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Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
PRATT COUNTY BOND CASES.

Mr.. II. P. Cooper of Saratoga called
yesterday on his way home from the
trial of those cases in the United States
circuit court at Leaveuworth. From
him it was learned that the suits were
brought on by the Nashua Savings bank,
and the Bristol Savings bank, of New
Hampshire against the county Of Pratt
upon certain bonds issued under a spe-
cial funding act in 1881 authorizing the
Issue of S50,0 to liquidate the then in
debtedness of the county. He says the
defense put in by the county was
1st That the act of 1881 was unconstitu-
tional.
2nd That the bonds were forgeries.
not having been signed by the chairman
and county clerk in their own hand
writing.
The banks showed by the
dispositions of Thomas Goodwin
chairman of the board of commissioners
of Pratt county in 1881 and now Mans
field, No, and the disposition of D. c.
Thompson, the clerk of Pratt county in
1881 and now of st. Louis. That they
severally did sign the bonds issued in
1881 under said act and II. P. Cooper
testified that he saw Goodwin and
Thompson sign the bonds at the time
they were issued. All the testimony in
troduced by the defense was j. J. Wa
goner. of Pratt county, who swore he
never saw the bonds before that dav for
a few minutes and he did not think
Goodwin or Thompson could write as
well as the signatures on the bonds. but
he would not swear they did not sign the
bonds.
In the first case the jury went out at 4
p. M, and returned sealed verdict at
6:3 0p. M. the same day.
In the second case another jury wentout
on Monday at 5o'clock and returned yer
dict Of So. 90 in fifteen minutes in favor
of the plaintiffs. Thus twenty-four Jury
men decide the bonds are good and the
jury decided the law OF 1881 was consti-
tutionaL
Toms & Mason and W. P. Douthitt
were attorney for plaintiff and L. j.
Webb and J. c. Ellis, attorneys for
defendant.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
CONCERNING CRIMINAL EXCESS

| CONCERNING CRIMINAL EXCESS.
JuStifiable as were the citizens of To-
peka, under the peculiar circumstances,
in summarily executing the midnight
assassin and self-confessed murderer,
Oliphant, yet the moral effect upon the
community at large of even temporary
supremacy of mobocracy-for no such
incident can be divorced from that idea
or fail to create that impression-is most
baleful and consequently deplored. The
Topeka incident was rare and exception
al in its nature. Even the one at Lin
coin two days before was only approx
imately similar in its character and
claim of justification. But the harmful
and hurtful effects Of both Of
these, generally approved and little
condemned as they were and are,
are made manifest in the shameful, dis
graceful affair in Jefferson county Mon
day, mentioned in yesterdays dispatches.
OF course there was no sort of excuse
for such lawless proceeding. Harmful
and eXasperating as a theft is under any
circumstances, yet, if the victim in this
case had been proven guilty beyond
doubt, or had confessed to being guilty,
the offense was not such as the law
could not and does not constantly i'm
pose commensurate penalty for.
The method employed by the Jeffer-
son county mob is the same as is
used by banditti and outlaws
every where and is not one
whit less barbarous and inhuman
than the practices of the notorious XII
klux, Baldknobbers and White Caps,
and if the attempts thus made to extort
a confession from their helpless victim
had resulted in his death, the perpetra-
tors would be nothing less than willful,
deliberate murderers.
1t is the universal wish that the Lin
coin and Topeka incidents will prove
sufficient warnings to represS the crime
of murder in this state. and it will be
well for those who are inclined to take
the law in their own hands, even in
cases where they would enforce the
right, to be warned by the terrible break
made by the Jefferson county citizens.
History notes number of instances
where would-be avengers have been
hoisted on their own petards, and one Of
the freaks of history, if it may be SO
termed, is to repeat itself, nor is it re-
spector of persons or localities.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
HOW THE LIE TRAVELS.

N. F. Niederlander yesterday received
a letter from a friend in New York
which states that the daily papers east
contain statements to the effect that
Sedgwick and adjoining counties were
visited by a cyclone, destroying every
thing within reach and that the cyclone
was five miles wide and extended dis
lance of twenty miles. The writer of
the letter is very solicitous to learn full
Ter particulars of the supposed disaster
The same item appeared in number
of our state papers as an Associated
Press dispatch. As such it was base
forgery. No such occurrence took place
and no such dispatch was sent from
here by any one authorized to act for
the Association.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
A WORTHY EXAMPLE.

The board of education of Atchison
had little or no difficulty in finding a
suitable and competent man in our own
state for the position of superintendent
of city schools at that place. Atchison
is one of the oldest and most cultured
communities in the state, yet Kansas
man is good enough to direct their edu-
cational interests. The board Of regents
of the state university might gain a val
liable hint from this Nor would Wichita
school board have made an inexcusable
blunder had it acted upon the same idea
in the same connection. When the old
est and most noted institutions of the east
come to Kansas to supply their impor-
tant chairs, Kansas simply makes a
spectacle of herself by sending out COM
mittees to caravansy over the country
for better quality of the same mate
rial. The EAGLE commends the Atchison
board and feels ABSURD that in Prof. Buell.
I. Davis, of Anthony, they will find
competent and satisfactory superinten-
dent of their schools.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
The spottsr.

Tic Nan About Town was riding On car
recently, not one II those sa4sera5is oonoerrs
known a. ''bobtails, bat upon large, lgu1-
bsring vohicls tapping tie Southwestern par.
II the city AID drawn BY two chzrgerx Ii
was GUARDED By eo.d icho AZ the prov,
and an axtuts oosductor, wiser n his ,seexs~
tion thnn tAe cA1drez q nyAt, e. tbs zssrn
The conductor was cbeervsd 30 bAs.ow many
on1inouS glazscs Epoa oornraoErlacs ia6i-
v;duAl who sss 10 To oorner II ths car.
That man" hs remarked ooasdGzttAliy 70
the vsntrcr, rs spotter. and ! fux: know
T. Es gsts On NY ca q. - r.roct sr-ry
night and ,ses. sway II Ionsly quarry kols
down hsre Il thS naytbortood Looa At
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sqzkni at ny rsgi<.uf II fx kla sozas q
them uigt.z, and Ia shook kis e. =. t-e 70
treating farm Ct ths pes~-ager. VIC g0s a
ard r--G-ds bss tie for Ia rsrtaxTo<1s Ia
The quarry hoIa In els c7rdScsor frossssd
q: tho rnozth and sv1rs ssftly r-ztsr bis
breath, CO: Of cefsrsoes % lacy rs>ss1gx,
for TIE nsxt ,wzsJ sqsars< Tsa1 sposs1u
DOR really r-Aks roea ko-as-. srf r-so7> skAa
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Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

the animal spied an open door in the
residence across the street from the Syn
dictate block. He ran in there and up
stairs into a room which was occupied
by three ladies. The ladies were badly
frightened and climbed upon chairs and
were standing there when the circus
men came in. The wolf did not at
tempt to harm the ladies and he walked
over little child who was lying on the
floor asleep. As soon as the men came
he showed fight, but he was finally
caught and checked INTO submission.
The animal is n large one and would be
a tough customer 10 handle.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

Osborne comfy has 447 old soldiers.
Ulysses is the last to set up a cry for 6
sugar mill.
Jewell county contains Cos ex-soldiers
and sailors.
The increase in population in Kansas
from 1870 to 1880 was 631, 697.
junction City has water works. She
will add $13,606 more and have water
A young lady 16 years of age is super
intendent of the schools in Ness county.
The editors of Northeastern Kansas
were entertained at Valley Falls Friday.
Finney county farmers expect their
i $500 acres of sweet potatoes to yield
! $1S7.500.
Leavenworth has decreased 1000 in
population the last year according to the
| last census.
The sexton of the Clay Center Gene
terry is lady.-K. G. News. Well, who
says she isn't:
Fourth of July looks like it would out
do anything in that line heretofore in
Kansas this year.
Efforts are being made to get "Ben-
zine Bill" the evangelist in the territory,
to go to Atchison.
There is a gray wolf out in Morton
county that Is almost as notorious there
as Frank Stockton's.
Five thousand and eighty pensioners
were paid $162, 1923 at the Topeka pen
sion agency Monday.
c. Z. Faulkner has been reelected
superintendent of the Soldiers Orphans
Home at LeavenwOrth.
A waterspout is reported to have pass
ed through the southeastern portion of
Mcpherson county last week.
1t is said that $50 ladies witnessed the
Topeka lynching and are now all anx-
iously expecting medals for their hero
ism.
Kansas has more school houses, news
papers and churches in proportion to the
population than any other state in the
union.
Why is it that it is always widows
COW that gets into everybody's millet
patch and is incarcerated in the city
pound:
Junction City has measles, numps
and whooping cough, yet the long haired
painless tooth puller continues to draw
crowds.
The farmers in the vicinity of Attica
have contracted to plant LOO acres of
cane this season for delivery to the At
tica sugar mill.
All the Shakespeare societies in the
state have sided in with patent medi-
cine advertisement that Shakespeare
was not mad but bilious.
The Kansas City Star states, it is said,
that at the Atchison revival meetings
large number of the citizens crawl under
the tent from force Of habit
The city marshal Of Harper holds his
Office purely for glory. He receives no
salary, but depends On fees. During
April and May he took in $50:
Joseph Spendlove, who was recently
indicted for the murder Of Gustav Wer-
ner q. Topeka, has been surrendered by
his bondsmeD and Is now in the county
jail.
Logan county is ont again with her
whistling well, which predicts storms
The fact that the owners name is Smith
ought 10 be sufficient proof Of lis exist |
ence.
People at Winfield are pretty well /
occupied right Row with attending the |
Chautauqua and rushing off 10 Okla |
homa at every increase In the value Of /
their lot there.
Announces the Latham Signal: Eggs. !
chickens, vegetables, or anything sl=e i
which we can eat, VIII be taken On sub |
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

There is good prospect for a ruction in
the newspaper family in Kansas of no
mean proportion, and that, too, at an
early date. Two or three of the state
papers have persisted all along in using
the old name Wyandotte in speaking of
Kansas City, Kansas. George Martin,
rs mild hammered man as one would
want to know, has been very moderate
and conservative in his insistence upon
all Observing and conforming to the
act of the legislature in giving the con-
solidated cities on the Kansas side
of the line at the Kaw's mouth the
name Kansas City, but when he is reused
as this matter is liable to arouse him.
the offenders had best look out 1t is
hot on this account, however, that the
EAGLE reaffrms its loyalty to the city as
ii is, even if it has on occasions mani
tested disposition to side with the other
fellers in our conflicts for the states
rights. Never mind that now, there is
no contest of that sort on at this time
and IN bout for the maintenance of the
states identity, even where the name is
IN any way involved. we will always be
found on the side of Kansas. So the
Gazette may count on one ally if no
more
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

c. B. Clark, who has published two
directories of Johnstown and its suburbs,
and had another printed and i'll the bind
cry, when the flood occurred, says the
loss of life in the Conemaugh valley can
not possibly exceed 5000. Johnstown
and its adjacent towns had population
of 29,114 The flood swept away half of
East Conemaugh, one-third of Franklin,
all but twenty-six houses in Woodvale,
half of Conemaugh, nearly all of Mills
vile, the first four wards of Johnstown
and one-third of Cambria City. Mr..
Clark has made a careful canvass since
the flood, and places the total loss as
above stated. Johnstown has a popula-
ton Of 10, 253, and the loss of life there
is between 5000 and 1900. In Millsville
ii is about 500; and in Conemaugh about
1900. This is the most authentic state
ment yet published of the extent of the
loss Of life by the great disaster, and
while somewhat less in the total number
the loss is Yet appalling.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
Odds and Ends.

Prepare for the rural fairs.
Keep tools sharp and clean.
Cut grain before it is fully ripe
Assert fruit well for marketing.
Raise plenty of roots this season.
Secure good field and house help.
Pigs in clover pasture thrive well.
Keep the cellar clean, dry and cool.
Give your stock clean drinking water.
Work the corn and not 1.-THE corners. y
Neatness nets in marketing small
fruits.
Ask city friends to call "after har-
vest"
Push your work, but do it systemat,
ically.
Shear carefully and put up feeces
nicely.
Guard fowls against hawks, owls,
rats, etc.
Haste makes waste" in securing
crops.
Well-planned summer work is half
done.
Buttermilk is a good summer bev-
erage.
Coal oil is good insecticide and salt
is a good weed destroyer. but in using
both care must be taken or more injury
will be done than benefit derived, if they
ale used too strong. Dilute with water
SO as to weaken sufficiently so that they
can be used without injury.
The report for the treasury department
for the month of April reveals a further
gratifying increase in the volume of our
foreign trade in beth cattle and swine
products, the month of April, 1888,
showing a total net increase over the
same month in 1888 of about 81, 500. 900,
and the gain for the four months ending
April 80, 1889, something over so, O00,-
600. Exports of live cattle for April were
valued at s., ,1S5, against s1.262, 696
for April 1888
The supreme court OF Wisconsin in
the case of Ayers ct. al. VS.. the Chicago
6 Northwestern railroad company,
which is a common carrier OF live stock.
if requested, reasonable time before
hand, to furnish cars suitable for the
transportation OF live stock at specified
time and shipping point, has within
the past few days decided II Is its duty
to inform the applicant within reason
able time whether it can furnish such
cars at the time required: and where ii
fails to give such notice, and the ship
per, relying upon its performance Of
duty as common carrier, prepares and
has his stock ready for shipment at the
time and place named, the company Is
LA bic for damages suffered by him by
reason Of Its failure 10 furnish the cars.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

Special Offering in white goods, checks
stripes, null cords and large plaid. at 20.
These always FETAL nc 1875 and l5c ward
Our White Goods department canno, be
equalied in Kansas
We are showing specially attractive
variety in India linen, exquisitely ans
quality, Persian lawns, plain ard figured
Swiss, linen cambrics, tuckings, reveriuys
large assortment of Marseilles, linen cam
brics, vic lawns, nainsooks, etc. We are
certain OF pleasing every one in this de-
partment.
New linen dress ginghams equal TO silk In
appearance and very durable, fast colors
just the material for travelling drsss.s aud
chtldrens waists and hlouses
Back Goods. New AMI exquisitey sof,
nuns yelling, plsin and bOrdsred black
batiste for summer war
A full line Of Priestley's black goo's, silk
warp He1riettas, Tamise, Surahs ROYALS
etc, etc. They are the best made. warranted
Mohairs and Brilliantenes are becoming
more popular every day new invo 90
comprising the summer weights in plain,
stripe and plaids are being sold We y rapidly.
Only few novelty pattern suits left. We
are Offering the French novelties at prices
that those In need of high grade stylish cos
TUNES cannot Withstand.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
The Parsons high school graduating

The Parsons high school graduating
class of SO has this Motto: Not on the
Top, but Climbing" the Holton class this
MOT Failure. but Low Aim, is
Crime" Senaca, "Aim at a Certain
End" Caldwell, Perseverance Con-
quers ALL Sabetha, Life is Progress,
not Station" Harper. Live to Attain
the Highest End Rurlingame, Fins
Laborem Coronat;' Baldwin, Deeds,
not Words" Concordia, There is Path
to Every Height" Chanute, Per Crucem
ad Coronam;" Erie, Not Finished, but
Begun" Neosho Falls, Strive to Excel"
kingman, 'Mizpah;' OSwego, Higher
Yet Than This for Me-" junction City.
MI Nisi Bonum;' Winfield, Strength
is Born of Struggle" Ottowa, ''Carpe
Diem" Minneapolis, "Qui non Proticit
Deficit State Normal School. Non
Forma Sed Spiritus:" Topeka High
School, ITO Be and Not TO Seem to Be"
Emporia High School," Astra Castro
Numen Lumen. State Journal
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The Emporia Republican remarks;
s'The order OF the railroad commission
ers that the roads must not discriminate
in favor of Kansas City as against Wich-
tia is all right. The next thing IS an
order that they must not discriminate IN
favor of Wichita as against other Kan
sas towns. 1t would have saved time if
other Kansas towns had been included IN
the first order" To this the Fort Scott
Monitor replies by saying: "No further
order is required. The ruling of the
commissioners is broad enough to cover
the point made by the Republican, and
if it were not, the conflicting interest Of
Kansas railroads would force an eQuali-
cation of rates.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The waya thing is said often carries
with it significance at varience with
the utterance put in cold type. Rev.
Madden's remarks at Pittsburg touching
the Johnstown disaster and the fate of
those who lost their lives may have been
expressed in a way calculated to give Of
tense to his hearers when no harshness
or offense was meant. Dir. Madden may
have spoken the truth and had abund-
ant proof to substantiate what he SAID;
vet it is not always expedient to speak
the whole truth, and this seems to have
been such an occasion.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
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Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

Gov. Hill, it is generally believed,
asnires TO follow on in the footsteps OF
his illustrious predecessor, even to the
occupancy of the presidential chair
Whatever may be said of his chances 1or
success in the future, it cannot be denied
that he has made a good follower, even
in the craze for the excessive exercise OF
the veto prerogative.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
WHAT HARRISON KELLY SAID

a number of Democratic papers of the
state have been saying that an Eek
PLANTATION" from General Kelley was in
order, concerning his Fort Smith speech.
Wen, the explanation" is made, and we
very much doubt if our Democratic
friends VII! be one whit happier than be-
fore de was in Topeka on Monday,
and was interviewed by representative
Of the Capital, from which paper we
take the following account. 1t will be
especially noted that he did not threaten
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The state auditor has settled with the
treasurer of the state board of charities,
Hon. Jacob Stotler. by the issuance of
warrants for the following amounts and
purposes, being current expenses for the
month of May: Blind asylum, S1,40,;
deaf and dumb asylum, s2,791.0 90; in
sane asylum, Topeka, S.,971.3l; insane
asylum, Ossawatomie, s., 1881; asylum
for imbecile and idiotic youths, 2,0le.-
60; soldiers orphans home, sls42.6 60: in
dustrial school for girls, Beloit, 1851 90;
reform school. Sl.956.67.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
Beware of Ice Water.

Atchfson Champion.
DR.. Hammond is out with another pro-
test against ice water. He says it in
duces catarrh of the stomach, and half a
dozen other serious troubles. Dyspepsia,
he says, is sure consequence. Lemon
ade Is wholesome summer drink, so is
the old-fashioned farmers drink, half
and half of milk and water; but neither
should be drank ice cold. Ice water, the
doctor says, does not satisfy thirst; it
creates it.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The Anthony Republican has suspend
ed it's daily issue for the present. Its
editor and proprietor made truly heroic
efforts to keep its head above the surface
by giving that community an exception
aily bright and newsy little daily, but he
had to succumb to the adverse. More
the loss to the town and vicinity. Inc
weekly issue will be continued.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

Topeka Journal: After all this talk, it
is source of supreme satisfaction that
there has not been single burglary or
attempt at burglary in Topeka since last
Tuesday. That's answer enough to
carping cities.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
That Head DoWned En-.

Salina Gazette.
The decision of the railroad commits
sioners regarding Wichita seems to be a
calamity for that town, at least we think
SO, since reading the following captions
in the EAGLE: "Wholesale Wichita
Courageous Commissioners Certes-
Peerless Princess Proud Packers-Magi-
cal Mascot Manufacturers VS.. Missouri
Observation-Disclosures Facts Forced
Fourfold for Faithful Factories-With
Wonderful Weights Worthy Wichitas
Wronged Wholesalers Win Wapen-
take"
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

Our goods are always the
best that are made OF the
kind. Come and inspect TIRE
character OF our goods and
learn our low prices. We
strive to please in every par
tlcular. We keep no ShOddy
we buy no seconds. We sell
only first qualities at a small
profit. Every one is sur
priSed Waen they examine
our stock at its magnitude,
the richness Of its Fabrics,
the originality Of its designs
and the completeness or its
numerous departments and
above all the very low prices
we place upon our wares
SATISFIES every one that IL
pays to buy goods at the
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
More Than Likely.

1t is more than likely that
the words charged to the "Rev.
James Madden" whoever he is,
were not uttered by him at all, or so
garbled SO as to misrepresent him. View
ing it from this latitude, it looks like a
''roorback," and the avidity with which
the liquor organs at Kansas City sieze
upon it, stamps it beyond doubt as
nothing but a campaign story invented
to affect the Pennsylvania prohibition
election,
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

Our Guthrie correspondent in his last
communication was in error in stating
that Mr.. McNeal was president of the
First National bank of Medicine Lodge,
Kan. Mr.. McNeal was never with that
institution. Mr.. Jas. A. Blair has been
for some time its president.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The real murderer of DIR. Cronin may
never be discovered, but the good name
of a number of hitherto respectable and
monument citizens of the country Will
be very seriously compromised before
the affair is done with.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13

The proposition made to cremate the
unrecoyered bodies of those lost by the
food where they lie, while meeting with
much opposition. seems after all to be
The most humane, as well as necessary
course to pursue. If some such eXpedl-
tious efforts be not made, a terrible cpl
demic may cause more loss of life, and
be more widespread in its effects than
even the flood.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-13
A Correct Estimate All round.

Salina Republican
The decision of the railroad commits
sioners handed down last Friday was
the greatest decision ever promulgated
in Kansas, by either railroad board or
supreme court. In English SO plain as
not to be misunderstood, they say that
as for them they will do what they can
for Kansas regardless of railroad pres
sure and Kansas City influence. The
commissioners have shown themselves
to be Kansas men.