-Rsceipts fair and market firm at lS6
l6.ec per dozen for strictly fresh candied.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Fraudulent Timber Land Entries.

WASHINGTON, D. c., October 15.-Actirg
Commissioner Anderson, of the general
land Office, received information OF the
conviction of Charles E. Bach for subordi-
nation of perjury in connection with entries
of largo body of Redwood timber land in
California. The land 80 entered amounts
to about 81 900 acres. the timbers on which
was estimated by one of Tie interested par
ties to be worth 81, 100000. A syndi-
cate, composed principally of forei gn
capitalists. was organized. it is alleged, for
the purpose of securing the title to these
valuable tracts from the government, and
the attempt was made to Go so by means of
fraudulent entries. Some $50 such entries
was made, embracing about 160 acres each
in which it is claimed perjury and subordin-
alton of perjury was recklessly committed.
of these entries many have been held for
cancellation and steps are being taken to Sc
cure forfeiture to the go vernment in other
cases.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Indian Chiefs at Washington.

WASHINGTON, D. c., October 13.-Ihe
sixty-one chiefs and sub-chiefs from the
great Sioux reservation in Dakota, compOs-
ing the delegations from the several tribes
of the Sioux nat on which have come to
Washington to confer with the president
and secretary of the interior, and to present
their objections to the law recently
passed by congress for the re-
linquishment of 100000 acres of
their reservation were escorted to the inter
ior department at 10 O'Clock this morning
by their respective agents. conference
with the secretary had been arranged for
that hour and after being introduced to the
secretary one by one the Indians filed into
the Office of the assistant attorney general
and took their seats. The Indians pleaded
fatigue from their journey and requested an
adjournment until Monday, which was
vrantad
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Emp.ied His Pouch.

anarchist member of the Lehr und Wehf
Verein, which was so conspicuous at the time
o. the haymarket rioi, came into the LARA
b q street police station late last night con-
s.derabiy under the influence OF liquor.
'.Here," he said as he emptied the contents
Of large leather pouch. "Here, you have
taken my rife from me now you may have
everything else got" The sergeant was
somewhat startled to see in front Of him Q
bayonet, two large revolvers and p large
supply OF cartridges, a book of instructions
in the tactics OF the Lehr und Wehs Verein.
6aliapsky then became very violent in his
dsnrrciatiol CT the police and vas locked
M.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Hon. John Wentworth Dying.

CHICAGO, October 13.-Ths Hon. John
Wentworth, familiary known as "Long
John" on account of his great stature, is
slowly dying of softening of the brain. He
lost possession of his mental faculties some
weeks ago, and his physicians state
ton of very short time. Mr.. Wentworth
was pioneer of Chicago. He printed the
first paper here, back in The forties. He has
been mayor of the city and represented a
Chicago district in congress a number Of
terms. He is "a years old.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20

president and referred to the committee on
claims.
The senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The conference report on the deficiency
bill was agreed to after a debate.
This disposes of the last of the general ap,
preparation bills, and tae house adjourned
until Friday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Prairie Fires IN Dakota.

BIsMARcK. DAE.. October 10-Prairie fires
many miles away brilliantly Lit up the town
last night. Flames were raging in portions
of the country in which no serious destruc-
ton is feared. A report has reached the city
that two Indiaos from the reservation vere
overtaken by era and fed to the Missouri
river and attempted to swim acfose, but
voeo caught in q whirlpool and drowned
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October 13.-The
treasury surplus to-day is $Ss, 100000.
The Gridiron club, of this city, has con-
tributed $500 to tie fund for the family OF
Mr.. Martin, late editor of the Jacksonville
Tunes Union, who recently died of yellow
fever.
Postmaster General Dickinson is confined
to his house with q serious cold.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Pork Packers En- Route to Hutchinson

KANSAS CITY. NJ o., October ia party
of Chicago pork pac kers and lard refners
passed through here last night for Hutchin-
son, Kan, where they will locate packing
and refining houses. Mr.. Cook, of the
Santa Fe route, who was with the party,
said the apparently inexheustable supply Of
salt at Hutchinson was bringing letters of
inquiry from many places and there would
be large number of firms locate there in
the near future. The members of the party
are enthusiastic over the outlook for their
business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Thursday.


bill o sa enforce the
Chinese exclusion act wal passed.
The debate on the senate tariff bill was
resumed, and the senate adjourned.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
The Cruiser Baltimore Defective.

WASHINGTON, D. c., October "A large
crack has been discovered in the steel stern
post of the new cruiser Baltimore, which
was launched last Saturday. The ship is
now in the water, and it will be necessary TO
dock her before the defective stern post can
be attended to. The defect is said to be the
result of improper cooling of the castings.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20
Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October IQ-The
senste passed the bill allowing the balance
Of Chief Justice Waite's salary 70 his widow.
A veto message Was received from tie
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-10-20

&nAe'Su 1OSSheAy vi LILO HSASoA VI tA0 Ae'
tie Yetnsr girl is growing in interest
and sensation. She is Still unwilling &c
say positively who committed the as
sault, but she is willing to express her
opinion. and if she is right in her opin.
ion the police cay the Forthcoming
arrest will stsrtle the community.
Wamego Reporter: A Wamego lady
has agreed to climb the Harrison pole
in this city, if Cleveland is elected. This
is the biggest inducement We have ye.
heard proposed to have the curious vote
democratic. Should such thing hap
pen, the event will be duly advertised,
and lou may expect crowd. The pole,
remember, is Isl feet above ground.
Russell Springs Leader: The Russell
Springs Nickel and Cobalt Mining CON-
pany have received by mail another GER
tifcats of assay. This one is from w.
d. Church, chemist, of Topeka, who re-
ports the ore sent TO him from the Logan
county mines to contain 4.2S per cent.
nickel and a fair per cent. cobalt. There
seems TO be no doubt ia the minds OF the
people but that everything is all night.
A lady living near Troy had occasion
to look over tie records OF the county
recently, and in doing so, discovered
recorded against her farm a mortgage
parpor,ing to be security for the sum Of
S.. SEQ borrowed from the Lombard IN
vestment company. knowing that she
had uayt1 borrowed Tie money, The lady
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
TREES AND THEIR VALUE.

In scientific publication we find the
following paragraph:
With the aid of science even the desert
| OF the Sahara is becoming lnhabitable and
! colonization is encouraged. The lower
! Sahara is an immense basin of artesian
! waters and the French are forming fresh
GASES with skill and success SO that the
number of cultivated tracts is increasing
| rapidly. After a period Of thirty years
forty three GASES have 1900 Inhabitants,
10000 trees between one and seven years
old and 100, 900 fruit trees.
This means that there is sufficient
moisture near the surface, and there is
no doubt that there are hundreds of
thousands of square miles of that waste
which might be easily brought under
successful cultivation.
The Topeka Capital takes up the SUBJ
ject and discusses it in a general way,
and also in reference to this state. But
the Capital seems to have overlooked the
proposed measure, the text OF which was
published in the EAGLE several days ago.
that will be presented to the next legis-
lature for enactment, providing for sys-
tematic tree planting in Kansas. The
Capital says:
That the planting of trees is the best
and surest way of changing the climate,
every person who has given the subject
thought will admit Take our own
state as an example. We believe if
every farmer in Kansas would plant
trees along his lines and about his home
it would prove beneficial in many ways.
To say nothing of their value in their in
tiuence upon the climate, they would
add value to Kansas homes in the mat
ter of shade and protection from storms.
They charm the eye; they beat back
the furious rays of the summer sun;
break the force of the wind and the
frost; they hold the SHOWS and force
them them to gradually give UP their
treasures; they absorb from the air its
fevers; when the air is surcharged with
moisture they take and retain vast
amounts of it and return it when the
parched days come; they make home
for the birds and shelter for the beasts:
some species yield delicious fruits, others
supply the harvest of nuts to various an
imalS: the bark of many is most valua-
BILE in the arts and in medicine; the tim
Der is the comfort and necessity of men,
and they are the physical worlds great
regulator"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30

shape. Now, the point is just here; that
land can not be mortgaged until the gov
eminent has issued its patent to the set
tier. Many of the settlers will go there,
take claims and at the end of the first
six months, when the first payment on
the land is due, they will be Disguised.
They will not have raised a crop-no one
ever does the first year-there will be no
way to raise money on their land, and
the time for .'final proof will appear so
far away in the mystic future that Mr..
Settler will sell his fright" and pull back
for the States" Kansas will get its
share of these people.
All of this is on the supposition that
Oklahoma will be opened. But it is not
opened yet, and we candidly do not be-
Heve that it will be opened inside of two
years and perhaps much longer. The
United States senate is, at heart, against
the scheme. There are too many men
in the senate who are interested in the
cattle business. The senate may not
kill the bill outright; but it will tack on
amendments that will have the same
effect. Then the Cherokee nation must
consent to sell the strip and it does not
now appear to have any such Intention.
liAS COu6eUG OF OtuGI liIUcS Ol 1IluldlS
must be obtained. and this is easir said
than done. The cattlemen have just
perfected another lease for FIVE years
and they will not give up that lease
without contest.
So, we say, Oklahoma is not opened
and we would advise every Barber
county farmer who has had an eye OH
that country to go right along and pre-
pare for another crop. Plow early and
plow deep and you will have plenty of
time after the bill has passed, before the
preliminaries are arranged, to go down
there and get the pick of the claims.
Under the proposed act, it is actually a
disadvantage to go there before the
opening proclamation is issued, for the
bill says no one shall be allowed to take
a claim there who has gone in before the
country is regularly opened.
So, everybody, keep your shirt on I'M
til further notice.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
BURNED DOWN.

Senator ingalls, seems to be drifting into
another Pomeroy. HIS family have not
oeen at home Tor oyer year, spending the
Winter N Washington and the summer in
New England. He has returned to Wash
lngton without making any preparation
to rebuild his residence at Atchison, which
was burned last winter.-kansas City Ga
Zette.
His home and all it contained was not
only burned, but later timber tract and
all his wood, corded ready for the mar
ket, was burned, and also small house
from which he got rent burned, and also
store building in which he held an in
terest. All burned within few months.
Under such circumstances, unless his
credit is extraordinarily good, we can't
see how he could have built a new home
by this time. Be reasonable, George,
and don't let your prejudices carry you
too far.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
ABOUT THE SIZE OF 1T.
GREENsBURG, Kan. Nov. %.

| GREENSBURG, Kan. Nov. %.
| To the Editor OF the EAGLE
| The EAGLE has perhaps reformed its
whole duty in denouncing the scalawag
Galloway for his dirty work in SANDER
ing our state through the publication OF
his mortgage circular during the late
campaign. But does not the EAGLE
believe that others, besides Galloway,
were parties to that infamy? Is it to be
supposed that old oily CANNON, John
Martin, had no hand in the matter: And
that his insane desire to be elected as
the chief executive of this state had
nothing to do with Galloway's befouling
publication! Let the whole truth come
out and the righteous indignation of the
people fall where it properly belongs
1t appears that Gen. John NJ. Palmer,
OF illinois, has withdrawn from the G.
A. K. organization, which actappears to
be the subject of comment BIZ the public
press throughout the country. To all
who recollect his quarrel with the late
lamented Sheridan, growing out of the
protection of property at the time of the
great Chicago fire and Palmer's violent
advocate of the doctrine of states rights,
which was and is another name for the
right of secession, his withdrawal from
the Grand Army ought not be so much a
matter of surprise. as that any man, en-
Pertaining such opinions should ever
have become member of any order,
whose very foundation is built upon the
declaration that those who advocate the
Calhoun doctrine of states rights are
enemies of the Republic. There can
be no affinity between members of the
Grand Army and the advocates of such
a heresy. SUBSCRIBER.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
THE UNCOVERED FARMERS.

After painful study of the returns,
the New York Evening Post frankly
owns up that it is the men on the farms
who have vetoed tariff reform" (ot
the Mills bill variety and relegated Mr..
Grover Cleveland to the innocuous
desuetude of private life. While the
Performers" did better than they had
expected to in many of the manufactur
ing towns, the farmers, on whom they
had relied with some confidence, went
back on them and on the cause. ut is
useless to deny or evade the fact" says
our grieved contemporary.
Casting around for an explanation, it
finds one of the conditions of farm life
and their effect on the farmers charac-
ter He is not absolutely unpersuadable
but of all civilized men he is the hardest
to persuade. His mind, says the Even
ing Post, ''is apt to get stiffened by want
of contact with his fellows, by hard
work, often solitary work, IN the open
air, by inability to find much time or
wakefulness for reading, and by the
monotony of his calling, all the phe-
nomena of which recur with almost I'M
broken regularity. There is no class on
which habit lies more heavily, to whom
the old ways seem safer, to which novel
ties, including new ideas, seem so suspic.
ious and which is so 10th to hear more
than one side of debatable question"
Then, too, according to this mugwump
philosopher, the rebellion is more vivid
memory on the farms than in the towns:
lit is among the farmers mainly that
the passions of the war and the suspic-
ions of the south still inger." Hence
the course of reform" was handicapped
by the circumstance that its ablest advo-
Gates and expounders We're southerners.
Moreover, the farmers are hard to get
at for the purpose of persuasion. They
live far apart; they work hard; evening
finds them tired; an invitation to travel
some miles, often over rough road. to
hear speech on tariff is not alluring:
and they care not eager readers
of more than one newspaper"
All this makes the task of converting
the farmers TO orthodox southern politi-
cal economy difficult. but the Evening
Post points out that it is absolutely es-
sential to convert them, since until that
is done no serious change in the tariff
can be made. The ''reformers' cannot
tackle the job too soon, it says. Their
task during the coming winter should be
to win over the rural districts by appro-
pirate missionary work. If the farmer
will not come to the missionary the mis-
sionary must seek him out during his
least busy season, and if he will not buy
tariff literature see that he finds plenty
of it to his hand for nothing"
How the farmers of the country will
relish being described as less intelligent
than their fellow citizens who work in
the factories remains to be seen.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
FUN FOR THE OKLAHOMAITES.

Mr., w. H. Embry and Judge A. T.
Gunnell, in company with Dir. Stout, of
Vinita, are back again. 1t is generally
understood that these gentlemen are
here for the purpose of buying our Strip
lands. AS many are anxious to know
just what they propose giving, we asked
Mr. Embry if he would allow the propo-
sitions he intended to make published
He replied that as yet he did not wish
to do SO, but that two more gentlemen,
members of the syndicate, would be
here today, and that proposals would be
made soon. In the meantime he wished
all to know that he was here in the in
terest of a Kansas City syndicate who
wished to but the strip. The syndicate,
he says, has the money and is willing to
pay eighteen million dollars for the
lands.-Daily Telephone, Talequah l. I.
What surprise it will beif the Chero-
KEGS sell the strip as above indicated in
stead of leasing the same. If they have
the right TO lease they certainly have
title sufficient to sell. 1t is questionable
whether the government will permit the
Cherokees to either lease or sell, pending
the opening of Oklahoma, yet the Chero-
kee council at this time is receiving
propositions to lease, as the above squib
would show. proposition to sell. The
Springer bill only permits the payment
of 81. p per acre to the Cherokees, while
the aboAe offer would be at the rate of
say SO per acre.-Anthony Republican.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
Old Man Plunkett's Ideas,

Atlanta Constitution,
I'm too old now to fool with sich
things, but sometimes | feel ike that
would like TO see the time come ergin
when we'd raise liberty poles and have
big speakings and big barbecues and two
good parties in the south. This solid
south business don't develope SIGH men
as Cobb and Stoves and Toombs and Hill
there must be some friction to brighten
things, and the niger is in the way
We are forced to be solid as long as the
niger is solid, and | doubt if it's
healthy.
But hog killing time will soon be
here; the rocks are piled up at the pen,
and wood is being hauled to heat EN-:
the first weather that comes that is cold
enough | will get up before day and
so down and hang dozen three-hun-
dred-pounders on the gambling sticks,
and as l sat by the fire with pone OF
cold corn bread and brol meats on the
Goals for my breakfast, l won't care for
politics nor for presidents nor for niggers
nor for the devil But DO wish we had
some smart men ike we used to have.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30
MISERABLE LYING.

Again the EAGLE desires to emphatical-
ly say that the slanderous reports Of the
condition of affairs in the western coun-
ties of Kansas sent out to papers and dated
Wichita. are fraudulent and evidently
for the purpose of prejudicing the people
III the west against this city. The Asso-
clated Press agent in this city knows
nothing OF the matter. The Associated
Press manager Id charge of the Kansas
City Office writes the editor OF the EAGLE
that the matter sent down from Hutch
lnson, as eminating from Garden City,
charged the SANDER to the Wichita
agent. The manager, Mr.. Cham
berlain, knowing that no such
dispatch was sent out from
Wichita, promptly erased Wichita,
but some of the operators on this circuit
took the dispatch off the wires as it went
from the Hutchinson agent and of course
before it had been corrected. Manager
Chamberlain says he informed the
Hutchinson agent emphatically that the
SANDER was not an Associated Press
item from Wichita, but from some ire
sponslble special correspondent. So peo-
pie can see how the matter stands and
who is to blame.
AS for affairs in Western Kansas oneof
the EAGLES travelling agents returned
from Ness City yesterday. He says that
he heard of no trouble and observed no
decrease of population or evidences of a
stampede. At Ness City the public
schools were fuller than ever before
which would seem to indicate that some
body is doing some miserable lying
at Wichita's expense.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-30

Ingalls, is still stirring up the Democ-
racy. He says in a late letter that there
are forty thousand Democratic office
holders who should be turned out be-
fore sun down on the 18th of March next,
and as many good and competent Re-
publicans appointed in their places. OF
course the senator means by that their
heads should be chopped off Just as fast
as practical. But the Democrats are
making a great ado over the letter. Now
if our dear Democratic friends imagine
for moment that they are going to be
permitted to retain their offices and run
this government, they are badly fooled.
Harrison knows what the American
people demanded in his elevation.