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Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
THE PRICE OF HOGS.

Kansas City Gazette.
There is one argument which has here
tofore escaped attention in the discussion
of the packing house question, and it is
shat nine out of ten of the country buy
ers or shippers have failed and gone to
the wall. And this both In Kansas and
Missouri. 1t goes to prove thar the
farmer got ali the grain and left the
shipper on the husk The argument OF
some sclons about combines fails utterly
While they claim that the low prices of
cattle is owing to trust they do not
have word to say about the high prices
of hogs, when everybody knows that
hogs have been high, owing to the scar
city, and with no desire on the part Of
anybody 10 make a corner on them and
lower the price. The trouble in dis
cussing this question is that our
lawmakers look q il like the old man.
who, whenever it rained for day
or 50. declared that another deluge was
at hand, and whenever it was dry for a
week, everything was going 20 be
burned Up. So our lawmakers take only
q winter view, when anybody and evarv-
body can xiii and cur little meat. and
forget 10 look at the eight months Of
warm weather when il takes large guam
titles of ice and cold storage 90 handle
meats properly. The high ruling price
of hogs for the last two rsars should sat
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
THE DRESSED MEAT WAR,

Mr.. S. B. Armour, in speaking of this
subject, gives the following very intelli-
gent statement of this business and the
danger of the legislative war being made
upon it:
The introduction of the bills providing
for an inspection of live stock is blow
aimed directly at the packers, and is a
most unfortunate movement. Coupled
with the impression that there is COM
bine among the packers to lower the
price of beef, it has had the effect of
uniting the farmers and the butchers in
fight against us. 1t has spread like an
epidemic and will, fear, have the effect
of creating a belief In the east and
| abroad that diseases exist among our
cattle. The result will be similar to that
arising from the hog scare four or five
years ago, when Germany and France
quarantined against American pork.
| 1t seems impossible to convince the
cattle raisers that the poor market is the
result of overproduction, and to rid the
| butcher of the idea that he can slaughter
cheaper than he can buy from us. The
| former do not seem to realize that there
has been an increase of SO 1-3 per cent.
or Il, 100000 cattle shipped since 1881
and that low prices are the result Of an
over stocked market. You naturally
ask, If such is the case, why the con
sumner is still compelled to pay such high
prices. 1t is simply because of the
waste. Even the laboring classes of
America demand the choicest cuts, and
as result fully half the beef is rendered
practically yalueless. One year ago
picked beef sold at from 81 to $3.50
barrel; now it is hard to get So
per barrel for it. By utilizing
the tallow, manufacturing oleo oil and
Oleomargarine, we are better able to
stand these losses than the butchers, and
can sell to them cheaper than they can
slaughter. But we offer no restriction to
any one who chooses to slaughter-an-
other reason why their fight upon us is
unwarranted.
Should we be compelled to submit our
cattle to an inspection on the ground
where the dressed beef is sold, as these
bills propose, we could not continue in
business. 1t is ridiculous to suppose that
we could send our cattle to Atchison, for
instance, submit them to inspection, then
ship them back to our packing houses,
slaughter them and reship to AtchisOn.
We have no great fear that these arbitra-
ry laws will ever become general. how
ever, as state laws. | say as state laws
because it is possible for the municipal
authorities of any city to compel a
live stock inspection, and already ordi-
nances have been passed in Atchison, To-
peka and Leavenworth. We sell no beef
in any of those cities. Modestly, and in
our own defense, | should like to say
tibet the packing interest has some rights
and deserves some consideration. Instead
of injuring the market we have greatly
helped by pushing the trade and estab-
fishing small markets into heretofore I'M
worked districts, such as the pine regions
of the north and the rougher and poorer
regions of the south. Had we not done
this the cattle market would have been
even a worse sufferer from overproduc-
ton than 1t now is, for exports have fall
len off distressingly. :
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
LAWS AS PRBvENTIvEs OF CRIMES

1t is an old axiom that it is not the
severity of the laws penalties against vi
olations, but the certainty of their en-
forcement, that represses the violator.
Upon this theory can the apparent pre-
disposition to outlawry in many parts of
the south be explained. Take, for
| instance, the matter of carrying deadly
weapons concealed upon the person. In
Texas and several of the other southern
states the laws upon this practice have
been made so severe that their enforce
ment is difficult and in many instances
next TO impossible, for the reason that
the sentiment OF the community does
not demand it. however much it may
condemn the pernicious practice. In
Kentucky the penalty for carrying
concealed weapons has for several years
been 800 fine and not less than thirty
days in the county Jail, but not one time
IN three Is the penalty enforced, enough
signerS to petitions, frequently including
officers Of the court before which CON
viction is had, being almost invariably
secured to procure from the governor
remission of the imprisonment part if
not the whole of the penalty. Under
such conditions it is hard TO convict. and
there is no question out that other acts
Of lawleSsness are the direct results of
this state affairs.
In Texas pretty much the same condi-
toni exists, and the legislature of that
state is now ,labs+incr q ,,,ititra-in,, sc
penalties. and the arguments advanced
In support OF 1t are very sensible. Pistol
carrying Is against public policy. and it
has BEEN properly made misdemeanor
because 1t makes crime easy. But the
crime itself Is in the use of the pistol.
and it Is against that that the laws NAV
usefully be made as severe as it IS posi-
bic 10 make them within the limits of
humanity and reason.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

to the Santa Fe Railroad company in
consideration of terminal facilities, and
viii be issued shortly.
The people of Osborne county are just
now very much agitated over a move
ment to remove the county seat from
Osborne City 10 Bristow. which is the
geographical center. Over 100 names
have been appended to petitions praying
the county commissioners to call an
election for the purpose of voting on The
removal question.
A two-inch vein of coal was passef
through at the prospect well last wee
at depth Of about four hundred fee,
Gas was struck in the prospect we'll the
first of the week and when ignited the
flame went up about twenty feet III the
air but soon exhausted 1t Is thought by
many that we will strike it IN paying
quantities at greater depth.-Halstead
independent.
Last weeks Harper Graphic took a
hand in the contest that was on at that
time in one of the local churches over
the introduction of an organ into said
church. With such Irresistible argd-
ments against the innovation O as the
pTdpillC CaItOOiis IL was CIFhi y C+tIG
question of time when the offensive IN
truder would get the &. b. The organ is
gone. Nuf sed.
The Finney county farmers, despair
ing of obtaining the wante1 moisture
the coming season from the Arkansas
river, in view of the continued and ex
tensive system of irrigation bitches thai
tap that stream higher uD. are circulat.
ing and signing petitions asking the
board of county commissioners to pay
bounty Of a dollar an acre for all raw
prairie broken in this county this year.
Breaking the sod viii superinduce the
growth Of vegetation and this it is Teck-
oned increase moisture in the atmos-
phere and consequently rainfall. Good
scheme.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The first tombstone i'll Grant county
was erected in the Ulysses cemetery last
week.
Capt. John n. Boyd, district clerk for
Atchison county, died at his residence in
Atchison city Friday morning.
Rev. Sam Jones will ofIiciate at the
dedication of the new Methodist church
at Atchison some time this month.
The Harper City creamery, after a
couple of months illness. opened again
Monday morning to run throughout the
summer.
Paul Rodney, a Cheyenne Indian. 90
years old. accidentally shot himself at
the Indian school, Lawrence, Friday.
Quite an apt learner.
A contract to plant 139. 900 cottonwood
trees on eight timber claims has been LEI
in north Hamilton county. The work
viii be done the coming spring.
4 would-be thief at Kiowa struck an
untamed broncho, saddled il aud at
tempted to take 4 ride. The pony was
found few days afterward. but the man
has not yet come down.
Medicine Lodge voted Sc. 600 in CITY
bonds for water works and g. 900 70
prospect for coal. gas, salt OK what-not
last Wednesday, both propositions carry
ing by III and i25 majoriiy.
The Consolidated tank line companv
has settled with the Lyons merchants for
shortages IN measure. The leakage has
been carried on some time and had
amounted to quite a large sum.-Tn-
bune.
There are l5s national banks in Kan
sas, having paid up capital Of SASS
$50. and circulation OF $2.SI2. go.
Their individual deposits aggregate sls.-
9,zi2 IS. ami their total resources ara
So, 800, S52. %.
A shooting scrape took place at Au-
burn Wednesday morning which result
ed in the death Of one man and possibly
another. The murderer was capture 4
by the brakeman on the south boand
Missouri Pacific passenger Wednesday.
The total amount Of bends voted by
the city of Wellington Is SIS .ooo. or
these bat So. 600 worth hare been Is
snsd The othsr $4,000 worth are TO 20
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
HUMANE JUSTICE.

A bill providing that all criminals SEN
fenced after the fist of March to be ex-
ecuted in the state shall be put to death
by electricity instead of by the old fash
toned trap and halter method, has passed
the Ohio state senate. The bill is said to
be framed after the New York law on
the same subject, except that it does not
provide that all executions shall be
strictly private, that no report shall be
given to the public and making it mis-
demeanor for any newspaper to publish
anything more than the bare facts of the
execution. This wise provision
should be incorporated in the Ohio
law if they adhere to the practice
in any shape of enforcing capital punish
ment. And while they are aboutiif they
should take another step and adopt some
means that would suppress the maud
lin, sickly nd 81 ckening sentimentality
that elevates the bloody murderer to the
place Of dying hero, and fills his cell
with flowers aud dainty food, fand even
oftimes impels lily woman to long and
seek for the situation of widow to the
hardened villain, whose taking off is a
blessing to humanity. Let humane
treatment prevail with the condemned
but do away with the coddling
process in dealing with him and the NOR
bid appetite of the criminally disposed
being denied its customary food, will
have a chance to gain a healthir tone,
and justice cease to be synonym for a
bed Of roses and martyrs crown.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
MOI 10 De UuJIOn0.
Kingman Courier.

Kingman Courier.
The Wichita EAGLE is sustaining. with
remarkable dignity. its claim of being a
first class metropolitan journal. Yester-
day this Office received from the EAGLE
calendar of superior skill and work
manship. From its bright face we learn
that the Daily EAGLE is five years and
forty days old. At the head of the cal
endar is vignette representing, in Its
center, the EAGLE--of which Marsh is
so proud. Farther away in the distance
is seen an American Indian, mounted,
with spear in hand, chasing buffalo.
On the right is a train Of cars, elevator
and factory building. The lower left
hand corner discloses newsbov running
at full speed, shouting EAGLE" while
the opposite corner contains cut of the
EAGLE printing house.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
THE OTHER SIDE.

The editor of the Belle PLANE News.
Mr.. Emera E. Wilson, in private letter
to the EAGLE, denies the statement
made by our correspondent in that place
contained in his account of the little af-
fair that occurred there one day last
week in which Mr.. Wilson was made to
figure prominently though not very
creditably. Instead of being the van
pushed in the little bout Mr.. Wilson as
serts that he was the victor and says the
affair has made him many friends
among those acquainted with the cir
cumstances. The EAGLE has no desire
to do any one any injustice and cheer
fully gives its confrere the benefit OF
this statement.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
Our Representatives Abroad.


From the foundation of our govern
ment until now the average character
and ability of our diplomatic representa-
tives at the principal European capitals
have been high. The service rendered
this country by its ENJOYS has been
nearly always of great, and sometimes
of inestimable value The men sent in
the name of the United States to London,
Paris, Berlin and ST. Petersburg, not to
mention less important capitals, are al
most invariably eminent for statesman
ship or commanding genius in some
other field. The proposal to abolish the
diplomatic service is not likely ever to
be seriously considered. The decision
to make it more efficient by asserting its
rightful rank is wise and timely. Sena-
tor Gibson's amendment was wisely
adopted.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

In commenting upon the benefits of
opening the Oklahoma country to settle
ment, anent the passage of the Springer
bill by congress, the Kansas City News
pertinently and truly remarks that "for
Kansas, days land it might have added
months and years. of unexampled pros
perity are in store. The passage of the
bill will be followed by a great rush of
immigrants into the new territory.
The long trains Of white-topped wagons
will again be common spectacle upon
The roads of Kansas. New markets Will
be opened, the volume of trade will ex-
pand. Even the unparalleled record of
growth which the southwest has shown
in the past will be outdone."
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

Congregational clcr- SENATOR N"LOoFT-
gynen Of the State Mr.. Wolcott is a law.
yer by profession. In 1883 he received the
degree OF A. 81. from Y ale College
Fifteen years ago he removed with his
brother, Henry X Wolcott, 70 Denver,
where he has met with remark able Success
He has been for years the attorney OF tho
Denver & Rio Graude railroad a. a salary
Of fifteen Thousand dollars. while the Bur
lington pays him ike amount 20 represent
that road in a legal capacity IN Colorado
He also has other practice, and may be
truly said TO earn more money than any
other lawyer in Colorado. Those who hays
heard nm speak predict that ne viii take
front rank ia the Senate Of IN orator.
Last year he delivered notable address az
the New England dinner ia New York lie
has many friends, and Is very fsvorseiy
known here Mr Woicott is a bachelor and
about forty years Of age He - under
medium height, Of stout build, light cors-
plexIon, and wears mustache.--Lssl.e's.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

A party passing under the name of
Frank Knox and claiming to hail from
Kansas City, Mo-, went out into the
northwest corner of Reno county and
secured plat of ground of little or no
value and laid it out in lots and SQUARES
and streets as town site, giving it the
name of Oakdale. The Hutchinson
News in exposing the scheme as a fraud
says that lots to the amount of 81. SEQ
have been sold and the deeds thereto
placed for record in the recorders office
of that county, the purchaser being
some nonresident of the county, which
shows that the party named is practicing
his imposition and fraud upon the unsus-
pecting wherever he can find them. This
case appears to be on par with that
that developed at or near Emporia a
short time ago, wherein a party or
parties undertook to put on the market
park addition, on paper, to that place.
The Emporia News got onto the scheme
and knowing it to be a palpable swindle
exposed the scheme and thwarted the
swindlers' purpose, Such wildcat vent
ures as thess not only injure, if they do
not ruin, the persons who may be de-
ceived into putting their money into
them, but do serious damage to the
credit of legitimate towns and cites
nearest the locality or from which them
selves such frauds are perpetrated.
Persons who are apprehended IN such
transactions merit the seyerest penalty
known to the law against obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Let it Crow, it's Harmless.

Kansas City News
Readers of the Times this morning
will welcome the appearance of the
triumphal rooster which failed to appear
November 9th, 1888, as per previous ar
rangement. 1t seems to be case of the
funeral baked meats coldly setting forth
the marriage supper.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
Which?

Boston Traveller.
A Washington letter to the Providence
Journal says: One Of Mr.. Whitney 5
greatest successes has been in his ability
to secure appropriations for the new
navy. He has induced congress to give
him nearly $50, 000,0 900 and has not yet
drawn upon more than half of this
amount. There are twenty war ships
provided for by congress, of which eight
have not yet been designed.
A second reading OF the paragraph
indicates that it is congress rather than
the secretary that wants to see an Amer
lean navy,
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

The Atchison Champion denies its
ability to believe that VIII Cavanaugh
ever wrote the Baltimore" letter. We
confess that we cannot conceive that he
did it. His whole record is against the
idea and his well known intelligence
seems to preclude the possibility of his
doing so foolish thing.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
The One-Street Town.

II-WOrth sun.
Topekans speak of the ''avenue," and
when the stranger looks at them as much
as to say, or inquiries what avenue:"
they answer ''Kansas avenue. of course, y
with falling infection and a contempt
uoas glance at the inquisitor. Topeka
thinks everybody ought to know there is
only one street in the town, and it is
known as the avenue"
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

isfy reasonable mind that it is the eter.
nal law of supply and demand that
makes prices. and we all of us know
that on the same argument if cattle were
scarce that the price would be good.
We cannot conceive how great CONF
pany, having two lines of industry, will
make a combine of one and not of the
other, which Is the larger of the two.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

Taking the royal British family to-
gether, it is found that the present SOW
ereign, with her aunts and her numer-
Gus progeny, has cost the British nation
about SIZE, 100000. In the one hundred
years of their national life. closing with
the present administration, the Ameri-
can people have paid presidents as sala-
rias s.. 900 600
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

The Massachusetts legislators will not
return their railroad passes, as has been
proposed, the claim being that their sal
aries were SO small that they could not
afford to serve the state and pay their
railroad fare at the same time. There is
something out of joint in this legislative
railroad pass business down in the effete
aaSt
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
SPIVEY. Kan. Feb. 8

SPIVEY, Kan, FEB. 3, 1889.
EDITOR EAGLE:-Will you please publish
in the daily EAGLE the full text of the
Springer Oklahoma bill as passed by the
house and oblige many of your subscrib-
ers. Yours truly, SUBSCRIBER.
No copy of the amended bill has yet
reached us. 1t will be published as soon
as it comes to hand. The bill as original
ly introduced we published some time
since which the secretary of the Board
of Trade Of this city will furnish on ap-
plication.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

The Ohio Legislature has been monkey
ing with the womans' suffrage idiom. A
bill giving women municipal suffrage
received thirty-siX votes in the house the
other day, lacking but nineteen votes of
passing. 1t is said several members,
enough perhaps to pass the bill, voted
against it upon the idea that it is uncon-
stitutonal, who are in favor of the propo-
sition upon principle and would vote for
it if the constitutionality of the question
should de decided in its favor. The fact
becoming known the vote by which the
bill was defeated was reconsidered and
the matter referred to the Judiciary COM
mittde for construction on the contro-
verted point. Ohio is one of the old
states, but age is not alwaysa an assurance
against folly, Kansas, one of the young
est, followed Massachusetts. one of the
Oldest states, into the same idiosyncrasv.
and the chances are that Ohio will follow
suit.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

There seems to be no disposition upon
the part of the committee to whitewash
the penitentiary matter, but even If
there was, no smirch if there should be
any however faint, could escape the eye
of Governor Humphrey nor his prompt
action
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

The Newton Republican is the last
paper to publish that old and silly lie
that Wichita has hundreds of empty
houses. There are fewer empty houses
according to her size and population
than in any town or city in Kansas,
Newton not excepted
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
There's Room for sncb PeopI-

TIE increasing number Of intermarriages
between deaf nutes is attracting attention.
1t is believed 10 Imply the founding 81
mute race. By all means let Us have such
race, and let them De hired TO do al The
celebrating Of elections aud Fourth ofJnly.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05


Vessels. of Men. cost.
United States....75 n,l15 s15,5S6,671
Germany l5,o00 9,722, 721
This does not include the cruisers
lately built by us and those now in
course of construction that could be
made ready for service in a short time
Deplorable as war is at any and all
times, on general principles, declara-
ton of war on the part of this
government against any country
or nation worthy the name,
in addition to some of the benefits that
would accrue to us as people, hereto
fore alluded to, would do very much
to cause us to lose sight of many
of the unpleasant, not to say hurt
full, recollectionS of our own conflict Of
1S61-5. 1t would contribute no lite to-
wards uniting the sections of our coun-
try, obliterate the present partisan lines of
division, place us on higher plane with
a common end, i. e. the general material
betterment of the condition of the whole.
and would, moreover teach the balance
of the world that the stars and stripes is
the ensign of the proudest, strongest,
richest, freest and best people on the
globe.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
Beginning Young.

The youngest pupil Of a Sunday school in
Washington was tod 70 learn q couplet of
poetry 70 repeat a. an exhibition. She was
observed studying her mothers volume OF
Tennys0n, and when called upon FOR her So
lection the little mss arcze ard promptly
reCiteG:
It's better 70 have loyss AID Lost
Than never 70 have loved 81 al
Then she sat down grzyeiy. AMID shosts
II laughter.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

AS to Samoa, Bismarck has acted badly
and the United States must either fight
or back down.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
Daily Eagle
MARSHALL NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Dick Walker seems to be still in the
lead as candidate for United States
marshal.
Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05

received the Repuh-
lean nomination for
United States Sena-
tor from Colorado.
Mr. Woicott, whose
portrait we give, ~
A native Of Connect
cut He was born at
Eufeld, being the
son Of Rev. Samuel
" olcoit, who WAS,
forty years ago, one
of tbe prominent
CONGREGATIONAL ciar-