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Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
have axerted themselves

to have exerted themselves and
brought all the cars in their service
into the field, and yet they are unable to
meet the demand. The shippers are still
crying. not for better facilities, but for
any facilities at all. They are willing
in the present extremity to accept any
sort Of cars. To get to market at al! Is
their desire. That they do not seem able
to do.
A Topeka dispatch says: $50 heavy is
the shipment of corn and wheat that the
railroads are simply unable to handle 1t.
Consider these words. What story OF
abundance they tell. Egypt, when Its
soil was fresh and new, was never such
granary of plenty as is the young state OF
Kansas today. The dispatch continues
with these marvellous words: 'Several OF
the farmers who write to complain OF an
inability to get TO market say that they
have been obliged to pile up their corn
along the railroad track and wait days
and days for cars" No other language
is needed to point the great stores OF the
state.
If it be good garden, orchard, farm
ing, or stock country which immigrants
are seeking, they need go no further
west than Kansas. They may settle
there; ''tickle the ground with the hoe,
abide their time and soon realize an
abundance of which they never before
dreamed.
The land of plenty is here in the Mis-
souri, valley. Come in and possess 1t. -
Globe
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
LOST HIS HEAD TOO EASILY.

Marsh Murdoch is generally believed to
be getting pretty tired of the company he
fl nds himself in in the resubmission camp.
Doc Munford and Windy Tomlinson, with
all the ragtag and bobtail of the saloon
Democratic party, are not just to the taste
of the fastidious Marsh. Marsh himself is
a pretty fair sort of fellow in many re-
spects; far above either the maudlin
drunkard of the Kansas City Times or the
windbag of the Topeka Democrat. Like
some other Republicans of the state, Marsh
was driven into panic by a local wind
storm and imagined a mighty hurricane
was sweeping over the whole state. Now
that the dust has settled he begins TO see
his mistake It's a great pity, Marsh, but
no man who loses his head so easily, can
ever become ii leader in Kansas.-Leaven-
worth Times.
Dear Colonel, the EAGLE prides itself
on being a reflector of public opinion
rather than on being leader; more upon
its sympathy with the strong pulsings of
the great public heart than pluming itself
as an intellectual director or mental die
tator. There was ''local windstorm,"
the character of which wrs unmistaka-
bic. Showing no signs of abatement,
and having its origin at a center, its force
will carry it to the uttermost bounds.
We reprint your rebuke, dear Colonel,
not SO much to reply to it as to reproduce
it next June or July, when it will not
only read different, but when it will
leave the editor of the EAGLE in diff
ferent light altogether.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
IT MEANS ABUNDANCE.

\ loud cry of a car famine comes up
from Kansas, This does not mean that
the railroads penetrating the state have
been remiss IN providing means Of trans
portation, but it does mean that the
abundance in the state has temporarily
exceeded the carrying facilities OF the
railroads.
Those who were not out into the state
during harvest time have no conception
of the prodigal yield of the earth in
Kansas this year. Everything that was
planted produced abundantly. Fields,
gardens and orchards did their best.
Soil and climate made all the conditions
favorable. There was no disapDoint-
ment anywhere. All along the line plenty
was the rule. Scarcity existed no
where.
The complaint of the car famine is not
local, confined 10 one town, to one
county or to one railroad. II exists
generally against all the railroads and at
nearly every shipping point. True.
there are some complaints that the rail-
roads are discriminating il favor Of ele-
vators, but. SIS rule, it Is the abundance
of the product which baIks them and
causes the freight blockade. Never in
the history of the state has there been
so heavy a freight traffic as at the
present time. The railroads seem
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
A NEW WATER ROUTE FOR
WICHITA.

The esteemed Kansas City Times hav-
ing demonstrated the navagability of
the Missouri for all class of steamers,
has now turned It's attention to the Kaw.
This becomes a very important matter
to Wichita, and this city should imnledi-
ately turn its attention to choice of
river ports. If Topeka should be chosen,
sixty miles of rail transportation would
be saved. Think of it, sixty miles. The
principal difficulty with Topeka as our
port. however, would be that IN less
time than the shipper could find switch
room the whole train might be landed at
Kansas City. Salina or Abilene seems
to offer the best inducement. At either
of the latter places neither switches or
elevators would be required as the corn
could be dumped directly into the water
and floated, to be skinned up by the
first steamboat which should encounter
it on its ''up trip" Corn floats readily
and in such an unincumbered way would
not be liable to run aground. a foul of
snag or stick on a bar. However. if 1T
did it would be no great loss at IA cents
a bushel. The enterprise of the Times Is
simply marvellous and we hope to see its
scheme for navigating the Kaw properly
encouraged.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Reno City can boast of the best school in
Oklahoma and so can all the other towns.
The winter wheat in Oklahoma is grow
ing and by the way, so is the patch In the
farmers breaches.
The mail matter at Hennessy is increas-
ing wonderfully. They had to add anoth
er cigar box to the postoiiice just the other
day.
Oklahoma may console itself with the
fact that if all its game is gone next year.
it will have the Salvation army for amuse-
ment.
Reno CITY will celebrate Christmas with
herse-raCing aud an Indian dance. THIS
wouldn't happen any place outside of Ok
lahoma.
They drink hot lemonade for the most
part at Reno City, bHt when man speaks
softly about the fpsHbmissiuh movement
up ia Kansas they know what he wants
fhe farmers near Guthrie are efsahis-
lug Regulation Orders Ia various toWh-
shifs and promise 10 maze 1t bot aud
dangerous Tor uAsefupuleHs contestants
Speaking IF The game trade, many an
Oh laheas IaMilS'a subsistence taksa
WIngs aha Iliez away, unless the head ef a
family has good gun aAd kbeNs how tu
haAt
II tho Guthrie News voices him, Mitt'
Reynolds has decided 90 Leo the other iel-
lows have the gubsTnateFial Eiufiea, While
be assumes the q, so bufdeA ~ Terrific
rial secretary,
Cars on the Reek Island read can now
run 10 CAddo springs. four lniles fTeM
Reno. About week a waTk remains e. ne
done in the cut al that place before track
laying eau proceed,
At Purcell during the past week the cot
4 araa k.aa q
ious receipts ~ bales, making Ia all u-a
The price paid Ia bales Is from g - 10
- IS per hundred pounds
This warm weather is God send 70 Ok
iahoma IL IL lad been cold people would
have been compelled 20 wrap their pumps
with cid clothes 10 keep them from fFec.-
ing, and there are lots OF people In OKLA
homa who haven't gCt the old clothes.
Reno City Eagle \ large vein Of coal
was q severed last saturday on the north
east quarter Of section :, i've miles south
east Of this city: II Is probobls that sev,.
erAl sections OF laur IN uaat vicinity VIII
be classsd a. coal land, IN which event the
government price will De slO per acre IL
stead OF the usual homestead fees
Guthrie News: Mr. Manly Thomas. o.
the Guthrie saw mill, has brought 10 this
Office piec. Of al elm log which lie says
Is only q fair sample 81 many such as are
brought 10 the saw mill.
The grovths OF each year are clearly
marked By the white ridges and tell IaOi
clearly than words the history Of years q
plenty auc tie years of want And this =
what the record shows.
The last four years have been prosperous
for Ihis tree. tie Rails have fallen and the
elm has grown Rad prospered az the fa6aed
green bay" then tasre was dry season,
a small gr3vth only was added Before
that there were years OF great growth
phenomenal growth-so Mr. Thomas tells
"a, growth that : rarely found in all elm
as old and large swo feet as tsis e.e was
st iha; time his tree proves beyond
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
A MIRACULOUS SCIENCE.

E. F. Wilson, of London, relative OF
the late DR.. Erastus Wilson, who in his
time was considered the greatest medi-
cal authority alive upon the skin and
scalp, is visiting friends in New York.
In speaking of the life work of his dis
tlnguished relative, he said the other
night.
ut is odd how there is revolution in
almost every field of thought. Within
my memory DR.. Wilson was the great
est authority in his speciality, and
physicians of every land sought his
advice and professional skill. Nowadays
things have changed, and the United
States stand first in dermatology. You
are at least ten years ahead OF us IN this
science. | knew of the advances which
had been made here; but never realized
their extent until | came over and saw
for myself what was being done. In the
removal of birth marks, moies, wens
and tumors by electricity, you have got
the whole business down to 50 fine a
point as to border upon the miraculous.
l saw a pretty girl, half of whose face
was covered by scarlet birth mark, and
witnessed the operations upon her, ali or
which were painless, and finally saw her
with a normal face without
mark or blemsh. Since l have been
here, have also seen what was more re-
markable, the removal of scars from the
face, shoulders and arms. In one in
stance, a very beautiful woman was the
patient. In her childhood, she had fall
len from the window upon fence and
had cut her cheek from mouth to ear
The wound healed, but left livid fur
row that was very distiguring. Within
two weeks from the time she under
went surgical treatment, the valley had
been filled with new flesh and skin, and
only a grayish line was left to indicate
where there had been a terrible blem-
ish.'
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
4 sword with = Histary.

The sultan presented Emperor William
with the famous sabar Of Sultan Nurad ",
which originally belonged 70 Emperor Fred
eTie< Of Hapsbarg, who reisHed during the
early part Of the Fcurteesth century. Ii Is q
cross handled sword OF great length, with
handle ana sheath Of solid silver, superbly
chased. The Damascus blade Is engraved
with German inscriptions, and tie imperial
eagle Is carved upon the handle. In the SIX
tenth century tie ss5ar, which WAS sn her
loom IN tAs Hapsburg fatally, vas given by
Emperor Matthias to Count HUnyadi Of tkat
dsy, who was killed in ozttle fighting sgsius-
the Turks, who captured the weapon Fer
more than 500 years il has ben prominent
object il me imperial arsnory CT CONSTANT
uop.e-Excesaxs
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
Kansas nor RaauhmisEien,

From the fePeEs Democrat
\ prominent business Republican, who
has Just been making a tour or western
and Central Kansas, dropped into our
sanetum yesterday 10 subscribe for the
great Tesubmission daily, Among other
things, he said; kansas is everwhelm-
ingiv for Fesubmission, II Is especially
strong in the north, east, south aud west
wherever | have been, and have been
pretty much over the state--l find the
resubmission question the paramount
lanic Of conversation among all classes.
/ believe that Kansas Is against prohibit
ton today by at least ten TO one, Even
the editors of Republican newspapers,
who are presumably for prohibition,
will tell you in private that the law Is a
fraud and a humbug and that they don
believe IN IT. The people
are all arrayed against the farce. and re-
submission WI sweep the state at the
tIrst opportunity.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
Fdison kansas, GREAT Benefactor.

Edison Kansas Great Benefactor.
From the Atchison champion.
To Thomas A. Edison, the worlds
greatest inventor. may be credited the
largely incteased uses to which zinc is
now being applied, especially in this
country, BY his numerous Inventions
all of practical use-the demand for zine.
and consequently zine ote, has nearly
ttebled within the past ak years, 1t is
this that makes aiAe ihihes=tAe largest
and most productive Of which ate to be
found in southeastern Kansas and south
western Missoufi=mefe valuable, con
s.defhg the capital required to own and
operate them, aud more profitable than
the gold and silver mines OF Colorado
aud california,
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

question that most Of the last twenty
years In Oklahoma have been good ones
FOR growth of vegetation, ahd ohy Two Or
tbrsa ,eara oF drouth have occurred in all
that time We do not believe this record
js srfpasssd by any state In the union aud
doubt If II has been saualled.
surely this IL fertile country, AMI the
more these facts are brought cat the more
clearly iz this fact demonstrated
The News gives the following chart, EiN-
iAE "a neatly "a possible the amount ~ the
yafieus srawths Fat the laat few Ssats,
which q az IglieWa.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
Ed Solomon's Dirty.

From the Black Cat.
Edward Solomon, erratic second hus-
band of Lillian Russell, has been keeping
very quiet lately. The last | heard of
him was when they told Us he had
written those unreeling lines;
Oh, woman of immortal awe,
Mother-in-law
Oh, creature of prodigious jaw.
Mother-in-lawl
Wherefore dost thou linger?
Composer and singer
Would gladly hail thy flight
To cerulean light,
Muther-in-law.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
Why Solomon Was Not Happy.

From the washington POST.
Doctor Talmage preached sermon in
Jerusalem last Sunday, and, Abiding to
King Solomon's riches, said. 'lf wealth
and wisdom could have satisfied a man,
Solomon would have been satisfied. He
had at his command gold to the value of
$3.50, 000,0Q0, and silver to the value of
81 ,029, 200, ST." yet Solomon was not
happy. The good doctor doesn't inform
us why Solomon was not happy; but one
source of his wretchedness probably was
that he had six billion dollars worth of
his silver stacked up in his treasury.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

What IS the matter with that institu-
ton at Lawrence known as the Univer-
sity of Kansas, and which is supported
so lavishly by state appropriations? Its
management not only slaps Kansas in
the alphabetically speaking. but, John
7. st. John, who is the friend of no
party in Kansas, who for truth is
thoroughly hated by both parties, is &C
copied and listened to as lecturer, and
as a lecturer on political principles.
That university is another institution
which the "new DEAF will be compelled
to reorganize.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

THE resubmissionists don't have 1t quite
all their own way in Wichita. A preacher
has been appointed postmaster there
Emporia Republican.
Whenever a Republican paper relies
upon Democratic paper for its political
news it never fails of getting its foot in
to if. There has been no postmaster
appointed for Wichita.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The st. Louis Milling Journal, under
the head "Hurrah for Kansas" writes an
article on the superior prices and de-
mand for our -four in Liverpool over
Minneapolis flour, which takes second
place. The demand for the Kansas ar
ticle is quoted at good while Minneap-
oils flour is placed at ''fair," with diff
ference of seven cents in favor of the
Kansas product.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The death of the husband of Patti, the
prima donna, was announced Sunday
morning. She has just arrived, and the
society public are curious to know
whether she will follow the example of
honest Emma Abbott and give a week to
mourning for her lord, the marquis, or
conform to society's demands and don
the weeds for longer term.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The thermometer in this latitude must
be in league with the sure-enough, practi-
cal prohibitionists. We have been
promised change three different times
within a week and still it refuses to take
a drop.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

A Washington correspondent says that
Fred Douglas has queer theory regard
ing the future of the American negroes.
He is himself three-fourths white, and
he believes that the races will in the end
amalgamate, and that "the strains of
white and black blood will flow peace
bly, under the same skin. If the process
of bleaching rs carried on back in Fred's
early day and for quarter of a century,
had been kept up at the rate that OBJ
tanned during that period, his theory
might prove correct in thousand years
or so: but that would be too slow for a
satisfactory solution of the vexed prob
lem of what is to become of the negro.
But the changing conditions dating back
twenty-five years has practically put a
stop the bleaching process. fred's
theory is n q.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

Not the least attractive feature to the
Oklahoma district of the territory is its
educational institutions. Already 1t
boasts of twenty-nine schools, thirty
eight churches and twenty-five news
papers.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

Hog cholera, ST. John and resubmission
is what ais Kansas now.-Salina Repuol-
can.
If the first two first are as virulent and
widespread as the latter ailment, the Sit
uation is alarmingly critical.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The published statement credited to
President Marvel that the headquarters
of the Santa Fe hallway system would
probably be removed to Topeka has set
that town all agog. How she will blow
if the announcement materializes into
an actually. But she is not blame
worthy for her exuberance; it will be
the biggest thing aside from being the
state capital that has ever come to her.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The kihgman Democrat Ia engaged in
getting NJ corn exhibit, samples of the
product Of kihgmah county fef the eur
tent year. embracing every variety
grown, together vi ia time Of planting,
character of soil, manner If cultivation,
date of maturity, etc, When complete
tho exhibit will hs interesting aud
valuable to the fafmers, "a 1t will give
them a number Of points worth con
aidering in planning and preparing for
another crop The Democrat has com
plimented the EAGLE with photograph
of the sample zoo IN as IL now appears,
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The papers which are reproducing
what the EAGLE said four, six and eight
years ago touching prohibition, for the
purpose of showing that we were never
sound on the goose are proving too
much. They are simply demonstrating
to their readers that our judgment as to
what would happen was correct. Divest
the reader of these reproductions of all
prejudice and he simply finds himself
reading political prophecy.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Stuck on the Message.

From the Greeley News.
The fellows that run our branch house
at Kansas City were evidently on a
drunk this week. They sent US supple
ments containing the president message
last week, and here it comes on the
inside of the News again this week. We
have written to the house requesting
them not to continue the publication of
the message more than three or four
months
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

1t snoweS very hard in the Wichita
EAGLE Office the day that the Lawrence
Tribune took tumble to prohibition
Kansas City Star.
But judicious application of alcohol
saved our pipes.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

Nobody blames the Mississippi officials
for iealously guarding the honor of their
state at all times and in every way nee
essary. but it cannot but strike the aver
age citizen of other states that the said
honor is of rather peculiar sort when
it requires the rigid enforcement of the
full penalty of violated law in one case,
and in another in which the offender is
particeps criminis with the first, is salts
fled with the minimum penalty. Kill
rain may not be "a good a man. phys
ieailv and fisticalv. as Sullivan, but he
is certainly az bad morally, Perhaps If
John l.. could have had his hearing de-
fefred until now he might have Jared as
we'll as Jake There ia good deal in
taking people when they are in the
humof
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
t.s..n,.si. even.

"Ah. Mr Wealthy. | SEQ your soa
is home from ths south How dad bo
Hsar % down thrref'
Poorly. very poorly
I'm sorry Tor that What did be
60 into in the way ~ faHniagf
II think be hqwed Wild oatA tof Ito
frat wear. aud raised Gain Tie neat
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

"You arr little daisy. ais. % oh
served a Woodward avenue druggist
to a girl Of 8 who bad promptly given
an order comprising five or sis arti-
cles
"No. / sin't, she sharply replied.
Why noti'
because boy offered inc whole
big basket ~ daisies last spring iur
FIVE rrnja Thry arp cheaper than
carrots Detroit Efse Iruss
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

NIX D>h Ut FnVoEh-
J1css-Is tes-e any .rHtk Il tie szxgrS
Ten Ia; yo7 EAse srer committed .SsEsTy,
Pasintis-I Ee~sr kaTe kny ssorv tean 700
Esys
Jgdge-Tra; u nst si.sge-ber . rsy tss-
ufte an<-er- d~ugbe- n oc1-f. vEseh wa
ra1@d1A.ssT III presseA E-gE11
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

Mt i. II. Armour. prepared and had
printed statement for the benefit Of tho
senate investigating committee, IN
which lac says that the cattle
iaisefs -of the Argentine republic
hfe suffering IN greater degtpe from
oeefpfoduetioh eF cattle than are enf
own, which, I've alleges, is the main
eause er depression ia prices here, The
absence " home market there, such "a
Wa have here, affords a ready eSpiana=
tier et The depression there, ilut tho
conditions are different in another 40.
sPeet, With population of about a.
uon,non IA Argentine they have nearly
ehWn, 600 herd af cattle aud h,Anh GOA
sheep, OF seVan Ut the one aud nearly
twenty seven at the other, while in the
United States there is less than one head
Of cattle per capita, From these figures
The comparison does not afford a very
satisfactory explanation, though the
question of oyerproduotion here no
doubt las much t. do with the price.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The piece q log from which Mr.. Thomas
cut this specimen caa bS see. ~ ,he News
ofice-
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

The announcement sent out from
Meade City through the dispatches a few
days ago in regard 10 certain fraudulent
practices in connection with the sugar
works at that place seems 10 have had
good foundation of facts 4 number of
citizens Of that city and county who are
interested IN the operations of the mill
have made public full statement of the
matter and sent ii out broadcast, accom-
panied by afhdavits of several persons
cognizant of the facts. This prompt ex-
pose of the fraud practiced in the Meade
mill, placing the responsibility therefor
where 1t belongs, eNonerateS all others
connected with the mill enterprise from
any participation in the fraud. they be-
ing Ignorant of the deception, and al
the same time gives timely warning 10
other communities and individuals
thereby preventing them from becoming
victims of similar impositions The real
sugar industry of the section and stale
will not be injured by this expose. but il
Will unquestionably cause greater care
on the part of new communities of tax
ing hold of new schemes that promise
wonders.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

papers.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17

a drop.