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Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

By the explosion of gasoline stove
Miss Maggie Badilion was severely
burned in Winfield Monday evening.
The Kanopoiis WOODEN mills will start
up the first of the month, with the ex-
pectation of webbing it along until cold
weather sets in.
Seward county corn is now foot high
and it don't take very big stretch of
imagination to see ears Of corn over a
foot long.-Springfeld Republican
The water WORKS system at Springfield
will be completed by the first of August.
The Republican says it will be the most
complete system in that part of the
state
Chickens in the garden" is the new
game in Wellington. Pigs in the
clover costs fifteen cents, but the Wei
hngton game cost John Anderson $3.50.
-Mocking Bird.
1t is curious fact that a large pro-
portion of the women in Kansas who
regard marriage failure, have no hus-
bands. Whether they never had, or had
and now haven't, the statician he never
said.
The Abilene school board are rastling
with the superintendent of city schools
question. The Reflector says one hun
bred and five ballots have already been
taken and there is as little prospect of a
break as ever.
Monday morning at about half-past 8
o'clock the residence building, two
story frame, occupied by j. M. Semans,
at Oxford, Sumner county, was con-
sumed by fire. The sleeping inmates
only awakened in time to safely make
their escape.
There is movement springing up In
the Second congressional district In
Kansas which points to George I. An
thony as the successor of Farmer Fun
ston. If the fight should hinge on a
question of lungs Anthony would stand
very slim show.
At church fair recently held in Sa-
lima, this state, they blind-folded the
men and let 'em kiss the women at 10
cents apiece. One man kissed his wife
seven times, and when he ascertained
the base deception he demanded the re-
turn of the money and got it.
The rain of Thursday night of last
week was very heavy about here, cauS-
ing the Little Arkansas river to rise
higher than ii has for several years past.
A number of bridges were swept away
in the counties above, but no serious
domago was done in this vicinity. Hal
stead Independent.
The burglars and robbers ban that
has been upon Abilene for some time
seems to have been broken. Monday
night gritty citizen responded to the
demand ''hapds up" by pulling his pop,
whereupon the night hawk turned and
flew away in the darkness. The pluck
Of the citizen is commendable, only he
failed to send an inquisitive bullet after
the fugitive, as he ought.
''The Hermes." Hugoton, Stevens
county, Kan, says that Sam Robinson,
Bert Noble and A. d. King are under
arrest in Colorado Springs, Col, for rob-
hing postoffice and store in Fiorissant,
Col. Another man who was in COM
pany with them, by the name of Thomp-
son, of Trinidad, was killed while trying
to escape after the robbery. 1t Will be
remembered that the men Robinson,
Noble and King We're with the Hugoton
party whrn they murdered the Stevens
county sheriff and his posse at Wild
Horse lake. Robinson being the one
that killed Sheriff Cross, Hubbard, Eaton
and Wilcox.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
A CENTER OF INFLUENCE.

The university and Church is the
name of new publication making its
appearance this month in the interest Of
the Wichita University and the Re-
formed church. The neat little four
column folio is printed in clear type on
book paper, and is conducted and edited
by Rev. J. W. Love. Motto: LET There
Be Light" twenty-five cents 4 year. The
first editorial we quote:
Wichita is center of trade and COM
merclal importance, and, per conse-
Quence, of religious influence as we'll
With twenty-siX church organizations.
with two universities. four colleges and
high grade schools now in successful op-
Grafton, and mere TO follow, all in the in
terest of Christian education, Wichita
will make her influence heard far and
wide. From this commercial and relig-
ious center the churches will reach out to
the surrounding country, especially TO
the south and southwest. In this view
ii is important to strengthen and firmly
establish the Reformed church in this
large and growing city. We have a vast
work TO do as one of the oldest and most
orthodox churches of the country. Let
US see that If is done.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
IN A NUT SHELL,

The Topeka Democrat in discussing
the distance rate matter fixed for Wich-
tia proves equal to the occasion. That
paper with the Lawrence Journal and
Salina Republican are the only papers
in the state which have grasped the sit
uation. Wichita does not care how
many of the other towns in the state
get exactly the rates granted her and
which are exactly those of Atchison,
Wyandotte and Leavenworth. Those
towns with the same rates that Kansas
City, has never hurt Kansas City. Wich-
tia has got the traffic. got the standard
minimum tonnage and it will neither
hurt Wichita nor hurt the rail-
roads to give the same rates on
the same classes to half dozen other
towns in south Kansas, for the simple
reason that those other towns don't
have the freight which demands
the rates named. A rate given Wichita
for a car load per day of sash and doors
manufactured here if given to Arkansas
City would not hurt the railroads be-
cause Arkansas City don't have the sash
and doors by the carload to ship. A
rate given Wichita on southern fruits by
the carload-and she shipped twelve
hundred cars last year-if given to
Hutchinson don't hurt the railroads be-
cause Hutchinson don't handle southern
fruits in a wholesale way. And so on
all through the rates granted to Wich-
10 nj
and Wellington all got special rates on
salt, but that doesn't hurt Wichita, be-
cause Wichita is not III the salt business.
Wichita has not attempted to deny any
body anything she has, but she does
protest against the insane fight made
upon her by smaller towns, when the
same rates would not help these smaller
towns if they had them, any more than
Atchison or Leavenworth has been
helped by having Kansas City rates.
We have now on our table
ten or fifteen columns of clippings from
state papers, the spirit of all of which is
against Kansas and her future, only be-
cause of the opportunity to kick at city
which promises more for the future than
any other city in the state. 1t is said
that a dozen towns are going TO appear
before that board on the side of the rail
road and against Wichita, unless, with
out regard to the standard or minimum
showing, they are awarded the same
rates. Let them go ahead. Wichita has
been cited by the board to appear, it
being her case, and Will probably be
there. But whether she is or not, the
commissioners, under the law, are emit
tied to the freight figures and tonnage of
every town in the state, verified by aft
davit Of the roads themselves, and
Wichita knows her position and is not
afraid 10 trust the commissioners.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

The oldest pieces Of wrought iron Cow
known are probably the sickle blade fognd
by Belzoni under the base ofs sphinx Ia
Rarpac, near Thebes; the blade found by
Colonel yyse. innbeGded Ia the masonry Of
the great pyrsmids: the portion Of o cross
cut saw exhumed at Elmrod by nr. Layard
all Of which are Tow In tbs British M
scum. A wrought bar Of Damascus steel
was presented by King Porus 70 Alexander
the Great, and the razor steel q China for
many centuries has surpassed az Enropesn
steel in temper and durability Of edge. The
Hindoes appear 10 have Dsds wrought iros
directly from tie Ore, without passing II
through the furnace from tine inmemo-
rial, aud elaborate ,. wrought masses Of iroa
are st4l found Ia India which date from
tie carly centuries q tie Christian era
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
TO THE OTHER CITIES OF KANSAS.


The EAGLE in its modest and timid
way has for years been honestly endeay-
oring to show the world, especially the
Kansas portion of it, that Wichita was
not only the greatest city in the state
but the most prosperous and wealthy.
The excess of this city's trade over that
of any other city of the state, her low
rate of taxation, being less than one-half
of that of any other city, her clearing
house reports, her railway tonnage and
many other facts and circumstances
have been cited as evidences of her lead
ing qualities and pre-eminence as city,
but like the word of God upon heed
less world, or the thunderings Of Mt.
Sinai upon the duh ears of the Hebrews,
our incontrovertable reasonings and
exhaustless data have been received only
by incredulity or by weak understand
ings. When this city even but few
weeks since, showed the railway COM
mission of the state that which had long
been known to the traffic managers,
that the car load and unbroken package
81
that Of any five cities of Kansas. Kansas
City excepted, half dozen towns un-
blushingly announced that their tonnage
was as great as that of this city. ''You
may fool all of the people part of the
time, and a part of the people all of
the time, but not all of the people all of
the time"
The EAGLE desires now to offer one
more evidence Of Wichita S
greatness and superior prosperity
which we think must convince
even incorrigible enemies. In carrying
forward her many Improvements, it be-
came necessary to issue two hundred
and fifty-fve thousand dollars of the
city's bonds for sewering purposes, the
sale Of which bonds was duly advertised
to take place in this city day before yes
terday. Nine great monetary institu-
tons We're present, by representatives,
and the bonds. which bear six per cent
interest, were sold for 81, 6S5 premium,
or the premium applied to the interest.
The city bonds of Wichita were taken by
Portland, Maine, savings institution
for less than four and one-half per cent
interest. 1t would be useless to deny
the significance of such trans
action. The credit of municipality
or individual is the only infallible stands
ard of their worth. Wichita's credit is
greater than that OF any other city of
Kansas in the open markets Of the
or pretentions upon the other, by towns
who claim to be either as great or as
prosperous as Wichita, will avail to do
away with the fact that, measured by
the financial worlds standard, Wichita
IS worth more and is greater than any
other city in Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

A case has just been tried and decided
in the Kansas City courts which constl-
tutes an exception to the rule Of the
potentlality of money in covering up
rascality. The Star tells of a man who
attempted to defraud the wealthy Wy
andotte Indian, Matthias Spiitlog, and
who has Just been sentenced to three
years imprisonment. His name Is
Moses w. Clay and he sold to the Chi
cago, Rock Island q Pacific Railway
company, for $4,000, and to j. T. Nc
Elheny, for 500, 900, tract of land upon
which he appeared to hold an option
contract bearing Sphtlog's signature.
In the midst of the suits to decide the
conflicting titles, Splitlog came to the
front and declared the option contract
forgery. He proved his case and Clay
was convicted OF swindling. Evidently
Clay calculated that with the $1S6, 600
obtained in the transaction he would be
able to buy his way out of the clutches
of the law, as is often done, but the ap-
appearance Of Sphtlog upon the scene at
the critical moment put face on the
proceeding that money could not dis
guise. Luckily he receives at least a
modicum of Justice.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
WICEITA'S RATES.
An Editor Whose Paper Rises Equal TO
the Emergency.

The situation re garding cheap freightS
for Kansas is about this:
Some few weeks ago Wichita invited
the state railroad commission to exam
inc into her volume of business, claim
ing that the amount of business trans
acted in that city was sufficient to war
rant reduction of the present freight
tariff in her favor
The railroad commission so decided.
The railroads OF Kansas have objected
to the ruling of the board, and another
meeting viii be held on June 4th 10
further consider the same
Other Kansas cities, such as Topeka,
Hutchinson, Arkansas City, Emporia.
etc. viii be represented at this meeting.
and will put in their plea of special job
bing rates. The meeting will be one of
vital Importance 70 all Kansas, and the
situation. presenting three different
phases, viii call for earnest work and
careful consideration on the part Of all
concerned.
In the first place stand the border
cities Of Kansas, Leavenworth, Kansas
City, Kan, and Atch:son, who VIII de
n1and the statue quo
Then Wichita, which demands g
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
ELOQUENT EULOGY o.
INGTON.

From the Irish World.
In those days of centennial panegyric
On Washington and his allies in winning
American independence on the battle
field and consolidating American nation
ality by the constitution, history has
been largely taxed for contributions to
the memory of the father Of his country
by his European contemporaries. Prom
inent among such contributions, though
overlooked or neglected by compilers, is
the remarkably eloquent and just tribute
paid by the Irish orator, Phillips, to the
memory Of Washington, from which we
abstract thus:
Americans! The savior of your coun-
try has achieved his last victory. Having
reached the summit of human perfection
he has quilted the region of human glory.
Conqueror of time, he has triumphed over
mortality; Legate of Heaven, he has re-
turned with the tidings of his mission;
father of his people, he has assembled to adj
vocate their cause in the bosom OF his God.
Solemn as if it was pause In nature
was his transit to immortality; crowded
by the shades of heroes was his approach
to the regions of bliss; peoned by the songs
Of angels was his journey beyond the
stars.
Il bless the conflict in which he had his
origin. Though the heavens Numbered
and the earth rocked, yet when the storm
had passed him pure was the climate that
it cleared! How bright on the brow of the
armament was the planet it revealed to u.s.
''in the production of Washington it
does really appear that Nature endeayored
to improve upon herself and AS II the mas
terpieces of the Old World were but so
many studies preparatory to the patriot OF
the new. Caesar was merciful, Scipio was
continent. Hannibal was persevering, but
it was reserved for Washington to blend
them all in one, and, like the lovely mas
terpiece of the Grecian artist, to exhibit
in one glow of CONCEALED beauty the pride
of every model and the perfection of every
artist.
Happy. proud America! The lightnings
of heaven Yielded to your philosopher; the
temptations of earth could not corrupt
your SOldIerSi'
But magnificent and just as is the cor
ruscative eloquence of the foregoing the
opening sentence omitted from the
above is worth all the rest. 1t reads as
follows: ''It matters very little what
immediate spot was the birth place of
such man as Washington! No people
can claim, no country can appropriate
him. The boon of Providence to the
human races-his flame is eternity, his
residence creation.
And so it is. What was the handful
of poor men, women, and children,
sparcely scattered along the coasts and
rivers of the thirteen then colonies, in
ferior in number to the crowd which
witnessed in this city our late centerni-
al celebration, that they or their descend
ants should claim monopoly of Wash
ington and his colleagues?
In the broadcast sense they were "the
boon Of Providence to the human race"
and nobly has the Republic administered
on its blessed inheritance.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

special jobbing rate per Sc, and finally,
the other iobbing points of Kansas, such
as Topeka. Hutchinson, Emporia and
Arkansas City, which think they are as
much entitled to special jobbing rates as
Wichita.
The danger is that with SO many di-
vergent interest at stake: the commits
sion may find itself embarrassed and
compelled to revoke its decision, already
favorably made, in favor OF Wichita.
We hope this will not be the result.
The Democrat would advise In the
present emergency that some standard
be taken that will confer special jobbing
rates upon all Kansas cities whose vol
ume of business is equal to that standard.
If this cannot be done, we hope some
compromise will be effected which In the
main will be satisfactory.
On no account, however, do we want
to see the commission revoke its decis-
ion in the Wichita case at the request of
the railroads and the border towns of
Leayenworth, Atchison and Kansas City,
Kan.
These towns have mad Missouri river
rates for years and have failed to develop
any strength as against Kansas City,
BIO.
On the contrary, they have grown
weaker and weaker, falling off, both in
volume of business and population.
We think it is high time that some
other city of Kansas, or cities of Kansas,
had a chance to see what it or they can
do.
If the question in the meeting of June
4th should narrow itself down to this,
viz: ''That it is Wichita or nothing"
we cast our vote now, in advance In
favor of the peerless Princess
We think it is better to get half loaf
than no bread at all, and will take our
chance for better rates for Topeka later
on.
Let US once get wedge in this old
Missouri river combination, by giving at
least one city of Kansas special jobbing
rates, and the future of Kansas jobbing
rates will be practically settled. We are
for Kansas as against Missouri every
time. Hence, as the matter now stands,
we are for Wichita.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
& NFW FUEL.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press gives an
account of a new fuel called petrole fuel,
The inventor claims thas it can put on
the market at about half the price of
coal. AT test in ST. Paul. ]. 900 pounds
petrole fuel did as much work in making
steam and running a sixty horse power
engine. as 1900 pounds of coal did Il
is made Of saw dust, peat, Ignite. corn
husks or waste OF the mines. and is
claimed to be the fuel for the western
prairie towns. The machinery for its
manufacture is inexpensive and it can
be made in any small town.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
RECORD BOOK

County Superintendent Pence's class-
ifecatiou register is the most CON-
plete thing of the kind ever published
John Mcdonald. editor OF the Western
School Journal, writes: 81 examined
superintendent Fences Classification Reg
lister. and was much pleased with 1t.
number of superintsndents pronounce u
superior 10 any ether now before the peo-
pie. and they arc Of the opinion that tfe
Register should be plaeed IN our county
schools. There il no reason why Kansas
when we have better article ia our oxu
state, Address X T. MCKDoCK.
Manager EAGLE
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

The Ohio Democrats are telling the
public, and no doubt trying to make
themselves believe, that they are going
to elect the next governor of that state.
They evidently are basing their calcula-
tons upon what they imagine is fact,
but which is not. that the Republicans
will not be able to select as their candl-
date man of sufficient strength and
ability to succeed Gov. Foraker as par
ty leader. Gov. Foraker will be III the
state and in the forefront of his party's
lines, and not being a candidate will
not lessen the strength of his influence
one whit, as the opposition will discover
in due time.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

1t makes difference whose OK is be-
ing gored. Mr.. Chappell, the general
manager Of the Chicago & Alton railway
system, who a few days since rallied
through Kansas City paper about the
interference of the Kansas commission
ers with the Missouri base and Wichita
rates, turned himself loose Saturday de-
handing protection for his road against
the Chicago & Milwaukee. which hauled
last month 407 cars of cattle from Kan
sas City to Chicago as against the Atoms
1877 cars. Oh, yes, Mr.. Chappell, invoke
the power of the government in protect
ing yours, but deny the like protection to
the people whom your road proposes TO
rob
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

My Sweetheart
Oh! my sweetheart
Not coy is she.
Each morning
She gets IN bed with r1e.
She makes little dash,
And, though sleep as sleep the dead
She wakes me as she pounds rny head
And pulls at my nustache.
And gives me many q "a axe.
you dear old uncle, wa'Iet'
Then move slightly, with great pretenss
OF drovsiness ard dull Indifference,
And then she gives another shake
You dear cid uncle, walker
And then / make sudden. mighty start,
And laugh and draw her down beside III hear,
(Gulp Gown the thought that comes that Tn
alone
Try 10 forget that one LIES had it's wreck.
And feel = soft cheek laid against ny OWE,
And small, warm arms wouad tightly ro,ne
my neck.
And it's "Ohl and OH
Ilove you ser
And then cuddle her and say how sweet
She is, and that I've half mind 10 eat
Her bodily, ard stlll it's "Oh, ard Oh!
Hove you soP'
aud thus We make great love
Oh, ny sweetheart
Chicago lisa
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
Grants Monument.

Joe Howard IN tie New York Press
Ii the friends of General Grant would
like 10 know what to do with the $780,
600 monument fund they have in hand
1t would be wise for them 10 80 10 Balti-
more, and see the magnificent monu-
ment, reared at a cost of less than half
that sum. TO George Washington. The
name should dignity the monument, not
the monument the name,
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

How the illimitable raging of party
concord, as it was focused upon and re-
elected back from the person OF Mr.
Cleveland at the Young Mems Demo-
cratic pow-wow in New York Monday
night, must have dazzled the VISION
while it crucifed the pride and ambition
Of Gov. d. B. Hill. From the present
Indications it will be Cleveland IN lo92;
nevertheless, there's many slip 'twlxt
the cup and the lip.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

Accepting the statement of the Kan
sas CITY News to that effect as true the
Young ladies of SaEna are going to give
church social this week in Cleopatra
costumes of tissue paper. Whether this
is another of those smart innovations OF
The E. S. A-ists of that town we can only
surrnise, but in any event while 1t Will
be fun for the boys to attend it makes
rs blush at this distance to even think
of II
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
The Latest Fad

From the New YORK Tribune.
The sight of a well dressed woman
walking in Broadway with a mans
waistcoat over her dress could not fail 10
attract attention. Yet such is the exact
appearance. Intentionally so, presented
by the back view of the latest fad in
woman's dress waists, which are plain,
loose and drawn together with the con-
ventional straps and buckle.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

Following the threat of the railroads
to uprip the commissioner adjustment
of Wichita's freight rates on the same
basis of the Missouri towns in Kansas,
the EAGLE asked but eighteen months to
cause railway revolution in Kansas If
the threat should be carried out. This
paper has been rounding the question up
less than eighteen days, and all the lead
ing papers in the state are already fired
up. The only trouble about 1t is they
are fired up with envy and on the wrong
side so far as Wichita's claims are con-
cerned, but fired up they are, all the
same. SO far as the railway interests are
concerned
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

Fl n the Lewiston Journal
Mrs. Livermors numorously tells this
about herself. She went 20 a town ii
Maine TO deliver a lecture. 4 young
minister, who felt greatly the importance
OF having 10 introduce SO large light.
announced her in these words: Ladies
and gentlemen, you have all heard Of
the iilustrio.s man across the water, so
beloved by his people, and who IS known
bv the sobr.aae. OF the Grand Old
Man" / have now the pleasure Of in
PRODUCING to you O lady beloved in Bos-
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
We'll. What of It9

From the Kanopolis Journal
Georgia has woman lawyer and is
Dragging about it. Kansas has five or
six, and yet, with single exception, one
scarcely sees the name of one in print
even in court records,
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
4 Mathematical Puzzle.

The latest puzzle is mathematical
one, and the puzzle consists in making
q by using any six Of the following fig
ures: /, l, l, 3, 8. 3, 5, 5, 5, 7, z, Z, g. 8. 8.
Some doubt exists in the minds of those
who have tried it whether it can be done
or not
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29

The Wichita Eagle thinks that the Re
publican party in Kansas viii not again
be what it oughs to be until it receives q
first-class wolloping at the polls.-AansaS
City Gazette.
The EAGLE didn't say exactly that, but
it does say that if it is necessary to make
the party what it ought to be. and moth
ing else will do it. why, let the woHop-
ing proceed, and the sooner the better
What is YOUR notion about it, George: