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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-23

some on business, some to pay their respects,
were: Editor John A. Wallace, Ches-
ter Evening Times, Pa; n. 1. Throck-
morton, Indiana; Posey S. Wilson;
Lieutenant Commander William p. Randall, u.
S. N; Nj. ID. Leggett (ex-commfssioder OF pat
ents), now of Cleveland, Ohio; J. J. An
derson, Austin, Tex; w. w. Murray, Ten
nessee; John q. Hyatt, New York; DR..
u. V. Purdy, Birmingham, Ala. Homer c..
Powers, Mississippi, and delegation from
+. Bailey, j. B. f. Mills and NJ. b. Wood.
CONTROLLER DURHAM's SUCCESSOR.
Friends of misrepresentation John r. Thomas
are rather gloomy to-day. 1t has been
practically settled that Asa Matthews,
speaker of the Illinois legislature, will
I'LL Judge Durham's place as second controller,
and this has for some time been regarded as a
sure thing for Thomas. This failure drops
him down another peg, and, at the best, he can
only secure an authorship.
A good many Illinoisans and others inter-
ested in Mr.. Thomas fail to see why prizes al
most within his grasp snatched away with
out apparent cause. They think some one has
been engaged in stabbing their candidate from
behind and in the dark.
THE CABINET MEETING
shut ont all visitors promptly at 1890. The
only absentee from the bi-weekly meeting of the
Presidents official family was Secretary Blaine.
The conference came to a close at about 2
o'clock, but shortly afterward Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker returned and occupied the
Presidents time for more than an hour, to the
exclusion OF every one else, even Senator His
cock being shut out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-23
ION OFFICIAL BUSINESS"

was pencied on the upper edge of Gen.
Albert Ordway's neat card. The general re-
ported officially to-day for the first time and
he talked for ten minutes with the commander
in-chief of the army and navy about the Dis
trict militia. The President displayed consid-
cradle interest i'll the welfare of the local Or
ganiZation."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-23

4 MYSTERIOUS CASE NOT UNLIKE TIE yurxR-
MANN TRAoEDY-crRIops THEORY OF TIE
foLIcE-THE OLD MANS AocrsATIoS-uA MUIR
DEREp WHAT COULD HAVE BREN rHK MOTIVE?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
KANSAS CROPS.

The Kansas City journal. after giving
the final report of the wheat and corn
crops of Kansas for the season of 1889,
and experimenting the facts with GER
tain statements concerning the phenome-
nal capabilities of our soil and the mar
velous changes wrought in our agricul-
tural history, says:
And yet there are people who growl
over the facts we record and howl about
mortgages and rainfalls till it is wonder
Providence don't become Disguised and
either exterminate them or call off the
weather clerk for few years to show
the contrast. There is nothing like it in
history anywhere, and to be a Kansan
is to be part of the most wonderful
drama in modern life. And to have seen
all this come over what was few years
ago a range of aboriginal cattle, is to
have been a witness to transformation
that the fables of the gods cannot rival.
1t is so strange as to appear almost weird
in its nature and fairylike in its doing.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
SOMEWHAT MIXED.

Last winter the state senate passed a
bill to lower the age of consent. and the
W. c. T. L. almost overturned the state
in search of words to express their indig
nation The recent equal suffrage con-
vention appointed committee to draft a
bill lowering the age of consent. and the
question now arises, what Is the ". G..
I. L. going to do about 1t: If these two
interesting societies should begin to
reach for each others back hair the
Kansas rebellion would have to go out
and sit on the back fence till the clouds
rolled by.-Emporia Republican.
We notice that since the age of con-
sent bill of last winter quite number Of
boys in the state have gone 10 the pen, r
are in fair way to go. The sentence OF
death recently passed on the ex-priest in
North Carolina for an assault of a Sister
OF Mercy is attracting some attention to
this crime. The equal suffrage associa-
ton. as we understand 1t, wants both
parties treated alike.--kansas City Ga
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
AMERICAS GREATEST MAN.

Secretary Blaine refuses to notice the
silly lie, sent out by some sensational
correspondents, stating that the CHILEAN
members of the Three-America's con-
gress would not take part in the organi-
cation of the congress, because they OBJ
lected to voting for Mr.. Blaine as
president, but Senior Don Varas. the
CHILEAN minister, and one of the repre-
sentatiyes of that country in the con-
gress, not desiring his country to be
misrepresented has furnished the fol-
lowing statement of the matter:
Il did not attend the organization of
the International American congress,
cause my colleague had not vet arrived
from Chill with my credentials as men,
Der of that body. / am well pleased
with the election of Mr.. Blaine as presi-
dent, and should have attended and
voted for him had my credentials ar
rived IL time. | did not go with the
congress on its tour. because of import
ant matters requiring my attention here,
but hope to join the party before II re-
turns. The only foundation for the alb
surd story was. that at an informal con
ference of the South American and
Mexican delegates, which | attended.
the question was discussed as to whether
the congress had right 10 elect Mr..
Blaine president, he not being member.
The question was unanimously decided
in the Affirmative. and to nv personal
knowledge 1t afforded pleasure to every
one OF the delegates TO cast their votes
for so able a statesman as Mr.. Blaine,
who is as popular almost in South
America as Ia the United States.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
A ILLUMINATING CIRCUMBENDIBUs

An evidence that Wichita is dead town
is the fact that as much attention is now
! given to beating prohibition down there
as has characterized Leavenworth for
some time. When the only issue in IA town
| is whisky, it can be safely wagered that
everything else is dead.-kansas City Ga
Zette.
| The EAGLE, the accredited representa-
tive of Wichita abroad, its recognized
exponent at home, has never made
whisky such an issue, nor SO much as
intimated that it was absorbing atten-
ton. 1t contained one single editorial
that went to show-and it made it per-
fectly plain to the comprehension of
every man-that if the question of pro-
hibItion was ever resubmltted to the
people Of Kansas, that 1t could only be
resubmitted by the Republican party,
and that it would only be so resub-
mitted in response to a demand of the
Republican party through its senators
and representatives. There is no evil
dence of any character going to show
that Wichita is a dead or even a
| wilted town. Talk about saloons!
and about whisky! and about hard
times! and about poor rents!
there's your neighbor, Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, as full of saloons as she is of
empty houses, yet her delinquent tax
list of this year, fills nine solld pages of
the Evening News.
There are great many Republicans
in this city dissatisfied with the prohibit
ton law, for various reasons, and who
| would like to see the question resub-
mitted, that the sentiment of the state
might be newly tested, to the end of
better enforcement, modification or
an adjustment of the law, as the sense
Of such vote should most directly indi-
cate what was the real sentiment of
ma ority.
We know of no law to prevent the
Democratic party from taking advan-
tage of such a state of facts and raising
howl that they have been taken with
genuine labor pains and are going to
give birth to a wind elimination
which by an unGulatory cir
cumbendibus wrinkle is bound to spirally
twist the corkscrew again into unques-
tionable political ascendency in Wichita
therby, through a forked crinkIe, OBJ
liquely geniculated, meander money into
everybodys pocket, and flop the Demo-
cratic party on top.
The scheme. as will be seen, is some
what labyrinthic and intricate. but of
simple sinuosity enough when thus
plainly unwound. AT the first blush of
its presentation Republican here and
there may have been interested in the
holiness of its brilliant dazzle, but that
Wichita is dead or the Republican party
bursted is mistake which never would
have gained credence anywhere, except
in Kansas City, Mo-, or in her su-
burban hog pen, known of late by the
same name.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
A MERITED REWARD.

The Wichita EAGLE in controversy
just concluded with the Kansas City
Times backs down gracefully, thereby &C
complishing the unprecedented feat of
proving the Times to be in the right. The
Times, Overjoyed, devotes about column
per diem on its editorial page to the editor
OF the EAGLE, dishing up for him large
quantities of soft soap and exhausting the
English language to express its admira-
ton and respect 1t is great thing to be
able 10 make the Times appear right and
the EAGLE merits its reward.-Topeka
Capital
We have about concluded that our OBJ
tuseness must be something more than
ordinary density, that it is little short of
extraordinary stupidity. The Times
publishes showing of Kansas City I'M
der the heading, Facts about Kansas
City" The EAGLE suggested that there
seemed no little wind in the showing
and that it had received a communica-
ton from banker which made the ex-
hibit Of the Times look sick. The Times
doubted the receipt of such communi-
cation and challenged its produc-
ton, We accepted the banter
and transmitted the document. The
Times took it up and riddled it some
what, that is to say disfgured it consld-
erably. The EAGLE thereupon suggested
that the Times had upon the whole made
rather neat job of our correspondent in
making mince meat of him, whereupon
the Times and Capital now seem inclined
to intimate that some other than the
he,
nulled in AFFECT abjuration or some
thing of the kind. The EAGLE did not
prove the Times liz the right, but simply
afforded it an opportunity to scrabble
into such a position, which was, of
course, commendable on the part Of the
EAGLE, but no greater service than we
would do the Capital, which paper, the
good Lord knows, stands often enough
i'll sore need Of such boost.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Oklahoma City has a game and pecan
store.
There are about 200 colored voters in
Guthrie.
Milt REYNOLDS would like it called the
State Herald" if you please
The Oklahoma City journal thinks too
many little stove pipe tlues just peeplng
out of the comb of the building. are TO
be seen in a number of 'shacks" in its
town.
The Advance is informed that gentle
man from Ramsay, H., will establish q
poultry farm near Norman. IL is said he
will Immediately put 1900 fowls on the
ranch.-Norman Advance.
Fort Reno is now among the prohibition
places. The ardent had bsen handled
freely there since the opening of Oklahoma
up to three DAYS ago, when an order came
from headquarters closing up the suffer 5
store.
The Seminoles are beginning to utilize
the proceeds of the sale Of Oklahoma in
the erection of two school buildings at "A
cost of $4,000 Who will deny that the
sale was and will continue TO be bless
ing?-TerritOrial Topic.
Guthrie Capital: John Star and Mrs.
Star called on the Capital yesterday. They
are full blood Sac and Fox Indians, and
came fifty-iive miles on horse back to trade
in Guthrie ,Johu said a good many Sac
and Fox Indians came over and many
more were coming; that his tribe realizes
that Guthrie Is the place for them to save
money by trading, but that the Sac and
Fox agent and trader stand in" aud use
every influence to make the Indians trade
at home John said be had 500 TO spend
III Guthrie He wanted thrse-quarter
lumber wagon and couldn't find IT, He
thought the three-inch spindles handled
by our dealers were too large for his ponies
He says the ; C and Fox Indians are ready
for severalty If the right kind Of deal can
be made with the comission.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

One Lizzie Hopkins. signing herself
Ger. Sec. X. L. S. A, is hopping mad,
and hops to the front with little dilute
gall which she empties onto our head
through the columns of the Topeka
Capital. Lizzie's venom, like herself. is
thin even TO weakness, and less than a
minus, calculated only for such stomachs
as is boosted by the Capital whose cir
culation we expect TO see grow apace
now. If we were like what Lizzie would
like us to be we would be as near like
nothing as her apparently vivid magma
ton could imagine. She winds up by
saving that our stomach was sour but
declares in the same breath that she did
not ferment AS the fermentators were
the only thing on our stomach that week
wescannot see how that can be.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
WICHIrA'S FREIGHT RATES,

Burlington Nonpareil
The Wichita EAGLE says that the So
called Wichita rate will not benefit
any other town TO the amount of one
thousand dollars. And the EAGLE is
right. The towns to which the rates
were granted by the board of commits
sioners at its last sitting will probably
not have freight to the amount of a
thousand dollars within the next year
that will be in any way affected by the
rates that were granted. But they have
been bowling about the rates, and now
they have them they should be happy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

to hold the reins of government and take
direction of public affairs.
No, no, my dear Doctor Krohn. Away
with your cheap government idea,
whose ultimates is the teepee, the naked
buck and the blanketed squaw. For our
part we prefer the home whose queen is
not only finely dressed but in whose
breast the mother-heart beats, rather
than the selfish pulsations of the she
politicians gizzard.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

4 Connecticut woman is suing her
neighbor for damages for putting up fly
screens. She claims that the flies which
cannot get into the neighbours house on
this account will come to hers, and she
will thereby have double the usual
number. She had better collect her flies
and side in with the Pennsylvania farmer
who wants the governor to set apart a
sparrow day" when wholesale on
slaught may be made on the obnoxious
birds
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
AND NOW COMES DOCTOR KRoHN.

1t is stated that the woman city council
of Cottonwood Falls, Kan, by a system of
rigid economy, have so conducted the af-
fairs of that municipality that there will
be no tax levy this year for city purposes.
Here is a practical illustration OF the wis
dom of the law comforting the right OF
suffrage upon women. and a very hard
nut for our esteemed friend, Marsh Muir
dock, Of the Wichita Eagle, to crack
Atchison Champion,
II civilization is 10 be resolved down
to mere question of economy why not
abondon the municipality altogether,
with its luxuries and conveniencies,
throw aside your wararobe of fashion.
stick rooster tail feather in your hair
and run wild. Ii YOU have any more
hard nuts like that dear doctor. our
harder sense will ready To crack them.
Homes, churches. superb women, ele-
gantly dressed children, and all that
civilization boasts. costs money
and the higher they come the
more there is to them; and, the fact that
the Cottonwood Falls city government,
with selection of petticoats as its mu-
nicipal head, is costing nothing, is proof
positive TO lis that il is worth nothing.
that there is nothing there worth gov
erning. and that the inhabitants are
worse cheated and bear greater bur
den. ten TO one. than their fellows who
live in live town where taxes are no,
only high but the spirit of whose people
is too high to permit lot Of old women
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

We read of a woman called Captain Jane
Smith, who has become a successful
farmer. In fact, women succeed in almost
everything. We suppose. however. there
are two imposibilities; one is, for woman
to ever become a proud father, and the
other is for Marsh Murdoch to ever become
refined and elegant lady-Salina Repub-
lican.
Spell your last word with two DIS in
stead Of one and you need waste no more
ink in describing us to dot.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
The Atchison Champion says that it is

The Atchison Champion says that it is
rumored that either Congressman E. n.
Morrill, or Governor L. L. Humphrey
will be selected to succeed Ex-Governor
National Board of Managers of Soldiers
Homes. The EAGLE wonders that if by
some strain OF official diplomacy the
place may not be given to some good
Republican ex-soldler who holds no other
Office.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
A DEBORAH IN ISRAEL.

Kansas City Gazette.
The opinion of Attorney General Kel-
logg that women are eligible to the office
of county clerk, reminds us that a casus
belli we have heard advanced for rebel
lion is the presence of Mrs. Kellogg in
the office as assistant attorney general
A Topeka lawyer says it makes the boys
fighting mad to go to the office for con-
sultation and find only woman there
to dispense law to them. There seems
to be a widespread spell of worms among
the boys this season.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

Harpers Weekly has published care
full estimate of the cost of running street
cars with horse power and electricity. 1t
takes for the purpose of comparison a
line running fifty cars. The result is
that such a line costs in running expens-
es when horses are used $303..5, and
with electricity S6s.50. The difference
is $321 81 in favor of electricity, or 81, Go
per day saving on each car run. These
figures Indicate the early disappearance
Of street car horses from the municipal
horizon.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

The total value Of Kansas products
grains. fruits, vegetables. hay and live
stock-this year will not vary much
from 5000, 900, 000-enough to pay off the
So. 900 farm mortgage Indebtedness
of the state. with a handsome surplus
for other obligations and requirements.
Atchlson Champion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
Hard "a yings.

The editor OF the Wichita EAGLE evi-
IDENTIFY is female suffraglst. That Il.
he believes II letting them suffer.-Ieogi
Transcript.
The Wichita EAGLE. after three days
Of antI-suffrage bile. gave the female
suffrage convention. IN session IA thai
city, fareweil-Burlingto SonpareiL
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
ne Kicker BURIED.

1yogreF Il tfs fge1las a ltiz3sl-
Bury the kicker Ont Il the woods, in
a beautiful hole IN the ground, where
the bumble-bse bunbles. the woodpecker
r-ecks and the caterpillar crawis around.
He II no good II woman Of push, too in
practical. stiugy and dead: rs wants al
the bed and All al the crust. and tie
moon that shines over his head Lei
hustle him off 10 tbs pissce Of the dead
and bury him deep IN tbs ground; hss
no use 20 Us here, get him oas u the 1gy.
and make room for z man tia; = souad-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
BUT THEY ARE AN INCONSOLABLE
LOT.
From the Atchison Cham pion.

I
1t may console the equal suffragists
of Kansas to be told that Marsh Muir
docks heart is not half as bitter as his
tongue, and that his vituperation is more
in the nature of linguistic exercise than
of a deliberate purpose to assail the fair
sex. AT heart Colonel Murdoch is not as
much of a woman hater as his recent
picturesque utterances in the EAGLE
would indicate. He is all right, like the
balance of the sterner sex he will. in due
time, submit to the enevitable and take
his medicine like a nice little man.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

The Kansas City and Topeka papers
are filed with the details of the move
ment made by the Kansas municipal
stock holders to prevent the Rock Island
road. from wrecking the Chicago, Kan
sas & Nebraska through the foreclosure
process. If these enterprising papers
had kept their eyes open they would
have read the entire details in the EAGLE
two weeks ago.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
Kansas, saIl Safe.


Enposis News
You cannot eat your hare and have it
TOO. II the president cares to keep
Indiana in Republican ranks he must
quit drafting her voters 10 fill pubic
offices. There Is not state in the union
that can stand more Of that sort Of bust
ness than Kansas
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

Somebody who claimes to have been
reared on its banks write poem for the
Capital on a stream that runs through
the central part of the state and makes
two mistakes in spelling the name which
she repeats five times, and then winds
up by giving the name an improper
Specification. The name should be spelt
Marais DIES Cygnes, and it means the
marsh or lake of swans.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

Lawrence Journal: The Woman S
Social Science club meets in Wichita on
the eth and 6th of November. Reduced
rates have been obtained, and all the
Lawrence ladies, members and others
interested, are urged to attend.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
PLUMB'S LOG CABIN PROCLIVITIES

1.-THE first log cabin built by Senator
Plumb in 1856, )" says the Wichita EAGLE,
now stands on the banks of the Saline y
Oh it doese Now will the EAGLE tell us
where the other log cabins built by Sena-
tor Plumb in 1856 stands:-Emporia Re-
publican.
Candidly we don't know. We never
heard before that Plumb had ever built
log cabin on the Saline in 1886, or a
log cabin anywhere else, at any time.
Log cabin enterprise and prairie life
don't hitch. If Plumb was in either a
sod house, a shake down or log cabin
in 1856 ii was some where else besides
Kansas. We have caught Plumb at va
rious times and on different occasions
airing himself in a frame building,
spouting in a two-story brick block and
striding pompously about the marble
floors and bronze corridors of costly,
not to say guady, capitol, and therefore
any suggestion OF the Saline log cabin
racket in connection with his name or
fame is not less fresh than salty.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
Knows That Road.

PROM the ilawreRce TT95ine-
Some one sent TO the editor OF the
Wichita EAGLE a book entitled The
Road to He'll Fire" But it was clearly
not the work of any womb siIffraglsI
They all think Marsh knows that road
without a guide book.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15

Emporia Republican: Jay Gould
was in Atchison the other day and citi-
zen said to him: ''Well, how about the
shops:" ''Oh, don't talk shops" replied
Gould, talk sense"