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Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
WEST OF THE Tooth MERIDIAN

! From the Greeley, Kansas Enterprise
The citizens Of Kansas, especially the
! the western portion Of the state are
| greatly indebted to the Kansas Farmer
for the very able and scathing article il
! contained III its last issue. in reply TO q
letter recently published in the New
/ York Times written by one Frank Wilk-
erson. This letter Of Wilkerson's is only
sample of the groanings and grumblings
! that are uttered in every community by
whom nature has given week brain OF
! bad liver. such backbOneless lubricities
sometimes wriggle themselves into print
! but oftener into the penitentiary. ANY
! individual who writes that no one
can live west of the Tooth meridian
should be classed with those fossils
! that voted for Andrew jackson for pres
! ident at the last election or with those
| persons who have not realized the fact
that the war is over.
The probabilities are that Wilkeson
being unable to obtain any more money
on his property in Saline county. Kan
sas, has become the willing tool for a
few dollars Of some eastern man who is
anxious to keep money out of Kansas.
At his action we are not surprised. but
| Times, a journal LAYING some claim to
responsibility, should, through its col
umnS, SANDER state that has developed
more rapidly than any other state in the
union, state that has built a
greater number of miles of railroad
i'll the past two years than any other
state and probably a greater number
than was ever before constructed within
a ike period in any one state of the
union. A state only thirty years Of age
and yet one of the foremost of the
union.
The writer of this article has had the
good fortune or misfortune (as you like
it, Of having spent several years in sew
eral other places both in and out of the
United States, and it has never been his
experience to find a better country
where any man who is willing to take
Things as he finds them and work away
until lie puts them where he wants them
than western Kansas. 1t is true that por-
tons Of western Kansas are mort
gagged, but the same is true Of any coun-
try that has made the rapid development
that this portion Of the state has in the
last three years. Any country that takes
from fifty to seventy years TO develop
and then only partially, does not need
any mortgages; no, nor population
either-such places do not need energy,
money or anything else except a few
people who never get outside of the
smoke of their own chimneys. The loan
companies did not place their money
here to lose it, neither have the pre-
emptors or homesteaders, with very few
exceptions. borrowed it with the inten-
ton that the loan COMPANIES should have
the land. It little matters what Mr..
Wilkeson or the New York Times says,
for western Kansas, YES, and the west
ern portion Of the union viii continue to
speak for itself as it has been doing
Soon the balance Of power will swing
to the west and it has always been a
peculiar freak of capital to follow the
balance Of power.
j. U. BROWN, County Clerk.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The scheme that has been proposed to
form railroad clearing house-which is
but another name for d gigantic pool or
trust--jf permitted by the interstate com
merce law. and should be carried into
operation would have the effect. appar-
entity, Of doing away with rate cutting
between the various lines. but whether
i would lie beneficial or injurious to the
public is not so clear. However. it Is
not likely that any scheme viii be adopt
81 that could prove more harmful to the
interests Of the commerce Of the country
than the continual see-sawing Of rates
that has prevailed heretofore IN the alb
sence Of any extended and comprehen-
sive agreement. The Consuaining eff
fectS Of the law has probably had some
thing to do with setting this move or
foot. L the managers Of the various
railroad lines ana systems shall volun-
iarily agree upon. adopt and carry into
operation a general plan-of business that
viii render the law practically inopera-
tive and dispense with the Offices OF the
commissioners L viii be all the better
Cor the railroads and the public. It must
come to this; the sooner the better.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
A Convincing Portrait.

III Harry Furuiss, the wei known carl
caturis. on the staff OF Punch. tells the FOL
lowing aneodote, which amazingly illustrates
some Of the troubles Ok the harassed portrait
painter;
a man oace called upon portrait painter
and asked hin 70 paint his father.
Bat whsre is your f2therf r sssed he q tie
brush
.Oh. be did tsa years ago"
Then how can I pziu. klmT asked tie
artist
Why was the reply, Il have juss seen
yorr portrait OF EnseS SCrGiy, Il you ozn
paint the portrait q man WHO d.sd tho1-
sands Of years ago, you ccn u1ors easily paint
tie portrait Of M fatEe-, VITO has osasy bee1
dead .en ye2Ts7
Seeing tbs sort OF EAT with whcr5 be Rid
70 deal. TIE artist undertook tbs wEk
Tnea ths picture was f.--s.=i, the Sswly
blassozzsd ART patron was c2-s4 n 20 see i.
Re gzzsd e. il In sAseace for zoos rl3ss, lis
e7as fling with tears, snd thGa sotdy xzd
re-s-eatly Eaia:
so ia: Is r1y .ss5-f 81, h9w Is is
ra,ar--r@ -
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
TIE GAME OF TEN PINS.
Something Of Its Origin aud How II /
Played in America.

/ IIaJed IN America.
Bowling is an ancient and noble sport. At
al early period it was a fayorite pastime in
England. 1t was first played on the open
ground II was tie custom 10 clean 10. shave
and roll the turf and then bowl with balls
which were fat on one side 1t became 50
popular as means of sport and gambling
that during the reign of King Henry VII 1t
was prohibited by law, which was not re-
pealed until lSij
At an early period in the history Of Amer
lea il was introduced in this country and was
very popular
Every one who has been much in New York
city is familiar with the open park on lower
Broadway near the Battery. which ls stil
known 10 many as Bowling Green.
In tho historic days. waen taat part q tho
city vas New Amsterdam, this oDen sDacs
was used as pabIie bowling ground. Hence
the name.
IN more modern times the game OF bowls"
has been improved upon ana II now known
as ten pins, and rolled on alleys from if.y to
sixty-fve feet in length, made Of bard wood
and perfectly even. the pins are SIT up so
the front pin stands out alone and the pins
follow so that 1t makes a pyramid, and a
well directed ball hitting the center pin IN
the right way viii knock them Az. These
pins are Of swamp elm ard weiea abo3t JTo
aud one-haf pounds each.
The balls used are Of lruun vit-s wool,
from South America II Is ,he hardest iso13
known and IS without Il gram Iae balls
weigh from one pound to twenty, and cos
from IS 20 80 each. according u SIZE. The
pins when set up, Is described above. arc
called frame. Il ten pms there are three
frames, and the player IS allowed three balls
at each frame. II IS possible for him -
make ninety, bus twenty -sagen j. the general
average. If a man KNOCKS al 4 them down
at one roll they are reset. ard lie has three
rolls II he KNOCKS but a part Of tDe-I h
rolls at the pins remaining a large bail
rolled down the alley makes loud, ran bling
acise.
Washington Irving, in his tOaching story
OF RIP Van Wrinkle, sIluGes 70 tbs distant
nIatterinzs Of thunder rs the noise q Hem
rich Hudson and bis band playing a. ten
pins IN the CaesklIl unouotains- IL ten pins q
large OF medium bail IS generally rolled II
il runs of the alley u goes into toe gutter
and Is called poodle"
At the opposite end q the sLey : iocsted q
boy, who se:s up tbs pins HS is the stor-
nlest position Il eli, as CONS q tos va
rs'ierz sald bah donu 80 swi:tly shat L Is
pleasant 70 De 81 far away from e - T.ozss-
be Ths boy rolls back tie balls % pisysr
on a rack that looks Ike water drsin,
which is elevated fs~ feet from tae for,
and extends TIE length q It's alley.
Il Will cost s2oo % bsI.Id Aa4 sqslp sn
sIley. n lie pablo resor1s there are fsssT-
ally three alleys toge.5er, blil: s. CIT Il
s6oo Tor gaze With t~o p.aylag 20 COS.
Is 5 cents, ard sacz Additional payer
increass the coSt 5 aez.a AZ tie ED Ct
each game cAscks are gwen, god for
eeats az tie h3r.-Cl3csE1a,i Enquire.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
KANSAS KOLLAEY.

The Odd Fellows hall at Leavenworth
viii be dedicated January 25.
The Topeka Democrat dubs Burton of
Abilene the Hotspur of the present leg
| stature.
Abilene's scarlet fever patents are all
right again and no epidemic is at pres
ent raging in the city.-Re1ector.
There are s33 more Odd Fellows in
| Kansas this year than last, and still
| there We're thousands of marriages.
News.
! A lad 9-years named Wayhouse,
| broke through the ice on Stranger creek.
while skating, and was drowned IN
seven feet Of water.
We see it stated that humorous paper
| IS one of the many new ventures of the
| near future for this vicinage. Who the
/ youmoreists will be deponent didn't de-
pose.
Kansas has got to be the ''salt of the
earth" and now let US predict that the
end of another crop year she will also be
I the fiat OF The land. Tribune Enter
| prise.
SIS leap year a failure:" is the ques-
tion that now occupies the officials,
clergy and society folk of Labette coun-
ty. Only 30 marriage licenses We're
issued in that county last year, against
$50 the year before.
They say you can always tell Enlporia
people at the theater because they are 50
well bred. No Emporian was ever known
to ask the loan Of strangers opera
glass. This, from the Topeka Journal,
Is dead give away on the theater-goers
Of that town. Eli:
The Republican says that one of Sa-
iina's largest business houses is about to
leave that quiet city, or at least so out
OF business, alleging as reason that
they can do better in a manufacturing
town. They should visit Wichita if they
decide upon the latter course.
Having lightened the city's exchequer
as far as was deemed prudent, by that
means the council of OSwego decided TO
Tighten the expenses of the municipality
by dispensing with the services of the
electric light plant for lighting the
streets. They have been in the dark
since January /.
The cattle case of Landes brothers will
tOlnC Vi DtIOIS IItIlICh tOul
Anthony this week. This case involves
some $27, 600, and promises to be rich,
rare and racy. Some two thousand head
of cattle are now III the hands Of the
sheriff. who has them on the range west
Of Anthony.-Harper Republican.
The circuit court Of Dickinson county
has been monopolized for several
days by a sensational suit, the parties to
which are Seeds and Peck, and it seems
they are having hard time of it i'll ar
irving at conclusion. In other words
it is giving the court Peck of trouble,
and if the Seeds for future trouble are
not planted in the trial it will be Won
der
The Harper Daily Republican is the
latest Journalistic venture in southern
Kansas. Its editor is NJ. A. Hull form
erly editor OF the Kingman Evening
News; a newspaper man of experience
and ability. The Daily Republican makes
a very clever start as reflex of the daily
transpirings in that vicinity. The sue
cess, financially, of the undertaking
would seem TO be question Of ability on
the part of the community to sustain 1t,
and not Of merit of the paper.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
CROP STATISTICS.

Secretary Mohlor, of the state board OF
agriculture, has just prepared an inter
esting series of comparative tables cover
ing the period from 1882 to 1888, inclu-
sive, showing the general average of the
corn, wheat and oat crops of Kansas,
Illinois and Indiana per acre.
The general average of the wheat crop
for the years named is as follows: Kan
sas, 14.3 bushels: Illinois, 1878 bushels:
Indiana, 1873 bushels.
CorH-Kansas, 20 bushels; Illinois, q
bushels: Indiana, 80 bushels.
Oats-Kansas, 80 bushels; Illinois, 81. 9
bushels; Indiana, 2S3 bushels.
Secretary Mohler has also prepared
tables showing the general average OF
the wheat, corn and oats crops during
the seven years named in the eastern,
central and western belts of Kansas.
The general average for the eastern
belt, which comprises the twenty-five
counties east OF the 91th meridian, is as
follows: Wheat, 1914 bushels; corn, % 2;
oats. 800.
Western belt, east of the Tooth NERD
ian: Wheat, 1913; corn 1913: oats, 27.4.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The ministers of Topeka are taking a
view OF the inaugural festivities that is
Unqucstjonahiy right view. While they
do not raise aHE objection against the
dancing. they are firnly opposed to the
dealing out OF liquor in the rooms ada
cent 20 the ball room.-Stale journal
The ministers of Topeka or any other
town make themselves subjects of IN
complimentary though just criticism
whenever they NEEDLE with such mat
tiers. The social features Of the inau-
Euration are purely local, and it would
BE- the most arrogant assumption on the
part OF the president-elecJ or any other
outsider 10 undertake to dictate the de
tails Of such events. Procrustian beds
may be proper things in some places.
bat TO our notion the time and place
mentioned Is not one of them. This is
not 10 be construed. however, as an en-
Gorsemcnt by the EAGLE Of the drink
ing feature Of the inaugural ball. or
elsewhere, as for that.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The blacklist. the most ungrateful, the
Host llagrant piece Of high-handed polit-
jcaI usurpation that ever dIsgraced this
country. Of which the records furnish
any evidence, and at the same time the
most outrageous back-hanGed slap that
the spirit OF civil service reform ever
received. was the removal of Postmaster
Shelly, Of Kansas City, by Grover
Cleveland president Of the United
States. If the spirit Of manhood of
Kansas City has not been entirely obliter-
ated or submerged by commercial greed.
the men who persuaded Cleveland to
that act VIII be politically buried out of
sight, and forever.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The san Francisco chamber Of COM
mercs has adopted memorial to con
gress denouncing the aggressive action
of the German government in the Sa-
moan Islands as destructive to American
interests and cruel to American resi-
dents there. The memorial urges con-
gress TO adopt decided policy. and sug-
gests that course of lnaction at this
time in Samoan affairs will result in the
same aggressive policy by Germany in
regard to the Hawaiian Islands. The
San Francisco papers also urge that steps
be taken to protect the interests Of citizens
upon the islands. call upon the govern
ment TO send two or more war vessels 10
the Samoan Islands.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
NOlIIDtf.

Tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
suggests the taking of the national cen
sus every five years instead Of ten as at
present. With the scope Of the data
now embraced in the work. such
change would be next to impossible,
wholly so unless the working force of
the bureau should be more than doubled.
- AS it Is. the report is not completed
within the period intended to be covered
thereby, and to shorten the time, ii
seems to us, would only serve to com
!licate matters. Besides. most of the
Information embraced III the census re-
port is gathered every year or two by
,he different states, and this being given
10 public OBJ, ties the necessity for the
work to be done by the government Of
tener than every ten wears.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
THE NEW KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

The EAGLES assertion made soon after
the election, that the Kansas legislature
this winter would be found to be com
posed of men who would have very lit
tie use for the old methods and old in
fuences in this state, has begun to dawn
on some people as fact. The members
! of the present senate and house, almost
every one of them, We're elected in spite
Of the combined opposition of the Third
! party cranks, the Greenback, and Union
! Laborites and the Democratic parties:
consequently neither body is under obi
CATION to any single political element
other than to the party that nominated,
elected and honored them. But the
party that elected them viii not be on
hand to bore or bulldoze. Nine out Of
ten of the supposed influential represent
atives who viii be at Topeka TO guide
legislation, and whose influence viii be
felt through the older members, If
traced up and tracked down will be
found to have been untrue TO the party
nominations last fall. 1t is always 50.
The last three or four legislative bodies
Of Kansas have been utterly controlled
by un-Republican influences, by politi-
cal tramps, petticoated dead-beats, etc.
AS result the men who constituted the
legislatures referred to have been Shelved.
The present membership if they but
steer clear of these influences will re-
ceive the welcome plaudit and acclaim
Of their party well done, etc, ether
wise not.
As young as Kansas is as 4 state there
is nevertheless a new Kansas and an old
Kansas. The new Kansas will be on top
in the near future, and the old Kansan
who desires TO remain on top VIII be
compelled to yield to the new methods.
The west half of Kansas is just as new
today as the east half OF Kansas was
twenty-five years ago, but its a different
new" and viii want different laws and
different treatment from that demanded
by the old Kansas when it was new.
Then the old half OF Kansas has, also,
reached new conditions, and 80 de-
mandS different treatment from the
old. Kansas has three or four greater
cities than she expected within the pres
ent generation. and the old laws do not
meet the necessities OF their cases. The
old assessment methods are no longer
adequate OF just, etc., etc. In short, we
hope to see this new legislature com
posed as it is of almost an entirely new
eIemet, rise to the exegencies Of the oc-
casion and to the demands OF the new
conditions, cutting loose from the old
precedents and ignoring thea domination
of the old crowd.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The governors message was delivered
yesterday afternoon and VIII be found IL
full in cur telegraph columns. The doc
ument upon the whole is business like
affair. especially the reviewing portions.
which we think are entitled to COM
mendation as state paper. not only fer
their comprehensivenesS but eviden;
falthiulness. His Recommendation that
the attorney general be vested with ex-
traordinary and unusual powers Is OF
questionable wisdom. Such legislation
does not tend 10 moral elevation and is
OF kind that Governor Martin did nos
nor would put upon his own home town
where the local conditions made 1t mere
imperative than in any town IN the state
save Leavenwor,h and Kansas City
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
BEFORE VIZ MAKE OUR INVENTORY
we DESIRE TO
Reduce Our Immense Stock!
Winter and Surplus Dry Goods
Prices will be Horribly Cut
and Mutilated.
Dress Goods Department.
This is the reduction

Black Faile
Reduced cts IS s.42, $L69, $L9A
Regular $i.51 5000,
Black Reduced
SlS 81 s. s. 49, SAL Regular P50 50
Imported Black Rhaomes Reduced Prc-S19
Regular Pice-S1.50 $1.75, 81, S225
best style and finish
imported Partisan novelty patterns stylish
SIS
Special Madame Tes viii make of these
GoodW
miscellaneous lines puar dress fabrics cheap
Price, 70
Ask for
unvaled Black in
line All our Black goods manufactured By the world prey
Acknowledged critical Color,
Buy other and be pleased
Special Noce2iadame Tibbett win So $40
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

General Alger celebrated Christmas b.
taking zoo Of DeJroit's newsboys and
purchasing a suit Of clothes for each. In
addition he sent handsome cash dona-
lions with which to provide Christmas
cheer for the state reformatory institu-
lions thaJ provide for boys and girls, for
dependant children, and for The deaf.
dumb and blind, and also TO the inmates
aa old Soldiers Home lie has also
Gun thc distribution Of coal. flour and
other necessaues Of lie 10 1,5O0 needy
families. And he goes about ali these
acts Of benefaction as if it We're but the
performance OF duties IN which hefound
delight, without SO much as a thought
whether the world should ever know Of
It or not. In his case il may truly be
said that
Peace hath its victories not less renown-
% than war;
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
Appreciated Discrimination.

Har! g. Daily Republican.
A great deal is being talked, written
and said OF Marsh 4lurdock, Of the
Wichita Eagle, by class Of 2x4 men
and newspapers. The Republican would
mildly call the attention Of these fault
finders to the fact that Marsh Murdock
has built UP one of the grandest cities in
the west-callcd Wichita-and IS today
doing as much for Kansas as any one in
the state. 4 little more work from these
''kickers' and net quite so much blow"
would make the efforts Of such men as
". II. 4Iurdock easier and make Kansas
q Craater STATE.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

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IS a remedy IA pulmonary zFee$lgns have
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great 1zz1y n It's szn21rhacsoszs plaz-z. Z
aot 81, as cz1es T4as - lscAe. aid tssir
ssses are 6.vevs-- Tie Ia.e1zns q tae e1saS.
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IuSo t1s Tz.e-. VIA S5s Gss. s.xpeSss, Esae
20 70 szTtsce- Tie prizcipai gss Ez-so.s
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Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The Wichita EAGLE issues a Sunday
supplement printed in German. Ii has
aroused the suspicious OF native w ichi-
tans. They are afraid Marsh is telling
tales about them for the benefit OF the
newer elite of the city.-kansas City Star.
The German is the court language of
our city and vies with the French for
ascendency in our society circles, liter
ury clubs and universities The many
slips in the English rs she is writ, which
the critical observer may have noticed
in these columns, is wholly attributable
TO the TACT Of our giving SO much atten-
ton to The foreign languages. Our Ger
man page, for instance, VIII be found a
model of clean Dutch and the standard
approved at the court Of Kaiser Bill, the
1-g1Ipp-l3
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10

The chances for securing = good job
after the fourth OF March seems 10 be
more fattering for Secretary-of-State
Bayard than any other member of the
administration. His way back into the
senate, from which body lie went into
3lr. Cleveland's cabinet. is practically
unobstructed, the majority party in the
Delaware Legislature having already de-
termined to give him the present sena-
tors (Saulsbury'sl place whose term ex-
pires on the fourth OF March. Il Is no
injustice TO him TO remark that he car
ried with him out Of the senate greater
credit for statecraft than he viii return
with.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
TIE LANE AND ROBINSON FIGHT.

Can it be possible that only the evil jim
Lane did remains after him, and the good
was inferred with his bones? SO far as
heard from not friend nor newspaper has
said Il word in his defense since eX-Gov-
ernor Robinson impeachedhis character at
Leavenworth about ten days ago.-Empo-
ria News.
Jim Lane is dead He want no
saint" when living, perhaps, but he was
the man of the times for Kansas. I'm
der the turbulent conditions of those
years one who would have drawn a
closer distinction between right methods
and wrong might have failed. What
ever jim Lane may have been, it was
well for Kansas that he was here in
the crisis. His virtues and his fail
ings are well known. Nothing that
Governor Robinson can say or do Will
change his place III history. Governor
Robinsons grievance against Lane
forms 70 important part OF that history.
lie is now a very old man, and the press
of Kansas is treating him with patience
and kindness: that is all. He became
Democrat because Jin Lane was "a Re
publican and for this he hates his mem
ory.-Emporia Republican.
Yes. Robinson is old and his last attack
on Lanes memory VIII probably and
sure enough be the last We knew them
both, and wei. Robinson had the sin
cerest heart and was the most honest
man of the two, but rs Il leader of men
Lane has never had his equal on Kansas
soil. Lane reached the station that Rob
inson had hoped for. But Kansas has
long since lost all interest in the Robin
son-Lane fight.